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Greetings from Fabulousopolis!

The blog posse was treated to a cocktail party hosted by a billionaire art collector at his capacious condo at the most Southern shores of South Beach.

Where'd you park your plane?

Savagely underdressed, I was apprehensive about asking him for a photo.  Wouldn’t he give me the heave-ho? Nay, he extended a warm welcome and guided me to one of multiple bars serving top shelf spirits to the more couture-endowed crowd, after insisting that I call him by his first name.

New York collectors Howard and Barbara Morse

The other first-name-basis experience was my fifteen seconds of fame/passion with Jay Jopling from White Cube.  He insisted on taking the photo, idealizing it as more “conceptually rigorous.”  I’m all about Rigor, I told him.  ”It could be better,” he said of the results. (Next time, let me hold the camera?)

(l-r) Some pallid party crasher with Jay Jopling

I’m adding Jopling-vision to my Christmas list.

Eros-colored Glasses

IMAGES: Michael Bilsborough, Jay Jopling

Written by: Michael Bilsborough
Posted in: Events
Tags: Barbara Morse, bombshells, Howard Morse, Jay Jopling, Jopling-vision