Frieze Projects 2012

STEP OUTSIDE
by Emily Nathan

The New York version of the Frieze Art Fair, May 4-7, 2012, only opened to the public this morning, and already it has garnered its share of complaints. Sprawled across from the Harlem Mall on Randall’s Island in the East River, a 20-minute ferry ride from Manhattan’s Murray Hill, it’s expensive -- $40, tickets online only! -- hard to get to, smells a bit like sewage, and inside it’s pretty much art-fair-as-usual.

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