I don’t receive much corporate hospitality – never have.
But Z/Yen had been doing some stuff around Long Finance and the London Accord with Bank of America Merrill Lynch at that time, so perhaps I shouldn’t have been taken unawares when I received a message from Kegan Lovely headed:
Lichtenstein Corporate Supporters Evening Private View: 26 March from 6:45 -9:00pm
As I said in my reply to Kegan:
My first thought when I saw the subject line was “those bankers, always supporting and sponsoring tax havens!!”
Then I realised what a kind invitation it was. Janie loves her modern art, so if you do have a pair of tickets left and if it isn’t too rude for us to arrive c19:30/19:45, we’d very much like to join you that evening.
It really was a timely and kind invite – Janie and I had been planning to go to this exhibition for sure – we both really like Lichtenstein’s work. Back then, Janie was not a member of the Tate, so the opportunity to see the works on a quieter, private evening viewing felt like a real treat to us.
In the end, Kegan was poorly, so couldn’t even make it to the event that night to be our host in person, but Janie and I got to enjoy the exhibition and some corporate hospitality too.
Here is a link to the Tate resource on this exhibition.
The vid below gives you a pretty good idea of what the exhibition was like:
My review at the time is there in my thank you e-mail to Kegan:
Many thanks for the Tate Modern event. Janie and I both really enjoyed the exhibition. Even though we had seen a lot of Lichtenstein’s stuff before, we had never seen it all in one place. Also there were lots of works – especially the sculptures, design pieces and “explosions” – that were completely new to us and very good. Lichtenstein was more versatile and multi-talented than I had previously imagined.