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Friday, December 19, 2025
Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szantyr / Spring fair season is here, and our annual tradition is to try to see as much art as possible in one day. This year, Spring/Break Art Show, located at 75 Varick Street, was less sprawling, recalliing the spirit and energy of the event’s earliest years. The location made it a quick trip from the Future Fair in Chelsea via the 1 train.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly pulled together another Spring Break Art Fair, this one on a floor at 75 Varick Street in Soho. The theme, INT./EXT. (or, as I like to say, interior/exterior) was pretty expansive, but they provided interesting reading lists and films to inspire applicants. The press release kicks it off by calling for a “PB & J of tactility and intangibleness, a plea for Landscapes, Streetscapes, or works of Anatomy…
Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szyantyr / In a shift befitting this year’s theme, !WILD CARD!, the Spring/Break Art Show departs from its past trajectory of more-and-bigger spectacle, year after year. Building on the “Secret Show” of this past spring, which returned to the Old School where the fair began, the organizers asked artists for this year’s show at 625 Madison to revisit past themes with a mix of nostalgia, homage, and cheekiness.
Contributed by Fay Sanders and Bob Szantyr / This year much of the work at Spring/Break is engaged with our tenuous grasp on truth, along with themes of Catholic iconography, shame and marginalization, Medieval craft, and speculative and mythological imagery that is readily framed as heretical in a puritanical, Western sense.
