The annual shows of modern and contemporary art will test the market’s resilience
New York’s fall art season officially began on Thursday with a number of art fairs opening their doors to VIPs and the media, and the sales quickly followed.
“We have to stay here for days—nine hours a day!—at least having some engaging conversations is a blast,” Dama says. In response to a question about the overlapping events, Nicole Berry, the fair’s director, said the VIP preview of the fair’s third outing at the Javits Center “had both strong numbers and an impressive presence of American and international collectors.” Earlier the fair had provided several names of notable attendees, which included Venus Williams, Anderson Cooper and Zoe Kazan, and collectors Estrellita Brodsky, David Mugrabi, and Alain Servais, among many others.
However, Bennett Roberts, owner of Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, described the fair as having a good “energy” and said he didn’t get the sense that big collectors were missing. Instead, he was appreciating those who were stopping by and expressing genuine interest in the works on display. Some fairs are purely about “just trying to make a sale,” Roberts says. In this case, “people ask some great questions.
At Independent, which, in contrast to the spacious layout of the Javits Center, was tucked in the carpeted halls of the newly restored 1909 Battery Maritime Building on the southern tip of Manhattan, also saw a steady stream of collectors throughout its opening day, according to dealers.
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