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As the art fair baton is now passed from Asia to Europe the art world is gearing up for Frieze and FIAC.
Georgina Adams has a good piece on ‘art week madness’ in London here. and here.
The Indian artist Jitish Kallat has the last word. “No recession is fun, but setbacks are lessons. In the boom years the benchmarks to judge an artist’s work had shifted so far away from the fundamentals of the work that I do feel we now inhabit a saner, fat-free art world,” he says.
FIAC is here.
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In related news- there is now a new Anglo French art mag.

The first issue includes texts on Jesse Jones, Yinka Shonibare and Pierre Leguillon, a two-part reportage on the Paris area’s dynamic art scene, an essay on the minimal tendencies of several young British artists, as well as reflections on the Turner Prize phenomenon and Francesco Manacorda’s memories of the exhibition BMW-Black Market Worlds. Also in Catalogue no. 1 are Hou Hanru’s 2009 exhibition picks and the inauguration of our Selected Pieces section, where guests are invited to choose one artwork they would like to promote, rethink or revive.
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Artes Mundi shortlist
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Sean Kelly signs Tehching Hsieh
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China Independent Film Festival

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In not so art related news- AP in Hong Kong has a moan about news link aggregator types AP boss: “Bloggers are pests, and like all pests they must be eradicated, we are hiring a team of lawyers to crush them” laughs like a maniac
Ah, oops no. That quote has gone, what he actually said was: “we didn’t, collectively, license as aggressively as we could have. ”

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