look at the Frieze of "Kommersant":

Drivers passing by Regent's Park, have unwittingly inhibit upward wheels lying on the roadway clunker: the installation of German conceptualist Hans Peter Feldman climbed beyond reserved for Sculpture Park - a program that allows participating galleries set in an English garden next to the fair pavilion of large- sculpture. While complete without accidents. Frieze generally known for its parallel programs: daily "conversations" (performing artists, critics and curators), movie screenings, concerts, orders for young artists, monographic exhibition beginners galleries - apparently the whole or a non-profit aimed at supporting youth work more like a festival for the intellectuals, than fair for the money bags, a gift that at its VIP-opening shone Claudia Schiffer and Dasha Zhukova. Where else, for example, the gallery can be put up for sale along with the works of classics like David Voynarovicha (photomontages from the series "Rimbaud in New York" for £ 5 thousand) for complete binder journals Tel Quel (£ 1,5 thousand), the avant-garde publications , which printed all great - from Roland Barthes to Umberto Eco, as did the London Cabinet. At Frieze you will find all the festival-biennalnyh artists who have a reputation for clever, political radicals, and fighters with commerce. However, antikommercheskoe art is always a good sell: packed trolley from the supermarket veteran of this war Hristo worth £ 465 thousand (London Annely Juda), an angry neon sign "Taxpayers' money," rookie Jonathan Monk - € 30 million (London Lisson Gallery). But in an era of IT and other smart technologies is, perhaps, is the most correct market strategy.

Frieze, founded in 2003, publishers of the magazine, carefully demonstrating that does not work for paltry market, and for eternity - the history of art and the museum. Starting from a directory that looks like an illustrated dictionary of contemporary artists, master classes for students and tours for all comers, and ending with a prize for best booth, which this time received a sterile museum exhibition London gallery Sadie Coles: the main attraction here was similar to some Cycladic terracotta objects in the past, "a young British women," Sarah Lucas made, as it turns out on closer examination of pantyhose stuffed with cotton wool (for £ 75 thousand each).

Museum theme beat and wandering between Berlin and Mexico City, a cosmopolitan Simon Fujiwara - the current winner of Cartier, is awarded to living outside the United Kingdom, the young artist, so he made his project right at the fair. At the entrance to the fair tent could stumble on the first track of his "Frozen Museum: the floor was visible archaeological glazed pit fragments of supposedly ancient frescoes. Such psevdoarheologicheskie canned excavations were found throughout frizovskoy territory, where it appears in the ancient civilization existed cheerful, judging by the findings, did not get out of the brothels and rumochnaia artists, and its discoverer diligently fumbling in one of the wells.

joke and a travesty - the best seller at the fair , which is rarely seen precious art of the first half of XX century, except that in the repertoire specializing in classic modernist Waddingtion Galleries in da Picasso painting perelitsovyvayuschego George Condo. However, there appreciate more subtle parody: Korean Kimhongsok depicted melted word "Love" by Robert Indiana and blown away by Jeff Koons bunny ($ 60 thousand and $ 55 thousand, respectively, Seoul Kukje Gallery), Erwin Wurm, presented "Mr. Mutt" (the pseudonym Marcel Duchamp signed his "The Fountain") in the form of a human urinal (€ 35 thousand, the Paris-Salzburg Thaddaeus Ropac), and Gavin Turk as quail "catastrophic" series of Andy Warhol, that can not be distinguished from the original (£ 38 thousand, the Vienna Krinzinger). Of aging, "Young Britons' Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin is clearly overshadowed by the popularity of the Frieze of Damien Hirst, who with great emotion and without a hint of humor - along with the other kings of the market, Andy Warhol and Richard Prince - sold except that Larry Gagosian (prices do not press report). At White Cube Hurst also appeared in unusual roles parodist, make fun of Bruce Nauman: his colossal pharmacy cabinet of curiosities with the conserved fish was in naumanovski named "A true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths" (sold on the first day of £ 3,5 million). Of the other works on megalomanskih vaytkyubovskom booth was a huge picture "Tour de France" by Andreas Gursky (€ 330 thousand) and the tremendous historical painting "Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin wall to urinate" Georg Baselitz (€ 500 thousand).

This Russian presence at the fair was not limited, although it was modest. In addition to Moscow's XL and Regina of our countrymen can be found in Berlin and Ljubljana Gallery Gregor Podnar ("complement" the picture of Yuri Leiderman, € 20 thousand), a London-Wilkinson (collages by Anne Parkin £ 1,5-3 thousand) and even Tadeusz ropac (picture of "Alternative History of Art" by Ilya Kabakov, $ 660 thousand). Generally, a fair is very Western, US-European face, fashion in China, India and the Middle East, it almost did not affect . And let The Art Newspaper said this year's influx of Latin American art galleries and artists, leaders, if we talk about the national representatives, of course, were the Germans . Düsseldorf photographers, painters in Leipzig, the "new wild and old feminists like Rosemary Trokel and Isa Gentsken - it was hard to find a stand without any German artist. Owner Regina Vladimir Ovcharenko not see this is nothing surprising: strong artistic tradition, a large number of different schools. That Germans cherish, not destroy, as we have a polygraph. Mister Ovcharenko, incidentally, also exhibited at the stand of the work of Jonathan Meese.
Anna Tolstova
The newspaper Kommersant »№ 193 (4493) on 16.10.2010

Dear Eugene, thanks, but I read it. And all this zamechyatelno, but I will tell you a secret, Sol Levitt may not be a classic conceptual art, because such art does not exist. Ie I believe that the phrase "conceptual art" is meaningless. ;)

At the auctions held during the London art fair Frieze, the art was sold for 94 million pounds (148.7 million dollars), wrote The Daily Telegraph.
The most expensive lot was a sculpture of all trades rider Marino Marini, sold for 4.5 million pounds. Only two auctions of Italian art of the XX century, one of which was sold this sculpture, brought 35.8 million pounds.
Also among the other deceased with a hammer works worth noting created a picture of butterflies by Damien Hirst, sold for 2.2 million pounds, two sculptures by Takashi Murakami sold for 1.9 million, and a picture of Andy Warhol, for which she gave 1,5 million. According to the publication, this year's Frieze auctions brought in nearly twice as much money than in the past.
(Lenta.Ru and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/a...-auctions.html)

Today in the Multimedia Art Museum Joseph Kosuth will lecture in the framework of the project "AMNEZIYA", which in MAMMA consists of two parts: in the retrospective part will include his works made in the technique of neon, from the mid 1960s until the early 2000s, and the second part of the project is the installation of "Texts for nothing/Texts for Nothing" and "Ulysses, 18 titles and hours/Ulysses, 18 Titles and Hours" based on the novel by James Joyce.