Alexandra Peers went down to Chelsea for the opening of the new season. She reports on it for New York Magazine. One of the stops was Dennis Hopper’s opening (New York has more on that here.) There she ran into Salman Rushdie who praised Hopper’s work:

“I like the show, and there are already pieces I think are very special — the Paul Newman photograph, and the Andy Warhol holding the lily,” Salman Rushdie told us.

Peers asked Rushdie if he was going to buy one of the pictures to which the novellist demurred:

“I collect contemporary Indian art,” he said.

Ten Things We Learned at Chelsea’s Refreshed Galleries (New York Magazine)