NON-LONDON READERS may be excused for rolling their eyes at this. It is the written record of a monumental piece of self-indulgent showboating that took place in 2006 under the auspices of the Serpentine Gallery's annual pavilion programme, designed that year by Rem Koolhaas. That was the pavilion with the deformed helium balloon for a roof that looked like a chef's hat or giant muffin. Associated with it was this'happening': a 24-hour interview marathon conducted by Koolhaas, with Serpentine co-director and architecture's Boswell, Hans Ulrich Obrist. It assumes that London is the centre of the cultural universe. It is very much pleased with itself. It has the patchouli-oil, wacky-baccy reek of the 1960s. Damien Hirst knows this.
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