Larger than life ... Martin Honert's Riesen (Giants) at Frieze Art Fair. Photograph: Linda Nylind
The enormous bazaar that is Frieze Art Fair can be bewildering for the uninitiated - and, despite 2007 being the third year I've been, in some ways I feel none the wiser about the whole shebang. Until yesterday, that is, when audio producer Francesca Panetta and I were whizzed around by the Guardian's art critic Adrian Searle for a personalised podcast tour.
We called in at some of Adrian's highlights: poked our noses around the eerie installation at Warsaw's Foksal gallery (just snapped up by Tate), said hello to Luisa Strina, a gallerist from Sao Paolo, gave a quick nod to Gianni Motti's yogic policeman and ended up beside the installation that's drawn everyone's eye this year, Richard Prince's hand-built Dodge sportscar rotating jazzily on its dias - a slightly barbed commentary, one feels, on the trade-fair fetishism that Frieze sometimes represents. Almost the most exhilarating thing was the sheer number of people who were at the fair, even first thing in the morning: proof, perhaps, that contemporary art is genuinely big, rather than just big business. Apparently the weekend is expected to be even busier.
I've just spent the past hour or two inserting lots of lovely pictures in the sound file, so if you're listening on an image-enabled iPod or similar you should be able to get a flavour of the show. If you're nearby London and thinking of going, do take it along - though it'll work just as well in iTunes at home.
• Listen to this enhanced podcast on your computer (mp4) (14mins 27s) • Subscribe to the Guardian's Culture feed in iTunes • Puzzled by podcasts?
