This anything-but-normal year began normally enough on the local and regional art scene.
The beginning of the year is traditionally a slower time for visual art in North Carolina, and January was true to form in that respect. For review in my column, I saw a benefit exhibition at Artworks Gallery and a traveling show of Allison Saarâs prints at UNCG s Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro.
Late in the January, as is my custom, I spent a few days in New York attending the annual Outsider Art Fair, although I didnât write about it in my column. Little did any of us know what a troubled place New York would be only two months later.