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Art Rx: Frieze Week
Two words, darlings: art fairs! Frieze New York has spawned a bona fide fair week. But if you suffer from fair fatigue, don't worry: the doctor's got plenty of other recommendations.
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Labor Issues in Spotlight as Frieze NY Prepares for May Art Fair [UPDATE]
New York City councilmembers and labor leaders, united under the auspices of Teamsters Joint Council 16, gave a press conference on the steps of City Hall yesterday, again blasting the use of non-union labor for Frieze Art Fair on Randall’s Island.
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Screw the Art, We're Going to Frieze for the Food
Some people may be elated at the list of 180 galleries showing at New York's Frieze fair this year — yawn — but we're just really excited by the food options. Today, Frieze announced that they are throwing their own version of what sounds like Williamsburg's Smorgasburg artisanal food fair on Randal
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Worker Bees of the Art World, Unite
If fairs like Frieze draw art and money into uncomfortably close proximity, all that does is state the obvious. To separate them — to pretend that the former can float free of the latter — might appear to be a clean, ethical stance, but that's a misperception.
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Frieze Fatigue
I had heard that Frieze New York was huge, but I have been to Armory and Basel Miami, so I assumed that it was just another art fair, sure there would be a lot of stuff to look at, but nothing this hardened New Yorker couldn't handle.
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26th Street Courts the Masses with a Block Party
In unofficial conjunction with the inauguration of Frieze New York on Randall’s Island, the galleries on Chelsea's 26th Street decided to go big and throw a block party last Saturday. If there is one kind of party that galleries excel at, it’s glamorous and exclusive after-hours functions, on a roof
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Frieze Frame on Randall's Island
The massive Frieze art fair landed on Manhattan's Randall's Island and not everyone was happy. Pro-union protestors and members of Occupy Museums showed up to protest but they were pushed so far away that you have to wonder if anyone noticed.
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Art Rx: Art Fairs … Again
This week, the brand new New York art fair weekend has finally arrived and your doctor is worried.
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Frieze Announces 160+ Galleries Taking Part in Inaugural NY Art Fair
The first New York iteration of the Frieze art fair, which is slated to take place May 4–7, 2012, will touch down ib Randall’s Island Park at the intersection of Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens. The fair will be housed in a structure designed by Brooklyn-based SO-IL Architects.
Opinion
Advertisers Clone the Work of Liu Bolin
PHILADELPHIA — Unlike too many pop artists, Chinese artist Liu Bolin has managed to retain a balance, or maybe a synergy, between popular throwaway aesthetics and the conceptual, while keeping the work readable to a wide audience. His work is designed to go viral, but it isn’t as shallow as a LOLCAT
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Robert Storr: Art Writers Are “Bottom Feeders”
In his final column for Frieze, writer, painter and star curator Robert Storr calls art writers (himself included) “bottom feeders,” and constructs an elaborate metaphor for writers as the “squid” of the art world — swimming in their own ink. This is the “cruel, Darwinian truth,” says Storr, yet the
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Frieze Art Fair 2010 Heats Up Online
Out across the pond, there's an art fair going on. Only slightly overshadowed by the Ai Weiwei Turbine Hall installation debacle, London's Frieze Art Fair has been soldiering on nonetheless to bring collectors to the art, and vice versa. We've combed over the internet to bring you some impressions o