
How to Attend a New York Art Fair
Tickets, timing, and tactics for The Armory Show, Frieze New York, and the satellites — no VIP pass required.
Exhibition coverage that begins before the opening and continues past it: curatorial argument, sequencing, the hang, lighting decisions and what the checklist quietly says about the show. Includes museum surveys and one-room project spaces. For anyone who goes to exhibitions and wants a considered second reading.
Exhibition coverage that begins before the opening and continues past it: curatorial argument, sequencing, the hang, lighting decisions and what the checklist quietly says about the show. Includes museum surveys and one-room project spaces. For anyone who goes to exhibitions and wants a considered second reading.

Tickets, timing, and tactics for The Armory Show, Frieze New York, and the satellites — no VIP pass required.

Thursday nights between 19th and 29th Streets: the timing, the lists, and the rooms behind the rooms.

Gowanus in October, Long Island City in spring, Harlem on scattered dates: how the city's other open studios weekends actually run.

Queens ended up with Brooklyn's spare studios: how artists crossed Wyckoff Avenue and what they built on the other side.

Where to start, what a first Friday actually is, and how to walk Bushwick's gallery rooms in one evening.

In Bushwick, the people hanging the art usually run the room: how collectives split rent, labor, and the payoff.