New York City’s spring art fair season is upon us! From Frieze and Future Art Fair to NADA New York, we’ve got the what, when, and where of this week’s fairs.
Women artists shine through the exhibitions reviewed this week, from the fragments of language in Mary Lum’s latest paintings to the “bone magic” of Joy Curtis’s recent textile sculptures. Read what our critics has to say about their current shows.
Finally, more New York galleries seem to be closing up shop and moving online, but why? Staff reporter Maya Pontone spoke with some of these gallerists about their decision to close their current manhattan locations. | |
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| After last weekend’s New York Art Book Fair and AIDAD’s Photography Show, we’re gearing up for another round of fairs this weekend. Get ready, it’s officially spring art fair season in NYC!
Here is a handy list of the events happening this week and later this month: Frieze New York, May 1–5
The Shed, 545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards Future Art Fair, May 1–4
Chelsea Industrial, 538 West 28th St, Chelsea Esther, May 1-4
Estonian House, 243 E 34th St, Murray Hill NADA New York, May 2–5
548 West 22nd St, Chelsea Clio Art Fair, May 2–5,
550 West 29th St, Chelsea | Later in May: Independent Art Fair, May 9–12
Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, Tribeca TEFAF New York, May 10–14
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, Upper East Side The Other Art Fair, May 16–19
ZeroSpace Brooklyn, 337–345 Butler Street, Boerum Hill |
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SPONSORED | | | | The Other Art Fair returns to ZeroSpace in Brooklyn from May 16 to 19. With original artworks by 120 independent artists, live performances, a nude portrait experience, bites, and hand-crafted whiskey cocktails at the Fair Bar (complimentary on Thursday only, must be 21+), this event promises a weekend of inspiration and unique finds for thrill seekers and art enthusiasts. | Tickets are available now |
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| | | | René Treviño’s queer twist on Mexican-American traditions, Arlene Shechet’s muscular ceramics, Z. Cecilia Lu’s monstrous-yet-heartwarming assemblages, and more. | Taliesin Thomas | Image: René Treviño, “Regalia, Premonition” (2023), on view in Stab of Guilt at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College through June 9 (© René Treviño; photo by John Bentham, courtesy the artist) |
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SPONSORED | | | | Recent artworks by the co-founder of Pussy Riot will be featured in a pop-up exhibition, along with an artist Q&A and performance, on May 16 in NYC. | Learn more |
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| | | Hundreds take to City College of New York with multicolored tents, protest art, and hand-painted canvas banners in an art-filled Gaza solidarity encampment. Visual arts faculty, alumni, and staff express solidarity with students as creative initiatives dominate more encampments across the city. Earlier this month, a representative for Manhattan developer Related Companies announced that it will reopen the Vessel after nearly three years of closure and four deaths by suicide. But, should the structure stay closed for good? From pandemic-related economic blows to technological evolutions, dealers share with Hyperallergic why they’re shuttering their physical spaces in Manhattan. Leonora Carrington’s 1945 masterpiece “Les Distractions de Dagobert” will be on display at Sotheby's from May 3 until it hits the auction block on May 15 where it’s expected to fetch over $12 million. Speaking of surrealists: an exhibition of Remedios Varo’s drawings is opening at Gallery Wendi Norris on May 8 [gallerywendinorris.com] Where did all of the 1970s Soho artists eat? Part of the Who Ate Where series, New York magazine takes us back to artist-couple Carol Goodden and Gordon Matta-Clark’s restaurant, Food. [grubstreet.com] | Image: Canvas banners and flags surround a central flagpole (photo Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) |
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