New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz on Frieze New York 2021, the first big art fair to reopen since the beginning of the pandemic. The fair took place at The Shed and featured work by Dana Schutz, Precious Okoyomon, and more.
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And though the fair is over, there’s plenty to be seen in the show’s online viewing room.
By Anna Fixsen Courtesy of Casey Kelbaugh/Frieze.
After more than a year without art fairs, Frieze New York is back. But this highly anticipated pandemic-era edition looked a little different. Rather than setting up shop in the usual sprawling tent on Randall’s Island, some 60 international galleries occupied the Shed, the multidisciplinary performing arts space in Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side. Visitors, of course, were also subject to strict COVID-19 guidelines. Despite these tweaks, it was a pleasure to leave the house and see such an abundance of art and people outside of a museum. And though the in-person show closed to the public May 9, you can still take part through Frieze’s expanded virtual viewing room of 160 exhibitors through Friday, where you can watch interviews with archite
A Mungo Thomson work in Karma Gallery’s booth at Frieze New York. Photo: Casey Kelbaugh/Frieze.
FRIEZE’S LITTLE CARNIVAL SNUCK UP ON US, much like Andrew Yang’s mayoral campaign. Fellow New Yorkers, I implore you, do not space on the primary election (June 22), and do not vote for this jovial empty suit. Perhaps his support for the recent Israeli violence in Palestine will have gotten your attention? The motherfucker will trade affordable housing for the Olympics or an Iron Dome. It will just be Bloomberg 2.0, which resulted in criminal offenses like Hudson Yards.
Hudson Yards, coincidentally, was the site of this year’s Frieze art fair, which abandoned Randall’s Island for the first time since its inaugural New York edition a near-decade ago. One assumes the reason was money (they hold it in a tent, a structure not exactly immune to air circulation). The synergy of desperation between the two behemoths, both harpooned by the pandemic, produced a symbolism around the ev
Partygoers on the art circuit end their hibernation
From left: Shai Baitel, Andres Serrano and Irina Movmyga at a party at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai in New York, May 4, 2021. New Yorks art party circuit has come roaring back. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
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.- Nouriel Roubini, the economist who in 2007 became known as Dr. Doom after predicting the collapse of the housing market, actually sounded ebullient about the future of New York City on Tuesday night.
Im reasonably optimistic, he said, standing in the cavernous living room of his East Village triplex. I was walking around my neighborhood this weekend. Every restaurant was open, I hadnt seen so many people since before COVID.
Posted : 2021-05-12 13:22 By Kwon Mee-yoo
Ha Chong-hyun / Courtesy of Tina Kim Gallery Dansaekhwa artist Ha Chong-hyun, 86, is exhibiting his latest works showcasing his relationship with color at Tina Kim Gallery in New York through June 30.
Ha is one of the leading members of the Dansaekhwa or monochrome painting movement in Korea, which began in the 1970s.
Born in 1935, Ha studied painting at Hongik University, graduating in 1959. Later, he served as the dean of the Fine Arts College at his alma mater from 1990 to 1994. From 2001 to 2006, Ha was the director of the Seoul Museum of Art.
Ha is best known for his Conjunction series established in the 1970s, which changed the definition of painting. He uses a painting method called baeapbeop, a unique way of pushing oil paint from the back of the hemp canvas through the coarse weave, instead of painting on the canvas.