Guide
Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2021
Your useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest this week.
Art Fairs
Opinion
The Pandemic’s Silver Lining for Artists
With art fairs grounded and galleries temporarily or permanently closed, more and more sales happened directly from artist to buyer.
Art
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.
Comics
Seen and Overheard at Frieze New York
“Oh no, she’s good. She’s a pandemic baby.”
Art
Meh, Frieze Is Back
Mixed feelings aside, we can all agree on one thing: it was better than an online viewing room.
News
Over 30 Galleries Sign Letter Demanding Refunds From Canceled Dallas Art Fair
“We don’t owe anybody any money,” John Sughrue, real estate developer and chairman of the Dallas Art Fair, told the Dallas Morning News.
Art
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.
Art
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.”
Art
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.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2020
Your useful guide to the fairs and exhibitions of interest this week.
Comics
Overheard and Observed at the LA Art Fairs
Your comics dispatch from Frieze Week.
Art
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.