Democracy is under attack, the pandemic refuses to end, inflation is skyrocketing, social inequalities are getting worse, and climate change is threatening to take us all down, but hey, do you want to go see art you can’t afford at Frieze New York? Yes, it’s art fair season and we’re here to comfort and entertain you during this difficult time of the year with a new edition of our art world Bingo card series (have you seen our recent Venice Biennale edition?). Buckle up as the global collector-art dealer class descends upon the city and the rest of us, for some reason, feel obliged to attend. In the words of the late comedian George Carlin, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” But if you have $300,000 to spend on a painting then congratulations: BINGO!

Hakim Bishara is a Senior Editor at Hyperallergic. He is a recipient of the 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation and Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant and he holds an MFA in Art Writing from the School of Visual...

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