With 85 galleries this year, the New York art fair devoted to works on paper explores the large and small, the personal and political.
Jae Ko
Sussing Out the Good Stuff at Art on Paper and Miami Project
MIAMI BEACH — The Deauville Beach Resort has been the home of the NADA art fair since 2009, but times change.
Aqua Returns to Miami Beach
After a stint in what felt like rather cramped quarters in Wynwood last year, the Aqua art fair returned to Miami Beach in a more relaxed setting — that even had a water feature — but the whole affair did feel a little underwhelming. I’m not a big fan of looking at art in hotel rooms since their low ceilings make everything feel cramped but that’s not to say there wasn’t a lot of good things to see on both levels of the complex.
While Aqua is normally known to be heavy with West Coast names, there were galleries from all over in the mix, including — from what I could tell — quite a few from Canada. Here is a selection of what I saw.