Opinion
Possibly the Best Use of an Art Fair Eva
This story brings a tear to my eye: "Supporters of the campaign to recall Michigan Gov Rick Snyder are reporting they collected more than 5,000 signatures during the Ann Arbor Art Fair."
Art Fairs
Opinion
Everything Is an Art Fair … Redux
First, it was blogs [http://hyperallergic.com/17238/everything-is-an-art-fair/], now our bathrooms. I'm guessing Helguera was thinking about The Dependent art fair when he sketched this one. 16 Miles of String has a few good shots of the bathroom installations [http://www.16miles.com/2011/03/depende
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Making Sense of the 2011 Armory Show Cacophony
New York Art Fair Week 2011 kicks off with the Armory Show! Over the course of a pre-show press conference we were treated to Mayor Bloomberg explaining his taste for Picasso, but that was just an appetizer for the exhibition ahead. The 2011 Armory presented a chaotic and inconsistent mixture, but t
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Surviving the 2011 NY Art Fairs
We're very happy to have partnered with 20x200 and Art Fag City to create the most useful guide (if I do say so myself) of this week's events titled "Art Fag City & Hyperallergic Present the Very Excellent Event Guide to New York Art Fair Week" (sneak peak [http://twitter.com/#!/hyperallergic/status
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WTF is... an Art Fair?
Okay, so, this week is New York City’s art fair week. This may sound like a carnival replete with Ferris wheels, clowns and cotton candy, but it’s not, at least in the literal sense. An art fair is like a carnival in that there’s a lot of excess noise, visual information and people yelling over each
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How the VIP Art Fair Innovates Online Art Viewing (and Buying)
When the VIP (Viewing in Private) Art Fair kicks off this Saturday January 22, there won’t be mad dash of collectors behind the gates, ready to snap up any work on view. The only crush might be an overloaded server or a long login time as patrons struggle to sign in. VIP marks the first digital-only
Opinion
Everything Is an Art Fair
We will be chiming in about the VIP art fair tomorrow, but until then I couldn't resist sharing this snark from art blogger Tyler Green. A website is somehow an "art fair?" Uh, OK. I'm pleased to announce that MAN is now the Modern Art Notes Art Fair.less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/Tyler
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How Art Chicago Helped Me Move
For curator Jay Jordan, who had been planning to return to his homeland of Canada for some time, the recent Art Chicago fairs helped help him make it happen and in the process reminded him about the power of art.
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A First-Hand Report from Art Chicago
The Art Chicago preview had all the energy of a funeral home decorated in an array of polite artworks in gilded frames but NEXT, Art Chicago’s ersatz “alternative fair” for “emerging” galleries and artists, certainly had a buzz about it.
Opinion
“Welcome to the New York art world in 2010…”
I love this line in Leon Nefayk’s latest article in the New York Observer, “Don't Call It An Art Fair!” Welcome to the New York art world in 2010, where it’s never about the money, even when it is. How very true … and there’s more …