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Venturing Into the Volta Vortex
In the typical fashion of this less stuffy art fair, a mind-numbing mix of showy and subtle artworks offers something for everyone.
Volta Art Fair
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Aesthetics Matter at the Volta Art Fair
A century after the emergence of Dada, Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont's curated section is all about political collage.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2018
From the main attraction on the West Side piers and Spring Break's Times Square free-for-all, to specialized fairs of paper art, design objects, and antiquarian books, there's something for everyone.
Guide
Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2017 — with GIFs!
Our handy guide to this week's 11 art fairs in New York City, from the august ADAA Art Show to the diminutive Salon Zürcher, supplemented with animated GIFs.
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Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2016
Like a noble grizzly emerging, famished and irritable, from her den after months of hibernation, the New York art world is roaring aggressively into action for the annual Armory Week fairs.
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Listening to the Stories of Volta
This year’s Volta NY spoke many different dialects, but most of them seemed to stem from the same language. Although there were a total of 95 galleries exhibiting, with works ranging from the very minimal to the very ornate, a large chunk of the art on view was either obliquely or transparently narr
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Rendering Politics in Cement and Lace
A bit more than a year ago, Naomi Safran-Hon opened her studio to the public as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s GO community-curated project and was worried that no one would show up. The 29-year old Safran-Hon was one of the 1,708 artists who participated, and in the end, she was chosen as one of the
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Flying Solo at Volta
Big art events in New York are often set up in opposition to the “establishment.” In reaction to the Whitney Biennial, there is now the New Museum Triennial and the BHQF Brucennial. The Dependent responds to the Independent. In this sense, I would compare Volta to the Armory — they are sister fairs
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Feeling Civilized at the 2011 Volta Art Fair
Across the street from the Empire State Building is the Volta Art Fair, a sophisticated and civilized art fair where galleries from around the world present solo artist projects. Elizabeth Tenenbaum and Elissa Levy of InContext Studio Tours gave me a preview of Volta New York 2011. After attending s