San Francisco, via Flickr

By Mackie Healy, Art Market Views, Contributor

The budding West Coast art industry expands with artMRKT San Francisco, a new  contemporary and modern art fair saddled with an eccentrically spelled hipster name.
Running May 19-22 at the Bay City’s Concourse Exhibition Center – a 57,000 square foot refurbished railroad station in the city’s trendy arts district – the fair includes 65 international contemporary and modern galleries.

artMRKT  joins another new West Coast fair. Art Platform – Los Angeles, is set to launch in Sept. 2011.  That venture is backed by the Merchandise Mart conglomerate of Armory Show fame.

The artMRKT official gallery roster  is not complete, but according to fair organizers participants so far include:  Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Forum Gallery, Babcock Galleries, and Cynthia Reeves (New York); Shark’s Ink (Colorado); The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Other Criteria and XPO Gallery (London);  LeBasse Projects, Blythe Projects and Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles); and Michael Rosenthal, Guerrero Gallery, Gallery Paule Anglim, Catherine Clark Gallery, Hackett/Mill, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, Paul Thiebaud Gallery (San Francisco).

The artMRKT fair company was co-founded by Brooklyn based 3rd generation gallerist Max Fishko and business partner,…

Seems like there ought to be sheep in this shot. Zermatt via Flickr

Art Basel’s June 15-19 fair, which boasts around 300 contemporary and modern art exhibitors, is five months away. But Art Market Views has reviewed this year’s picks. Yesterday we reported on the dealers who were off the list, that post here.

Today we tackle the newbies: dealers with enough cash, confidence and clout to climb aboard the pricey Swiss art train. There are 48 galleries who did not show in 2010, but who are on the 2011 roster.

Ten new galleries have launched onto the Art Galleries list, a destination for anointed names.

Those additions include London’s Cabinet, Budapest’s Vintage Galeria, Moscow’s Regina Gallery and Paris’ Art: Concept. Just a couple are New York based: Bortolami and Moeller.

IN: GALLERIES INCLUDED IN 2011 WHO DID NOT PARTAKE IN 2010

Gallery/Region/Section

Art: Concept            Paris        Art Galleries
Galerie Guido W. Baudach    Berlin    Art Feature
BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services   Geneva    Art Galleries
Bo Bjerggaard        Copenhagen   Art Feature
Bortolami            New York    Art Galleries
Cabinet Gallery         London    Art Galleries
Galeria Pedro Cera        Lisbon    Art Statements
Chert                  Berlin        Art Statements
Elastic             Malmö…

2010 Swiss Yodel Festival via Flickr

The newly released Art Basel exhibitor list, something of an industry gold standard, reveals a steady rate of turnover.

A total of 45 galleries — out of around 300 — who were present in 2010 are not returning for the June 15-19 fair.

Of those, just 12 hail from the coveted Galleries section, where slots are usually not relinquished by choice. Among those not returning are Dutch dealer Paul Andriesse, San Francisco’s John Berggruen, Berlin’s Eigen + Art, New York’s Knoedler & Company, London’s Richard Green and LA’s Patrick Painter.

The most flux occurs in the so-called Art Feature and Art Statements sections where galleries apply for inclusion based on specific projects. These categories account for 37 of the change-over slots.

The fair has added 48 galleries who did not partake in 2010. The ten stepping into  “Galleries” slots include New York’s Bortolami and Moeller Fine Art, London’s Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Beirut’s Sfeir-Semler. LA gallery Overduin and Kite debuts in the Statements section, devoted to solo shows by younger artists, and Maccarone returns to the fair circuit in this section as well. Watch out for the IN List…

Image: David Wojnarowicz, "Untitled from the Ant Series" (eye, ants), 1988-89. Courtesy of PPOW, New York. Website: © 2011 Moving Image, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

By Mackie Healy, Art Market Views, Contributor

Adding to the art fair bustle on Manhattan’s West Side in March will be the inaugural Moving Image, a contemporary video art fair.

Running March 3-6 at the Waterfront Tunnel event space on 11th Avenue, the fair will feature single-channel videos, video sculptures, and larger video installations from an international roster of galleries whose names have not yet been released.

Video, which requires of viewers both time and focus, is not a medium inherently suited to the rushed art fair pace.  Other fairs devoted to video art have come and gone during Armory season. DIVA, devoted to digital and video art, was held in New York from 2005 to 2008.

Moving Image is the handiwork of Ed Winkleman and Murat Orozobekov of Chelsea’s Winkleman Gallery, along with New York dealers Penny Pilkington and Wendy Olsoff of PPOW gallery. Touting an anti-fair formula, organizers promise free entry and a visitor experience “without the confines of booths” or “time and space limitations” of the average art fair.

The event is vetted by a distinguished team including John Connelly (Director of The…

Armory Show 2010. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

The roster of exhibitors for New York’s 13th Armory Show reveals plenty of turnover, some of it inauspicious. A Latin American focus is promising, following up on last year’s Berlin cluster.

The fair boasts 53 new exhibitors (defined as those who did not take part in 2010) on the contemporary pier for the upcoming March fair. Just five galleries hail from New York.

The fair’s modern pier has added 18 names.

Yesterday, we posted the Out List, galleries who did not return from 2010, found here.

Today, we bring you the In List.

IN: List of galleries exhibiting in 2011, who did not take part in 2010

Contemporary Participants (Pier 94)
A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro  (Focus)
Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago   (Focus)
Arroniz, Mexico City (Focus)
Baro Gallery, Sao Paulo  (Focus)
Caja Blanca, Mexico City  (Focus)
Lucia de la Puente, Lima   (Focus)
Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City (Focus)
Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires   (Focus)
Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo   (Focus)
Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro   (Focus)
Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo   (Focus)
…

Complex Mask (Donati Studio Mask) Yup’ik; Kuskokwim Region, Alaska , c. 1890-1905. Image courtesy Donald Ellis.

By Mackie Healy, Art Market Views, Contributor

Canadian dealer Donald Ellis will offer two rare 19th century Eskimo masks from the estate of Surrealist artist Enrico Donati at New York’s  Winter Antiques Show, running Jan. 21-30.

Among the most important Native American objects to come to market since the 1940s, the masks are slated to sell for around $2 million apiece, according to Ellis.

The ceremonial yu’pik masks, made of wood, animal pigments, feathers and fibers, influenced the group of Surrealist artists who fled Paris for New York during World War II. One of the two masks hung in Donati’s atelier for over 60 years.

The masks are consigned to  Ellis directly from the Donati estate. They were originally acquired in 1905 by Adam Hollis Twitchell, an explorer who traveled Alaska during the gold rush. Twitchell purchased the series of 12 weather masks directly from  Alaskan natives. They were then sold to George Gustav Heye, and moved with his collection to New York’s Museum of the American Indian in 1916.

After the museum deaccessioned the works to noted New York dealer Julius Carlebach in 1944 due…

via Independent website

Artforum’s got the list of the Independent’s 2011 exhibitors. The fair is slated to run March 3 to 6 in the former DIA building at 548 W 22nd Street.

White Column’s Matthew Higgs assisted with the selection, according to Artforum.

The Independent was among the art fair highlights of 2010, for the presentation, vibe, attitude and art.

This year’s roster includes 35 exhibitors, 25 of which come from Europe, with six from Berlin. There are just nine from New York, including Andrew Kreps, Bortolami and Elizabeth Dee, one of the fair’s co-founders.

Here’s the list:

Air de Paris, Paris
Artists Space, New York
The Approach, London
BaliceHertling, Paris
Bortolami Gallery, New York
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Bureau, New York
China Art Objects, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Dee, New York
Freymond Guth Ltd., Zurich
gb agency, Paris
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Hard Hat, Geneva
Harris Lieberman, New York
Herald Street, London
Hotel, London
Karma International, Zurich
Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
…

via Art Dealers Association website

The days of art dealers slapping a jumble of wares on a fair stand is becoming increasingly rare, at least as far as the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) is concerned.

The ADAA’s marquee 23rd annual Art Show comes to town March 2 to 6 (timed to coincide with the Armory Show), with 70 dealers setting up shop in the Park Avenue Armory.

The fair, held in a prime location but with limited square footage, has recently become one of the most curated events on the art fair circuit. This year nearly half–almost 30– galleries have opted for either solo or two-artist stand, or a thematic approach. The ADAA executive director Linda Blumberg says the fair aims to project a “calm and intimate” atmosphere, with a “serene environment.”

Here they are:

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Entrance to the Design Miami fair Dec. 2010. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Here are a few photos I took at the recent Design Miami fair…

Plum TV invited me to take a whirl through the VIP preview at Art Basel Miami Beach (last year’s NADA tour here) and here’s what we found.

Click here to watch 2010 video.