#art-fairs

#art-fairs

Untitled Art Houston, which launched last year, will expand the range of prizes available for exhibitors and their artists at the fair's second edition in October. With the existing prizes from its debut edition, the monetary value of the prizes combined at this year's edition could be as high as $113,200. The fair, which will return to George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston from 2 to 4 October, has announced new prizes with a range of local sponsors.

“I am looking for something very specific,” Zayan, the founder of the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, told me. I had spotted him standing near a large abstract painting saying something about lettuce to a booth attendant. Zayan was searching for food. Art and food, to be precise - works that examine their relationship, shared humanity, social tensions - as he curates the second edition of the NAFAS Festival in Tokyo this September. In Arabic, nafas means breath or a sustaining force, and captures the nurturing energy that goes into cooking.

Tefaf New York, which returns to the Park Avenue Armory from 15 to 19 May. Bringing together 88 exhibitors from 14 countries, this latest edition of the fair promises more of the brand's distinctively broad scope, this time spanning Greco-Roman antiquities, jewellery, 20th-century design and contemporary art.

The most visible change is scale-NADA has grown from a grassroots initiative into an international coalition with over 250 gallery members and fairs in New York and Miami.

ArtHouse features the works of 50 artists across ten locations in Tai Hang, a quiet neighbourhood of century-old residential buildings. His inspiration was of Venice, where cultural venues are often scattered across the ancient Italian city.

Major works from media mogul S.I. Newhouse's estate are poised to smash records at Christie's in May. The tranche of 35 to 40 works includes paintings by Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Jasper Johns, as well as a Constantin Brancusi sculpture, and is valued it at a whopping $450 million.

Some dealers at Frieze Los Angeles said they sold more in L.A. than they did at Art Basel Miami Beach in December, suggesting that market confidence has continued to strengthen since the end of the last year. The city's art week also saw a record number of satellite events as the appetite for alternative fair models continues to grow.

The Gulf has become an art market hot spot, but insiders say the biggest challenge facing its newest arrivals isn't how to tap the region's wealth, it's how to unlearn assumptions that they may bring with them, particularly concerning the area's money, power, and cultural depth. With Art Basel Qatar debuting next week, the region is no longer a peripheral scene but a new axis of influence for the trade.

The 31st edition of the LA Art Show is back this week at the downtown Convention Center, more than a month before Frieze, Felix, and Post-Fair roll into town. Although it is LA's longest-running art fair, the show is somewhat of an outcast, snubbed as pedestrian, too commercial, and out of touch with the cutting edge of the global art world. But at the rear of the cavernous exhibition hall, a pair of projects organized by curator Marisa Caichiolo gives visitors a sense of the fair's cultural and political relevance.

"MIAMI'S A SUNNY PLACE for shady people!" observed Iggy Pop in a 2008 interview with CNN, just a few years after Art Basel landed on the sandbar that is South Beach and forever altered the landscape of both Miami and contemporary art. "I'm practical, where this place is moody [. . .] and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual-there's a quicksilver quality about this place."

"What's happened now is that the galleries have a cost problem, but it's not really related to their space," Rappaport says. "People aren't buying art from galleries."

Let's face it: we're all pressed for time. One way we economize on our use of that precious resource is acronyms, those handy abbreviations that use the first letters of a multi-word name or phrase. In everyday conversation, for example, when your car breaks down and you need a tow, you call AAA (pronounced triple A), not the American Automobile Association, and it's NASA, not the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that sends astronauts into space.

There were rumors of Friedman's decision to leave New York floating around for weeks, but it wasn't certain until New York critic Jerry Saltz broke the news on Instagram. Not long after, the gallery emailed ARTnews an advance press release, framing the move a "strategic evolution" that allows it to "focus [its] resources" on international activity from a "strong London base." Friedman cast the retrenchment in almost pastoral terms: a return to home soil, an opportunity to tend to the roots.

Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK), the fair launched in 2021 to build ties between Japanese and international galleries, opened its fifth edition this week (until 16 November) at the Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto). The fair has grown steadily despite economic headwinds and an increasingly crowded Asian fair calendar, welcoming a record 72 galleries, 36 of which are from overseas. Beyond the main venue, ACK continues to distinguish itself through its integration with Kyoto's cultural and architectural landscape.