It’s not known what the queen thought of Matthew Day Jackson’s exhibition Pathetic Fallacy at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, but it’s testament to the Wirths’ (pictured above with us-based partner Marc Payot) connections that the British monarch paid their rural gallery a visit in March. Their unique selling point is the lifestyle to which they can allow collectors access: the Fife Arms in Aberdeenshire, the couple’s first excursion into hospitality, was recently named The Sunday Times Hotel of the Year 2019. That trend continued with the opening of a gallery in St Moritz last December; a bookshop in Zürich, which doubles as HQ for the gallery’s publishing arm; and the announcement of a new exhibition space with a ‘robust’ education programme and a restaurant in Menorca in 2020. To fill these spaces, the gallery continues to hoover up artists: signings including Ed Clark, Annie Leibovitz, Glenn Ligon, Mika Rottenberg, Nicolas Party and the estate of John Chamberlain upped the firepower this year.