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"....the dubious spelling, not to say taste, of an artist.

Turns out, it's a celebration of radio.

In a far corner of Frieze in Regent's Park in London, at the stand of Resonance FM, the volunteer-run London radio station dedicated to art.

All the signs are by the artist who calls himself Bob and Roberta Smith, who told me he genuinely thought Eddie spells his name "Mayer". You can just see a bit of Mr Smith in the hat to the right of the picture below.

Here's some more ( you may spot other spelling errorz ).

The portraits underneath, by the way, are by the young artist Jessica Voorsanger, also a dedicated Radio 4 fan.

And the two photos at the bottom relate to my favourite artwork at Frieze.

At the stand of the powerful London-based Swiss dealers Hauser and Wirth, by the Basel-born artist Christoph Buchel, a pair of his socks. Mr Buchel put a genuine set of keys to his apartment up for sale at the Basel Art Fair in the summer.

Iwan Wirth, one of the gallery founders, told me Mr Buchel prefers not to disclose the prices of his work. The artist is best-known for highly-politicised installations. At a Los Angeles gallery, he filled a store room with replicas of missiles and bombs. Visitors had to find the room for themselves.

If you did fancy the socks, by the way, expect little change from £20,000. They were still available last night. As Mr Wirth said, "The artist could create more.""

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