Four fairs anchor the inaugural New York Art Week, an initiative involving galleries, museums, and auction houses that offers art lovers three boroughs’ worth of programming and exhibitions. The fairs making up the backbone of this new entry on the New York art calendar present a diverse array of works, ranging from the ancient to the hyper-contemporary, the blue chip to the cutting edge. Below are the standout booths from each.
More industrial are the works by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark and Colombian artist Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar. Clark’s hinged aluminum sculpture Bicho Linear is airy and light, its facets glinting polygons that make it look as contemporary today as it must have when she created it in 1960. Ramírez Villamizar’s welded steel is blockier—all right angles and tilting bravura—and calls to mind geometric crystal formations while nodding to Sol Le Witt’s modular sculptures.
— Brian P. Kelly
