Tag Archives: Frieze

On the face of things, Frieze is pretty awful. It represents the art world at its most brazenly commercial, its most avaricious and capitalistic. This is the market laid bare, with all of its champagne, ludicrous outfits and obscene excess on brazen display for anyone willing to fork out a wodge on a ticket. That’s what reviews of Frieze generally …

Watching crowds come through the door, greeted by the younger, more experimental galleries of the Focus section, François Chantala, a partner at the London-based Thomas Dane Gallery, observes an energy in London this week: “People are coming to London, young galleries are springing up…someone was saying earlier that it feels a little bit like the 90s again.” The UK’s post-Brexit …