Condo New York will be spread out across the Lower East Side and Chelsea, and features some of the city's best galleries lending their spots to international favorites including Mexico City's LABOR and Guatemala's Proyectos Ultravioleta (who always do art
fair booths so well that I can't wait to see what they can do with a brick - and - mortar space).
Not exact matches
What if your father was an accountant and raised you to believe that only by being an accountant could you truly find happiness and never gave you any other options, infact threatened to disown you if you even
so much as glanced at the attorney
booth or medical fields at your school job
fair?
For those that didn't duck into the Charm School
booth by chance, designer Alita was running around the
fair with a winsome blue bird on her head and looking
so adorable that she was her own best advertisement!
That all changed on Saturday, the first day open to the public; even the shops had hour long waits,
so it's no surprise that Microsoft's
booth was finally packed too, with multiple hour long waits just like everything else, with a four hour wait for Titanfall (although to be
fair, they didn't cut off that line like many other
booths did, including Sony).
We only made it through half of the
fair yesterday, and we'll be going back today, but in the meantime you can see some of our favorite
booths so far in the gallery below.
You know, it's really hard doing the Miami Beach
fairs when you have to spend
so much time indoors with the
booths.
So, with the expected staples like Kapoor, Saraceno and Warhol (Tanya Bonakdar brought a small hovering Untitled sculpture by the Berlin - based Saraceno to the
fair, and I counted three Anish Kapoor multi-colored half - spheres at three separate
booths) out of the way there is finally a chance to see something fresh, something new, something you feel is just making its first introduction.
Anne Mosseri - Marlio, Basel was very pleased with the
fair and quoted «Art Brussels delivers us a complete mix of collectors, and
so we aim to provide a
booth which caters to everybody».
The
fair is a massive labyrinth of
booths,
so navigating requires sophisticated GPS skills and determination!
And I remember being interviewed for a TV show and being
so proud of having these artists there, but then when I saw the interview I realized they were actually making fun of me for having the worst
booth in the entire
fair.
Okay,
so that phonebook carving of Hunter S. Thompson wasn't the only highlight of last night's Select
Fair preview: over at Kingston - based One Mile Gallery's
booth — wedged between a model made by the amazing Mark Hogencamp of Marwencol and some paintings created by a dog — we got to chat with Lee Ranaldo about his art, also on display.
From the first, that
fair has insisted on single - artist
booths, with an artist's name notably larger than the gallery's, bringing curating to commerce
so well that one early critic saw a conflict of interest!
So far, there have been several European curators circling, and the gallery expects museum shows to emerge from the
fair along with at least modest sales from the
booth, where everything is priced between $ 190,000 and $ 4 million.
With over 190
booths at the
fair, whittling the «best» down to seven is an impossible task,
so a hat - tip to the following notable mentions is more than warranted: Salon 94's expansive female - dominated
booth, with Laurie Simmons's and Marilyn Minter's works in mischievous conversation, a large - scale painting by Lorna Simpson that comes from the same series that debuted in Okwui Enwezor's «All the World's Futures» last week, and the delicate - meets - hardcore jewelry of sculptor Kara Hamilton; Kate MacGarry's sparse but refreshingly textural
booth, where works by Josh Blackwell, Marcus Coates, Florian Meisenberg, and Francis Upritchard play off one another; Standard (OSLO)'s solo
booth featuring Ian Cheng's virtual world; Andrea Rosen Gallery's Michael St. John - curated
booth, featuring the likes of William Eggleston and Dash Snow; Galerie Buchholz's brilliant pairing of cross-generational counterparts (and Venice favorites) Simon Denny and Isa Genzken; and The Box's presentation of Judith Bernstein's sexually charged two - dimensional works.
Eli Klein, whose
booth was largely hung with the chameleon artist Liu Bolin's work (ranging from $ 9,000 - $ 40,000) has been exhibiting at ArtHamptons since the start and commented that at the
fair, «we have terrific clients and make terrific clients,
so it's a no - brainer.»
The NY Art Book
Fair draws a huge crowd every year, and
so it wasn't a surprise that there were lines everywhere at this year's edition — lines to get into the bathroom, lines to see certain
booths, lines for the KAWS... Read More
«I had a small pop - up
booth for my website, Art Markit, at the Armory Show,
so I got to explore the
fair at length.
Lehmann Maupin (New York and Hong Kong), selling work exclusively by female artists like Tracey Emin and Mickalene Thomas, did
so well that the gallery started the
fair's second day with a near complete re-hang of the
booth, having moved out sold works.
kamel mennour was showing a powerful set of new works by Anish Kapoor, canvases covered in twisting heaps of material that gave the impression of human viscera, and took a poignant departure from the artist's usually
fair - friendly mirrored works that
so often dot the
booths of international
fairs.
If circumnavigating the 190 or
so booths at Frieze New York on Randalls Island isn't endurance test enough, visitors to that art
fair, from May 14 to 17, may enter «Flux - Labyrinth» at their own risk.
The quality of
fair, the collectors, and the work at
so many of the
booths were extremely high.
To do
so, the
fair was designed with wide open spaces, lounge areas and spacious
booths that welcome viewers to enter and experience the art.
Isaac Julien, one of Rolls Royce's commissioned artists in 2015, who was touring the
fair with artist Elaine Reichek, named Japanese gallery Taka Ishii's
booth as his favorite
so far.
Dealers «realized that they were meeting the collectors and curators from all over the world in their
fair booths, but not
so much in their galleries,» she said, even though artists from all over the world were producing and showing work in Berlin.
Booths are costly; keep yours as flexible as possible
so you can use it at firm events and student recruitment
fairs, to make it earn its keep.