It’s that time of year again, when the Frieze Art Fair makes its way to Regent’s Park. Each year, over 60,000 visitors including artists, collectors, curators, critics, and art lovers attend what has become known as London’s premier exhibition for buyers.

Housing 162 leading contemporary galleries from 25 countries, including the renowned Gargosian Gallery, White Cube, and Thomas Dane, Frieze is an example of global creativity. There are 107 participating artists in the main section of the show, while the fair’s “Spotlight” section which exhibits sole works from 20^th Century artists, has 20 participants. There is an estimated £1.4 billion’s worth of work on show this year, including performance art installations and live displays. And there have already been some momentous sales- for instance, a Damien Hirst of 32 fish coated in formaldehyde from 1993, entitled, “Because I Can’t Have You I Want You”, has sold for a cool £4 million.

Damien Hirst’s “Because I Can’t Have You I Want You.” (Photo by Luke MacGregor/Reuters)

This year is the first time that the fair has introduced a section for performance-based installations. Entitled “Live”, the display includes exclusive pieces just for Frieze, as well as restaging historical pieces. For instance, works include a Chanel-style bag printed with the fair’s logo, a house worth £32 million designed by Shanzhai Biennial, and a ballet shown each day of the fair, produced by Nick Mauss. Among other unusual creations is a soup-tasting of a soup made from “potentially radioactive” radishes grown near Fukushima. The duo behind this exhibit, the United Brothers, had their mother cook the soup, which became so popular that all free samples had gone by the first day.

United Brothers, Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?, 2014. (Courtesy of Green Tea Gallery)

Frieze is of course renowned for its contemporary art collections, including work from emerging galleries which are displayed in the “Focus” section of the show. But on the other end of the spectrum is the Frieze Masters exhibition, also in Regent’s Park, which features older and antique works reimagined in a contemporary arena. Highlights of this year include a 17^th Century Rembrandt portrait on sale for £30 million, and a Cy Twombly canvas from 1959. A 1984 Warhol, in which the artist reimagines Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, has already been sold to a private collector for £3.4 million.

Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo”.

 Andy Warhol’s remaining of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”.

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(Header image: Andy Warhol’s “The Scream”.)