“I’m kind of obsessed with it.”
Actor Emile Hirsch wasn’t talking about Sundance—he’d already been there, done that by last Thursday night when, along with throngs of other well-heeled Angelenos, he arrived at Santa Monica’s Barker Hanger for the art fair Art L.A. Contemporary (ALAC). He was talking about ALAC, and his attitude reflected that of a lot of attendees. The event seems to have caught on. Read More
Bitter cold didn’t stop big crowds from descending on the second annual Metro Show and Editions | Artists’ Book Fair when they opened Wednesday night. The two fairs are running jointly through Jan. 27 (E|AB was originally scheduled for last November, but was postponed by Hurricane Sandy). The adjacent Chelsea venues—the Metropolitan Pavilion and the Altman Building—are connected internally, creating one cavernous collector’s mecca. Read More
Well, it’s getting around that time of year again where everybody throws a bajillion art fairs and everybody else has to go to them. Art Cologne, which runs April 19–22, returns this year for its 47th edition. (Art Brussels will happen at the same time, running April 18–21.) Once again, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), will be partnering with Art Cologne, having its own separate section inside the fair. Some newcomers to the fair this time around include Marlborough Contemporary from London and New York’s David Nolan Gallery. A full list of exhibitors is below. See you in Germany! Read More
A year and a half after snapping up a majority stake in the Art Hong Kong fair, the Art Basel group is readying the debut edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, as it has rechristened the fair, and today released the list of 245 exhibitors that will present work at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from May 23 through 26. (The full list follows below.) Read More
The Outsider Art Fair, which dealer Andrew Edlin acquired last year, released the list of exhibitors for its 2013 edition, and it includes a few dealers you might not expect to be doing the fair, like New York’s Laurel Gitlen, a Lower East Side gallery focused primarily on contemporary art, which is sharing a booth with the Brussels contemporary gallery Sorry We’re Closed. Vito Schnabel has also grabbed a booth. Read More
According to a source close to the negotiations, art publisher Louise Blouin has finalized her plans to acquire Merchandise Mart Property Inc.’s art fair holdings, among them Art Platform Los Angeles, Volta, and the Armory Show, one of New York’s most prominent art fairs. Read More
On Friday, U.K. art reporter Georgina Adam broke the news that outgoing Armory Fair Founding Director Paul Morris’s next project will be an invite-only club for art collectors called Chosen. Read More
For those of you who are getting ready to head to Miami and just can’t get enough art fairs, the Art Dealers Association of America announced today the exhibitors for its 25th annual Art Show fair, which will take place March 6–10 at the Park Avenue Armory. (For those suckers who won’t be in Miami, here it is anyway.) This year brings out 72 galleries, a lot of the usual suspects, but with the fine additions of 303 Gallery and Yossi Milo Gallery. Here are a few of the solo booths you can expect to see: Louise Lawler at Metro Pictures, Kiki Smith at Pace, Milton Avery at David Zwirner and Tacita Dean at Marian Goodman. Have a look at the full list below. Read More
