Frieze London Diary: Collectors' Dinner, Unexpected Views, Barbie Art, Warhol Cats, and John Banting Spotlight

Key facts

• The Collectors' Dinner at Frieze London took place on Thursday evening.
• Aaron Cezar, director of the Delfina Foundation, and Ed Behrens, editor of Apollo magazine, attended the dinner.
• The menu by Sessions Arts Club included chicken, potato, minestra nera, coffee fudge, and chocolate truffle.
• UK choreographer Holly Blakey's dancers performed, including an intentional human tower collapse.
• The National Gallery's Unexpected Views celebrated its tenth anniversary with eight contemporary artists.
• Tschabalala Self chose Bronzino's An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (around 1545) for her talk.
• Yinka Shonibare discussed Thomas Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews (around 1750).
• Helen Chadwick's Birth of Barbie (1993) was shown at Richard Saltoun Gallery.
• Joy Gregory's Explosive Barbie (2025) was exhibited at 1-54 on the Whitechapel Editions stand.
• Andy Warhol's 16 offset lithographs from 25 Cats Name(d) Sam and One Blue Pussy (around 1954) were at Shapero Modern.
• Julia Warhola, Warhol's mother, did the lettering and omitted the 'd' in the title.
• John Banting is the subject of a solo show Livid Cosmoramas at John Swarbrooke Fine Art and a biography by Hugh St Claire.