 10/24/05 EVERYONE WAS THERE
SCENE & HERD AT FRIEZE Artforums online diary takes you behind the scene at Londons Frieze fair 10.21CLAIRE BISHOP on the Turner Prize exhibition opening "It's that time of year again. Several thousand specimens of international art trash and flash have descended on London for the Frieze Art Fair. The first site of infestation was the Turner Prize exhibition opening at Tate Britain Monday night. What work was visible through the swarm of bodies revealed what seemed to be a surprisingly evenly matched lineup. READ ON http://www.artforum.com/diary 10.22Trân Dúc Vân on Jeff Wall Day "Lunch in Wall's honor was Champagne, lobster, and chocolate soufflélots of Champagne, in fact. As the artist was fashionably late, cocktails dragged a touch, something I was still thanking the maestro for at 4 p.m. when I stumbled upon a full coffee pot at the Portman Square manse that provided the pleasantly decrepit site of Francis Alÿs's Seven Walks, an exhibition commissioned by UK nonprofit Artangel. READ ON http://www.artforum.com/diary 10.24Stuart Comer covers the fair "Elmgreen & Dragset staged a facsimile of their Berlin dealer Martin Klosterfeldes booth--complete with a Klosterfelde doppelganger, identical Matthew Antezzo paintings of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, plus duplicate works by Kiersten Pieroth, Dan Peterman, and Christian Jankowski. Allegedly, the impersonator playing Klosterfelde also played the German journalist in Tim Burtons Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Oompa Loompa indeed. READ ON http://www.artforum.com/diary/ Coming next: Brian Sholis on the Zoo and ~scope art fairs, Michael Wilson Stockhausens concert, and more. ARTFORUM.COM EVERYWHERE THE ART IS |
