Top 10 galleries

Perusing the aisles of Sunday, Frieze et al I thought I'd make a list of my top emerging galleries (esp as the Space of the Month slot is ending in Dazed)

The Sunday Painter (London) 

Exhibiting Artists - Samara Scott, Rob Chavasse, Rhys Coren

Seventeen Gallery (London) 

Exhibiting Artists - Oliver Laric, Jon Rafman, David Raymond Conroy

47 Canal Street (NYC) 

Exhibiting Artists - Michele Abeles, Antoine Catala

Ramiken Crucible (NYC)

Exhibiting Artists - Borden Capalino, Bjarne Melgaard

Kraupa Tuskany-Zeidler (Berlin)

Exhibiting Artists - Sture Johanesson, Katja Novitskova

Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin)

Exhibiting Artists - Stephen G Rhodes, Ed Atkins, Danny McDonald

Karma International (Zurich)

Exhibiting Artists - Keichii Tanammi, Tobias Madison, Ida Ekblad

Altman Siegel (San Francisco)

Exhibiting Artists - Sara Vanderbeek, Trevor Paglen, Nate Boyce (pictured above)

Daniel Faria (Toronto)

Exhibiting Artist - Shannon Bool, Iris Haussler

Untitled (NYC)

Exhibition Artists: N Dash, Ian Tweedy, Brendan Fowler

Post Frieze 2013

Here are the blogs I wrote for Dazed
Day 1: The Build up
Day 2: The Fair
Day 3: The Rest
Day 4: The End and the Best

(Images from top Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery, Adrian Villar Rojas at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Jordan Belson at Raven Row)

A Frieze Has Come Upon Us

Frieze is here and I am prepping for a VERY busy week. 

My preview highlights from the fair are up on Artsy, I am taking over the Dazed Magazine's Instagram all week @dazedmagazine, will be tweeting highlights from my private view timetable (which you can see here at the bottom right as well as on twitter @roughversion) and writing daily run downs for for Dazed Digital (links to follow).

I also had a very louche Artforum diary debut where I was snapped with the lovely Robert Bound from Monocle.

Antwerp

I went to Antwerp for one night last week and here are my recommendations

Old
The Museum Mayer van den Bergh is a 17th century building filled with a 19th century collection of some of the best paintings I have ever seen, including the Breughel 'Mad Meg' apocalypse pictured above.

New 
The Kerry James Marshall retrospective at Muhka - the reason I went - was amazing and his more recent paintings are an incredible development in technique, medium, scale and content. Tim van Laere is a contemporary space with some good people in its roster.

Shop
Every single high low medium clothing shop in Europe has a space in Antwerp. Highlights for theatrical shopping experiences are Seven Rooms (I have never seen a concept shop like it), Dries van Noten and Delvaux.

Sustenance
Fiskebar - order the mixed grill (or if you like squid, expect a shoal when ordering the calamares) and make sure you book. The ginger tea and Aperol Spritz at cafe/bar Vitrin across the road is also very good. I also ate lunch every day at healthy veggie Lombardia which was bloody tasty. 

Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye part 2

Installation shots of 'Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye' at V1 gallery (Courtesy of V1 Gallery, photographer Jan Søndergaard). The images below take you from left to right clockwise around the show.

For press on the show read my interview with Anothermag on the exhibition and Stephen Dunne's profile on Dazed Digital and a little profile on me from Danish magazine Cover

http://www.cover.dk/blog/moed-v1-kurator-francesca-gavin

Catch Up

There are few online projects that have to be seen

Legion TV x Samara Scott
Here online project is hands down one of the best pieces I have ever seen on the internet. Enable pop ups and enjoy.

Bubblebyte takeover of Spikeisland.org.uk
Enjoy the Click Me artist projects (i'm very into the song on Yves Scherer's piece)

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I've realised I've been less active with my own blog because I've been on dazeddigital/twitter more (and busy in 3D world with exhibitions and lots of print features) but here is some of the things I've thrown into the ether.

Top Ten Emerging British Artists Showing This Week
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17129/1/top-ten-emerging-british-artists-showing-this-week

Top Ten Venice Biennale 2013
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/16265/1/best-venice-biennale-2013

Bernadette Corporation feature
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/14640/1/bernadette-corporation