One of the highlights of Frieze week in London was not at the fair itself but at London’s Old Vic, where Drama Queens, a one-act play by the Berlin-based artistic duo Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, brought famous sculptures to life via remote control. The voices behind the fiberglass creations belonged to a sensational cast that included Jeremy Irons, as Giacometti’s Walking Man; Kevin Spacey, as Jeff Koons’s Rabbit; and as Sol LeWitt’s Four Cubes, the dreamy Shakespeare in Love star Joseph Fiennes. The 38-year-old actor is no stranger to aesthetic appreciation: He collects photography and has a ravishing artist girlfriend, the model and former Miss Switzerland finalist Maria Dolores Diéguez, who’s studying at London’s Chelsea College of Art and Design. 

Fiennes Art Appreciation" originally appeared in the December 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's December 2008 Table of Contents.