At NYC’s ADAA Art Fair, Unlimited Shrimp and $2K Diebenkorns

The Art Dealers Association of America’s chummy five-day show returns to the Upper East Side after quietly canceling last fall’s edition.

At NYC’s ADAA Art Fair, Unlimited Shrimp and $2K Diebenkorns
Greely Myatt with his speech-bubble artworks at David Lusk's booth at the ADAA fair (all photos Aaron Short/Hyperallergic)

There are many art fairs in New York City, but perhaps none are friendlier than the one hosted by the chummy Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). 

“We all know each other very well,” Dorsey Waxter, former president of the ADAA and partner at Van Doren Waxter gallery, told Hyperallergic. “We’ve vetted each gallery that comes into the association for levels of excellence and standards. And it’s not so big you can’t have conversations with dealers and find out things about what you’re looking at.”

Jovial conversations about pathbreaking newcomers and long-dead modernists abounded inside the Park Avenue Armory, which provided a needed refuge from the cold nor’easter pummeling Manhattan for Thursday night’s VIP preview. 

Works by Masako Miki on view at the ADAA