Frieze Art Fair Frieze Art Fair Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair in London and New York. It takes place every October in London's Regent's Park and since 2014, has also been running on New York's Randall's Island. The fair is staged by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the publishers of "frieze" magazine. Frieze Art Fair features more than 170 contemporary art galleries, and the fair also includes specially commissioned artists’ projects, a talks programme and an artist-led education schedule. Although staged for the purpose of selling work, the fair has become a cultural entertainment event and out of its
Accessible Art Fair since 2010. In 2012 the event welcomed over 6,000 visitors. In 2014, the Accessible Art Fair took place at the prestigious Cercle de Lorraine, and in 2017 and 2018 it took place at the BOZAR. The founding director is the Canadian-born arts curator Stephanie Manasseh. After graduating from McGill University, she moved to Europe where she studied at Sotheby's in London. In Belgium, she began exhibiting her mother’s artwork at small, private events. The idea for the Accessible Art Fair stemmed from the success of these sales, giving her the impulse to organize similar events on a larger scale where