From May 9 to May 13, New York Art Week offers an important program of fairs.
The city is during the fairs all about art. An important number of museums, art centers and galleries show an exciting contemporary art program.


ART FAIRS:

- PULSE New York
from May 09 to May 12, 2013
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York
PULSE, a leading art fair dedicated to international contemporary art, will host sixty national and international galleries, presenting exhibitions that span across all media, from works on paper, painting, and sculpture, to performance, installation, and video art.

- VERGE Art NYC
from May 09 to May 12, 2013
159 Bleecker Street, New York
Verge Art New York is proud to host a list of exhibitors that includes international and national galleries. A boutique fair event, the highly selective Verge NY operates in the tradition of Miami's Seven fair, with a maximum of fourteen spacious 200 sq. ft. booths available.

- FRIEZE New York
from May 10 to May 13, 2013
Randall’s Island Park, New York
Frieze New York 2013 will present a careful selection of over 180 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries such as Galerie Frank Elbaz, Galerie Lelong, Galerie Perrotin, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Kamel Mennour, Marian Goodman Gallery as well as Frieze Projects, Frieze Sounds, Frieze Talks, the Sculpture Park, Stand Prize and a new addition to the fair, the Frieze New York Education space.

- NADA NYC
from May 10 to May 12, 2013
Basketball City, 299 South Street, New York
NADA’s non profit model has always been a flexible and adaptable one, which continues to respond to the needs of its exhibitors and the art world at large by creatively reinventing the experience and presentation of art in a fair enviornment.

- RED DOT New York
from May 10 to May 12, 2013
69th Regiment Armory, Lexington avenue, New York
Following the highly successful shows in Miami during Art Basel, Red Dot Art Fair will continue to host painting, sculpture, photography, jewelry and fine art object-oriented dealers.

- CUTLOG NY
from May 10 to May 13, 2013
107 Suffolk Street, New York
cutlog NY will focus on showing cutting-edge and established galleries that promote the work of contemporary artists. The fair will foster new relationships between galleries, collectors and art institutions to form a collaborative platform for building new perspectives on contemporary art.

- POOL Art Fair
from May 10 to May 12, 2013
Flat Iron Hotel, 9 west 26th Street, New York
Inspired by the French tradition of Artists Fairs, starting from the famous 1863 Courbet's Salon des Independents, (AKA Salon des Refusés) PooL is the premiere fair in the US dedicated to unrepresented artists.



EXHIBITIONS DURING THE FAIRS: (selection)

-Gutai: Splendid Playground
until Saturday May 18 2013
-No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia
until Wed. May 22 2013
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, NY 10128-0 New York

-NYC 1993 
Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
until Sunday May 26 2013
New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY 10002 New York

-Claes Oldenburg, The Street and The Store
until Monday August 05 2013
-Bill Brandt, Shadow and light
until Tuesday August 13 2013
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY 10019 New York

-African artifacts, New York and the avant-garde
until Monday September 02 2013
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NY 10018 New York

-Charles Fréger, Wilder Mann
until Saturday June 08 2013
The Gallery at Hermès, 691 Madison Avenue, NY 10065 New York

-Wang Keping, Women
May 08 2013- June 23 2013
Zürcher Studio, 33 Bleecker Street, NY 10012 New York

-Julie Mehretu, Liminal squared
From May 11 2013 to June 22 2013
Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street 4F, New York

-Maya Lin, Here and There
until Saturday June 22 2013
Pace Gallery, 545 West 22nd Street & 534 West 25th Street, New York

-Ana Mendieta: Late Works 1981-1985
From May 10 2013 to June 22 2013
Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street, New York


EVENTS DURING THE FAIRS: (selection)

-School Nite
Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, co-creators of SPRING/BREAK Art Show, are pleased to announce their upcoming collaboration with the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY Festival.
Artworks centered on the theme Wish Meme, will examine ideas of 21st Century wish fulfillment in the Recession world – and how gestures of commodification, consumerism, and American dreaming online and off trend in the contemporary human psyche.
From May 04 2013 to May 12 2013
Old School, 233 Mott Street, NY 10012 New York

-The Sculpture Park
The Sculpture Park at Frieze New York is located beside the impressive waterfront of the East River, adjacent to the fair. On display are works by both established and emerging artists represented by Frieze New York exhibitors.
With: Tom Burr, Saint Clair Cemin, Fiona Connor, Martha Friedman, Tom Friedman, Andreas Lolis, Charles Long, Jason Meadows, Paul McCarthy, Pae White, Nick Van Woert, Franz West.
from May 10 to May 13 2013
Frieze New York, Randall’s Island Park, New York

-FOOD 1971/2013
At Frieze New York 2013, Frieze Projects will organize a special tribute to FOOD, the legendary restaurant opened in October 1971 by Gordon Matta- Clark and Carol Goodden in collaboration with other artists.
FOOD 1971/2013 will be a dynamic platform where each day a different artist will be invited to cook in a convivial environment. Both a restaurant and performance stage FOOD 1971/2013 will be a space where cooking and art are discussed, inspired and produced.
from May 10 to May 13 2013
Frieze New York, Randall’s Island Park, New York



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