The traditional fair world's answer to Art Basel? Hands down, its the 57th annual Winter Antiques Show now on view at the Park Avenue Armory, Jan. 21-30, 2011.
It's that time of year again, the one I dread most, when, at the diciest weather point of New York season, a thousand art fairs and 10,000 ancillary events usher in the month of March.
As spring breaks in New York, art from Asia is the focus at galleries, auction houses and the Arts of Pacific Asia Art Fair—while our prayers are with the recovery from the earthquake in Japan.
Celebrities, artists and museum curators flocked to Gagosian Gallery in New York for the opening of "Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L'amour fou," the spring season's first big sensational show...
Art historian Patricia Watts visits the 12th Istanbul Biennial and finds that an oddball curatorial approach does not get in the way of discovering interesting new art.
The global art world is heading for Miami, all to take part in the insanely large art fest that this year boasts at least 17 art fairs, a billboard project, an art-market conference, an auction preview, a new auction-house launch and dozens of museum and gallery events.
How do the new sanctions against the government of Iran affect an artist like Shirin Fakhim, who lives in Tehran and yet whose sculptures are gaining increasing traction in the Western art market?
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