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From Frieze London to Art Basel Paris, Saloni Doshi has had a month that required stamina and sensible shoes.
The Space118 founder fitted in tea with Guggenheim chief Mariët Westermann to discuss its forthcoming Abu Dhabi museum, and an Asia NOW talk on patronage alongside Chinese collector Hongzheng Pan, founder of Wenzhou’s Hong Museum.
Paris initially seemed a tad stressful to all, we hear, with demonstrations blocking the neighbourhood and taxis refusing the journey. “People’s demands should be heard,” Doshi says, sympathetic to protesters and affected businesses alike. Her own rounds took in Zurbarán at the Louvre, collectors’ homes and reunions at Costes and the Bristol, before gallery dinners and cocktails claimed the evenings. “The days were long and the nights longer,” she told this diarist. Clearly, London was just the warm-up.