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Art 13 London: “A global fair for a global village”
ART13 – London’s latest art fair has just launched and is jostling for attention in a crowded market.
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Putting the contemporary into London Art Fair
The venerable London Art Fair is playing host to some interesting interventions in its Art Projects strand, enabling unrepresented artists to get a piece of the art fair action. We look at some of the methodologies being employed and test the temperature of the art market in 2013.
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Is it time to challenge the art elite?
What do the recent Frieze Art Fair acquisitions by Tate, funded by philanthropic contemporary art fund Outset, tell us about the art market, the place of artists within it and the influence these organisations wield? A painter and non-Frieze exhibitor writes.
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Fundraiser for Sluice art fair 2013
The forthcoming edition of Sluice art fair will manifest itself as a publication and an exhibition in which all of the work will be auctioned to raise funds for 2013.
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Coliseum of the Consumed
At this year’s Frieze Art Fair in London, Grizedale Arts present an alternative site of consumption.
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Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair returns
The fifth annual Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair runs from 4-7 October and features over 150 exhibitors plus, for the first time, a talks series.
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Mcr Contemporary: “There’s great potential here.”
As The Manchester Contemporary art fair gets underway, we take a tour and talk to some of the galleries taking part this year.
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The Manchester Contemporary: A critically engaged art fair
With two art fairs to choose from in Manchester this weekend, we preview The Manchester Contemporary which offers a critically engaged programme curated by artist-led gallery The International 3.
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Artists’ views from CAVE
As the inaugural, artist-run CAVE Art Fair draws to a close in Liverpool, we get the views of some of the exhibiting artists – and a potential buyer.
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Spirit of Sluice lives on
Why is an event like Sluice Art Fair so important? We find out from artists and the project’s organisers.
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CAVE: “We have to offer something different.”
Is the inaugural CAVE Art Fair a challenge to the commercial gallery system, or an alternative model that can work in tandem with it? One of the artists behind the fair offers her view.
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CAVE offers a fair deal for artists
CAVE is a new artist-led art fair for the city of Liverpool, set to launch during the opening weekend of the 7th Liverpool Biennial in September. We talk to one of its organisers.
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SLUICE gates closed for 2012
SLUICE Art Fair has announced that it won’t be taking place this year – but there are other plans in the pipeline.
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Frieze week
Frieze Art Fair 2010 is fast approaching, and with over 170 galleries exhibiting in Regent’s Park this year, London’s most influential art fair is bigger than ever.
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Open letter to The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport
12 Visual art representatives address the damage that will be inflicted by proposed spending cuts, in a letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
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Art in Action
Art in Action (16-19 July) create a relaxed and friendly environment where artists and craftspeople can demonstrate and discuss their techniques with the public.
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Selling initiatives
Independent curator Jeni Walwin looks at issues relating to selling work and examines a number of different ways that artists can engage with the art world on a commercial basis.
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Art Fair
In the run up to the 2008 Zoo Art Fair, Jane Watt’s profile looks at the first four years of this non-profit enterprise.
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London fair focus
The October art fair frenzy kicks off with Art London 2-6 October at Royal Hospital Chelsea, celebrating its tenth anniversary by presenting eighty galleries, 1,000 artists and five continents.
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Zoo list
Cutting-edge galleries from Birmingham, Bristol, Gateshead and London are amongst exhibitors selected for the 2008 Zoo Art Fair, 17-20 October at Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Art in Basel
The first week in June will see around 60,000 artists, collectors, gallerists, curators, and art enthusiasts from across the globe flock to the Swiss town of Basel for the 39th edition of Art Basel.
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Peter Freeman
Peter Freeman makes light sculptures and installations that articulate public spaces. Kate Stoddart explores his practice.
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Zoo success
News from the 2007 Zoo Art Fair.
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Trade off: Markets for art in the UK
Emilia Telese’s opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK highlighting the ‘contradictions and idiosyncrasies’ of the relationship between artists and money,
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Trade off: Markets for art in the UK
Trade off draws on intelligence gathered at the NAN Roadshow events focused on themes around the art market. Emilia Telese’s opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK and introduces the set of newly commissioned articles […]