Frieze New York, First Live Art Fair in a Year, Kicks Off at the Shed
Our critics toured more than 60 booths a sight for art-starved eyes. Here are 16 highlights to catch, in person or virtually.
“Who Taught You to Love?” by Hank Willis Thomas is part of a tribute to the Vision & Justice Project, in the Frieze New York fair at the Shed.Credit.Krista Schlueter for The New York Times
By Will Heinrich and Martha Schwendener
May 6, 2021
The colossal white tent on Randalls Island the one that occasionally threatened to uplift and blow away is gone, along with the frenetic ferry rides up and down the East River. But Frieze is back, the first live art fair returning to New York after more than a year.
Recent acquisitions on display at the Morris Museum of Art
Gladys Nelson Smith, Frederick County Farmhands, undated. Oil on Masonite. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
AUGUSTA, GA
.- An exhibition of recent acquisitions, currently on display at the Morris Museum of Art, highlights a selection made from the more than two hundred works of art added to the permanent collection during 2020. The exhibition remains on display through June 6, 2021.
Recent Acquisitions celebrates the art of the South and the artists who created it, as well as the many generous donors whose gifts of art have broadened and deepened the museums already admired collection. Those donors include: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City; Bobbi Adams, a stalwart figure in South Carolinas art scene from her home and studio in Bishopville; the estate of Lucile Eleanor Caraker (through the intercession of Jean Michael, Cole Murphy, and Mary Ann Sears); Nelson Danish, longtime resident of
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‘Everyone has had a very different experience of the last year,’ says Rebecca Ann Siegel, director of Americas and content at Frieze. Galleries have struggled – some more so than others. But after a year in which every gallery has had to become something of an island, there is something symbolic about the shift of Frieze New York (5–9 May) from its usual home on Randall’s Island on the east side of Manhattan to the Shed, Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s vast cultural centre at Hudson Yards, eight miles south-west. ‘We’re really excited about coming together at the Shed,’ Siegel says.
Le Jardinier, 5500 Main, opens at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston May 18. Located inside the the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, the French-inspired restaurant comes from The Bastion Collection which also opened Cafe Leonelli at the museum April 16.
Michelin-starred chef Alain Verzeroli will serve as culinary director at Le Jardinier. Verzeroli, who is also a partner at Bastion, said in a press release, As we ve been preparing to open in Houston, I ve spent a lot of time learning about what Houstonians crave and developing a menu that incorporates the unique terroir of the city.
The menu will revolve around seasonable vegetables and fruit with sustainable seafood, poultry and meats sourced from local suppliers. Le Jardinier means the gardener in French and diners can expect delicately balanced dishes like Burrata with tomatoes, stone fruit, bee pollen and basil seeds or Ora King Salmon with
New French restaurant with Michelin cred blooms in Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Refined new French restaurant with Michelin cred blooms in MFAH
Photo by Ricardo Mejia Installation view of Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Color Flash for Chat and Chew, Paris Texas in Seventy-Two, 2019–2020.
Photo by Thomas Dubrock, courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Beet and kale salad. A fine dining restaurant with a Michelin star pedigree arrives in Houston next month.
Le Jardinier will open May 18 inside the Kinder Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the restaurant announced. French for the gardener, Le Jardinier comes to Houston via Miami and New York, where it holds one Michelin star. The restaurant defines itself as a refined, vegetable-forward concept rooted in French culinary technique and inspired by the seasonality of ingredients.