Armory Week has come to a close. The fairs have ended, and everyone is heading back home right now. The slide show at left offers a final look back at last week, with a handful of photos of works that were on view at the ADAA Art Show, Independent and the Armory Show. It’s easy Read More
The Independent art fair opened yesterday in the old Dia building, at 548 West 22nd Street, with more than 40 galleries showing their wares. The event, which is free to visitors, runs through Sunday, closing at 5 p.m. In the slide show at left, some images from the fair.
Frenetic wallpaper seems to be a thing at the art fairs this week (see Gagosian’s booth at the Armory, freakishly covered with the visage of Andy Warhol), but Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Independent has really outdone themselves. Their booth is covered in wallpaper by Thomas Bayrle featuring articles of discarded clothing cartoonishly flying through the air. If you go to the far corner of the booth, you’ll see the disrobing man and woman responsible for all this chaos.
Asked if the wallpaper was for sale, Gavin Brown deadpanned, “Everything’s for sale. Isn’t that the point?” Read More
There’s a lot of art for sale in New York this Armory Week, but at least one booth is playing hard to get. At McCaffrey Fine Art, which has a booth at the Independent art fair in Chelsea, the gallery has mounted an installation by Meschac Gaba, a West African artist who will have a solo show at the Tate Modern in July. The piece is a collection of clocks with the numbers removed and the official portraits of presidents of various African countries put in their place. There’s Sharif Sheikh of Somalia, Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of the Congo and about a dozen others. It comes from Fergus McCaffrey’s personal collection and, uncharacteristic for the everything-must-go atmosphere of most art fairs, it’s not for sale. Read More
Money may be everywhere at art fairs, but it’s usually invisible; a palpable energy driving the day’s deliberations and deals. At Broadway 1602′s Independent display, however, it’s all on the table. The New York gallery’s space is largely devoted to Art Cash (1971) created by members of Experiments in Art and Technology, a non-profit organization founded Read More
On the VIP preview day, just about every booth at just about every major art fair features a bottle of champagne for potential buyers. It’s there to celebrate purchases, and the show itself. It’s anytime champagne, free and fun. Last night at the Armory Show, though, the London-based Lisson Gallery had a little mishap with theirs. Read More
It’s the first day of Independent, the four-year-old Chelsea art fair conceived by Elizabeth Dee and Darren Flook, and a steady stream of stiletto heels (along with some more practical footwear) are ascending and descending the treacherously steep staircases of 548 W. 22nd Street. Spread across three floors, the fair was buzzing less than an hour after it opened. Read More
We spent the day describing the Armory Show VIP Preview, but why don’t you just see for yourself? Click the slideshow on the left for a virtual tour.
To a greater than usual degree, The Armory Show depends on the weather gods. Previous editions have been all but submerged in March snowstorms, causing taxi traffic jams and lines of disgruntled, frigid collectors. Tony Tasset, a very clever artist, is well aware of this, which is why he asked his Chicago dealer, Kavi Gupta, Read More
One booth everyone’s been talking about at the Armory Show is the Bjarne Melgaard and Sverre Bjertne project at the Oslo-based Rod Bianco gallery. Read More
