Category: Art Fair Directors
Nationality: British
Last Year: 25
‘Frieze week’ has become a London institution; galleries save their best shows for it, and not even the most devoted reveller can attend all the parties, dinners and special events. But what of the catalysing event at its centre? Last year’s Frieze Art Fair opened shortly after the markets crashed; it wasn’t a washout, but the fair founded by Frieze magazine’s Sharp and Slotover still looks a bit fragile, despite its usual fizzy distractions: the number of New York galleries attending has halved since 2007, and while demand for booths has apparently been strong, Frieze is clearly profiting from the sinking satellite fairs. A new section, Frame, featuring solo shows and modelled on Basel’s Art Statements, was allegedly so inundated with applications that it has doubled its expected size. Still, the operative adage here is ‘wait and see’.