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Charlotte Higgins

Frieze art fair survival guide

Frieze art fair
A visitor to the Frieze Art Fair walks past Oscar Tuazon's Water and a photo from K8 Hardy's Position series. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters

1. Obviously, read all our lovely coverage, gathered together on one handy page

2. If you want to actually buy anything and you are an ordinary mortal and not a Swiss gazillionaire, head to MUSEUM EDITIONS. It's a stand selling limited-edition prints from artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans and Mark Wallinger. Some of them are in four figures, but some as little as £100. The excellent thing is that the editions are all in aid of not-for-profit galleries, so you'll be helping out institutions such as the Whitechapel and the Serpentine galleries. It's near stand R4 at the end of the FRAME section.

3. Wear flat shoes. Sorry. You'll thank me for not being tempted to show off in your fabulous heels. There's acres of ground to cover and it's somehow uniquely exhausting.

4. Take a packed lunch and bottled water.

5. Go and see Pierre Huyghe's hermit crab installation, a Frieze Project. It's beautiful and rather calming.

6. Nice stands include Frith Street Gallery (Fiona Banner, Cornelia Parker, Tacita Dean) and Rob Tufnell in FRAME, who's showing a handful of beautiful-but-off-key paintings by Joel Croxson.

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