NEW YORK — The marquee evening sales at the big auction houses are exclusive clubs of a sort, filled with works by artists who have already proven their market clout.
The physical environments of art fairs tend to be utilitarian convention halls, although there are some — like the Frieze fairs in London, New York and Los Angeles, with their light-filled, architect-designed tents — that try to boost the appeal of the surroundings.
A good art dealer finds a way to combine earnestness with polished savvy, and the success of German-born gallerist David Zwirner demonstrates the potency of such a mixture.
Hewat-Jaboor, a former Sotheby’s executive and private art adviser, said that in his experience, an eclectic event was the way to reel in clients who might not have experience in buying art objects.
The show, “Orlando,” which opens Friday at the Aperture Foundation and features nearly five dozen photographs by 11 artists, is Swinton’s first foray into art curation.
NEW YORK — Many art careers are made from the top down: A museum show typically provides the seal of approval that propels a young artist to success in the commercial world.
NEW YORK — Frieze New York, the eighth edition of which takes place Thursday through Sunday in Randalls Island Park, has distinguished itself as a thoughtful entry in the global art fair derby, offering copious curated sections and special projects in addition to serving as a commercial hub.
NEW YORK — Artist Walton Ford is known for his richly detailed and complex paintings of animals, some familiar and some extinct, drawn with a striking, at times unsettling, take on the traditional academic style. Imagine the work of the artist-naturalist John James Audubon, but on steroids and Red Bull.
BANGKOK — Next to a row of luxury hotels in a bustling business district in Bangkok, the art gallery Nova Contemporary occupies a former storage area at the base of a high-rise apartment building.
In the salad days of his art collecting, back in the 1960s, magazine publisher S.I. Newhouse Jr. started out modestly, at one point paying dealer Betty Parsons on the installment plan.
For most of his more than four-decade career, multimedia artist Tishan Hsu had a knack for being steadily out of sync with the art world, and the art market in particular.
Tintoretto (1518-94) came in the last wave of the Italian Renaissance. A bit overshadowed in art history by Titian, the supremely talented local elder, Tintoretto is famous but may not register as clearly as other painters of the age.
The museum’s curator of fashion arts, Michelle Finamore, opened the door to a storage area where some of the items were being kept for her coming show, “Gender Bending Fashion,” on view from March 21 to Aug. 25.
The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands, is a cornucopia like those sometimes depicted in the old master paintings on view, spilling over with riches. A sparkling display of jewelry here, a pale ancient Greek statue over there, not far from a contemporary work in glowing neon.
The fair, called Felix, was founded with the local art-dealing brothers Al and Mills Morán. It drew 40 dealers who offered their wares in a series of rooms and cabanas at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (it was held Feb.
