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The collector Eugenio López Alonso, heir to the Grupo Jumex empire in Mexico, at home in Los Angeles, April 27, 2021. López divides his time between Los Angeles and Mexico, filling both homes with paintings and sculpture. Michelle Groskopf/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
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.- To your left in the foyer are Damien Hirsts dots. Over the fireplace is a Louise Bourgeois spider. Opposite the master bed are Cy Twomblys swirls. Los Angeles is not necessarily known as a city of art collectors, but nestled smack dab in Beverly Hills is one of the more active buyers in the market: Eugenio López Alonso, heir to the Grupo Jumex fruit-juice empire in Mexico, who has landed on an ArtNews list of the top 200 collectors in the world for at least five years running. Many credit López, 53, with helping elevate Mexicos contemporary-art scene through the institution he founded in 2013, Museo Jumex. Every work on display there du
Artangel opens a major new project on the Suffolk coast
Alice Channer, Lethality and Vulnerability (2021) on Orford Ness, Suffolk.
ORFORD NESS
.- A series of major new commissions by international artists are being presented this summer by Artangel on Orford Ness a windswept strip of land stretching several miles along the Suffolk coast owned by the National Trust and known locally as the island of secrets.
Accessible only by boat, Orford Nesss environment shifts from mud flats, salt marshes and brackish lagoons, to shingle ridges that are home to a unique ecosystem of flora and fauna and an eroding coastline. An assortment of abandoned structures punctuate the desolate landscape, apparitions from the time when Orford Ness was used by the British military during both World Wars as a test site for radio, radar and ballistics systems, and for the UKs atomic weapons research programme during the Cold War.
Island of secrets : exhibition fills former UK nuclear research site on Suffolk coast with art theartnewspaper.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theartnewspaper.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.