Oscar Humphries’ Frieze Diary – Part 3 
White Cube’s new space in Bermondsey opened on Tuesday and is the largest commercial gallery in the world. It felt like a museum, with its white walls, crisp lighting, and polished concrete floors. With it gallery owner Jay Jopling seems to be making a case for both his British artists – many of whom he was exhibiting in this new space – and to demonstrate his continued dominance in the UK market. This huge 58,000sq ft maze of gallery spaces said (in particular, to rival dealer Larry Gagosian) that this is Jay’s town. I went with my friend Liz Goldwyn – photographed by me in front of a large “fly painting” by Damien Hirst, which still looks cool several years after it was made. Also on show was work by Gilbert and George (pictured), Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Anselm Kiefer. For those people who had written off these artists, this new space and the work in it makes a powerful case for both British art and the British art market. The line to get in stretched round the block – I really don’t know how he does it.