Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics at Frieze London

The 15th edition of Frieze London, opening October 5, 2017, introduces a special section titled Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics, curated by Alison M. Gingeras. The section features nine feminist artists whose works were deemed too explicit for exhibition in the 1970s and 1980s. Artists include Betty Tompkins, Natalia LL, Renate Bertlmann, Penny Slinger, Mary Beth Edelson, Judith Bernstein, Dorothy Iannone, Birgit Jürgenssen, and Marilyn Minter. Their works were previously rejected by the 1994 Bad Girls exhibition at the New Museum of New York for being considered pornographic. Participating galleries are Air de Paris (Paris), Baldwin Gallery (Aspen), Regen Projects, Blum & Poe, The Box (Los Angeles), Salon 94, David Lewis (New York), Karma International (Zurich), Andrea Caratsch (St. Moritz), lokal_30 (Warsaw), Richard Saltoun (London), and Hubert Winter (Vienna). The section is one of the innovations by Frieze director Victoria Siddall, enhancing the fair's reputation. The exhibition runs from October 5 to 8, 2017 at Regent's Park, London.