The third edition of NADA New York was held in early May at Basketball City on Pier 36. A non-profit and highly selective art fair, […]
Tag: Art fairs
Refuge at Salon Zurcher
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Taking shelter from the sensory fusillade of the copious Frieze, NADA, and Pulse fairs, I spent an edifying portion of […]
Good news: “Some of this work is quite good”
“Right now the ‘consensus’ is that serious art involves raw canvas, a smattering of paint, possibly an exposed stretcher bar, and a ‘who the fuck […]
Mary Addison Hackett’s final Miami round-up.
Guest contributor: Mary Addison Hackett Let me tell you about my boat. Sunday 12:35 pm. I’m sitting on a shuttle patiently waiting to go to […]
Mary Addison Hackett’s Report From Miami, Day 1: Basel
Guest Contributor: Mary Addison Hackett / Turns out tweeting, texting, shooting work and seeing the art, was more complex than I thought. After catching a […]
Frieze: Unprimed immediacy
Since the early days of Color Field painting, working on unprimed canvas or linen has given the impression of a certain unfinished immediacy–more like the […]
At the Art Fairs: Christine Frerichs
This weekend at VOLTA, Gallery | KM from Santa Monica, CA, presented� Christine Frerich’s diminutive, thickly painted abstractions. Frerich’s work seemed out of place in […]
Armory Art Week: SOHO edition
I’ll be running around to the NYC art fairs this weekend, and my first stop is VOLTA to see Ian Toms paintings at SEASON. I […]
Painter Tatiana Berg’s picks from Art Basel Miami Beach, 2012, Part I
It’s here! And it’s huge. Art Basel Miami is too big for any comprehensible survey, so instead here are some personal highlights and completely subjective, […]
Tatiana Berg reports from the satellite fairs, Part II
There’s more satellite fairs in Miami than ever, and while I missed out on a bunch this year the ones I made it to had […]
EMAIL: Art Basel Miami Beach edition
Artist Tony Fitzpatrick, whose work will be on view in the Pierogi section at SEVEN, wins the prize for the most amusing Miami press release. […]
An Art Fair Guide: Armory Arts Week edition
Every week Andrew Ginzel, who teaches at the School of Visual Arts, compiles a no-frills list of NYC art exhibitions, which he circulates to his […]
A painter covers Miami
Extensive multi-post photo coverage of the Miami art fairs is underway at Joanne Mattera Art Blog. Unlike other bloggers who cover Miami, Mattera’s posts are […]
Painters at VOLTA
Armory Arts Week is over, but I wanted to share some work from VOLTA, one of the smaller, more interesting fairs. VOLTA is different from […]
Art Fair Pick: Ruminating, speculating, and pontificating
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, “Artists Talks”, 2008 – installation detail, video viewing installation, set of 19 DVDs, 3 – 5 minutes running time each, edition […]
New traction for art bloggers evident at Art Basel Miami
Hrag, Sharon, Tom, Roberta, Libby, Paddy, and Joanne at the 2009 Art Miami blogger panel discussion. Photo by Elena De La Ville. My piece about […]
Miami mania
One of my dogs enjoying the pile of trash handouts I gathered at the fairs in Miami. At the Miami Fairs, since my only assignment […]
Selected paintings from Scope, Aqua, Pierogi, and Pulse
As I walked through the fairs in Miami, I concentrated on the quieter paintings that didn’t attract as much attention as, say, the installation that […]
Miami Update
I’m heading for Miami this morning. Look for micro updates on @ Bushwick & Main, my Tumbler studio blog. I’ll be at Art Burn this […]
Miami report: Lazy blogger edition
Cribbed directly from Ed Winkleman: “It’s now officially a week and a day since we returned from Miami, the art shippers have returned our stuff, […]











































