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Frieze Art Fair

I have been at The Frieze Art Fair all week. It’s a strange event. One can be forgiven for thinking that the art world is more about the enforcement of bizarre Hierarchies and adherence to crazy Etiquette rather self expression and curiosity. But among it all there are some wonderful things.  The show stopper exhibition in London this week is, however, wholly unexpected.

It’s called the Museum of Everything.  It’s a collection of American Folk Art crammed into an old night club in Primrose Hill.  The show is the work of one man, James Brett.  James has made a collection of American Folk art that in many ways is more impressive than the Museum of Folk Art in New York.  The exhibition made me wonder about the collection of Jacob Epstein who had a massive personal collection of art from Egypt and Africa.

The Museum of Everything is an extraordinary ‘Pitt Rivers’. style exhibition where works of art are jammed into the space.  It made me wonder about the house of Jacob Epstein crammed high with African sculpture.  It must have looked great. I met Stephen Snoddy at the Fair and pointed him in the direction of the Museum of Everything.  Any pictures of The Epstein House Neil?