Frieze Week Archives

Sterling Ruby To Feature At Gagosian Over London Frieze Week

Sculptures by Sterling Ruby will be the feature Britannia Street exhibition at Gagosian over Frieze Week.

Frieze Week 2018 Essential Printable Pull Out Guide

Welcome to the Artlyst 2018 Frieze Week printable pull-out Guide, This is our curated choice of the events not to miss during the busiest week in the London Contemporary Art calendar.

New Museum NY Partners With Store X For London Frieze Week

The Store X and the New Museum have announced “Strange Days: Memories of the Future”

Car Crash: Frieze Week Collateral Art Event Cavendish Square Unveiled

One of the best collateral art events during Frieze Week takes place in the car park beneath Cavendish Square

Sunday: Frieze Week Collateral Contemporary Art Fair Announces October Line-Up

The 2017 edition of SUNDAY an annual contemporary art fair held in London get under way during Frieze week 5-8 October.

Ed Ruscha Launches Frieze Week With New Paintings Exhibition At Gagosian London

Extremes and In-betweens is the latest exhibition by the American painter Ed Ruscha which opened last night to a crowd that included Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor,Michael Craig-Martin, Ron Arad, Alan Jones and Monica Lewinsky.

Introducing Crossroads Frieze Week’s New Curated Multicultural Art Fair

CROSSROADS is a new international art show, from the organisers of the highly regarded Pinta Art Fair. It encompasses special curatorial projects and forty-six galleries from around the world handpicked by a team of renowned curators. This niche fair is fresh, multicultural and accessible. CROSSROADS presents the most current artistic trends in a relaxed and convivial setting. An opportunity to experience […]

Drive Thru: Frieze Week Collateral CarPark Event Returns To Cavendish Square

Drive Thru is a multimedia art exhibition located in a central London underground car park during Frieze week. It brings together more than 65 artists in an exhibition at the lowest level of the QPark underground car park in Cavendish Square, London. The work exhibited encompasses sculptures, photographs, film, painting, ephemeral works, live performances, happenings, […]

Frieze Week NY: Eleven Satellite Fairs To Get Excited About This Weekend

1) NADA: Its fifth Edition welcomes 105 exhibitors from 44 cities in 18 countries. Organized the New Art Dealers Alliance nonprofit, the fair also features pop-up cafes from Mile End, Tacombi, and Doughnut Plant. May 5–8, 2016 Thursday, 12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. private preview and 4:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.; Sunday, 12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. $20 general admission, […]

Frieze Week 2015: If You Blinked It’s All Over – Artlyst Round-Up

This year our round up for Frieze 2015 is going to be a tough call, as we are clearly all going through the usual art withdrawal symptoms, unless of course you are on your way to Paris for FIAC the French equivalent. Frieze and Frieze Master were strong with a lot to offer from both the […]

Frieze Art Week & Alternative Collateral Events Guide 2015

Artlyst is excited to announce the release of their essential, online, Frieze and Frieze Week collateral Art Fair Guide, for London 2015. This includes important information about the main fair and the collateral events launching the week of 12 October, with the main fair opening to the public on the 14th running till the 17th October. Each […]

Christie’s Post War And Contemporary Evening Auction Includes Frieze Week Favourites

This October 2015, Christie’s will bring together an international selection of over 300 artists to headline the Frieze Week auctions of Post-War and Contemporary Art. A strong line up of some of the most exciting painters working today will form a core of the Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction. Led by Peter Doig’s […]

ICA Announce Frieze Week Exhibitions, Performances And Talks

The ICA have announce their programme for London’s Frieze week 2015. They will be active as never before during Frieze Week, the busiest time of the year in London’s art world calendar (12 – 18 October). The ICA will present solo exhibitions by three artists, a curated programme of talks, daily musical performances and host the first official Frieze […]

Pinta London Launches The Immigrants, A New International Art Fair

A new international art fair, The Immigrants, is set to bring a fresh perspective on global art to London during Frieze Week. Between the 15th and 18th of October 2015, The Immigrants Art Fair will showcase the highest quality contemporary art from around the world at The Old Truman Brewery in East London. Providing a […]

Manzoni Highest Price Of Frieze Week

At Sotheby’s London, eight bidders drove Piero Manzoni’s monumental Achrome well beyond pre-sale expectations to £12,626,500 or €15,872,822 – the estimate was between 5 to 7 million pounds. This establishes the highest price across all the Frieze auctions this week. The work by Manzoni was the top lot in an evening sale where collectors battled […]

Saatchi’s New Sensations – A Pop-Up Of Absurd Invention

Saatchi Art presents New Sensations 2014 at Victoria House, Bloomsbury, London. The competition was launched seven years ago to support the most imaginative and talented young artists in the UK and to present their work to an international audience during Frieze Week. The Prize is now established in the UK and is an important annual […]

Friezing Day 2 Ben Austin Takes On The Mighty Frieze

So the other night, I went to the opening of the swanky Marian Goodman Gallery in Lower John St. Soho. The New York powerhouse had set up shop in London and how. The well-heeled Euro set crowd, fresh from the fair were out in force. I greeted a dapper Jay Joplin who was entertaining clients […]

Richard Serra At Gagosian Gallery – An Uncompromising Gravity

The Gagosian Gallery Brittania Street London, presents an exhibition of Richard Serra’s latest works; filling the gallery with all of the artist’s usual magisterial weight. This is in fact Richard Serra’s first show of sculpture in London since 2008; an ensemble of four works, each very different to the last – with a room devoted […]

Frieze week 2014 Ben Austin’s Diary Two Great Satellite Events

Ok, so it’s a wet and miserable Monday night, but that will not deter the art crowd, especially when it is the start of Frieze week. So braving the elements, I head out to ‘We could not agree’ a pop up show occupying the whole level of an underground car park on Cavendish Sq. So, […]

Frieze Week Satellite Fair Set For Cavendish Square Car Park

Geoff Leong joins forces again with the dynamic artist-curator duo Vanya Balogh & Cedric Christie to support this years non-profit exhibition ‘WE COULD NOT AGREE’ which is held in the 20,000 Sq ft multi storey Q-Park car park beneath Cavendish Square. Featuring over 100 artists in a circular venue, this annual event likes to challenge, […]

Christie’s Multiplied Launches For Frieze Week

MULTIPLIED is the UK’s only art fair dedicated to contemporary prints and editions. The fair is in its The fifth instalment; returning to Christie’s, South Kensington this autumn. The event will be open to the public from 17-20 October, and will take place during Frieze Week, one of the most important periods in the contemporary […]

Frieze Alternative Returns To London 2014

‘The Other Art Fair’, the artist-led fair, is in its seventh edition this October. Returning to East London’s Old Truman Brewery, during Frieze Week, the fair is set to be another satellite event of this period in London’s art calendar. The fair has a democratic and inclusive ethos and appears to have won a niche […]

Art Miami Buys New York’s Downtown Fair Set During Frieze Week

The Art Miami group has confirmed that it has bought the Downtown Fair in New York for an unpublished price. The previous fair organiser will not have further involvement or an interest in the new fair. The inaugural Downtown Fair will take place May 8-11th during Frieze Week in New York. The Fair will be […]

Frieze Week Main and Satellite Events Guide: London 2013

This week London plays host to Frieze Week – This is a once a year art feeding frenzy – a time when the international cultural core descends on the capital, to pay homage to the Gods of visual art. Frieze and Frieze Masters (launched last year) will give you a solid overview of the current […]

New York’s Lower East Side Hots Up For Frieze Week

The Lower East Side has become the exciting new gallery area in New York with a concentration of over 60 galleries presenting new and innovative art. The area itself maintains the old world charm of its roots as a place where early immigrants settled. The scale of the buildings and streets are small and intimate. […]

Sunday Fair 2011 Galvanizes Frieze Week

The Sunday Fair is Returning during Frieze Week after its successful debut in 2010. It will be held for the second time in London this October. Taking place at the Ambika P3 space on Marylebone Road from 13th to 16th October, SUNDAY is a gallery-led art fair showing a selection of 20 young international galleries, […]