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Regular readers will know I speculated on Alan Yentob's whereabouts earlier this week. He's making a film on UK-based ceramic artist and author Edmund De Waal, who has just opened his first exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. I'm grateful to the New York Social Diary.... 

Alan was back in the UK on Sunday - spotted in the front row of Paul Smith's catwalk show at the London Fashion Week.

• It is conceivable that De Waal's work needs Yentob interpretation to make sense for the BBC1 viewer. This quote accompanies the show..."I've been thinking about new ways to make pauses, spaces and silences, where breath is held inside and between each vessel, between the objects and the vitrines, the vitrines and the room. In working with the vessel, working with porcelain, and with colours that express the great history of Oriental ceramics, but also the colours of modernism and minimalism; this seems to be enough material to be getting on with."