Category: Art Fair
Nationality: Both British
Last Year: 41

London’s top contemporary art fair is expanding. Always looking for a gap in the market (and to crush the competition), Frieze cofounders Slotover and Sharp announced not one but two new fairs for 2012: Frieze Art Fair heads for New York’s Randall’s Island in May, no doubt with a view to pulling the rug from under the distinctly tired and wobbly Armory Show. Meanwhile, preempting conservative collectors looking for more safe-haven art purchases, next year’s London fair will occur alongside a new venture, Frieze Masters, where galleries will be selling antique through to classic modern art. Oh, and did we mention that Frieze magazine now has a German edition? Firing on all cylinders, then.