

Sze creates multiplying sprawling island-universes with their own internal laws, each filled with shoals of small objects, cut-up photographs, sticks, spinning things, sounds, stones, lights, fans, and a cosmos of other objects. Guggenheim Museum (March 31–September 12)

Now they’ve opened, so you can check them out for yourself. When we originally ran this list in January, these were the shows art critic Jerry Saltz was looking foward to. See the curators or directors witness art advisers shepherding their collectors. My recommendation is go there, have fun, look at the people, talk to some, look at some art, have some snacks, look again. It sprang up in 1994, tiny, in a hotel, then morphed, and has just kept going. But it is one of the most important for this behemoth contraption. The Armory Show is not the biggest or best. And anyway, they work for galleries, which make as much as half of their year’s nut at the fairs.
#Spectacle bear how to#
Art fairs are like our politics: Everyone agrees they are broken but no one knows how to fix them. Party will play off of this strange portrait, and what he will come up with is anyone’s guess. He is dapper, sexually ambiguous, wearing a flowered vest, a powdered wig, blue velvet, and a tri-cornered hat, and looking at us with his half-closed eyes. The Carriera depicts a man - a dandy, aristocrat, or actor - in the costume of a pilgrim. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr./The Frick CollectionĪ site-specific pastel mural by the Swiss-born artist Nicolas Party, created as a reply to Rosalba Carriera’s 18th century pastel, Portrait of a Man in Pilgrim’s Costume. (59.1 × 47.9 × 1.3 cm), The Frick Collection, Gift of Alexis Gregory, 2020 Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757), Portrait of a Man in Pilgrim’s Costume, ca.
