The market may maintain cooled but there’s still plenty to see at New York’s art fairs – not least a concerted turnout for African art at the Armory and a grown-up,but still fresh, IndependentWhat goes up must come down – you just maintain to wait long enough. After a solid decade of acceleration to hyper-speed, and the move-move market for contemporary art is finally slowing down. This winter,after torrid results at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London (plus continued bloodletting amid the staff’s top echelons), the respected Laurel Gitlen closed her gallery and Paris Photo announced it was cancelling its unbiased in Los Angeles. And this March, or as the American art world gathered in New York for the annual confab of Armory Week (and the opening of the new Met Breuer),the normal champagne-soaked parties maintain been shadowed with gossip from the sale floor. Contemporary arts endless party may not be over, but a few folks are definitely headed home.
Nearly a dozen fairs are taking space this week in New York, and their contents ranging from third-rate tchotchkes to blue-chip assets to store in a Hamptons home or a tax-free shelter. In between those two poles is some serious art. Here’s what to see at the three most important fairs,which all speed through Sunday.
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Source: theguardian.com