This year VOLTA has taken up residence at Pier 90, a lovely spot on the Hudson right next to The Armory Show, which sprawls across […]
Tag: Art fairs
Art Fair Quiz: Spring/Break–Answers have been posted!
Although the Spring/Break Art Show is known more for installations, dimly lit rooms and video projections, there were a fair number of paintings on the […]
Miami, Part IV: Rebecca Morgan’s eye on the figurative (and a bit of abstraction)
Guest Contributor Rebecca Morgan / The Miami fairs constitute true spectacle. I enjoyed watching it happen from a safe distance, and found it even more […]
Miami, Part III: Heather Leigh McPherson attends a Bomb discussion, Untitled
Guest Contributor Heather Leigh McPherson / After a Saturday filled with manic art-spectating energy, I went to Untitled and attended a late afternoon panel at […]
Miami, Part I: Rebecca Morgan’s picks from Untitled and Art Basel
Guest contributor Rebecca Morgan / As the definitive Juggernaut, Art Basel Miami Beach offers a lot to love and loathe. Personally, my love for art […]
Post-NADA report
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, […]
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 […]































