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Oct 11 2007 12:00am EDT

Banjos and Pandas at Gavin Brown

Best booth at Frieze: Gavin Brown's enterprise. He's had artists and other creative types "curate" found or made objects for a show that is more living, breathing, flea market or thrift store or strange country fair than it is a static white cube. Today, Jim Krewson was playing twangy tunes on the banjo and begging for money, while Brian (see below) sat at a table selling "rare editions" of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Sam Taylor-Wood snapped large-format Polaroids of fair-goers with Rob Pruitt, who was dressed in a tatty Panda costume, for £150. Some old remote controls that had seen better days were going for £50. There was some homemade honey, too. They all looked like they were having a great time crammed in with all that stuff. Subversive. Cheeky. Especially so next to the blue chip dealers with their staid — sometimes, snooty — demeanor and vast, empty wall space.

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Brian and the "rare editions"
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A fair-goer has his portrait made
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Gavin Brown at his booth

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