Art
The animals have gone missing from booth 844. Framed nature prints crowd the holly walls, but the auks, cougars, wolves, and woodpeckers that were once their subjects have been cut out, leaving blank spaces behind in a sort of artistic animal Rapture.
Art
"Viewer discretion advised: graphic sexual imagery," reads some floor text that nobody seemed to notice or bother to read this afternoon as they entered Mendes Wood DM's booth at the Independent.
Art
The 2015 Armory Show delivers pretty much what you'd expect of the 2015 Armory Show: some quite good art, some pretty bad art, and a lot of completely harmless stuff in between.
Art
In its fourth year, Spring/Break Art Show is temporarily transforming the disused offices of Moynihan Station into an art fair based on the theme of "transaction."
Guide
It's time for the art world's annual migration to the far, far, far west side of Midtown Manhattan for the Armory Show and its many satellite art fairs.
Art
On the penultimate day of the Armory Show, galleries were reporting sold out booths, sales pushed from in-house inventory, new connections and clients discovered, and not one bit of weariness.
Art
The elevator doors opened to reveal a series of photographs of naked women towering over me. Beat-heavy dance music blared from down the hall, mingled with strains of "I'm Every Woman." I followed the sounds and the photos, past a corridor where dozens of people sat and stood mesmerized by videos, a
Art
This year's Armory Show may have stopped the bleeding for an art fair that has suffered from years of lackluster energy and a major blow delivered by the Frieze New York art fair, which began two years ago on a bucolic urban island and in the far warmer month of May. But no one should count out the
Art
Fountain Art Fair, now in its eighth year, continues to be the go-to Armory Week fair if you want see and buy art that's more alternative or DIY, less brand-name and thus less expensive than what you'd get at the Armory Show, or even Volta.
Art
In a small room on the top floor of the Old School building at the corner of Mott and Prince Streets, floor-to-ceiling shelves are lined with pictures of disembodied heads and torsos adhered to off-brand canned goods.
Art
There are few hot topics in the art world like China, which along with its growing economic might is starting to flex its cultural soft power and demonstrate that it is central to any global dialogue.
Art
A cynic might observe, correctly, that a large commercial fair is as good a place as any to be reminded that most art sucks.