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Plus, artists on artists at the National Gallery, Maggi Hambling's eye-popping evocations and a sleepwalking sculpture in Regent's Park

At Frieze London this year, you are never far from naked bodies and erotic scenes, with young artists demonstrating a new confidence in expressing sexuality and desire

While Paris hotels are reportedly crawling with bed bugs, the only critters we saw at Frieze London and Frieze Masters were in the exhibits

Event was held during a fortnight of back-to-back art fairs in the the UK capital and Paris

Artist Ryan Gander, Sarah McCrory, the director of Goldsmiths’ Centre for Contemporary Art and Chisenhale Gallery director Zoé Whitley all decided not to attend

One highlight, East London’s Public Gallery, has won the 2023 Focus Stand Prize on its debut at the fair

The work was deaccessioned after the artist cancelled the exhibition in protest at the war in Ukraine

Luminaries from across the art world look back over the London fair’s first two decades and tell us what makes the event so special

An incisive study of the influential designer responsible for the V&A’s ‘Oriental Court’ in the 1860s

There was a certain degree of sleight of hand at play by the auction house to achieve 100% of lots sold