The art boîte came to Tinseltown in a bigger way when collector Peter Morton opened Morton’s on Robertson and Melrose in 1979, and for decades helped spur on market moves by introducing generations of power-lunching Hollywood execs to the Bacons and Ruschas he hung on the wall.

The energy in the room, already giddy, turned electric. Beyoncé sat down in a booth in the back of the room, while Jay went to say hello to former XXL editor in chief Elliott Wilson, who was seated solo at the bar, before joining his wife for dinner. Like all seasoned diners at the hot spot du jour, he feared his seat was actually Siberia.Ī few minutes later, through a back door walked the two most famous art collectors on planet earth, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who spread their many acquisitions between homes in Bel Air, Tribeca, and East Hampton. “Do you really think this is the right place to sit?” Bill Powers, the art dealer with spaces in New York and L.A., said to local rising-star gallery owner Matthew Brown, by chance seated a table over. After a stroll by the bar punctuated by stop-and-chats (a curator from New York, a powerhouse local gallery owner, a streetwear designer turned collector) dinner was in the back room, a private-ish space surrounded by paintings of horses by the young artist Kacper Abolik. alighted upon a restaurant called Horses, a new bistro in an old space that is impossible to get a seat at-in other words, catnip for status-obsessed art world denizens. Last Sunday in Hollywood, a contingent of dealers, collectors, and artists still in town after Frieze L.A.

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