Art Info Selects 5 Must-See Satellite Fairs During Frieze Week New York 2016
Posted: Friday April 29, 2016
New York City’s most exciting arts event of the season is just around the corner. Frieze New York, which runs May 5 through 8, plays host to some of the most cutting edge galleries from around the globe, along with a program of debates, panel discussions, and keynote lectures. It
Ai Weiwei Displays Fantastical Creatures at Le Bon Marche
Posted: Sunday January 31, 2016
Ai Weiwei hangs bamboo + paper kite creatures in paris' le bon marché department store.Within paris’ le bon marche rive gauche department store, Ai Weiwei turns the historic retail space into his playground with an expansive exhibition of bamboo and paper installations. for ‘er xi’ — meaning ‘child’s play’ — ai weiwei references shan
Artnet News Offers 10 Tips To Make Art Fairs More Fun
Posted: Sunday May 10, 2015
With Frieze and Art Miami New York almost upon us, we thought it would be a good time to share this helpful Artnet News article from April 24th.As any seasoned art lover knows, art fairs are a double-edged sword: while attending them is an easy way to see and sell
Parrish Midsummer Party Raises $1.25 Million
Posted: Sunday July 20, 2014
The Parrish Art Museum held another sold-out summer benefit, drawing the cultural community to its doors on July 12, 2014. The Midsummer Party raised $1.25 million for the museum and hosted around 1,000 guests for the dinner and After Ten party, according to the museum. Mingling were a mix of
A Rundown of Miami's Art Fairs, As Explained Through High School Stereotypes
Posted: Sunday December 30, 2012
By our count, 1,087 galleries will be trekking down to Miami this week to participate in more than 20 art fairs around the city. With that much art for sale, there’s bound to be something for everyone — if you can find it. To help, we’ve put together a handy
Banksy Graffiti Headlines New CONTEXT Art Miami Fair During Art Basel
Posted: Sunday September 30, 2012
Miami's December Art Week, during which Art Basel and several other art fairs set up around the city, is one of the biggest art events in the world.Banksy, the English street artist whose film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, was nominated for an Oscar last year, is one of street art's
Writer Jay McInerney Invites the Glam Literati to Take a "Sleep No More" Tour Into His New Short Story
Posted: Sunday June 10, 2012
“Because you’re here,” said Brooke Geahan, standing in a red-tinted room within the maze of the McKittrick Hotel. “Because you’re here now, you’re part of the special people.”Geahan, doyenne of New York’s swank literary shindigs, was addressing a few dozen good-looking creative types sitting at café tables and sipping champagne, all
Whitney Museum Plans Jeff Koons Retrospective
Posted: Sunday June 10, 2012
The Whitney Museum of American Art has no intention of leaving quietly. Before heading to its new, considerably larger home in the meatpacking district of Manhattan in 2015, its final exhibition will be as much a first as it is a last. The museum is planning to present aJeff Koons retrospective
Christie's Postwar and Contemporary Sale Takes $388 Million, Led by a Record-Smashing $87-Million Rothko
Posted: Friday June 1, 2012
Powered by a stunning handful of super-trophies, including a sublime and record-eclipsing Mark Rothko masterpiece from 1961, Christie’s delivered a $388,488,000 Postwar and Contemporary at evening sale. The tally zoomed beyond the $236-329 million pre-sale estimate and nicked the May 2007 high water mark of $384.6 million, harkening back to a time generally acknowledged as
Sales Report: Frieze New York Makes a Convincing Case for Itself With an Opening Burst of Business
Posted: Thursday May 31, 2012
Wandering around the airy, massive tent that is home to the inaugural Frieze Art Fair, critic Jerry Saltz mused, “New Yorkers usually don’t cross water for culture, unless it’s an ocean.” But cross water they did, and in droves — though the tent was so large that it was at times difficult to