Whitehot Magazine
"The Best Art In The World"
By PAUL LASTER, MAY 2017
Look out Frieze New York—TEFAF New York is stealing your thunder!
After making a big impression on the New York art scene last fall with a highly praised presentation of Old Masters, antiquities and ethnographic art, TEFAF New York returns this week with its Spring fair focusing on modern and contemporary art and design.
TEFAF New York Spring Fair, on view from May 4 to 8 at the Park Avenue Armory, features 92 international exhibitors offering art from the 20th and 21st centuries, along with a small selection of jewelry, African & Oceanic art and antiquities.
Highlights include a group exhibition of surrealist art with a dining theme at Di Donna Galleries, furniture by Pierre Chareau at Vallois, solo shows of paintings and works on paper by Joan Miró at Helly Nahmad Gallery and Carmen Herrera at Lisson Gallery, and contemporary masterpieces by Josef Albers at David Zwirner, Louise Bourgeois and Cy Twombly at Galerie Karsten Greve, Lucian Freud at Acquavella Galleries and Dana Schutz at Petzel.
Though a number of galleries here are also exhibiting at Frieze New York—including Paul Kasmin Gallery, Sean Kelly, Tina Kim Gallery, Galerie Perrotin, White Cube and David Zwirner—the high level of vetting and superb quality of works at the Park Avenue Armory, which has been elegantly transformed by designer Tom Postma, makes TEFAF New York a must-see for cultural connoisseurs.
Scroll through the images below to discover more of our favorites works of art and design at the fair. WM
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He’s a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Art & Object, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Garage, Surface, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts and Glasstire. He was the founding editor of Artkrush, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine, as well as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, now MoMA PS1.
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