With art fairs grounded and galleries temporarily or permanently closed, more and more sales happened directly from artist to buyer.
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1-54 New York Returns with an Emphasis on Textiles
This year’s edition will highlight contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora through both an online platform and an in-person exhibition.
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Meh, Frieze Is Back
Mixed feelings aside, we can all agree on one thing: it was better than an online viewing room.
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Frieze Online Brings New Price Transparency and AR Tools To Take the Art “Home”
Frieze is offering free browsing for the first time and an app that allows you to imagine artworks inside your home. The director of Frieze New York, Loring Randolph, elaborates on these features and more in an interview with Hyperallergic.
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Insightful and Laugh-Out-Loud Funny Reports From NY Fairs
Volta was hot, sticky, and crowded. Independent might make you swoon. One visitor calls Art on Paper “more real.”
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Visiting the 2020 Armory Show Amid Ominous Headlines
From art about environmental recklessness to Caribbean post-coloniality, Armory kicked off the spring art fair season in spite of growing coronavirus concerns.
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Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2020
Your useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest this week.
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Taking in Local Projects at Zona Maco, Latin America’s Largest Art Fair
Even with art on view from dozens of countries, I found myself most drawn to work from local Mexican artists and spaces.
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TEFAF 2019, Safe and Champagne-filled With a Few Elements of Surprise
Amid the current state of US politics, the latest fall edition of the fair offered a selection of mostly apolitical artworks as soothing as a BBC documentary.
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An Anti-Mainstream Art Fair Feels More Like an Immersive Bazaar
The Satellite Art Show has arrived in Brooklyn this weekend with 30-plus exhibitors and a strong lineup of performance programming, panel discussions, and screenings.