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FRIEZE NEW YORK 2018

Lara Schnitger, Suffragette City (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA), 2016 Courtesy the artist, Anton Kern Gallery, New York. Photo: Joshua White Photography

Lara Schnitger, “Suffragette City” (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA), 2016 (courtesy the artist, Anton Kern Gallery, New York; photo by Joshua White Photography)

FRIEZE ART FAIR
Randall’s Island Park
May 2-3 (preview), 4-6 (public), $74.50 per day
frieze.com

It’s May, and the big white tents are opening on Randall’s Island, where the seventh annual Frieze New York is sheltering art offered by nearly two hundred galleries from more than two dozen countries. More integrated into New York City’s nonstop art scene than ever, Frieze not only features associated Frieze Week projects and events around the city but also invites a more diverse group of fairgoers, artists, and activists with an updated layout and new curators. Frieze is associated with performances, installations, and events throughout the week, including Eduardo Chillada’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, Huma Bhabha’s “With a Trace” at Salon 94, and Adam Pendleton’s provocative six-month installation, “Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter),” at Scylla Point on Randall’s Island, an area once called “Negro Point.” (Pendleton’s “What a day was this” is also on view at Lever House.) At the fair, “bespoke” private art tours beckon collectors looking for exactly the right something, while an Art Passport for teens and special $12 admission pricing on Friday for the eighteen-to-twenty-five-year-old crowd aims to bring in cost-conscious art fans and young artists; Frieze ticket holders also receive $5 off the price of admission or $25 off a membership at MoMA all weekend long. Meanwhile, MoMA PS1 is hosting the “Night at the Museum: Springtober Fest” party on May 5.

The Live program, offered for the first time in New York, is curated by Adrienne Edwards, the newly appointed Whitney curator of performance, and showcases seven pieces in ASSEMBLY, focusing on collective protest with processions, ritualistic and conceptual performance, sound installations, banners and flags, and more. The Frame section features nineteen solo shows by emerging galleries, while the thirty-six galleries in Spotlight concentrate on important twentieth-century work. Be on the lookout for work by Kapwani Kiwanga, the winner of this year’s Frieze Artist Award. Frieze Talks keeps things lively with a stellar lineup of novelists, writers, historians, and artists in discussion, a few of which are spotlighted below, ensuring that Frieze New York’s traveling spectacle under the tents never has a dull moment, even when fairgoers are perhaps just resting their feet. Frieze also tends to have the best dining choices of any of the art fairs, so come hungry.

Adam Pendleton, Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter), 2015–2018. Digital print on polyester, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist and PACE

Adam Pendleton, “Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter),” digital print on polyester, 2015–18 (photo courtesy of the artist and Pace)

Wednesday, May 2
Lara Schnitger, Suffragette City, procession through the fair, 5:00

Thursday, May 3
Raúl de Nieves and Erik Zajaceskowski, THANK YOU/THANK YOU, procession through the fair, 3:00

Lara Schnitger, Suffragette City, procession through the fair, 5:00

Jerry Saltz presented by New York magazine, 6:00

Friday, May 4
Abraham Cruzvillegas and Carlos Amorales in conversation with Yuri Herrera, 12 noon

Ottessa Moshfegh in conversation with Patty Cottrell, 3:00

Kaitlyn Greenidge in conversation with Kerri Greenidge, 3:00

Saturday, May 5
Fred Moten in conversation with Sondra Perry, 12 noon

Lara Schnitger, Suffragette City, procession through the fair, 3:00

Rujeko Hockley in conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge and Kerri Greenidge, 3:00

Sunday, May 6
Elif Batuman in conversation with Negar Azimi, 12 noon

Dave McKenzie, Furtive Gestures, 1:00

FRIEZE NEW YORK 2017

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)
frieze.com

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 Reids Threshold, 2017, HD video projection, painted steel, concrete, safety glass, glazed porcelain, resin, plastic, glass, ocean pebble, silicone rubber, bronze, cigarette butts, ash, HD video projectors, media players, speakers, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist and Southard Reid, London; (photo by Ernst Fischer)

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

FRIEZE ART FAIR 2015

Participants paint Jonathan Horowitz’s “100 Dots” at Frieze (photo by twi-ny/ees)

FRIEZE ART FAIR
Randall’s Island Park
May 14-17, $28-$109
friezenewyork.com

The ferry, the crowds, the food, and the fashion may all seem familiar and as well done as ever at Frieze, but what’s new under the big white tent? Well, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise got a lot of press because of Jonathan Horowitz’s participatory project, “700 Dots,” which enlisted early attendees’ minds, hearts, hands, and Instagram feeds by providing them with brushes, black acrylic paint, a white square, a $20 check, and lots of helpful support for painting a perfect eight-inch circle. The circles became part of Horowitz’s project, which actually consists of seven sets of ten-by-ten grids of 100 dots, two of which had sold for $100,000 a piece by Thursday. Single-artist stands captured most of our attention, and the Frame section, for galleries less than eight years old showing solo exhibitions, felt particularly strong. In fact, the Stand Prize, a $15,000 award sponsored by Champagne Pommery and given by a panel of distinguished judges, went to a Frame gallery for the revelatory Martha Araújo show at Galeria Jaqueline Martins (São Paulo), focusing on Araújo’s body-based performative practice in Brazil from the 1970s through the present, little known to date.

Gallerists prepare a performance of Kris Lemsalu’s “Whole Alone 2” at Temnikova & Kasela, Frieze New York 2015 (photo by twi-ny/ees)

Also in Frame, as fairgoers arrived just after eleven on Thursday morning, gallerists at Temnikova & Kasela (Tallinn, Estonia) prepared Kris Lemsalu’s “Whole Alone 2,” a sculptural installation and performance that featured a well-manicured woman under an intricately enameled and rhinestone-bedazzled tortoiseshell, while London’s Supplement Gallery showed Philomene Pirecki’s lovely and more subtly nontraditional painting, comprising old paintings processed into supports for new, and sculptures made of layers of images of previous works, processed as photographs of digital screen images and overlaid with transparencies of water droplets. The latest medium seems, somewhat bewilderingly, to be ceramics, as artists as diverse as Lucio Fontana, Milena Muzquiz, Takuro Kuwata, and Dan McCarthy all displayed glazed clay pieces, some quite beautiful, such as Fontana’s “Dolphins” and “Piatto-Battaglia,” some less so, like the scary yellow glazed smiley Face Pots by McCarthy.

FRIEZE ART FAIR WEEK 2015

The art world will descend on Randall’s Island for the Frieze Art Fair this week (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

FRIEZE ART FAIR
Randall’s Island Park
May 14-17, $28-$109
friezenewyork.com

The giant white tents of the Frieze Art Fair will cover Randall’s Island once again for four days in May, promising crowds of eager patrons and onlookers both provocative, astonishing, world-class, expensive art and a group of often delightful, sometimes mystifying, occasionally participatory projects, as well as superlative people-watching and classy eats. Those looking to acquire museum-level works can check out the booths of Marian Goodman, which features the work of Giuseppe Penone, a member of the Italian Arte Povera group; or Paul Kasmin, who has works by Sigmar Polke, Iván Navarro, Jules Olitski, and Laylah Ali on its temporary walls. Matthew Marks will show lots of Nan Goldin and Paul Sietsema; Cheim & Read has Ghada Amer, Louise Bourgeois, and Lynda Benglis; Yoko Ono is at Galerie Lelong; and fans of German painting can choose from Martin Eder, David Schnell, and Melora Kuhn at Eigen + Art. With more than two hundred galleries, Frieze can be overwhelming, but there’s an app to download here and sustenance provided by high-end dining-scene stalwarts Frankie’s Sputino, Milk Bar, Prime Meats, and Roberta’s, among others.

Performance art and an outdoor sculpture garden are part of annual Frieze fair (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Performance projects and an outdoor sculpture garden are part of annual Frieze Art Fair (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

We enjoy the Frieze projects immensely; you can see our video with Marie Lorenz here, as we exited the fair in a rather unique way. This year, there seems to be a theme; two projects boast mazelike layouts and a third is highlighted by a hidden subterranean chamber. Japanese-born Aki Sasamoto makes his maze into a sort of personality test and multiple-choice questionnaire via a series of rooms and doors (shades of Door Number Two and Let’s Make a Deal, perhaps?) while the Flux-Labyrinth reconceives George Maciunas’s 1975 Fluxus work as a participatory set of narrow corridors and mysterious door handles. Korakrit Arunanondchai’s massage chairs and Pia Camil’s free fabric giveaways add to fairgoers’ fun. Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden’s secret room beneath the fair reveals the working underbelly of pillars, electric cables, and air-conditioning vents — vents that we fervently hope work very well as the enormous crowds descend on this, one of twi-ny’s all-time favorite New York art fairs. Below are some of the special programs at Frieze, as well as information about the other fairs in town this week.

Thursday, May 14
Frieze Talks: ‘Some may like a soft Brazilian singer,’ with Christian Jankowski, featuring the music of Caetano Veloso, 4:00

Friday, May 15
‘Aesthetics’ of ‘Female’ ‘Attractiveness,’ with Casey Jane Ellison, Grace Dunham, Reina Gossett, Karley Sciortino, and Leilah Weinraub, 12 noon

Saturday, May 16
‘Ask Jerry,’ with Jerry Saltz, 12 noon

Sunday, May 17
Paul McCarthy & Leigh Ledare in conversation with Chrissie Iles, 12 midday

COLLECTIVE DESIGN FAIR
Skylight Clarkson Sq.
550 Washington St.
May 13-17, $15-$25
collectivedesignfair.com

Saturday, May 16
“Witness to the Future: Vladimir Kagan and Michael Boodro in Conversation,” 2:30

Sunday, May 17
“Among Friends: The Collaborative Practice and Ongoing Influence of Isamu Noguchi,” 1:00

NADA NEW YORK 2015
Basketball City, 299 South St. at the East River
May 14-17, free
newartdealers.org

Thursday, May 14
“Tachyon Path,” a musical piece composed by Jay Israelson, 6:00

Friday, May 15
Regina Rex presents “Selections from Sports Closet,” a performance by Alina Tenser, 1:00 & 5:00

Sunday, May 17
“On Connectivity,” a discussion with artists from the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial: “Surround Audience,” 3:00

ART MIAMI NEW YORK
Pier 94, 12th Ave. at 55th St.
May 14-17, $15-$25 (multiday pass $55)
www.artmiaminewyork.com

Friday, May 15
Artist Spotlight: “The Diamond,” with Iftah Geva and Gal Goldner, 1:00

Saturday, May 16
“Bad Collector — A Primer on What Not to Do,” with Karen Boyer, Albina De Meio, James Kober, and Samuel Pugatch, 2:00

Book Signing with Acclaimed Photographer & Stylist Marisol, Post-Modern Booth #B19, 3:00 – 6:00

Sunday, May 17
Artist Spotlight: Alexander Zakharov — Exploring New Media Art,” 1:00

SELECT
Center 548, 548 West 22nd St. St.
May 14-17, $10-$20 (multiday pass $25)
www.select-fair.com

Saturday, May 16
“Freedom of Press?” with Lori Cole, Christopher Howard, Aruna D’Souza, and Colleen Asper, moderated by Dushko Petrovich, Select Lounge, third floor, 2:00

Sunday, May 17
“Digital Objects,” with Zoë Salditch, Greg Borenstein, Andrea Wolf, Marco Antonini, and Siebren Versteeg, moderated by Yin Ho, Select Lounge, third floor, 2:00

FRIDGE ART FAIR
Retro Bar & Grill at the Holiday Inn
150 Delancey St.
May 14-17, free
www.fridgeartfair.com

1:54 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART FAIR
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer St., Red Hook
May 15-17, $5-$10 ($25 with catalog)
1-54.com/new-york

Friday, May 15
Keynote Address: “Black Aesthetics Unbound,” Margo Natalie Crawford, 1:30

Saturday, May 16
“Breaking the Ice,” with Christian Haye and Melvin Edwards, moderated by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, 3:00

FRIEZE ART FAIR WEEK 2014

Paul McCarthy’s giant “Balloon Dog” welcomes visitors to the 2013 Frieze New York art fair (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Paul McCarthy’s giant “Balloon Dog” welcomed visitors to the 2013 Frieze New York art fair (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

FRIEZE NEW YORK
Randall’s Island Park
May 9-12, $43 ($76 with catalog), 11:00 am – 6:00/7:00 pm
646-346-2845
friezenewyork.com
frieze new york 2013 online slideshow

Much like the Armory Show is the anchor of March’s art-fair extravaganza, Frieze is the centerpiece of May’s explosion, which includes no fewer than eleven fairs. Of course, Frieze is also the most expensive, with admission $43 ($76 if you want the catalog as well) and a round-trip ferry ticket going for $19. (A bus from the Guggenheim is $7; bus and ferry tickets must be purchased in advance.) Still, Frieze is a sprawling, exciting fair, with art from nearly two hundred galleries placed all around Randall’s Island. This year’s Frieze Projects feature interventions by Darren Bader, a soccer installation by Eduardo Basualdo, a playground sculpture by Eva Kotátková, an alternative Tide and Current Taxi ferry by Marie Lorenz, a piece focusing on “invisible communities” by Koki Tanaka, and a Jimi Hendrix–inspired mini-music festival by Naama Tsabar. Frieze Sounds consists of newly commissioned audio works by Keren Cytter, Cally Spooner, and Hannah Weinberger. In addition, visitors can reserve a room (prices start at $350) in Al’s Grand Hotel, a collaboration between original creator Allen Ruppersberg and Public Fiction. Food and drink will be available from Blue Bottle Coffee, Court Street Grocers, Furanku, Frankies Spuntino, Marlow & Sons, Mission Cantina, Momofuku Milk Bar, Roberta’s, and the Fat Radish, with some restaurants requiring advance reservations.

Friday, May 9
Frieze Talks: Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alekhina of Pussy Riot / Zona Prava in conversation with David Remnick, 4:00

Saturday, May 10
Frieze Talks: Adam Szymczyk in conversation with Jenny Jaskey, 4:00

Sunday, May 11
Frieze Talks: The World Wide Web at 25: Terms and Conditions, with Orit Gat, Tyler Coburn, Gene McHugh, and Christiane Paul, 12 noon

Frieze Talks: Keynote Lecture by Kenneth Goldsmith, 4:00

Monday, May 12
Frieze Talks: U.S. premiere of The Act of Killing: The Director’s Cut (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012), screening followed by Joshua Oppenheimer in conversation with Thomas Keenan and Dana Stevens, 12 noon

Andy Yoder’s “Early One Morning” is one of 2014’s Pule Projects

PULSE NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
May 8-11, $15-$35
www.pulse-art.com

Pulse is consistently one of the best fairs of the season, with innovative works spread out in a convenient layout. Held at the Metropolitan Pavilion, Pulse consists of works from approximately fifty galleries. This year’s Pulse Projects are Andy Yoder’s “Early One Morning,” Charles Lutz’s “LOAD,” Jasmina Cibic’s “Fruits of Our Land,” Samuel Jablon’s “Poet Sculpture,” Sean Fader’s “#wishingpelt,” Shantell Martin’s “You Are You,” Simon Vega’s “The Whitney Museum of Central American Art, a Post-Apocalyptic Dream,” Tamara Gayer’s “All the World’s Affair,” and Zoe Buckman’s “Present Life.” Below is a list of the “Pulse Perspectives: New Models” talks and panel discussions.

Thursday May 8
Claire Breukel and Simón Vega, 1:00

Adarsh Alphons, Ann Fensterstock, Saul Ostrow, 3:00

Daniel Temkin and Benjamin Sutton, 6:00

Friday May 9
Mark Ellwood and Ben Hartley, 1:00

Sherry Dobbin and Carlos Pomares, 3:00

PULSE Prize Jury: discussion and announcement of the 2014 Pulse Prize winner, 6:00

Saturday May 10
Alice Gray Stites and Edward Winkleman, 1:00

Renée Vara and Patrick Regan, 3:00

Jake Yuzna and Kyle DeWoody, 6:00

Sunday May 11
Sue Stoffel, Andrew Gori, and Ambre Kelly, 1:00

Paddy Johnson, William Powhida, and Shawn Gallagher, 3:00

Cutlog brings cutting-edge art to the Clemente on the Lower East Side

CUTLOG
The Clemente
107 Suffolk St.
May 8-11, $15-$50
www.cutlogny.org

Cutlog is back for its second year, highlighting multimedia works by cutting-edge and established artists from approximately sixty galleries. Held at the Clemente on the Lower East Side, the fair features such installations as Mark L. Power’s “See God,” Guillaume Paturel’s “Shelter,” Hrafnhildur Arnardottir aka Shoplifter’s “Hairdoo for a Hallway,” Jessica Deane Rosner’s “The Ulysses Glove Project,” Joan Backes’s “Papier Mache Trees,” Igor Molochevsky’s “In Transition,” and Clara Feder’s “The Wall of Temptation.” There will also be video screenings and/or live performances by Anthony Haden-Guest, Fanni Futterknecht and Marianne Vlaschits, Robert Montgomery, Grayson Earle, Marc Grubstein, Cai Qing, and Bruno Levy & Deantoni Parks, among others.

OUTSIDER ART FAIR
Center 548
548 West 22nd St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
May 8–11, $20-$100
www.outsiderartfair.com

Self-taught artists are celebrated at the Outsider Art Fair, taking place at Center 548 in Chelsea. Some seventy galleries will be exhibiting the work of artists who often worked alone in obscurity, discovered only late in life or even after death. Baumann + Muksian have created a special curated space for the show, with works by “Crystal” John Urho Kemp, Sarah Lucas, Dr. Lakra, and Lewis Smith. “From very different eras and backgrounds, these works share a common ground: a masterly executed disrespect for social conventions and artistic norms in search of enlightenment and artistic freedom,” Daniel Baumann explains about the installation.

Saturday, May 10
Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Self-Taught Artist, with Brooke Davis Anderson, Eric Fretz, Lenore Schorr, and Xaviera Simmons, moderated by Paul Laster, Center 548 rooftop, 2:00

Henry Darger: 40 Years Later, Anne Hill Blanchard symposium, with Michael Bonesteel, James Brett, Jim Elledge, and Jane Kallir, moderated by Valérie Rousseau, Center 548 rooftop, 4:00

CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR NYC
The Tunnel
May 8-11, $12-$20
269 11th Ave. between 27th & 28th Sts.
www.contemporaryartfairnyc.com

The fifth Contemporary Art Fair NYC, held in the Tunnel in Chelsea, focuses on independent artists and designers and the art of the craft, with prices mostly ranging from $100 to $6,000.

Marck, “Tank,” mixed media with electronical performance (photo courtesy Galerie von Braunbehrens)

DOWNTOWN ART FAIR
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Ave. at 25th St.
May 8-11, $15-$45
www.downtownfair.com

Art Miami comes to New York for the inaugural Downtown Fair, comprising more than fifty galleries at the 69th Regiment Armory, promising to “provide a fresh alternative to acquire important never-before-exhibited works from both the primary and secondary markets in an intimate light.” The curators of No Longer Empty will give daily tours at 12:30, and there will be free shuttle bus service to and from the Frieze ferry.

Friday, May 9
A Conversation with Hunt Slonem about Bunnies!, moderated by Bruce Helander, 12:30

Lecture on 69th Regiment Armory History, with Roslyn Bernstein, 2:00

Saturday, May 10
The Curious Legacy of Collage and Its Current Affiliation to Contemporary Art, with Anthony Haden-Guest and Bruce Helander, 2:00

Sunday, May 11
Willem De Kooning, lecture by Molly Barnes, 2:00

COLLECTIVE 2 DESIGN FAIR
Skylight at Moynihan Station
360 West 33rd St. at Eighth Ave.
May 8-11, $15-$25
www.collectivedesignfair.com

The Collective Design Fair is back for its second year, highlighting the artistic, commercial, and educational aspects of contemporary and twentieth-century design. Some three dozen exhibitors will have booths at Skylight at Moynihan Station at the post office, along with special Collective Settings installations that bring together designers and gallerists, including Robert Couturier and Cristina Grajales, Jonathan Adler and Paul Donzella, David Mann and Maison Gerard, and Alan Wanzenberg and 1950. Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell have curated a solo show by Hella Jongerius, and there are also Collective Conversations that will be held Saturday and Sunday in an area designed by BroLab.

Saturday, May 10
Car Culture, Design Culture, with Andrew Smith and Josh Rubin, 11:30 am

Nordic Influence: Designers Discuss the Scandinavian Legacy, with Glenn Adamson, Wendell Castle, Cathrine Raben Davidsen, and Joseph Walsh, 1:00

Creative License: Decorating with Collectible Design, with Sarah Medford, Cristina Grajales, India Mahdavi, and Suchi Reddy, 2:30

Jewelry Design: Quick Changes in an Ancient Medium, with Jane Adlin, Michele Oka Doner, and Jennifer Trask, 4:00

Manufacturing in Place: The Next Wave in Making and Process, with Rama Chorpash, and the Haas Brothers, 5:30

Sunday, May 11
Students Designing for the Future, with Ellen Lupton and Nikki Gonnissen, 11:30 am

Twenty Questions: New Frontiers in Design, with Henry Urbach, Murray Moss, and Franklin Getchell, 1:00

Design On Demand: New Takes on Rapid Manufacturing, with Julia Kaganskiy, Janos Stone, and Mihae S. Mukaida, 2:30

Dressing the Future: Fashion and 3D Printing, with Adam Brent, Partner, Gabi Asfour, and Bradley Rothenberg, 4:00

Select fair will feature a specially designed beer garden

SELECT FAIR
Altman Building
135 West 18th St.
May 8-11, $5-$20
www.select-fair.com

More than thirty galleries will have booths featuring progressive works at Select in the Altman Building, along with eight Select Project installations and four special projects, Lambert Fine Arts’ “The Directors Den,” “Meow Wolf” by a group of Santa Fe artists, Chelsea Maida’s “Sun Chandelier,” and the interactive performance piece “DOTART” by Tibor Hargitai. In addition, a beer garden will serve food and drink from Six Point Brewery and Brooklyn Bangers.

PooL takes a more low-key approach to the concept of the art fair

POOL ART FAIR
Off Soho Suites
11 Rivington St.
May 9-11, free
www.frereindependent-poolartf.squarespace.com

PooL Art Fair, from the same folks who put on March’s Independent, prefers a modest, low-key approach focusing on artists who do not have representation. The fair will include lectures, special projects and events, and curated installations at Off Soho Suites on Rivington St.

Chris Hefner, Detail from "The Americans (Shoreline)," charcoal on paper, 2013.

Chris Hefner, “The Americans (Shoreline),” detail, charcoal on paper, 2013

VERGE NYC
177 Prince St. between Thompson & Sullivan Sts.
May 9 – May 11, free
www.vergeartfair.com

The fifth annual boutique Verge art fair, “an ongoing experiment in art, markets, ideas, and the art culture,” consists of nearly two dozen galleries, mostly from New York, New Jersey, and Chicago, gathering at 177 Prince St., with two special exhibitions, “Tomorrow Stars” and “The Drawing Show.”

Thursday, May 8
Opening night party, free and open to the public, 6:00 – 10:00

NADA NEW YORK
Pier 36, Basketball City
299 South St. at the East River
May 9-11, free
www.newartdealers.org

More than one hundred exhibitors will take over Basketball City for the third annual NADA New York fair, including such twi-ny faves as Abrons Arts Center, the Hole, Klaus von Nichtssagend, Freight + Volume, and Eleven Rivington. The special projects include “Phaidon Presents Beta-Local and MOCAD,” including interactive community-centric installations, and “Shoot the Lobster,” a site-specific outdoor collaboration with pieces by Lena Henke and Marie Karlberg , Eli Ping, Jennie Jeun Lee, Ryan Foerster, Justin Lieberman, Denise Kupferschmidt, Eddie Martinez, Jeffrey Joyal, Bradley Kronz, Win McCarthy, and Nicholas Buffon.

Saturday, May 10
Contemporary Poetry, marathon reading with thirty poets, Tacombi Lounge, 12 noon – 6:00 pm

LittleCollector workshops by Amy Stevens and Shelter Serra, $20, 11:30 am

Sunday, May 11
LittleCollector workshops by Amy Stevens and Shelter Serra, $20, 11:30 am

El Local Club, conversation about Caribbean art practice and production, with Stefan Benchoam, Pablo Guardiola, and Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, 2:00

FRIEZE ART FAIR NEW YORK

Olaf Nicolai’s “Why women like to buy textiles that feel nice” is part of Frieze’s New York unveiling (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Randall’s Island Park
May 4-7, $40, 12 noon – 6:00 pm
646-346-2845
friezenewyork.com
frieze art fair new york slideshow

The highly touted Frieze Art Fair made its debut in London in 2003, and for the first time it has moved across the Atlantic for a New York edition, which continues through Monday. Taking place on Randall’s Island, Frieze New York is set inside a long white tent, with a handful of specially commissioned projects on the surrounding grass. It’s more or less a standard art fair, with familiar American and British galleries alongside a smattering from other countries, showing contemporary sculpture, painting, drawing, video, photography, and installation. You never know whom you might bump into at these oh-so-chic events; we found ourselves greeting master chef Daniel Boulud and controversial artist Andres Serrano while wandering around on Sunday afternoon. Although there’s a lot to like about Frieze — especially that it’s spread out just enough to not get ridiculously overcrowded — we’re still trying to figure out what all of the excess hubbub is about. At $40 a ticket and an additional $40 if you want the catalog, it is certainly not cheap. Getting there does require either ferry service from Midtown East or special bus service, but it is not nearly as treacherous as one might expect. As for the art itself, you can view our online slideshow here to see some of our favorites. If you do go on Monday, be sure to check out Taryn Simon’s talk at 1:00 about her new MoMA exhibit, “A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII,” while map lovers should enjoy the 3:00 panel discussion “Collection Cartographies.”