Frieze 2017 takes place May 5-7 on Randall’s Island
FRIEZE ART FAIR
Randall’s Island Park
May 5-7, $46 per day ($69 including magazine subscription and ferry)
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While visiting many art fairs year in and year out can feel more like a chore than a privilege, Frieze continues to be one that we look forward to every May. Held on Randall’s Island, the fair features more than two hundred galleries from around the world, organized into manageable aisles that tend not to get too ridiculously crowded. Plus, you get to take a ferry. For this year’s special projects, Dora Budor will employ cinematic doubling, Jon Rafman will create a secret movie theater, and Elaine Cameron-Weir will offer a peek into an outdoor air-raid shelter. Frieze 2017 will pay tribute to Galleria La Tartaruga’s 1968 exhibition “Il Teatro delle Mostre” with a restaging of Fabio Mauri’s Luna on Sunday and new commissions by Ryan McNamara on Friday and Adam Pendleton on Saturday. This year’s Frame artists, each of whom gets a solo presentation, are Eva LeWitt, Zhou Siwei, Jan Vorisek, Jared Ginsburg, Thomson & Craighead, Milano Chow, Susan Cianciolo, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Sven Loven, Hudinilson Jr., Daniel Boccato, Akira Ikezoe, Lea Cetera, Piotr Lakomy, Daiga Grantina, Ulises Carrión, and Li Qing, while Spotlight: 20th-Century Pioneers consists of solo installations by avant-garde artists Katalin Ladik, Francis Newton Souza, Agustin Fernandez, Judith Linhares, Waltercio Caldas, Etienne-Martin, Thomas Kovachevich, Amilcar de Castro, Jaime Davidovich, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Kenny Scharf, Dieter Krieg, Paul Feeley, Dumile Feni, Virginia Jaramillo, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Peter Young, Irma Blank, Tony DeLap, Julio Plaza, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Lee Mullican, Alfred Leslie, USCO and Gerd Stern, Jared Bark, Teresa Burga, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, and Kimiyo Mishima. Even the curation of the restaurants is thoughtful, with food from Café Altro Paradiso, Court Street Grocers, Frankies Spuntino, Marlo & Sons, Roberta’s, Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream, Russ & Daughters, Sant Ambroeus, and TYME Fast Food. Below are the special events scheduled for the weekend, including several not taking place on Randall’s Island.
Southard Reid’s “Threshold” is part of Frieze Frame program (courtesy of the artist and Southard Reid, London; photo by Ernst Fischer)
Friday, May 5
Symposium panel: Discussing Latin American and Latino Art, with Edward Sullivan, Deborah Cullen, Guillermo Kuitca, and Chon Noriega, 9:15 am; “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985,” with Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, María Evelia Marmolejo, and Sylvia Palacios Whitman, 10:30; “Art, Architecture & Visions of Modernism,” with With Dan Fox, Jonathas de Andrade, Clara M. Kim, and Clarissa Tossin, 11:30, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, the James B. Duke House, 1 East 78th St., $50
Lower East Side and Soho Morning: apexart, Bridget Donahue, Callicoon Fine Arts, Daata Editions x Vanity Projects, David Lewis, Derek Eller Gallery, Foxy Production, Galerie Perrotin, James Cohan, James Fuente, Lehmann Maupin, Kate Werble Gallery, Martos Gallery, Miguel Abreu Gallery, On Stellar Rays, Rachel Uffner Gallery, RxArt, Salon 94, Simon Preston Gallery, Simone Subal Gallery, the Drawing Center, WhiteBox, free, 10:00 am – 12 noon
Conversation: Complicating the Modern, with Laura Owens and Ann Temkin, free with Frieze admission, 11:30 am
ARTnews: Meet the Editors, Reading Room, 12:30
frieze: Asad Raza, author of Home Show, in conversation with Andrew Durbin, Reading Room, 2:30
Artforum: Tobi Haslett and David Velasco review the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Reading Room, 4:30
Saturday, May 6
Upper East Side and Harlem Morning: Americas Society, Acquavella Galleries, Almine Rech, Anton Kern Gallery, Blum & Poe, Castelli Gallery, Ceysson & Bénétière, Elizabeth Dee, Hauser & Wirth, Henrique Faria, Institute of Fine Art, NYU, Jason Jacques Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, Mendes Wood DM, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Skarstedt, Taka Ishii Gallery, 10:00 am – 12 noon
Panel: The activity of a lifetime, with Tania Bruguera, Anri Sala, and Jeanne van Heeswijk, chaired by Shuddhabrata Sengupta, free with Frieze admission, 11:30
ArtMag by Deutsche Bank: Approaching the End, with Rebecca Rose Cuomo and Andrea Galvani, Reading Room, 12:30
W Magazine Presents Custom Portraits with Ian Sklarsky, Reading Room, 2:30
#SolarTalks: The rise of Narco culture, with Igor Ramírez García-Peralta and Beatriz López, Reading Room, 4:30
Chelsea Night: 303 Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, David Zwirner, Dia: Chelsea, Fredericks & Freiser, Gagosian Gallery, Galerie Lelong, Garth Greenan Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Jack Shainman Gallery, James Cohan, Lehmann Maupin, Lisson Gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Pace Gallery, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Sean Kelly, Skarstedt, Tanya Bonakdar, Tina Kim Gallery, free, 6:00 – 8:00
Sunday, May 7
Reading & discussion: Claudia Rankine, free with Frieze admission, 11:30
ARTBOOK + Koenig Books: book signing with Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric, Reading Room, 12:30
Even: Jason Farago in conversation with Kanishk Tharoor, author of Swimmer Among the Stars, Reading Room, 2:30
frieze in conversation with Hands off our Revolution: conversation and workshop with Ana Marie Peña and Brooke Lynn McGowan, Reading Room, 4:30