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

Anny Shaw. With additional reporting by Kabir Jhala

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

Hosted by Ben Luke and Aimee Dawson. With guest speaker Anny Shaw. Produced by David. Clack and Henrietta Bentall
Sponsored byChristie's

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

Hosted by Ben Luke and Aimee Dawson. With guest speaker Anny Shaw. Produced by David. Clack and Henrietta Bentall
Sponsored byChristie's

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

Interview by Aimee Dawson

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

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