I don't have time to do this right now but I was reading an interview with Sophie Calle at the back of Frieze and she clearly got bored of the questions and ended up firing a load of questions back.

I'm kind of amused at the idea of taking the words of the greatest French artists of the 20th and 21st centuries and turning them into a cheap internet ( Read more... )

i have about one hour to submit this redraft of a review of a thoroughly boring and confusing film about abstraction and some artist's email inbox. I have about 75 words to pull it all together and in talking in vague terms about 'abstraction' 'meaniing' and 'repetition' I'm getting nowhere, but seriously, it's a boring as fuck film. I ( Read more... )

As I sit here eating my batch cooked bolognese, or shovelling down yet another exciting dish of baked beans on toast, I have been comforting myself with the thought that, come Frieze week, I'd be living it up on champagne and oysters. Remember my schedule? I was planning on being drunk by 11am every day for a week.

Now I get a call from a curator ( Read more... )

Thank you for submitting your rsvp. These are the events you are attending:

13 October 7 - 9pm Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Cildo Meireles private views at Tate Modern
14 October 11am - 1pm Hard-hat tour and champagne brunch at Whitechapel Gallery
14 October 6 - 8 pm Frieze Art Fair Welcome Party
16 October 9 - 10.15am Mark Rothko breakfast ( Read more... )

...was unexpectedly good fun, though I was crotchety by the end of it and really didn't see enough actual art.
monday night
I went to Erika Verzutti's show at Blow de la Barra and then snuck into the after party at Detmar Blow's house. Later I wished I hadn't, Mr Blow is meant to be a horrible man who went round having loads of mistresses whilst ( Read more... )