He said his blog was besieged by visitors with prestigious IP addresses, and when I asked, he passed on the routing information of his readers: Justice Department, State Department and F.B.I.
Julia Peythe-Jones, the prestigious co-director who raised visitor numbers to the Serpentine gallery by hundreds of thousands and famously hosted Tilda Swinton asleep in Cornelia Parker's glass box, is to step down from the organisation after 25 years.
Chelsea, 101 years old, is the world's most prestigious flower show, attracting exhibitors and visitors from all over the world.
The upturn that followed the recession of the early 1990s has raised Basle's annual sales to well over $150m.Basle remains the world's most prestigious contemporary-art fair, drawing 50,000 visitors, despite competition from similar annual displays in Paris, New York and Chicago.
It has been described as the most prestigious event of its kind, attracting visitors and exhibitors from across the globe.
Two of London's most prestigious fine art galleries have seen UK visitor numbers fall significantly over the last five years, official figures show.
The Tate and the National Gallery, two of the UK's most prestigious fine art institutions, have seen UK visitor numbers fall significantly over the last five years, official figures have shown.
That would coincide with the opening of the 57th annual Festival d'Avignon, one of Europe's most prestigious drama festivals, which attracted almost 100,000 visitors last year.
Every night, after the last visitor to Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum has left, the prestigious art gallery's newest curator flickers into life.
