Seventeen years ago, Paul Morris teamed up with three other New York art dealers to launch the Gramercy International Art Fair in the Gramercy Park Hotel at the foot of Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The fair would morph into the Armory Show several years later.
Will Los Angeles overtake Miami Beach as the ultimate sun-and-sand art destination? Three new fairs debut in downtown Los Angeles this weekend, all coinciding with the launch of Pacific Standard Time, the sprawling 60-institution celebration of the region’s art scene from 1945 to 1980.
British artist Marcus Harvey, one of the more outrageous artists of the YBA revolution of the 1990s, is turning his hand to a more sedate pastime -- curating.
Are you ready to have your artistic canon expanded? Then step right up to "Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900," Sept. 28, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012, in the spacious Cantor Exhibition Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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