Park Avenue Armory

4-8 November 2022
LONDON

Itinerary

Days
Hours
Minutes

DAY 1
Friday, November 4: Arrivals

  • Arrivals

    Individual arrivals and transfer to hotel in London.

  • Check In

    Check-in at Claridge's Hotel.

  • Afternoon

    4.00 PM Meet in the hotel lobby to transfer to an artist's studio.

    Visit to the studio of Antony Gormley TBD.

  • Evening

    6.00 PM Visit and cocktails at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery.

  • Dinner

    7.00 PM Dinner at HIDE.

  • Overnight

    Claridge's, London.

Claridge's

Claridge’s, with 203 rooms, is one of London’s iconic five-star hotels. Celebrated for its sumptuous art-deco features (including 1930s vintage furniture that once graced the staterooms of the decommissioned SS Normandie), it has a series of more modern rooms and suites designed by David Linley, the Queen's nephew. The result is muted colours and elegant, classic furniture designs.

 

DAY 2
Saturday, November 5

  • Morning

    9.30 AM Meet in the hotel lobby and transfer to first visit.

    9.45 AM Private tour of Spencer House.

  • Late Morning

    11.15 AM Visit the collection on Michael Rosenfeld at Jessica McCormack London.

  • Lunch

    12.15 PM Lunch at Nopi.

  • Afternoon

    2.00 PM Transfer back to Claridge's.

    Free time.

  • Evening

    6.00 PM Transfer to artist’s studio.

    6.45 PM Visit to the studio of Edmund de Waal.

  • Dinner

    8.00 PM Dinner at The River Cafe, with Edmund de Waal.

  • Overnight

    Claridge's, London.

Edmund de Waal

In his visual art and literary works, Edmund de Waal uses objects as vehicles for human narrative, emotion, and history. His installations of handmade porcelain vessels, often contained in minimalist structures, investigate themes of diaspora, memory, and materiality.

The River Cafe

Coming at the vanguard of the capital’s resurgent love of really, really good food, the River Cafe was one of the first to raise the bar for all restaurants, not just the elite handful. Since opening in 1987, they’ve earned a Michelin Star, snagged an MBE for Ruth Rogers (who founded the place along with Rose Gray), and trained up future greats like Jamie Oliver, Theo Randall and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

DAY 3
Sunday, November 6

  • Morning

    10.15 AM Meet in lobby & transfer to a private art collection.

    10.30 AM Visit to the collection of Valeria Napoleone.

  • Lunch

    12.00 PM Lunch at La Goccia, Petersham Nurseries Covent Garden.

  • Afternoon

    2.30 PM See Robert Icke’s "The Doctor", starring Juliet Stevenson at the The Duke of York's Theatre.

    5.30 PM Transfer to the Royal Academy of Arts.

  • Evening

    6.00 PM Tour of the William Kentridge exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts,

  • Dinner

    7.15 PM Dinner at 34 Mayfair with Robert Icke.

  • Overnight

    Claridge's, London.

The Doctor

Olivier Award winner Juliet Stevenson “‘delivers one of the peak performances of the theatrical year” (The Guardian) in the West End's The Doctor. The latest smash-hit by “Britain’s best director” (Telegraph) Robert Icke’s sold-out, five-star Almeida Theatre production transfers to London's Duke of York’s Theatre from 29th September 2022 .

DAY 4
Monday, November 7

  • Morning

    8.00 AM Meet in the hotel lobby to transfer to Tate Modern.

    8.30 AM Private guided visit of the Cezanne exhibition at Tate Modern.

  • Late morning

    11.00 AM Visit to the studio of Marc Quinn.

  • Lunch

    12.00 PM Lunch at Moro with Marc Quinn (TBD).

    1.30 PM Transfer back to Claridge's.

    Free time.

TATE

One of London's most amazing attractions, this outstanding modern- and contemporary-art gallery is housed in the creatively revamped Bankside Power Station south of the Millennium Bridge. A spellbinding synthesis of modern art and capacious industrial brick design, Tate Modern has been extraordinarily successful in bringing challenging work to the masses, both through its free permanent collection and fee-paying big-name temporary exhibitions. The stunning Switch House extension opened in 2016, increasing the available exhibition space by 60%.

Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn (British, born 1964) is a leading contemporary artist. He first came to prominence in the early 1990s, when he and several peers redefined what it was to make and experience contemporary art. Marc Quinn makes art about what it is to be a person living in the world – whether it concerns Man’s relationship with nature and how that is mediated by human desire; or what identity and beauty mean and why people are compelled to transform theirs; or representing current, social history in his work. His work also connects frequently and meaningfully with art history, from Modern masters right back to antiquity.

  • Dinner

    Pre-theatre dinner TBD.

  • Evening

    7.00 PM See "My Neighbour Totoro" at the Barbican.

  • Overnight

    Claridge's, London.

DAY 5
Tuesday, November 8

  • Morning

    Individual departures from London.

*Please note that this programme will be subject to change.