When visitors attend Frieze London and Frieze Masters in Regent’s Park this month, they may find the surroundings just as stimulating as the art fairs themselves.
The park, with its peaceful boating lake, shady wooded walks and varied species of birds and other wildlife, has long been a favorite among London’s much-prized green spaces. It also has the benefit of being right in the center of some of the city’s most pleasant areas for a stroll, or a pint.
ImageRegent’s Canal winds through parts of North London.Credit...Jeremie Souteyrat for The New York TimesRegent’s Park has served as an inspiration for writers, poets and artists, and has been the setting for films as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” and John Landis’s “An American Werewolf in London.”
“There is no doubt that the greatest happiness in the world is walking through Regent’s Park on a green, but wet” evening, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary in 1935.
Here are some sites — and pubs — within and around the park to check out during Frieze, which runs Oct. 10-13.
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