New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space and crowding problems would be over indefinitely. MoMA and the Whitney might have huge Tate Modern-style retrofitted warehouses. Great numbers of galleries would be able to open and survive. The Frieze Art Fair New York, May 4-7, 2012, located in a gigantic 280,000 square-foot white tent on Randall's Island, could help make all that happen.
