When in London for...The Frieze Art Fair

Courtesy The Tate Modern

Louise Bourgeois’s "Seven in Bed" (2001) at the Tate Modern

Courtesy David Adjaye Associates

A rendering of the new Rivington Place cultural center.

Frieze Art Fair 2007

On-the-Ground Reports from Frieze and the Satellite Fairs

Tubes, Taxis, and Shanks's Pony
An Ex-Londoner's Guide to Getting Around the Fairs

Thinking Outside the Booths
Art Events to Consider When Fair Fatigue Sets In

Louise Bourgeois The Second Sex (at Auction, Anyway) The Appendix: Frank Stella Needs $5 Million; Louise Bourgeois Buys a House; and Viva la Arte Cubana! First Annual Art Awards Winners Announced Picasso Leads Sotheby's Print Sale Nouveau Is the New New Advice and Verse in London Lehman Art Auction Prices on the Low Side

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Fortnum & Mason
October sees not only the queen’s grocer’s tercentenary but also the unveiling of its huge renovation. This most aristocratic of department stores wishes to be known for more than tea and Christmas hampers. To that end, it has added new departments a-go-go, including a third floor that is all about men, offering leather goods, games, and swank valises, and four new restaurants. Outside, small effigies of Mr. Fortnum and Mr. Mason still emerge to strike the hour on the famous clock.
181 Piccadilly
44-20/77-34-80-40
www.fortnumandmason.com

All Star Lanes
A cultural disconnect within a cultural disconnect, here’s a heartland pastime in a mall—albeit a pretty Edwardian mall that’s growing beyond chain stores. The original Bloomsbury branch of this upscale bowling alley had its boldfaced followers; this one will surely follow suit. Get a house julep of Buffalo Trace with your crab cakes and burgers.
Whiteleys
Porchester Gardens
44-20/73-13-83-63

"When in London for...The Frieze Art Fair" was originally published in the October/November 2007 issue of Culture + Travel magazine.