Hydra-therapy: above and below the shoreline

By far the best private view invitation (to my mind at least) is to the annual exhibition of contemporary art at Hydra Workshop, the Karpidas familys exhibition space on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra. Here, for the past 17 years, a new show is unveiled at the beginning of every summer in this modest but generously proportioned former boat builders workshop. A sybaritic long weekend then ensues, with the art world clan gathering, presided over with legendary generosity by Pauline Karpidas an