March 11, 2011
“All things considered, I had expected to find a dying art fair at river’s edge. Instead, the show seems fresher than it has in several years. It has clearly been more revived than diminished by the loss of big-name, blue-chip or white-hot galleries, and has a younger, more egalitarian, free-for-all spirit. Lack of familiarity helps. New York dealers are sparsely represented in the show’s contemporary section, and there is a host of first-timers, including 18 galleries from Latin America in this year’s Focus section. An unexpected benefit: the vigorous call and response between the contemporary section, on Pier 94, and the modern section created two years ago, on Pier 92, for dealers in more historical material.”Free-for-All Spirit Breezes Into a Vast Art FairBy ROBERTA SMITH, NYTimes.com

“All things considered, I had expected to find a dying art fair at river’s edge. Instead, the show seems fresher than it has in several years. It has clearly been more revived than diminished by the loss of big-name, blue-chip or white-hot galleries, and has a younger, more egalitarian, free-for-all spirit. Lack of familiarity helps. New York dealers are sparsely represented in the show’s contemporary section, and there is a host of first-timers, including 18 galleries from Latin America in this year’s Focus section. An unexpected benefit: the vigorous call and response between the contemporary section, on Pier 94, and the modern section created two years ago, on Pier 92, for dealers in more historical material.”

Free-for-All Spirit Breezes Into a Vast Art Fair
By ROBERTA SMITH, NYTimes.com

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