Contemporary Art Society

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The 20th anniversary edition of Frieze London has seen a wealth of awards and acquisitions, many of them new to the fair this year. Here’s a round-up of the winners

The works will be added to the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reflecting its increasing diversity of voices and post-colonial perspectives

This year the CAS Collections Fund at Frieze is supporting the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston

Contemporary Art Society's campaign seeks to raise funds to support UK museums and galleries after lockdown

On the significane of Zanele Muholi’s ‘Faces and Phases’ series, acquired by the Contemporary Art Society at Frieze London 2019

Works from the living archive of South Africa's LGBT+ Community by Zanele Muholi acquired at Frieze London 2019 for the Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery

Frieze partners with Tate and the Contemporary Art Society to contribute to UK national and regional public collections

Caroline Douglas and Zadie Xa talk about the artworks purchased through the Contemporary Art Society’s Acquisitions Fund at Frieze

‘I felt that I had to pretend my son didn’t exist; in order to be professional, it felt necessary to mimic the behaviour of men’

BY Caroline Douglas |

Brian Cass, David Dimbleby, Caroline Douglas and Andrée Sfeir-Semler on the Contemporary Arts Society’s acquisition at Frieze London 2017

Brian Cass explains how the idea of ‘the edge in landscape’ manifests in the Towner’s collection, current exhibition and CAS acquisition at Frieze

BY Brian Cass |

The Contemporary Art Society acquired two video works for MIMA

A new partnership to purchase a major work for MIMA

The UK votes to leave the EU