For art lovers seeking a more intimate (af)fair during Frieze week, Minor Attractions (until 17 October) may be just the ticket. Tickets are free, opening the self-described "transgressive" fair to a wider public. After three years at The Mandrake, the fourth edition has moved into The Newman — an Art Deco-inspired hotel in Fitzrovia that opened earlier this year — with works installed everywhere from bedrooms to bathrooms.

French-Belgian artist Léa Porré, with Tache gallery, has turned a neutral hotel room into a pink-toned zone with the site-specific installation Fatal Feast (2026): hot pink wall decals, a sink overflowing with grapes, wooden sculptures around a rose-coloured bed — Rococo opulence undercut by sculptures named for feasting courses that mix dessert imagery with violent weaponry. Moses Tan's You had me at hello and goodbye (2026), with Starch — the Singaporean artist-run space Tan founded, now active in London — stages a baggage-inspired scene: a dismembered gloved hand waving from a vintage bag sinking into white bedding, with a second hand reaching toward a martini glass. Tan's work engages with queerness, politics and horror, and how censorship of queer people in Singapore can make one feel almost monstrous.

Newcomer gallery LUmkA presents Nelly Dansen's MEGA ATTRACTIVE™ HQ (2026), where flyers advertise a "new currency" exchangeable from "Madonna and the Whore Productions": a desk of business ephemera, figurative works, and a video of the Dutch artist interviewing her sugar daddy for a job — embracing "the bimbo", as she puts it, with a subversive 9-to-5 energy well suited to a hotel where clandestine deals often take place. London-born Savannah Harris has converted a tiled rainfall shower into an arcade nook, where a neon claw machine lets fairgoers try to win a work by fellow artists such as KV Duong for just £1.

Sheffield-born Benjamin Slinger's Empire (2026) offers colourful paper lamps made from his vast collection of vintage McDonald's and Burger King takeaway bags Max King, with the Plicnik Space Initiative and the fair's new Major Futures grants, goes furthest — transporting visitors into a private casino with slot machines, a roulette wheel.