Frieze New York
This week the art world jet set and many, many New Yorkers will visit a strange island for the first time in their lives to attend the inaugural Frieze New York art fair. Located at the juncture where the Harlem River and Long Island Sound meet to...
This year the PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, a long-time Armory Week satellite fair, has moved to early May to coincide with the first Frieze New York. As always, the fair's presentation at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea features a slate of New York...
NEW YORK — It’s no secret that the art world is composed of jet setters who flutter around the world from art fairs to biennials to openings. This week, people are landing in New York for Frieze; then it’s off to Cuba (for those who have a special visa or...
Few of the Frieze Week art fairs will be as spacious or comfortably installed as its smallest, seven @ SEVEN, which opened on Saturday in Brooklyn and continues through May 20. The hybrid exhibition — part art fair, part group show — has each of the seven...
“We want Frieze New York to be for and of its host city. This will be most plainly evident in the site and structure of the fair itself," says Amanda Sharp, who cofounded the flagship London art fair with Matthew Slotover, and who will direct the first...
Our most-talked-about stories in Art, Design & Fashion, and Performing Arts, April 23-27, 2012:ART— With the inaugural Frieze New York art fair just a week away, Kyle Chayka looked at all that the newcomer and its various...
Frieze's big, empty tent on Randall's Island won't be quite so empty by the time the fair opens next week. Though there's more than enough going on on that remote isle to keep people busy, there is also plenty of action in Manhattan and Brooklyn that's worth...
When Uri Aran finished installing his second solo show in New York, at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, he brought a friend’s dog to the Greenwich Village space, put paint on its paws, and tempted it with treats to roam through the exhibition. The result was just...
Art fairs are nothing if not cutthroat. In March, just as the Armory Show opened its doors, Frieze Art Fair released details of its sinuous Randall’s Island pavilion. The sly move kept the looming competition on the art world’s mind as it strolled through the...
Since retiring from fashion design in 2005 after Prada acquired his self-named minimalist luxury label, Helmut Lang ventured into a career as an artist, presenting his first solo show at Kestnergesellschaft, in Hanover, Germany, in 2008. Last summer, Lang...
