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Frieze Week: Thursday
Why the Trafigura Prize is trying to pour oil on troubled waters (ho-ho) and Alex Dellal tells me what his Embassy project has to do with nationalism (very little, apparently)
Frieze Week: Wednesday
When the fair finally opened, orange stickers appeared on works' labels like a rapidly-spreading outbreak of chicken pox. Plus, Spear's talks to Joe La Placa, who has founded a contemporary collection with (gasp!) a hedge-fund manager.
Frieze Week: Tuesday
'Bacon? Who's he? Never heard of him,' says Damien when I ask him about his influences. 'I prefer eggs and beans.'
Frieze Week: Monday
Laurence Graff told Spear's that he had always wondered what it was like to stand on the other side of the podium instead of sitting in the front rows
Art London looks up
Art London had too much drawing-room art last year. This year, Art London moved out of the drawing room and into a more daring room.
Musical corner offices
When the music stops, grab the nearest seat. Oh, sorry, Ken Lewis - no chair for you.
Friezing already
Frieze is the starting pistol for the art world's runners. The interesting question is whether it is a sprint, a marathon or an aesthete's Supermarket Sweep.
Hello, Folly!
Worse, Samantha Spiro cannot even sing well. Vamping your rasping way through the climax of a song is not a subsitute for singing it.
We're here, we're queer...
and we've got something to cheer. Gay Icons at the National Portrait Gallery is a cause of joy - and queries.
Designing the future. Today
These are the people who are designing our future, with many focusing on environmentally friendly design and reinterpreting modern classics.
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