Frieze Week in London
Your guide to the latest news and gossip from the Frieze tent and beyond, plus artist and collector interviews, special features and the London shows not to miss.
Paris vs London: which capital will win the hearts of art collectors?
London’s struggles with the reality of leaving the European Union coupled with a government unsympathetic to the arts means the French capital is gaining the edge over its rival
Major galleries sign Venice Biennale’s women artists—at last
Commercial representation is growing for leading women who launched and sustained careers before the art market cared
News
Regent’s Jurassic Park: dinosaurs go on sale at Frieze Masters, but it is a highly complex—and laborious—market
David Aaron gallery’s £1m sale of a 154 million-year-old Camptosaurus skeleton highlights collectors’ growing interest in fossils
Spiralling production costs put pressure on art fairs
PAD London founder says all its suppliers have increased their fees by 20% to 50%
London preview opens Windows onto Microsoft mogul’s soon-to-be auctioned art collection
Works from tech giant co-founder Paul Allen's estate go on sale at Christie's New York next month
Tracey Emin sells new work for £2.3m at Christie's and will use the money to fund her new art school
Collectors at Frieze London are also investing with White Cube finding buyers for seven works on paper and Xavier Hufkens selarling a large-scale painting in the region of £950,000
Podcast
Art boom as the UK busts: how the economic crisis is affecting the market
Plus, Cecilia Vicuña; 20th-century women artists at Frieze Masters; and Modigliani in Philadelphia
Diary
Frieze London gossip: Frieze Sculpture gets cheeky, chilled-out time travel and artists on what floats their boats
Plus, Hauser & Wirth's new restaurant gets royal approval
Frieze London gossip: the flakiest of ice-cream vans, art tattoos and Kate Moss shows support for Shane MacGowan's art
Plus, Waddington Custot steps up for students and the filthy fountain of the future
Frieze London gossip: Rumours of an Anna Delvey appearance, a sculpture goes missing and Laure Prouvost is feeling ticklish
Plus, Victoria Miro director shares his secret to staying wide awake all week
From musician Peter Gabriel to politician Rishi Sunak: who we spotted in the VIP crowds at Frieze London
We took to the fair floor to see who had flocked to the tent to get their art fix
Art Market
Weak pound boosts British artists’ sales during Frieze Week in London
A confluence of factors has given the UK art market a lift—but will it last?
Art boom as the UK busts: how the economic crisis is affecting the market
Plus, Cecilia Vicuña; 20th-century women artists at Frieze Masters; and Modigliani in Philadelphia
Ultra-contemporary art boom defies economic downturn at Frieze London
New works by young artists are in high demand at the fair, reflecting a surge in prices at auction
Features
Modern women rediscovered: Frieze Masters focuses on female artists
The Spotlight section of the fair is showing 26 solo booths of 20th-century women artists who have been too-long forgotten in art history
The price of performance art: galleries face challenges in protecting their artists' legacies
As the discipline's artists age and die, and the art world they occupy professionalises and expands, the question of their legacy grows
New kids on the block: the younger galleries bringing the avant garde to Frieze London
We pick our top six booths from the fair's Focus section
Interviews
'Making history, not sculpture': artist Barbara Chase-Riboud on her seven-decade career
As her first UK retrospective opens in London, the US sculptor reflects on how her early travels influenced her work
'Male guests apparently find it rather disturbing': collector Catherine Petitgas reveals the startling artwork in her bathroom
The art historian describes her passion for Surrealism and why "less is more" is her collecting mantra
Crisis in the Amazon: Richard Mosse on his monumental video tracking the destruction of the rainforest
The Irish artist’s latest work, on show in London and Melbourne, is the culmination of a three-year project
Collector Aarti Lohia on her mission to digitise South Asian art archives
The head of the SP Lohia Foundation has begun a major new partnership with the National Gallery, London
Shows to see in London
Eight exhibitions to see during London's Frieze Week
From Cezanne's love of Provence at Tate Modern to cracking the Ancient Egyptian code at the British Museum
Comment
Key art world players pledged to go green—but who is sticking to their promises?
While initiatives such as the Gallery Climate Coalition are seeing positive results, much remains to be done across the sector