Art Fairs
In what may be one of the clearest tests of the potential for art fair oversaturation, the weekend of May 17–20 will see two burgeoning contemporary shows — one started by a former partner of the other — go head-to-head for the Northern California market. The older of the two, the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, launched in 2010, will pack...
HONG KONG — ART HK kicks off this week and the Harbor City is girding its loins. You might think that the 266 participating dealers at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) would be enough to keep the art crowd busy, but the city’s commercial galleries, art and educational institutions, and auction houses certainly...
Less than one month after Australian art dealers Vasili Kaliman and Jarrod Rawlins of KALIMANRAWLINS gallery announced the launch of a new Australian art fair to be held in Melbourne, the launch of another new Australian art fair has just been announced by Tim Etchells, founder of ART HK.The new biennial contemporary fair will be called...
NEW YORK — A group of disgruntled dealers are considering taking legal and potentially criminal action against George Billis, the director of Red Dot Art Fair, after he allegedly neglected to provide refunds for the fair’s New York edition, which was cancelled days before it was set to open during the recent Frieze Week in New York...
HONG KONG — The ART HK art fair is to be henceforth known as Art Basel starting next year, but will remain in the month of May, which is friendlier to the region's needs than a previously suggested move to February. Today’s announcement by the directors of Asia's marquee fair also revealed that Art Basel...
You couldn’t walk down an art fair aisle during Frieze Week without overhearing an art dealer grumbling about his or her busy schedule. Many had just participated in New York’s Armory Week a little over a month ago; some were coming from Mexico City or Germany, where two local fairs ended on April 22; still others were preparing to ship...
The Greek art market, like the country's economy at large, is reeling. The latest victim is Athens's biggest art fair, Art-Athina. This year's edition of the annual event — which was launched in 1993 by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association and drew some 58 international exhibitors from nine countries last year — had been canceled...
Shopping inside the big tent at Frieze New York, it was easy to believe for a moment that you were in Dubai, Moscow, London, New Songdo, or even Juba instead of Manhattan's baby cousin, Randall’s Island. The blank, carefully generic setting had the ability to metamorphose anyone into a global citizen, however fleetingly. ...
By consensus, the very best thing at Frieze New York was the way the tent allowed in natural light. But the art on view, glimpsed via the sightlines afforded by the capacious venue, was outstanding — not an easy thing to pull off in a scene far too overcrowded with fairs. Below, Modern Painters offers a number of bests, a few insights,...
Just before the opening of the glamorous new fair, ARTINFO spoke with curator Cecelia Alemani about her selections for the inaugural New York edition of Frieze Projects, and how participants in this year's Frieze Talks have reflected on art's ability to represent and map the world:
