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Slot Machines and Earl Grey Sours: Behaving Badly At Frieze London
16 October 2026

"Amid big sales, celebrity guests and talking‑point toilets, confidence was the prevailing mood at Frieze London. 

 

Beyond the tents, Minor Attractions, a “transgressive” satellite fair, occupied the gleaming Newman Hotel in Fitzrovia. I drifted through bohemian suites with bedposts modelled on Nancy Cunard’s bangles, to view works nestled among slick furniture: Léa Porré’s weapon-pierced jellies (Tache) and Max King’s ominously altered slot machines (Plicnik), and Moses Tan’s mechanical paws (Starch)."

 

By Izabella Scott.

 

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