Frieze Week in London is upon us once more, and there’ll be no shortage of gallery exhibitions, art fairs, and swanky parties competing for the attention of the art world’s best and brightest.
It can be hard to keep track of all the shows opening in the busy week, so we’re here to help. For what’s on in museums, we’ve already put together a guide to some of the unmissable institutional shows to see across Europe this fall. And, If you have time to travel further afield, you can always catch a train out to Kent coast for the Turner Prize Exhibition in Margate, or take a trip to the Oxfordshire countryside for Maurizio Cattelan’s show at Blenheim Palace, albeit without Cattelan’s famous golden toilet, which remains MIA since it was stolen the morning after the show’s opening party. Some hangover.
In the meantime, here are some of the top gallery shows you need to know to be up to speed during Frieze.
Betty Parsons at Alison Jacques
October 2 – November 9
One of London’s leading gallerists pays tribute to the pioneering Betty Parsons, who helped give the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still their first breaks in New York’s art world. The show focuses on Parsons as an artist in her own right rather than a trailblazing art dealer. She created colorful abstract paintings on the weekends in her Long Island studio. Frieze week shows still tend be mainly a boy’s club, so extra kudos to Jacques for helping to correct gender bias.
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