#art-fairs

#art-fairs

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.

Or you could choose to see things differently. You could celebrate with the long-running Miami spaces that are ushering in big milestones this year, like the Bakehouse Art Complex and Spinello Projects, which are hosting their 40th- and 20th-anniversary exhibitions, respectively. You could visit Dimensions Variable, Tunnel Projects, Homework Gallery, or any number of other local art galleries and organizations that are thriving beyond this week.

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.

It speaks to the experience of a city like Lagos, and its origins as a land of mangrove-a tree that is synonymous with resilience and adaptability. The city has taken on those characteristics in ways that are less obvious to the undiscerning eye.

The announcement that Frieze will take over the existing Abu Dhabi Art (ADA) fair may have come as a surprise to some key players in the Gulf art scene but, according to Frieze's chief executive Simon Fox, the plan was "considered for a reasonably long time". The evolution of Abu Dhabi's art ecosystem has been "many years in the making", he adds, and now the "stars have aligned".

We presented Gianpietro Carlesso's mammoth, monumental work Torre di Saba (2009) at Frieze Sculpture in 2020. It weighs over 200kg and stands an imposing 268cm high, but the artist wanted the piece to be one with the nature that surrounds it, so he chose to not present it on a traditional plinth. Mtec, who handle the logistics for Frieze Sculpture, had to dig a hole, pour a concrete base in and add hidden pins, then put topsoil and new turf to match the surroundings of the park and hide the concrete. It required a structural engineer for the foundations and wind-load calculations. To install it were three technicians plus Carlesso and me, and the equipment included a lorry-mounted crane, a mini digger, a telehandler and a wacker plate [to compact the soil]. To complicate matters further, installation was done on a heavy rainy day! But by the end, the Lebanese tree wood of the sculpture really felt as if it grew out of the ground-a

This month's multiple whammy of Friezes London and Masters, swiftly followed by Art Basel Paris, and accompanied by the inevitable plethora of adjacent events and satellite art fairs, is never good news for the environment. And in these twitchy times, when there is so much else kicking off-both economically and politically-across the globe, it is especially challenging to keep the attention of the art world on the ever-escalating climate and environmental crisis that faces us all.

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The exceptional quality of this year's projects is powerful proof of Art Basel Paris's magnetism-and of the central role Paris and France continue to play on the global art market and the world of culture at large,

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"It was kind of a shock for Art Basel themselves, that there would be a young, progressive and fresh perspective on art, and that a whole new fair would be founded," Dietrich says.

Art fairs, while temporary, face significant sustainability challenges which differ based on location and logistical structures used for each event.