Cathy's Art Diary

Interesting but slightly oddly titled online lecture from Frieze looking at the thinking behind the Documenta art fair due to open in June 2022. The talk had only listed the participants on the advertising but as I was free I thought I’d give it a go. I assumed it was interviews with three contemporary artists. It was still interesting but I would encourage better descriptions of events. The speakers were the director of the show, Farid Rakin, of the collective ruangrupa, Lara Khaldi who is working on the group of the show and Yazan Kahlili who is working on identifying the political meaning and worth of the work and promoting that. The sound quality was quite poor and some of the speakers had quite heavy accents which were hard to understand in those conditions. They were also discussing quite complex philosophical idea about the art market which I’m not sure I grasped completely. Documenta is in the city of Kassel in Germany every five years and I have to admit I had not com...

Eclectic online version of this annual London art fair. I’ve spent a fun afternoon wandering though the galleries in this online version of the prestigious London Art fair. Some of the galleries have physical shows in their galleries as well but it was a bit unclear which these were. Not all works lend themselves to the online presentation so it doesn’t replace seeing art in person, but it is a great way of getting an overview of the market.   I’ve never been brave enough to go through the real show so this was a good introduction and maybe next year I’ll pluck up the courage to go. The show was split into two, Frieze itself for contemporary art and Frieze Masters which covered pieces from Ancient Greece to the end of the 20 th  century. I thought a fun approach to blogging the show would be to pick my favourite five items from each section. Let’s start with the contemporary show. Oddly when I checked back on my list four were sculptures and one was a video installation....