Art Fairs
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The Other Art Fair Opens This Week at the Brooklyn Expo Center
TOAF Keri Oldham Patchwork Notable Art Show of The Week
This week The Other Art Fair will return to the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint from November 9 – 12, 2017 for its second U.S. fair. This notable show is different in that it lets the creator/artists take charge, by selling directly to the public without the barrier of a dealer or gallery. While New York City plays host to multiple art fairs like Frieze and TEFAF, geared to wealthy art collectors, the Other Art Fair is unique in that it offers access to tomorrow’s next art star at accessible prices starting at under $1000! A selection of local artists of note includes Ilisa Katz Rissman, Gaius Cruz, Evan Paul English, Thomas Hammer and Karen Inglehart to name a few.
Alicia Noelle Jones Environmental Importance 
Xan Padron, Time Lapse -Keep Moving, Color on Paper The Other Art Fair is presented by Saatchi Art and is the U.K.’s leading art fair for discovering emerging artists.Fun Facts about the fair:
Over 130 international, local and female artists will be showcasing their art. The Fair features over 130 international, local and female artists whose work will appeal to both eagle-eyed collectors and a new generation of art lovers.
Dates and Times
Opening Night $30 (benefits Free Arts NYC)Thursday, November 9th, 6:00pm-10:00pmGeneral Entry $15 ($13.50 Students and Seniors)Friday, November 10th, 12:00pm–9:00pmSaturday, November 11th, 11:00am–7:00pmSunday, November 12th, 11:00am–6:00pmLocation
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Exploring Louise Bourgeois’ Creative Side
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). Arch of Hysteria. 1993. Bronze, polished patina. 33 x 40 x 23″ (83.8 x 101.6 x 58.4 cm). Collection The Easton Foundation. © 2017 The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY. The last few weeks of summer is dwindling away. And even though we still have our eyes on chic summer travels, and rooftop parties, we’re also putting together an amazing list of this fall’s top museum exhibitions. The first one that came to mind is Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at MOMA. The show explores the prints, books, and creative process of the celebrated sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010).
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). Lacs de Montagne. 1997. Engraving, etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Sheet: 23 13/16 x 29″ (60.5 x 73.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2017 The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY. Bourgeois’s printed oeuvre, a little-known aspect of her work, is vast in scope and comprises some 1,400 printed compositions, created primarily in the last two decades of her life but also at the beginning of her career, in the 1940s. The Museum of Modern Art has a prized archive of this material, and the exhibition will highlight works from the collection along with rarely seen loans. A special installation will fill the Museum’s Marron Atrium from September 24, 2017, until January 28, 2018.
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TEFAF New York: Editor’s Top Picks
TEFAF NEW YORK SPRING 2017
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), the Netherlands-based enterprise, will hold their Modern and Contemporary Art and Design Fair at the Park Avenue Armory from May 4th through May 8, 2017. This will mark the veteran art fair second showing in New York City since their début last October. Judging from the impressive list of exhibitors (Applicat-Prazan, DeLorenzo, Demisch Danant, Galerie Jacques Germain, Phoenix Ancient Art, Helly Nahman, Hans P. Kraus, to name a few) TEFAF Spring 2017 is a true showstopper. After an early preview of the show, here are a few exceptional highlights of the ‘Best in Show.
HERTHA HILLFON (Swedish 1921–2013) Ceramic, stoneware and white glaze 
Halle Suenson Brass, lacquered brass and opal glass 
Tomás Sánchez (Cuba, 1948) 
Kehinde Wiley (Los Angeles, 1977) Bronze 
Piano di Tavolino, Mixed media on glass and walnut 
Pablo Picasso Ceramic 
Paulin Multimo Sofa 
Gilded Arm Of An Equestrian Graeco – Roman, (1st century B.C. – 2nd century A.D.)Gilded bronze 
JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983) Soirée snob chez la princesse, 1944 
Bakota, Shake people Wood, copper, brass and bone 
Alexandre Noll (Reims 1890-1970 Fontenay-aux-Roses) Mahogany 
Pieter Laurens Mol (Breda, 1946) Circa 1984-1994 
Lucio Fontana *Rosario 1899-1968 Varese) Terracotta 
Gustave Le Gray (Villiers-le-Bel 1820-1884 Cairo) Albumen print from a wet collodion negative mounted on paper 
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The Best of AIPAD 2017
The Photography Show: A New Year, A New Space
Structures of Identity: Photography from The Walther Collection A fresh look at AIPAD reveals that the iconic show organized by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, known as the longest-running and foremost show dedicated to the photographic medium, still holds the power to draw photo lovers from its previous location at The Park Avenue Armory to its new home at Pier 94.
J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, Suku Sinero, 1974. Printed 2010 
Manuel Alvarez Bravo 
A special exhibition presented by AIPAD With well over 100 galleries, book dealers, publishers, special exhibitions, AIPAD Talks, and photography-related organizations, this year show presented another great opportunity to discover new artists, explore new photographic techniques by surprisingly old artists, and getting re-acquainted with photographers like Robert Doisneau, Herb Ritts, William Silano, Man Ray, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo. While attending AIPAD Talks during the last day of the exposition, I finally got to meet the seasoned photography collector Artur Walther, after the discourse. What a moment that was.
Based on the reported attendance, and sales (the highest in AIPAD history; more than 15,000 visitors came to Pier 94, up from the 12,000 who attended last year’s Show at the Park Avenue Armory) the show was a success. As an art broker, I was enthralled with AIPAD’s new format. It is true that the new venue is less intimate than the Park Avenue Armory, but interestingly enough, that played to its advantage. Furthermore, I was thoroughly pleased to see how photography continues to have a significant amount of power in our busy day-to-day lives. MVSP
This story was originally reported by Vyna St. Phard at www.arteighty8.com.
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Young Collectors Night at The Winter Antiques Show
Young collector Aurelia Denmark Text and Photos by Rose Hartman
More than 800 young and stylish guests filled the Park Avenue Armory for Young Collectors Night at the venerable Winter Antiques Show, in-between admiring (and buying) the highest quality antiques and modern designs from Regency to 20th century works (including extraordinary jewelry) no wonder that this event is a must on anyone’s social calendar.
Sophie Coryndon “Gold Writing” at Todd Merrill Studio 
Georgia Vlahakis 
Sargent’s Mrs. Huth Jackson 
Ex-model, NY Real Estate Broker Dovanna Pagowski 
Elle Shushan miniature portraits 
Award-winning architect Alison Spear 
Photo via Todd Merrill Studio 
Jean Shafiroff, American philanthropist, author and socialite at the La Vieille Russie booth 
Giacomo Brunelli (Italy, b. 1977) “Churchill” – Eternal London. Peter Fetterman Gallery 
From The Winter Antiques Show: A young collector admiring an exceptional piece of Americana from Aldrich Rockefeller. 
An outstanding example of Americana Art at The 2017 Winter Antiques Show 
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Top Picks from The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair
Top Picks from The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair
The 2017 New York Ceramics and Glass Fair kicks off the art season at The Bohemian National Hall with a dazzling array of bottles, beakers, jewelry, jars, vases, and glass from 28 top-tier vetted participants from England, Europe, and the United States. Starting Thursday, January 19 through Sunday, the 22nd, a vast number of collectors, curators and design aficionados are set to experience a multitude of ceramics and a “profusion of other beautiful but fragile things that span 500 years—from 16th-century Venice, Italy, to 21st-century Venice, California.”
Kaplan Worcester frill vases, circa 1768 
Cliff Lee, Triple Dragon 2016 
Fenichell R.Jolley, Scent Bottle 
Michael Boroniec Spirals Vases 
“Sting Ray Embola” by Carrie Gustafson 
Lacoste Warren MacKenzie, Drop Bowl with Iron Marks Deep into its 18th anniversary, the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair is the only exposition of its sort in the United States, bringing together the best of the best in glass, ceramics, pottery, and enamel.
Here are a few memorable highlights from the show: A Lisa Battle Sculpture, headed by a sculptress based in Rockville, Maryland. Like all of Battle’s hand-built sculptural pieces, “the artwork explores organic form and line, mimicking the curvilinear grace of natural objects. Standing almost two feet tall, the piece was fired in a noborigama wood kiln in 2011.” The ceramics and glass fair will also focus on thirty-three-year-old Michael Boroniec, an artist who resides and creates in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Michael started making art at a youngster, and had since gravitated to ceramics because it was a medium that celebrated the oldest material known to man: the earth itself.
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Top Picks from The Winter Antiques Show
From January 20 to the 29th, The Winter Antiques Show will celebrate its 63rd year anniversary as America’s leading art, antiques and design fair, and we will be at The Park Avenue Armory to salute them. The fair will feature an array of fine art photography from Dennis Stock’s unforgettable portrait of Audrey Hepburn during the filming of Sabrina. The Tambaran Gallery will preview an impressive fang figure from Africa. There will also be a loan exhibition which will highlight a spectacular blanket chest of Johannes Spiltler from Virginia. This year, the prestigious antique show will feature over 70 distinguish experts in fine and decorative arts from around the world. All net proceeds from the fair will benefit the East Side House Settlement, a nationally recognized community-based organization in South Bronx.
To purchase tickets for the Opening Night Party on January 19, 2017, or Young Collectors Night on January 26, 2017.
Melvin Sokolsky, After Delvaux. France. c. 1963. Archival Pigment print. – Peter Fetterman Gallery. 
Fang figure, Unknown. Africa. Wood. – Tambaran Gallery. 
Kei Studio-Built Bronze Table Light. Alexandre Logé. France. c. 2014. Bronze. – Donzella. 
Georgia O’Keeffe, Abstraction. United States. c. 1945. White cast epoxy. – Gerald Peters Gallery. 
An 18th Century Italian Walnut Armchair. Unknown. Italy. c. 1750. Walnut. – Cove Landing. 
Audrey Hepburn during the filming of “Sabrina” by Billy Wilder. Dennis Stock. United States. c. 1954. Gelatin Silver print. – Peter Fetterman Gallery. The 2017 loan exhibition, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum: Revolution & Evolution, honors the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM), one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. The exhibition salutes the museum, which is the oldest continuously operating institution in the United States dedicated solely to the collection, exhibition and preservation of American folk art, commemorating its 60th anniversary in 2017.
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Ai Weiwei’s Platform at The Armory Show
Per Kirkeby This coming spring (March 2017), The Armory Show will début Platform, a new, curated exhibitor section that stages large-scale artworks, installations and site-specific commissions across Piers 92 & 94. The inaugural edition of Platform, entitled An Incident and curated by Eric Shiner, encompasses twelve artworks by internationally acclaimed artists from a range of generational perspectives.
Participating artists include: Abel Barroso, Patricia Cronin, Douglas Coupland, Olga de Amaral, Dorian Gaudin, Jun Kaneko, Per Kirkeby, Yayoi Kusama, Iván Navarro, Fiete Stolte, Lawrence Weiner and Ai Weiwei.
Participating artists and galleries: Abel Barroso (b. 1971 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba) | Pan American Art Projects, Miami. Patricia Cronin (b. 1963 in Beverly, Massachusetts). Douglas Coupland (b. 1961 in CFB Baden–Soellingen, Germany) | Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto. Olga de Amaral (b. 1932 in Bogotá, Colombia) | Galerie Agnès Monplaisir, Paris. Dorian Gaudin (b. 1986 in Paris, France) | DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin / Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, Jun Kaneko (b. 1942 in Nagoya, Japan) | Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles. Per Kirkeby (b. 1938 in Copenhagen, Denmark) and Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942 in The Bronx, New York) | GALLERI SUSANNE OTTESEN, Copenhagen. Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan) | Victoria Miro, London. Iván Navarro (b. 1972 in Santiago, Chile) | Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. Fiete Stolte (b. 1979 in Berlin, Germany) | albertz benda, New York. Ai Weiwei (b. 1957 in Beijing, China) | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki.
Ai Weiwei “With my selection of artists, I endeavor to present a series of incidents that start to change our relationship with the art fair—a series of happenings, interactive works, objects and images that make the viewer take pause, think, refresh, smile, and remember that art, by its very nature, is meant to provoke, incite and challenge,” says Eric Shiner. “It is my hope that the artists and works included in An Incident will bring a new energy to the art fair model, encouraging visitors to share in the moment, and to enjoy the phenomenal offerings in vendors’ booths with gusto.”
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A Creative’s Perspective of FRIEZE New York Art Week
Since its launch in 2012, this year was the first time I’ve actually paid a visit to the much talked about Frieze New York Art Week. The highly reported art fair was held, as it was in the past, at Randall’s Island Park, overlooking the East River.What took me so long to get there?
The island is merely a few minutes away from the upper east side via the usual transportation routes. The New York Water Taxi can easily whisk you to the open fields of the island in a matter of minutes.
Wether you’re looking to buy, discover or simply art gazing, a visit to Frieze will most likely feel like speed dating, with more than 200 galleries from 31 countries! The fair showcases an extraordinary cross-section of work by contemporary artists from around the globe, from the newly discovered to contemporary masters (yes, there is such a thing as contemporary masters).
During my whirlwind tour, I got to enjoy an ambitious array of artist commissions, installations, curated sections showcasing emerging artists and galleries, education programs. At the end of my tour, I met one of the most cheerful, not to mention colorful bird, while heading to an artist talk that shared nuanced perspectives on the world of contemporary art.
Yes, my visit to Randall Island was well worth it, I would say.
‘Frieze has engaged in a critical dialogue with contemporary artists, curators, dealers, collectors and writers fro 25 years and I am happy that this legacy continues to inform the content, quality and range of our fairs. Frieze New York offers a fantastic cultural experience – from presentations by the best galleries from around the world, to newly commissioned works and innovative public programs, to the natural light that infuses our unique, bespoke space – all set in this incredible city. This is the fifth edition of Frieze New York and it promises to be a great week,’ Victoria Siddall, Director of Frieze
Mickalene Thomas, I’m feeling good, 2014. Rhinestones, acrylic oil, enamel and glitter on wood panel 
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Lan Zhenghui’s Ink Moment in Hong Kong
Ink Monument installation at Art Central 2016. One of China’s leading contemporary artist, Lan Zhenghui, recently début a magnificent installation Ink Monument at Art Central Hong Kong. The project was presented by Ethan Cohen New York, at the iconic Central Harbourfront. Commissioned by Art Central’s selection committee, Lan Zhenghui’s installation Ink Monument towers close to 16.5 feet high, with a colossal four-sided column of large-scale ink paintings on rice paper.
The artist created his new master-work to express the power of sadness and an epic awareness of tragedy. After Hong Kong Art Week, Lan will next embark on a U.S. tour that includes a second residency at Mana Contemporary co-sponsored by Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, and university lectures in multiple cities.
This is the second year that the Art Central selection committee has invited Lan Zhenghui for a major installation. At 2015’s Hong Kong Art Week, Ethan Cohen curated Lan’s installation titled Re-Think, which was very well received in Hong Kong and was a highlight of the Art Central fair (the entire installation was acquired).
Maree Di Pasquale, the Fair Director for Art Central Hong Kong, with Lan Zhenghui. 
Born in Sichuan China in 1959, Lan graduated in 1987 from one of China’s most prestigious art academies, the Sichuan Academy of Art (famous alumni include Zhang Xiaogang and Zhou Chunya). He has focused his career working in contemporary ink painting and calligraphy, and his powerful ink movement is based on more than 20 years of passionate research for his vision of constructing art via ink traditions in new ways. 
Ink Monument, 2016, vertical detail 
Lan Zhenghui and his Ink Monument installation.
