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New York Art Fair Week: March 7-11

7 Mar

New York Art Fair Week: March 7-11

New York Art Fair week starts today.

With the arrival of new fairs to the North American market the fairs have divided into two seasons.

May 3-6 we have Pulse, NADA, Frieze and Verge to look forward to.

 March 7 -11 we have Armory Week with the fairs :

The ADAA – Art Dealers Association of America 

Park Avenue Armory - Park Avenue at 67th Street

Featuring 72 blue chip quality galleries who are members of the  ADAA.

The Armory Show 

Pier 92 & 94

Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street
New York City

Over 120 exhibitors from around the world, will be great to see the new inovations brought to the piers with Noah Horowitz who has recently assumed the role as Managing Director.

 

SCOPE Pavilion

57th St & 12th Avenue (West Side Highway)
Scope, traditionally has set up tents in Lincoln Square, and now debuts at new location just steps away from the Armory Show piers.

VOLTA NY

7W 34th Street,

 

Waterfront New York Tunnel
269 11th Avenue - Between 27th and 28th Streets

 

The Dependent

ONE DAY ONLY!!!  This renegade fair, is one day only, featuring on the pulse emerging galleries.

THE COMFORT INN
136 LUDLOW STREET

Fountain Art Fair

69th Regiment Armory –  68 Lexington Avenue @ 25th Street

Fountain also announced this year’s fair at a new location, moving a way from the endearing yet terrifying Frying Pan.

Handsdown, Fountain Art Fair is the most fun fair on the scene.  Though the MoMA Armory Launch Party music performance is by  Neon Indian, I can’t wait for Fountian’s Friday Night opening party hosted featuring  Spirit Animal, and a DJ set by New York legend and street art pioneer Fab 5 Freddy!

Independent Fair: Highlights and Favorites

6 Mar

The Independent was one of the best New York fairs I attended.  As last year was the inaugural year, the fair was exciting and new but the aesthetics of the space and the building were left very raw and open concept.

This year the Independent stepped up with some bigger named galleries, and redesigned booths that allowed for flowing spaces while simultaneously embracing the spectacular building and aura that is the former Dia:Chelsea.

Obligatory neon and large large text based works at Meyer Riegger and Sutton Lane.

The Independent seemed to host a lot of sculpture, possibly because the space can accommodate sculpture so well.

Massive chimes by Klause Weber at Andrew Kreps, mixed media industrial sculpture by Josephine Meckseper at Elizabeth Dee, the taxidermy puppy by David Shrigley.

Exploded car by Michel François at Bortolami and this intricate metal cube sculpture.

Some beautiful mixed media paitings, Walead Beshty at Tanya Leighton.

Alex Brown and Tom of Finland paintings at Feature Inc. and a large new work by David Salle at Maureen Paley.

Independant

7 Mar

As the spectacular last act of the X Initiative, ‘The Independent” branded a Hybrid Forum, suggested that a new generation was finding ways to create structures of the Art industry.

A fair with free entry for the public exhibited art for sale that was not in booths. Hosted presentations and installations by highly regarded international figures and has been developed with creative advisors, Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, New York and Matthew Higgs, Director of the nonprofit White Columns, New York.


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