ARTINFO feels that the overall level of thebooths at Frieze this year was very high, both in terms of the work shown and the qualityof the hangings. Here, we offer our own idiosyncratic list of the best...and the worst, which made us wince, or yawn.

BEST

Sutton Lane (London and Paris): Eschewing the cheap eye-candyapproach, Sutton's booth features LizDeschenes's subtle,abstract, photo-based works on metal are paired with NoraSchultz'sspare, post-Minimal sculptural pieces. A monochromatic affair overall,and one that's not afraid to play hard to get.

ElizabethDee (New York): You sit in a mini screening room, under amesh ceiling, and watch a Ryan Trecartin video. Surrounding you areprops from the onscreen fantasia, as well as photographs. It's joyfuland powerful. And did we mention you can sit?

Platform (Beijing): A pile of monitors playing no fewer than 50wacky — and at times disturbing — videos by Jin Shan. Thismarks Jin's first presentation outside China. We predict big things.

MOT International (London): We were especially taken with Frame thisyear, and so have felt compelled to include two galleries from thesection of the fair (the other being Platform). LaureProuvost has transformed theMOT booth into a D.I.Y. rec room. Videos speak to objects (literally),objects hang from the ceiling and lean against the walls. A row ofpink "soft bottoms" painted on toilet paper does battle with a stackof "dirty bottoms" painted on panel. Into one wall a translucent videoscreen has been inserted, reminding one of the fair beyond.

CaseyKaplan (New York): An uncluttered, perhaps even roomy offering ofgorgeous works by MarloPascual in which she has blown up glamor photos ofwomen from a bygone era, treating them as objects.

SadieColes (London): We would not have awarded this booth the prizefor the fair's best, but we do applaud the living-room hang replete with afireplace, a John Currin, a suite of ElizabethPeyton drawings, andsculptural objects by, among others, UrsFischer.

WORST 

Galerie CatherineBastide (Brussels): Here, rather garish paintings by Janaina Tschäpeare at war with humdrum images (by Ola Rindal) of planes that are more rip-offthan homage to FelixGonzález-Torres.

Waddington Galleries (London): A mishmash of blue-chip wares, from Tàpies toRauschenberg to PeterBlake, hung by someone with dollar signs in theireyes.

ditto Gagosian Gallery (New York, and stealthily, over time, the entire globe): Same idea — throw up big work by artists who commandbig prices (i.e., Hirst & Co.) and hope people are stunned intodropping their checkbooks.

BEST & WORST

Experimenter gallery(Kalkuta, India): This booth earns a place in both categories for its NaeemMohaiemen display, "I Have KilledPharaoh and I Am Not Afraid to Die." Heavily text-based, though withtwo beautiful small sculptural works of Polaroids encased in blocks ofresin, this compelling work demands far more concentration than isavailable to any attendees of an art fair. And for that we salute them, while saying,"Really?!"