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ARMORY WEEK

ARMORY WEEK

Art Fairs Give Ground to Auction Houses

We were at the cafe at the Park Avenue Armory. The space in front of us looked like a ballet choreographed for mobile phones, with the occasional intrusion of an iPad. The scenery at the ADAA art fair last weekend was modernism, postmodernism and just-out-of-the-shell art, with a few pieces from earlier times. Call it Read More

ARMORY WEEK

The Bare Essentials of Armory Art Week

Artist Sebastian Bremer bobbed on his heels, preening, at the start of the Armory Show in New York Wednesday. The next day, his show at Edwyn Houk Gallery was set to open, with pieces priced about $30,000 to $65,000–but the gallery had told him it was already more than half-sold. “I have money in my Read More