Frieze London, Day one, October 12th, 2022 – Now and again you find yourself asking why? Why I we here? Why am I writing this? Why has that gallery from Shanghai gone to all the effort,of bringing that rather boring, rather conventional still life that wouldn’t stand out in a village fête art show all…
It was indeed with a genuine froth of excitement that we headed towards Caroline Coon‘s newly opened exhibition of paintings “Love of Place” on the first full day of it being open over in the plush gallery district of the West End – might have been even more exciting to see it in an unused…
Back in July Frieze revealed details of Frieze Sculpture 2022 in The Regent’s Park, curated by Clare Lilley (Yorkshire Sculpture Park Director) for the tenth consecutive year. Featuring a line-up of 19 international artists, the celebrated public art exhibition opens on September 14th and runs through to November 13, 2022. Frieze Sculpture runs alongside Frieze…
Frieze week then, we’ve been to the Cork Street launch, we’ve been swamped with the press releases, the 9am openings and the zoom press conferences, the swarms of information about the other fairs, we’ve asked questions and today the massive monster of a fair itself opens up in Regent’s Park, here’s we go them. or…
The launch of No 9 Cork Street: Frieze’s “major new initiative” then… And on it all goes, the non-stop merry-go-round that did briefly stop but now appears to be in full flow again, the new normal the same as the old one so it would appear, the Frieze week is more like three, it probably…
So here we are in a Frieze zoom afternoon meeting press conference thing some two weeks out from the return of the monster big mutha art fair that is Frieze London. Frieze are zoooooming into our paint-infested bunker studio here in sunny Wednesday afternoon Hackney. we’re just being told about the new Frieze space in…
“wow, that really is an us and them situation, the art world is so so so strange and so disparate, so far away from the people or the people making art..Those figures are shocking and also not shocking, but just argh, what the hell indeed, awful in a rather horrific look-at-the-state-of-the-world-we-are-in kind of way, and…
And so the dust or whatever it was has settled, the vast vast (vast) white tent is probably down by now, the whole damn global art fair circus has already moved on, “oh darling, Frieze is so last week now”, the money has been counted or laundered or whatever it was all really about, the…
Was it as opulent this time, was it as big a beast? The sign outside certainly wasn’t as big, no big shiny black mile-high towering sign overlooking everyone coming in this year, instead a more subdued green one, that sign says so much, things aren’t quite so bold in 2019. Is opulent the right word?…
Frieze Week Part Two: Leave Moniker and Part One behind and wonder why so and so’s art wasn’t in there, and where was thingy and they do miss out on so much of the cutting edge in terms of the art they show at Moniker don’t they? So conservative, so playing it so very very…
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