What hath Frieze wrought? The art fair, now in its fifth year, which opens in London on October 11, is already bursting at the seams.
More than 150 galleries are showing, including Barbara Gladstone from New York, David Kordansky and Regen Projects from Los Angeles, London's Lisson Gallery, which will be showing Julian Opie portraits including Kate model (right), and Hauser & Wirth from London and Zurich.
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are also Frieze Talks, Frieze Movies, Frieze Education, Frieze Music and Frieze Projects, for whom the New York artist Richard Prince will be showing a working model of a 1970 Dodge Challenger, accompanied by Beatles and Led Zeppelin tracks played at the wrong speed.
And the artist Kris Martin will be (trying to) create something truly
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radical: a one minute's silence.
Then there are the other fairs, Pulse and Zoo. But the fairs are just the unstill centres of a throbbing week. Among entities horning in on the action are hefty galleries, non-participants in the actual fair, like Dickinson, who have given their Jermyn Street building a £150,000 facelift for a show curated by ArtNet's Joe la Placa.
Then there are the Louise Blouin McBain Foundation, the National Portrait Gallery, and the British Museum with non-stop parties for the First Emperor's Army (well, squad). And the auction houses are circling the dealers' wagons with flaming arrows:
Sotheby's are holding a sale on the 12th, Phillips de Pury have no fewer than four on the 13th and Christie's, who are giving a party on the 10th with Vanity Fair, have an auction on the 14th. Cue in the lunches, the cocktails, the dinners
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