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help guide to frieze Frieze Art Fair - The question over the inaugural edition of Frieze has been whether 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 as well as the collectors it's too quickly to tell - Frieze opens on Friday following a collectors' preview on Thursday. But this can be a greater fair than has been expected the first time out, though in contrast to its " old world " cousin it is a safer affair, with little grit and a lot of gloss.

frieze magazine - The best news: Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover made the proper 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 really is hard enough to have us to cross Manhattan, let alone take a ferry (or limousine) throughout the water. But on 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 down and up the fair - handsomer than other events' gridded chicken coops, though a bit intimidating as well. You can find 180 galleries here, but nowhere to cover. The original Frieze art fair, for those its wealth, remains better its scruffy east London roots compared to old-money fairs in Basel or Maastricht. However, there is no mistaking that Frieze The big apple is business, and provocations from the type London audiences have come to expect - wrecked booths, disruptive performances, installations that mock art market absurdities - usually are not in evidence. Maccarone, a frequently confrontational gallery, is showing a sculpture through 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, focused on seven achingly delicate paintings by Laura Owens, all linked together by way of a wooden mesh.

Frieze Art Fair - As mentioned in this frieze review: The biggest galleries have got few chances. Need a monochrome Anish Kapoor disc to embellish your third home? Get a large yellow one or a a bit smaller version in tasteful bronze - otherwise just delay until both you and your 1% friends meet later this spring in Hong Kong or Basel, to try again. It's more rewarding to invest time in the single-artist installations by younger galleries, which Sharp and Slotover have placed smack in the middle with the fair. One of the lessons you'll learn: Ny is over and all the cool American kids have moved to LA. At Redling Artwork, Liz Glynn makes papier-mache replicas of gold jewellery from pawn shops over the Town of Angels. Money is inconsistent, she reminds us, and there is an industry for everything.