Couldn’t Make It to Frieze New York? Here Are 10 of Our Favorite Artworks
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
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The evening of sales in New York totalled $439.6m, with Basquiat's Versus Medici topping the contemporary art offering at $50.8m and a new record for Leonor Fini
From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness
Their artistic paths crossed like ships in the night. But at long last, two New York legends meet in “Day’s End,” an immortalizing homage by Hammons to Gordon Matta-Clark and art history.
“Day’s End,” David Hammons’s site-specific sculpture in Hudson River Park, reimagines the vanished Pier 52 as an open-air pavilion.Credit.Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times
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In 2014, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Adam D. Weinberg, invited the artist David Hammons to tour the museum’s still empty new building. Weinberg remembers them standing together at the panoramic fifth-floor window overlooking the Hudson and talking about the history of the waterfront facing the museum, about what was there and what was gone.