Art & Object Fall Fair 2024

Fair View

BY PAUL LASTER

The Armory Show

COURTESY OF THE ARMORY SHOW

DISCOVER FALL’S FAIRS Art & Object’s guide to six not-to-be-missed American art and design events.

Art and design fairs are great places to discover work by new artists and designers—as well as art and design prac titioners who have added to the canon or been overlooked, making them ripe for rediscovery. Traveling to cities with fairs offers the chance to become acquainted with local galleries and museums, which leads to a better under standing of contemporary culture and its champions. And

attending programs that the fairs organize or co-sponsor, such as openings, talks, and workshops, helps us under stand how the cultural past influences the present while providing the opportunity to meet like-minded people. Rounding up the best art and design fairs across America this fall through November, these are our must see expositions.

THE ARMORY SHOW Celebrating its 30th anni versary edition, The Armory Show returns to the Javits Center with more than 235 exhibitors from 35 countries. Acquired by Frieze in July

sector is dedicated to pre sentations of work by an emerging, established, or historic artist working in the 20th or 21st century; the Focus division, curated by Robyn Farrell, re-engages

is divided into six sections, alongside two special pre sentations. The fair’s central section, Galleries, features themat ic, dual-artist, and solo-art ist presentations—the Solo

2023 and now part of its network, New York’s most prominent art fair has a revi talized floor plan designed to offer a comprehensive view of the contemporary art world. This year’s event

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