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Forbes
13-05-2025
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Attendance Up 11% At 2025 TEFAF New York As It Enters Final Day
The Anna Hu booth at TEFAF New York Anthony DeMarco TEFAF New York is showing an 11% increase in attendance over the prior year's fair as it enters the final day. The fair's eleventh edition hosted 91 international exhibitors, including 13 new galleries that showcased modern and contemporary art, antiquities, jewelry and design objects. Fair officials reported 'robust sales,' as private collectors and public institutions were ready and willing to buy. The art, design and antiques fair opened on May 8 with an invitation-only preview day, followed by a public opening on May 9. The fair will close on May 13. The preview day was quite crowded, even mobbed at times, with eager buyers, including some high-profile collectors. Fashion designer Carolina Herrera and Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia were seen at the Anna Hu booth. Other notables included Steve Martin, Marc Jacobs, Reed Krakoff, Michael Bloomberg and Larry Tisch. Speaking of Anna Hu, the Taiwanese high jewelry artist, who also exhibited at the TEFAF Maastricht fair in March, brought one new piece to TEFAF New York and it was a beauty: the Duo du Serpent Vert et Blanc ('The Green and White Snake Duo'), a combination ring and bangle consisting of two serpents with their mouths attached to a Ying-Yang tachi made of mother-of-pearl and onyx. The green serpent bangle is paved with garnets and diamonds and white serpent is paved with diamonds and emeralds with emerald eyes. The hand ornament represents the friendship between women, a spokesperson for Hu told me. Hemmerle sapphire, aluminum and bronze earrings Eva-Maria Vaeth German high jeweler, Hemerle, brought several new examples of their latest jewels, including a few that the brand didn't exhibit at TEFAF Maastricht. This included a couple pieces in colorful aluminum, a material that can change color when anodized. The first pair consists of round floral-inspired purplish anodized aluminum set with 135 sapphires weighing 8.29 carats with bronze stems. Hemmerle tanzanite and aluminum earrings Eva-Maria Vaeth The second pair featured two tanzanite gems each weighing more than 9 carats, set in blackened silver and white gold and attached to three wing-like strands of anodized aluminum in three different shades of blue. Ana Khouri's gallery-like booth at TEFAF New York Anthony DeMarco TEFAF is an art fair and the contemporary jewelers who exhibit are referred to as artists. High jewelry artist Ana Khouri presented a novel way to display her latest pieces that is within this theme. Each individual piece was placed on a wall in her booth backed by simple sheet of parchment paper. It created a gallery setting for her jewels that is in line with most exhibitors at the fair who are gallery owners. Ana Khouri necklace displayed on parchment paper Anthony DeMarco Her latest group of jewels focused on raw, organic and somewhat abstract takes based on nature. The gold is roughly textured. In some cases, wood was used for the creations. Her works are also personal, reflecting on how she views the world around her. FD Gallery, owned and operated by Fionna Druckenmiller, brought a recreation of its Upper East Side gallery to the fair with its collections of JAR, Cartier, Bulgari and many other pieces from historic brands and contemporary jewelry artists. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder In the booth with Druckenmiller was French high jeweler Alessandro Sabbatini who founded the brand, SABBA. Sabbatini designs and creates pieces in classic styles using a variety of gemstones in rare cuts and finishes, often set in titanium. His creations are sold exclusively at FD Gallery through an agreement Druckenmiller and Sabbatini made several years ago. Didier and Martine Haspeslagh, owners of the Didier Ltd. London gallery that specialize in jewels created by modern artists, brought many of the same jewels that the couple exhibited at TEFAF Maastricht. However, there were few new items, including those from artist Alexander Calder, renowned for his kinetic sculptures and monumental public works. His jewelry pieces are almost always made of common materials such as silver, steel and rock crystal and are roughly handcrafted. This includes a bracelet, circa 1938, made of hammered silver wire with three spiral ornaments that Dider explained takes its inspiration from primitive art forms, which were popular among artists at the time.
Forbes
10-05-2025
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- Forbes
TEFAF New York Illuminates Art Week With Mastery Of Vivid, Radiant Color
Daniel Richter Angst, mein BROT, 2024 Oil on canvas 220 × 165 cm (86.61 × 64.96 in) A pair of anthropomorphic creatures embrace and appear ecstatic, one with round yellow lined eyes, the other seemingly squinting. Their entangled limbs float in a hot pink background, evoking a raucous frenzy. Daniel Richter's Angst, mein BROT (2024) draws viewers into a mosh pit of brazen colors and chaos, borrowing from the German artist's previous career designing posters and record sleeves for punk bands. Richter's monumental canvas elevates the fast tempos and raw, unpolished sound of punk music into complex compositions that pulsate with energy and emotion. The title, which literally translates into 'Fear, my BREAD' evokes absurdity and invites inquiry into the human, or post-human, condition. Alternative music fans will recall Richter's early artistic ethos from Sonic Youth's critically acclaimed, seminal 1988 album Daydream Nation using his1983 painting Kerze (Candle in English), and New Order's second studio album, Power, Corruption & Lies (1983), which was named after graffiti he spray painted on the exterior of the Kunsthalle during a 1981 exhibition. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac of London, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, and Seoul is showcasing Richter's most recent series with a solo presentation at the 11th edition of TEFAF New York 2025, which is open to the public through May 13 at the Park Avenue Armory. A blockbuster opening for this year's U.S. engagement of the European Fine Art Foundation's preeminent global art fair was punctuated by explosive color across a wide array of art, a much needed boost amid geopolitical turmoil. Ninety-one leading dealers and galleries from 13 countries and four continents are celebrating Modern and Contemporary art, jewelry, antiquities and design, along with exclusive curated spaces in the Armory's 16 period rooms. As always, it's an art historical journey through the global art world, shining as the crown jewel amid a flurry of New York fairs. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder 'It's been an extremely busy opening for this year, perhaps even more so than last year, and as we'd expect from TEFAF attendees, we're meeting with extremely sophisticated and informed collectors. Having a solo focus on Daniel Richter's new paintings has elicited a very positive response, reflected in collectors' swift decisions to buy. In the first couple of hours, we had sold most of the works on our booth,' said Thaddaeus Ropac. John Chamberlain (1927-2011) FRISKYOYSTER 1996 Painted and stainless steel 25.4x 26.7 x 26 cm (10 x ... More 10.5 x 10.25 in.) Collections From the estate of the artist New Yorkers and tourists may expect to encounter the work of John Chamberlain (1927-2011) at large scale, gazing up and walking aroun to admire FIDDLERSFORTUNE (Pink) (2010), BALMYWISECRACK (Copper) (2010), and RITZFROLIC (Green) on view at Center Plaza until May 29 as part of Chamberlain Goes Outdoors at Rockefeller Center. The renowned American sculptor was more accessible at a smaller scale with a formidable presence at TEFAF New York. The taut tangle of boldly painted stainless steel, FRISKYOYSTER (1996) at Thomas Gibson Fine Art, offered an infusion of nutrients for the soul in the form of humor. Inspired by Shelter Island, New York, where he lived and worked in his later years, Chamberlain fluidly whirled across Modern art, Abstract Expressionism, and Neo-Dada to evolve a singular style. Kehinde Wiley Portrait of Nelly Moudime and Najaee Hall, and Najaee Hall, 2020 Oil on linen 244 × ... More 183 cm — 96 × 72 in. unframed 271 × 212 × 9 cm — 106 3/4 × 83 1/2 × 3 4/7 in. framed Unique Contextualizing an art historical journey like no other living master, Kehinde Wiley traverses centuries of technique and references, culminating with the street culture that amplifies the everyday successes and struggles of Black people living today. Bursts of hot pink roses are woven into a colossal dual portrait, Portrait of Nelly Moudime and Najaee Hall (2020), where color amplifies the complicated narrative that borrows from and subverts classical portraiture with ornate backgrounds and historical poses that confront the systems of power and control presented with grandeur and excess. Hall in a plaid shirt and pants is seated in a demure pose, with overlapping hands plants on his knee, while Moudime, standing in a leopard-print jumpsuit exudes feminine power, both reclaiming their place in the art historical cannon. Wiley's elegant, elaborate floral background marries TEFAF's majestic fragrant arrangements woven into the fairs in Maastricht and New York. Discerning collectors and representatives from renowned institutions flooded the halls and booths during Thursday's dazzling preview, with attendance soaring more than 11% over last year. One-day entry costs $60 ($25 for students), or $80 for unlimited visits through Tuesday, a modest price for a magnificent experience to see masterpieces that may be on view for the first or last time. Fabulous floral arrangements greet discerning collectors and representatives of renowned ... More institutions to Thursday's preview of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory Besides the unsurprising demand for Richter, early standout sales include: Lee Bontecou's Untitled (1959) at Marc Selwyn Fine Art/Ortuzar for approximately $2 million The Hultmark Horus, a bronze antiquity sold by new exhibitor David Aaron for nearly $700,000 Multiple sales of Ruth Asawa's sculptures and drawings at David Zwirner, ranging up to $2.8 million Over 45 of George Condo's drawings at Gladstone Gallery
Forbes
10-05-2025
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- Forbes
Inside The Society Of MSK's TEFAF New York Collector's Preview
The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) once again hosted TEFAF's Spring New York Collector's Preview at the Park Avenue Armory Thursday night. The evening raised $440,000, which will benefit the MSK programs supported by The Society. Courtney Davis, Austen Cruz, Carolina de Neufville, Claudia Overstrom, Jamee Gregory, Betsy Pitts, Joyce Kwok, Shabnam Henry Zach Hilty/ 'We are the very fortunate beneficiaries of this opening night of TEFAF,' said Claudia Overstrom, President of The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering. 'It's a European show; it's the best of the best, so it's wonderful to be associated with it. TEFAF is so appreciative, in return, to be in New York and to be associated with a truly special New York institution that makes such a difference in the lives of people around the world through its research.' The fair was packed with collectors, many of them serious buyers, as sales were already brisk at the pre-opening. 'This fair is spectacularly varied and beautiful,' said art adviser Kim Heirston. We placed a lot of works, but we also didn't get a lot of works - which means there is an active and thriving market.' There was a lot of catching up to do, as European dealers, including Thaddaeus Ropac, Adrian Sassoon, and Edmondo di Robilant greeted their American collectors and fans, including Muffie Potter Aston and Sherrell Aston, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Mercedes de Guardiola, Betsy Pitts and Whitney Robinson. Hidde van Seggelen Zach Hilty/ 'This is the 11th edition of our New York Spring fair,' said TEFAF President Hidde van Seggelen. 'It has grown a lot, and we are connecting more and more with our audience. We are both a foundation, and an organization that is run for dealers, by dealers. We have a very strict vetting system – all the artworks on display have gone through a complete vetting process. This year the audience has gotten younger. We are seeing more of the new generation, and some are coming with their art advisers. Art is a great unifier; you can lose yourself in a fair like TEFAF. It's that feeling that drives both dealers and collectors.' Chesie Breen, Claudia Overstrom, Brian Sawyer Zach Hilty/ Chesie Breen chatted with Brian Sawyer outside the Gagosian booth that featured delicate works by artist Anna Weyant. 'I fell in love with a pair of Lalanne monkeys!' exclaimed Sawyer. 'They're touching, they're beautiful, and the finish is magnificent! I also saw some beautiful paintings and consoles at Friedman Benda.' Stacey Bronfman and Alex Roepers stopped to chat with Rena Sindi and Makram Aboud, while Robert Couturier was shopping – and maybe buying. Muffie Potter Aston Zach Hilty/ 'I saw a beautiful painting at Ben Brown, by a contemporary South Korean artist, and some amazing things at Carpenters Workshop, which I have always liked. But I have already bought some things there, and they were quite ruinous,' laughed Couturier. One can only imagine the price of the exquisite large Lalanne apple at Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand's booth, though there were many lovely mini Lalannes on offer as well. 'We love to have contact with our clients and collectors in New York,' said Mitterand. 'They collect mostly Nikki de Saint-Phalle and Lalanne with us. It's great to be at TEFAF, because it's extremely active and elegant, and the highest quality dealers are here. We have already sold some pieces, and there has been lots of demand.' Over at the Di Donna booth, the star pieces were a 1939 Picasso and a 1937 Leger. Rebekah McCabe Zach Hilty/ 'I love the scale of the fair, the quality of the exhibitors, and the design of the fair,' said Emmanuel Di Donna, who was exhibiting at the fair for the seventh time. 'We can see all our clients in one place. The mood is upbeat, and there has been interest.' Designer Alex Papachristidis was at the fair for five hours, and found many pieces for his clients, while Anjali Melwani and Kate Davis came for a first look. 'We already sold two paintings, so I'm happy,' said Per Skarstedt, who showed Eric Fischl's hauntingly beautiful latest work. 'It's a very convenient fair – it's on the Upper East Side, so people can come two or three times. It's a nice atmosphere, it's not too big - you can do the whole fair in less than an hour.' Stellan Holm echoed Skarstedt's enthusiasm. 'It's a fantastic fair, and I'm very happy to be here,' said Holm. 'There has been a lot of interest already – the mood is very good. We have already sold a couple of things. We have a very important Basquiat painting from 1982 for $13.5 million, and there has already been interest. We also have a beautiful Cy Twombly.' The fair also included some notable jewelry exhibitors, including FD Gallery, Hemmerle, and Anna Hu, exhibiting at TEFAF for the first time. 'I used to have a boutique at the Plaza Hotel, so coming to this fair is like coming home again,' said Hu. 'People are responding to my serpents and my special butterflies. We are using painted titanium with a new technique that we have invented, and people are reacting very positively.' A varied and exciting art fair, TEFAF will run through May 13th.
New York Times
08-05-2025
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- New York Times
Frieze New York Is Smaller but Still Packs a Global Punch
Visiting Frieze New York used to include a frisson of danger amid acres of great art. Held in a quarter-mile-long tent on Randall's Island, the New York edition of the art fair that appears on three continents offered world-class vistas of Manhattan as well as the threat of squalls that could flood the exhibits or fears that the big tent might take off like a kite in high winds. Not anymore. For the fifth year, Frieze New York, which runs through Sunday, is anchored firmly in the Shed, the bunkerlike building in Hudson Yards. There's less art here than in the old days — 67 galleries, compared with nearly 200 booths in 2019 — but also less distraction. As art fairs have proliferated, it's refreshing to find Frieze New York still presenting work that is brash or downright risky, along with elements of the resolutely blue-chip TEFAF on Park Avenue and the cool midlevel Independent in TriBeCa. While art tourists can always gorge locally on art — for example, TriBeCa Gallery Night on Friday offers more than 70 participating galleries and art spaces — Frieze is a chance to travel through the global art world without leaving Manhattan. Here are a handful of booths that show you what art still has the capacity to do. The London gallerist Victoria Miro is showing a handful of in-your-face artists who are not (or were not) afraid to speak their minds. Chief among them is the glorious Grayson Perry, a Turner Prize winner and cross-dressing potter who also wrote an iconoclastic autobiography titled 'Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl' (2007). On display here is a tapestry, 'Fascist Swing' (2021), which remakes Fragonard's randy Rococo painting of cavorting lovers, and hulking ceramic vessels with provocative slogans like 'Free Speech is Hate Speech' inscribed in them. Along with Perry's works are figurative paintings by formidable female painters like Alice Neel and Paula Rego. On the same floor, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, which has outposts in Brooklyn and San Francisco, has an exhilarating display of paintings by Esther Mahlangu, a member of the Ndebele people of South Africa. Mahlangu's abstract geometric canvases were made with a chicken-feather brush. Although they look much like paintings by European modernists and have been showcased in big exhibitions at the Pompidou in Paris and Documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany, in 1992, the paintings draw on community values and even prayers. The Brazilian gallery A Gentil Carioca is showing three artists whose work highlights the earth — but through the filter of political, social and environmental concerns. Denilson Baniwa's watercolor and graphite on tururi (a natural vegetable fiber) celebrates Indigenous cosmologies, while Maria Nepomuceno makes sculptures with straw, beads, wood and ceramics drawn from Indigenous artisanal traditions. Kelton Campos Fausto paints with natural pigments on linen, showcasing Yoruba spiritual guides and clay vessels. In the Focus section of the fair, which features emerging and younger galleries, South Korea's G Gallery is a standout with its presentation of the Korean-born, New York-based artist Yehwan Song. For her installation, Song created a faceted cardboard armature and projected video onto it. Titled 'Internet Barnacles' (2025), the booth-size work points to how water serves as a constant metaphor for digital activities ('surfing' the internet; 'streaming,' 'cloud'). If water seems anathema to digital processing, the use of cardboard serves as an antidote to the hard plastic, metal and minerals required to make the digital realm flow. Painting is the fuel that generally runs art fairs, and Frieze is filled with plenty of it. The Chicago gallery Gray, which has an impressive display, is hosting two painters: the Michigan-based Judy Ledgerwood and the Oklahoma-born Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996). Smith was inspired by the primary colors of Mondrian and the curvaceous geometries of Brancusi and Jean Arp. His hard-edge abstractions are complemented here by Ledgerwood's playful compositions that draw from folk art — perhaps even wallpaper or fabric designs — as well as the lineage of modern abstraction. From Los Angeles, Night Gallery is showing the Canadian artist Wanda Koop's 'Plywood Paintings' from 1981 to 1990. (In addition to her work as an artist, Koop also founded Art City, a free community art center in Winnipeg.) A couple of her large grayscale paintings, which look almost abstract, actually depict satellite dishes on buildings. Other paintings feature stark landscapes or a swan stranded in a pink ground. There is a spareness to Koop's paintings, but also a strong material presence, with buildings and trees carved out of chunky brushstrokes applied to heavy wooden panels. I saw Malo Chapuy's paintings earlier this year in Mor Charpentier's Paris gallery, and they were an excellent complement to an extraordinary historical exhibition: 'Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics' at the Louvre, which explored how this tragicomic character prefigured modern humans and their existential condition. Chapuy recreates religious compositions from the Middle Ages and borrows old techniques, as well, including wooden panels and gold leaf and hand-carved frames — and then inserts modern-day objects into the mix. Gas masks and wind farms appear among the donors, saints and fools. What might read as a gimmick gains gravity when you ponder the connections between past and present politics, religions, wars, superstitions and so on. Fairs are very much for-profit ventures (sadly, what isn't these days in the art world), but two nonprofit initiatives at Frieze deserve mention. The Artist Plate Project, founded to benefit the Coalition for the Homeless, features editions of dinner plates with images by famous artists, living and dead, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Sanford Biggers, Cindy Sherman and Jackson Pollock. For $250, you can help homeless people — and it's probably the most affordable way of being a shopper rather than a browser at Frieze. The other initiative, 'Incomplete* Listing,' compiled by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School includes a detailed list and map of 84 freely accessible reading spaces in New York. Some, like the Brooklyn Public Library, are more obvious. Others are lesser known, like the Library of the Printed Web at MoMA, the Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop or Wendy's Subway, a reading room, writing space and independent publisher in Bushwick. But they might be good places to commune with art-and-idea-minded people when the rush of Frieze week subsides.
New York Times
07-05-2025
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- New York Times
A Guide to New, and Creatively Designed, Restaurants in New York City
May brings thousands of visitors to New York City for art and design fairs and related events. The largest and most established include two major art fairs, Frieze New York (Thursday through Sunday), and TEFAF New York (Friday through Tuesday), the NYCxDesign Festival (May 15-21), the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (May 18-20) and a new design fair, Shelter by Afternoon Light (May 17-19). But fairs and galleries aren't the only places to see remarkable design in the city. Restaurants, for example, have become as serious about design as they are about the food (and sometimes even more so). Hundreds of dining establishments opened last year in New York City, many of them featuring impressive art, flattering lighting, high-end finishes and furnishings and, of course, at least a few Instagram-worthy backdrops. The ones highlighted below have opened in the past year. They were not chosen for their culinary or cocktail offerings but for their standout design, with interiors that are intriguing and engaging. Some were designed by professionals, others by industry veterans taking matters into their own hands, and one by a film industry power couple. Scoring a coveted reservation during a time when leagues of art and design types flood the city will probably not be easy, but a curious visitor might be allowed to pop in for a peek.
