Press Quotes
“Now in its fifth year, the fair attracts the trendiest galleries and most celebrated contemporary artists from around the world. The fair now attracts so many top collectors that the international auction houses piggyback benchmark contemporary sales on it”
Wall Street Journal, 14-16 September 2007
“the world’s coolest art fair”
The Guardian, 6 October 2007
“London’s Frieze Art Fair is global in scope and cheeky in spirit”
Vogue (America), October 2007
“It is very big, extremely glamorous, and positively packed with high-rollers, movers and shakers”
Apollo, October 2007
“The place also teems with the general public, who are here to enjoy the fair as an art show”
Michael Glover, The Independent, 12 October 2007
“perhaps the most important contemporary art fair in the world”
Stefanie Marsh, The Times, 12 October 2007
“All this is evidence of how deeply and widely the Frieze Art Fair, founded by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, has burrowed its way into British culture”
Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 13 October 2007
“Frieze Art Fair remains the magnet in the London autumn art spectacle”
Anne Reimers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 October 2007
“one of the most important international contemporary art fairs”
Christiane Hoffmans, Welt am Sonntag, 14 October 2007
‘Frieze Art Fair…has rapidly become one of the most important fixtures in the international culture calendar’
Alastair Sooke, Daily Telegraph, October 6 2007
“On paper its just an art fair. But then, on paper, Michelangelo’s David is just a lump of stone. On paper, the Taj Mahal is a building, and Helen Mirren is an actress...I am not saying that Frieze isn’t, technically, an art fair. My point is that this glum definition doesn’t begin to capture the drama and buzz of the event in the tent.”
Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday Times, 7 October 2007
“Frieze Art Fair in London is an irresistible mix of art, commerce and glamour, and has quickly made a reputation for itself as an international showcase for some of the best contemporary art”
New York Times, 30 September 2007
“Frieze Art Fair attracts scores of collectors eager to snap up the latest talents”
Economist, 24 September 2007
“Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp have put together a hugely ambitious series of events, performances and talks designed to move Frieze beyond an art fair and turn it into a larger event where art is made and the cultural agenda is set.”
Joanna Pitman, The Times, 6 October 2007
“...never before have there been so many well to do collectors, so many high price works, as seen at Britain’s most important fair for contemporary art. The boom in the art market seems to be as strong as ever.’
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 October 2006
“… a spectacularly successful melding together of culture and commerce.”
Financial Times, 13 October 2006
“ One of the few opportunities to get a truly representative picture of artists across the world.”
The Times, 07 October 2006
“The Frieze Art Fair is entering its fourth edition with a firm step and the confidence to make it the most attractive date for international contemporary art. From its site in Regent’s Park in north London it sets out the cultural agenda, with creative potential and the absolute latest art works.”
El Pais, 12 October 2006
“Monday was the start of ‘Frieze Week,’ the unofficial name of the week defined by Britain’s major contemporary art fair, Frieze… Such is the draw of the fair that museums, dealers and auction houses all want to attract the international community, who are in town for the fair.”
“Frieze has come from nowhere, and has brought about a festival and a £100 million sales machine - a triumphant compliment to the founders, Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp.”
International Herald Tribune, 12 October 2006
“It’s astonishing that until three years ago London didn’t have a fair. It is a huge achievement that organisers Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp have created something that is regarded already as one of the best three fairs in the world.”
Sir Nicholas Serota, Guardian, 12 October 2006
“This art fair, founded only four years ago, has soared from strength to strength.” “And they [galleries] don’t just come from the familiar cultural capitals, but also from places such as Cairo, Sao Paulo and Beirut.”
Times, 11 October 2006
“It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the fair in the contemporary art calendar.”
Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian 07 October 2006
“one of the world’s most important venues for showing international contemporary art, which attracts thousands of visitors to London.”
Colin Gleadell, Telegraph 07 October 2006
“The extent of the Frieze effect is remarkable.”
Evening Standard, 04 October 2006
“Frieze is a phenomenon. It might call itself an art fair but it has redefined the boundaries of the term...a showcase for international dealers to present much of what is exciting and new in contemporary art...also a place where art is created and debated, where people meet and where things happen. “
Financial Times, 30 September 2006
“One of the great strengths of Frieze is that it has always brought together an eclectic mix. This comprises some of the world’s biggest and most powerful galleries purveying the latest...hot property alongside younger galleries representing emerging talent - work so new to the market that it stands on its own, unsupported by critical comment or established market value.”
Financial Times, 30 September 2006
“…he [the Prime Minister] could perhaps pen a letter of thanks to Matthew and Amanda for bringing millions of pounds of revenue into Britain in a thoroughly enjoyable and positive way.” “Hotels will be full, restaurants packed to bursting, bars thriving and taxi drivers smiling. Through hard work and chutzpah they’ve made art accessible for all.”
Janet Street-Porter, The Independent, 20 October 2005
“Frieze is the centrepiece of a weekend of frenetic activity for contemporary art in London…(it is) essential viewing for just about everyone interested in cutting-edge contemporary art…London’s position looks assured as the centre of the European business world. (Revealingly, the fair’s corporate sponsor is Deutsche Bank)”.
The Financial Times, October 2005
“If the gallery owners themselves are hoping to snap up pieces at Frieze, then you know that you can’t afford to miss it.”
Sunday Times, October 2005
“Frieze produces a three-day firework display that no gallery or museum staging exhibitions that last for months can match.”
The Observer, October 2005
“The single most important thing to happen in contemporary arts in London since the opening of Tate Modern.”
The Observer, October 2005
“By the end of what came to be known as ‘Frieze week’, London certainly felt itself to be truly colonised by contemporary art. The amount of activity and energy generated in those four days confirms that London has come of age as centre for the global contemporary art market. It now seems impossible to imagine October in London without the Frieze fair.”
The Art Newspaper, November, 2004
“This second edition of the fair is a success on a commercial and artistic level. The artists themselves love Frieze, and can be seen at the parties organised by the galleries...Frieze has a real energy and is home to the biggest names in contemporary art.”
Le Monde, 18th October 2004
“Frieze Art Fair has become the most relevant factor in London’s development as an Art Metropolis”
Welt Am Sonntag, 17th October, 2004
“It was once the yacht, the sports car or the racehorse that marked one out as smart, cool and successful. Now it’s an art collection… For four days (ringed in red in the savviest diaries) a glittering crowd of art world insiders, celebrities and the seriously rich will descend on Regent’s Park for the Frieze Art Fair.”
Financial Times, How to Spend It, October 2004
“It was once the yacht, the sports car or the racehorse that marked one out as smart, cool and successful. Now it’s an art collection… For four days (ringed in red in the savviest diaries) a glittering crowd of art world insiders, celebrities and the seriously rich will descend on Regent’s Park for the Frieze Art Fair.”
Financial Times, How to Spend It, October 2004
“The fair took £26 million in new art business this year and brought together so many dealers and galleries that it now rivals Art Basel… I spied Madonna and Kate Moss, royals, politicians, City financiers, media luminaries and ambassadors all flocking around the art… As the International Herald Tribune noted a few weeks ago, Frieze is changing trends.”
Evening Standard, 19 October 2003
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