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self-help guide to frieze Frieze Art Fair - The question over the inaugural edition of Frieze has been whether or not the British interlopers would upset the Armory Show, our increasingly moribund local art fair, as New York's leading festival of latest art and conspicuous consumption. For the dealers and the collectors it's too early to inform - Frieze opens on Friday after a collectors' preview on Thursday. But this can be a much better fair than may have been expected the very first time out, though compared with its old world cousin this can be a safer affair, with little grit and a lot of gloss.
frieze magazine - The very best news: Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover made the right call by holding Frieze on Randall's Island, a park in the East river usually frequented only by little-league baseball players. New Yorkers had been sceptical - it's hard enough to have us to cross Manhattan, aside from take a ferry (or limousine) over the water. But around the island, Frieze has enough space to get a sinuous white tent, produced by the young Brooklyn architectural duo SO-IL, which curves over the waterfront. The tent offers continuous vistas along the fair - handsomer than other events' gridded chicken coops, though somewhat intimidating as well. You can find 180 galleries here, but nowhere to cover. The initial Frieze art fair, for all its wealth, remains nearer to its scruffy east London roots compared to the old-money fairs in Basel or Maastricht. But there's no mistaking that Frieze The big apple is perhaps all business, and provocations of the type London audiences have learned to expect - wrecked booths, disruptive performances, installations that mock art market absurdities - are not in evidence. Maccarone, an often confrontational gallery, is showing a sculpture by the brothers Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen, incorporating a tree from an Alaskan island where they lived for weeks - but in addition a 12-metre abstract striped painting by Ann Craven, elegant but benign. Even Gavin Brown, a once reliably provocative Anglo-American dealer, has mounted an attractive but extremely safe booth, centered on seven achingly delicate paintings by Laura Owens, all linked together by way of a wooden mesh.
This article - As stated on this frieze review: The largest galleries have got few chances. Have to have a monochrome Anish Kapoor disc to brighten your third home? Pick up a large yellow one or a slightly smaller version in tasteful bronze - otherwise just hold back until both you and your 1% friends meet later this spring in Hong Kong or Basel, to repeat the process. It's more rewarding to spend in time the single-artist installations by younger galleries, which Sharp and Slotover have placed smack in the centre with the fair. On the list of lessons you'll learn: Ny is finished and all sorts of the cool American kids has progressed to LA. At Redling Artwork, Liz Glynn has made papier-mache replicas of gold jewellery from pawn shops over the Capital of scotland- Angels. Money comes and goes, she reminds us, then there is a market for everything.
