The growing cohort of galleries adding Los Angeles outposts will soon have another new member: Cape Town's Southern Guild . In tandem with its debut presentation at The Armory Show in New York (7-10 September), the gallery's expansion marks the first ever permanent US public exhibition space for a South African gallery and will open just before Frieze Los Angeles's 2024 edition next February. (Another South African gallery, Goodman, is opening an office and viewing room in New York this week.

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'There is little required from you other than an engagement with art and guests, sunbathe, gossip and swim.' So read the itinerary sent to guests attending the annual summer meetings at the Hydra home of the British collector and patron Pauline Karpidas, who hosted the gatherings one weekend every summer from 1996 until 2017. The so-called workshops were, according to Sotheby's European chairman Oliver Barker, a 'who's who of the contemporary art world at any given time'. Or, as Tate's Gregoir Muir once put it, 'a form of Annual General Meeting'.

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