Frieze New York 2012

A BMW Alpina B7 at rest. (Courtesy Automotive Rhythms/Flickr)

Frieze VIP Shuttles, at Your Service

This morning, Frieze Art Fair posted a nifty little video to their Facebook page advising potential visitors to Frieze on how to get there with animated diagrams outlining routes by train, taxi and shuttle bus (We’ve also written on the topic). The video, however, does not include the shuttle service available only to certain VIPs, who have the option of leaving the fair in a luxury BMW Series 7 equipped with sound pieces by Martin Creed, Frances Stark and Rick Moody. Read More

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Noah Horowitz

Armory Show Hires Noah Horowitz as Managing Director

The Armory Show, the modern and contemporary art fair that takes place annually in New York, has hired Noah Horowitz, former director of the online VIP Art Fair, as managing director.

Mr. Horowitz, 32, holds a Ph.D. from London’s Courtauld Institute of Art in London and is on the faculty of the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. He is the author of the book Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market, which was released earlier this year. The VIP Art Fair, which had its first edition in January 2011, announced Mr. Horowitz’s departure on Friday; he begins his new job today with the Armory Show, which started in the mid 1990s in the Gramercy Park Hotel. Read More