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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...

Reiring reflects on how her role as a dealer changed over 40 years. March 8, 2021 Janelle Reiring and Helene Weiner, the founder of Metro Pictures, in 2009. Photo by Patrick McMullan via Getty Images. Many art-world players were surprised to receive a candid email from legendary contemporary art gallery Metro Pictures—on a Sunday afternoon, no less—announcing the founders’ decision to close after 40 years at the end of 2021. The platform, co-founded by Janelle Reiring and Helene Winer, launched the careers of  famous Pictures Generation artists including Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Sh...