Frieze London and Frieze Masters Open in Regent's Park With Around 300 Galleries

Frieze week began on Wednesday 14 October. Frieze London and Frieze Masters run to Sunday 18 October in The Regent's Park, and by USA Art News's count there are around 300 galleries across the two fairs: 172 exhibitors at Frieze London and 138 at Frieze Masters, with eight showing at both. Deutsche Bank is global lead partner for the 23rd year.

Two sections are new. 'The Code Universe' at Frieze London is curated by Carol Yinghua Lu, director of the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing and co-curator of the 2027 Istanbul Biennial, with artists including Carolyn Lazard, Selma Selman and Shinro Ohtake. At Frieze Masters, 'Queering Modernism: Visual Languages of the 20th Century' was conceived by Anke Kempkes.

The big names are in the tents: USA Art News lists Gagosian, Pace, David Zwirner, Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube, Lisson, Sadie Coles HQ, Victoria Miro and Maureen Paley at Frieze London, with Hauser & Wirth among the eight galleries showing at both fairs. Our earlier post covers the Frieze London Artist Award spider, the climbable commission that is part of the fair.

Worth finding

• Artist-to-Artist, now in its fourth edition, has seven established artists each nominating a peer for a solo booth. Wallpaper picks out Paul Robas at Alice Amati, Unathi Mkonto at Goodman Gallery (nominated by Yinka Shonibare) and Eusung Lee at Seoul's Cylinder (selected by Ayoung Kim).
• At Frieze Masters, Daniel Crouch Rare Books shows highlights from Andrew Edmunds' collection of more than 10,000 caricatures and satirical prints, including over 1,200 by James Gillray, 300 by William Hogarth and 500 by Thomas Rowlandson.
• Frieze Sculpture is outdoors and free: eleven international artists curated by Fatoş Üstek, in the park until 1 November, ArtRabbit reports.

Beyond the tents

Several galleries time major openings to this week. Thaddaeus Ropac opened 'Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965–66' at Ely House, 37 Dover Street, on 13 October; the gallery calls it the first exhibition in the UK devoted exclusively to the Hero paintings, with loans from Tate, the Berlinische Galerie, Museum Frieder Burda and Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, to 18 December. The same day Hauser & Wirth opened Cindy Sherman's Fabric Matrons on Savile Row, and Tate Modern unveiled Tarek Atoui's Turbine Hall commission. William Eggleston arrived at The Photographers' Gallery on Wednesday.

For anyone who makes work for these walls, the less glamorous half of an art fair is documentation: the photographs that sell a piece before the fair opens and after it closes. Our guide to photographing artwork in a studio covers flat work, three-dimensional pieces and what galleries and auction houses ask for.