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Dealers managed to do strong business on opening day at the pared-down Frieze New York. May 5, 2021 A fairgoer uses her phone in the cafe during the first day of Frieze art fair. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) This is not a drill—not-online, not-remote, fully inside, honest-to-god art fairs are back. After 14 months of staring at images of paintings in digitally rendered booths, art-world VIPs lined up Wednesday morning at the Shed in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards district to enter Frieze New York. This was by no means a foregone conclusion. Frieze, owned by the recently IPO...

Two Hippes (2020). Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. There’s been no shortage of grumbling about the never-ending parade of virtual art fairs and about how “online viewing rooms” (or OVRs) are, really, just another website. Nevertheless, dealers and collectors alike appeared this week to be enthusiastically embracing the virtual edition of the high-profile French fair known as FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain). The VIP preview days started on March 2 before the fair “opened” to the broader public on March 4. (It runs through Sunday, March 7.) After a full...

Nara Roesler's new Chelsea space Courtesy of Nara Roesler Nara Roesler’s move from a third-floor gallery on New York’s Upper East Side to a brand new, street-level space in Chelsea is a mark of its investment in creating a bridge between the Latin American and US art worlds, the gallery says. The space, which opens in January and is designed by Brazilian architect Miguel Pinto Guimarães, will be four times larger than its previous gallery. “We have many estates, as well as young artists showing for the first time in North America, so we wanted to think long-term,�...