What Is Frieze? A Guide in Comics

Hallie Bateman is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist and illustrator whose work includes a running comic about life in New York at the Awl. We sent her to the opening of Frieze to see what she made of the art world’s fair rituals. She returned with this report from the front lines, featuring several bears, excellent outfits, and people looking at art looking at people.

The comic dispatch starts below.

Photo: Hallie Bateman
Photo: Hallie Bateman
Photo: Hallie Bateman