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Fairs, fairs, fairs, fairs

By: Paul Stone

This month sees the international art world’s focus turn to London.

The third Frieze Art Fair runs 21-24 October in Regents Park and features over 150 of the leading contemporary art galleries from around the world. The fair is accompanied by talks and specially commissioned artists’ projects including: German artist Michael Beutler, whose metal and paper sculptures penetrate the fair’s marquee roof; American artist Andrea Zittel, accompanied by an entire hiking club from California; and Dutch artist Germaine Kruip, who is producing a moving light installation for the main entrance corridor. Amongst ‘tour projects’ around the fair are: Berlin-based Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda conducting a ‘non-tour’ of the fair without information or words; French artist Matthieu Laurette’s ‘fashion tours’ of the fair and its visitors; and tours of the fair’s service areas by American artist Martha Rosler. An Artists’ Cinema in conjunction with Lux includes film and video works commissioned from a group of British sculptors new to the medium including Donald Urquart, Cathy Wilkes and Roger Hiorns. Off-site events include a Platform for Art project by Richard Wentworth and a concert of live singing birds at...

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