Frieze Art Fair, Regent's Park

Frieze frames itself with humour and innovation

by Josh SperoThursday, 14 October 2010

Damián Ortega's globe constructed from rocks of different sizes and colours at Kurimanzutto GalleryLinda Nylind for Frieze Art Fair

Contemporary art can, unsurprisingly, become dated pretty quickly – the clue is in the name. Another of Damien Hirst’s mirrored cabinets of pills or of Gavin Turk’s piss-takes of Andy Warhol at the Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park is hardly the sort of sight which will enthuse hardened art-gallery goers.

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