'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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