Yes, I was in Liverpool, European Capital of Culture, at the city's flagship exhibition of the year - Gustav Klimt: Painting Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900.
The flagship exhibition is "The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting, 1430-1530" athehe renovated Groeninge Museum on the Dijver, (32-50) 44 87 11.
The French multimillionaire François Pinault took over Palazzo Grassi, the Fiat Group's flagship exhibition space on the Grand Canal, in 2005 and added the refurbished Dogana, or Customs House (on which he flies his own Breton flag), to his empire last year.
It's an unusual but smart model for a flagship exhibition, particularly for a nation with a fledgling art scene.Mr Shore met once a month for three months with ten young artists and Tarek Al-Ghoussein, an established artist who works at American University of Sharjah.
The partnership with the Anglo-Dutch firm has made the London art gallery the target of protests over the years, including Greenpeace dropping a banner off the building's roof and activists gatecrashing the launch of a flagship Rembrandt exhibition.
From plans so far announced, 2015 will involve a suitably ambitious programme of flagship concerts, splashy exhibitions and big urban art installations.
After the 2012 Olympics the capital's exhibition flagship seems set to be no more, which is a London and national tragedy".
The flagship's largest exhibition, 100 Years of Passion and Free Spirit in America, celebrated Cartier's centennial in the US in 2009, revealing jewels owned by well-known clients including film star Gloria Swanson, banker J.P. Morgan and the Duchess of Windsor that are now part of the brand's historical collection.
What stood out is that two of the flagship works in the exhibition are patently incomplete.
At Alexander McQueen's new London flagship, the brand has incorporated an exhibition space into the retail experience.
