The art fair is dead, long live the art fair
With another concentrated week of New York art fairs upon us, it is all too easy to knock the experience, which leaves collectors shuttling in a daze from pier to pier and artists feeling like cows visiting a slaughterhouse. But where some see a slaughterhouse, I see an enormous economy of thousands of people, artists and art workers alike. There are serious challenges for the art business to address, but on the whole, I have a hard time finding fault with fairs as economic engines for the art world.
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