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
Free Art Fair for free in three empty shop spaces in Portman Village, near Marble Arch, London. It was described as the "most radical departure from art fair commercialism" that year. Taking place in October at the same time as the Frieze Art Fair it was written about as an alternative asking questions of the market driven art fairs. In 2008 the fair took place again near Marble Arch. It was reported that £100,000 of art was given away with people queuing up for two nights to get artwork by artists including Gavin Turk and Stella Vine. In 2009 the fair moved to