5 Emerging Galleries to Watch at the New York Art Fairs 🔥

Over two weeks, New York Art Week 2023 will allow audiences to visit several staggering fairs, auctions, and exhibitions. Below, we spotlight five small galleries to look out for at the New York art fairs.

Margot Samel, New York, Independent Fair
New York–based Margot Samel will present a solo booth of craft-based works from abstract artist Merike Estna.

de boer, Los Angeles, NADA New York
At NADA, the Los Angeles–based Gallery de boer will present a group of contemporary paintings and mixed-media works by several artists: Sara Carter, Kirsten Deirup, Rashawn Griffin, Delphine Hennelly, Marc Horowitz, Matthew Kirk, Alex McQuilkin, Azikiwe Mohammed, Dominic Musa, Grace Rosario Perkins, Brad Phillips, Rachel Sharpe, and Noelia Towers.

On the cover: Brad Phillips
Brian De Palma's Door #2, 2022
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G Gallery, Seoul, NADA New York
G Gallery will present a two-person booth of new works by Hannah Woo and Jungpyo Hong.

Cierra Britton Gallery, New York, Future Fair
Presenting a solo booth on figurative abstract painter Amy Amalia at Future Fair is New York–based Cierra Britton Gallery.

SEPTIEME Gallery, Paris and Cotonou, Benin, 1-54 New York
1-54 is the only art fair dedicated to showcasing modern and contemporary art by African and Afro-diasporic artists. The fair will take place in West Harlem and bring audiences outside the local Chelsea and Tribeca areas where most of the fairs mentioned above are being held.

On the cover: Amy Amalia
Black Lotus, 2022. Cierra Britton Gallery at Future Fair 2023

ANASAEA follows new names: Christina Quarles. A painter inventing a new figurative language that keeps a folder filled with text documents on her computer desktop: titled 'thots', it contains musings on her artistic practice and life. Working with painting, drawing, and installation, Quarles' primary subject is the figure. But rather than focusing on the representation of the human body, she aims to show what it feels like to exist within a body. Her chosen color palette is no less unrealistic, with bodies rendered in shade-shifting rainbows of purples, greens, pinks, oranges, and more. Intertwined with her expressive, gestural strokes, she creates almost clinically rendered geometric patterns: at an intuitively chosen point when creating a new work, Quarles stops painting, photographs the piece, and digitally manipulates it to make a pattern. Christina Quarles: 'Collapsed Time' is on view at Hamburger Bahnhof until 17 September 2023.

There is an opinion that Metaverse is just VR, admits Meta, as it lobbies against 'arbitrary' network fees. And we don't have to expect any reality-blending AR metaverse action for "years" to come.

They go on to explain this is because "metaverse adoption for the foreseeable future will continue to be driven predominantly through Virtual Reality (VR)" — and that "almost all VR content is currently consumed over fixed networks through Wi-Fi" — an infrastructure they argue is already well established across most of Europe.
So, what do you think: is Metaverse just VR or it has entirely different effect?

The Centre Pompidou, Paris’s top museum for modern and contemporary art, has officially set The Centre Pompidou, Paris’s top museum for modern and contemporary art, has officially set out plans to close for five years starting in 2025 while it undergoes a €262 million ($283.6 million) renovation. Although the museum had previously announced a long-term shuttering, it was expected to begin this year and last only through 2027. Now, the museum has lengthened its closure period by a year.

The new timeline also means the museum will not reopen in time for its 50th anniversary in 2027.

The Centre Pompidou is launching museums in Seoul and AlUla, in Saudi Arabia, and has proposed another for the Brazilian state of Paraná. The Museum of Modern Art’s 2019 renovation had a price tag of $450 million, yet that institution shut its doors to the public for only four months; it had closed once before, between 2002 and 2004, for a separate $425 million project. Such a costly, expansive shutdown is rare for a museum of the Centre Pompidou’s caliber, although it is not unprecedented. Before the Centre Pompidou closes, it has several significant shows forthcoming: what it’s billing as the most extensive Constantin Brancusi exhibition ever staged and a centenary celebration of Surrealism, both planned for 2024, as well as a survey of Black art in Paris between 1950 and 1990 that’s slated for 2025.

Summer is around the corner, and we can plan our sunny holidays. We were inspired by Ulises work called Floating Fantasies. It envisions a whimsical series of inflatable public spaces inspired by the joyful naivety of bouncy castles. The Midjourney-generated series conceived by digital design studio Ulises celebrates the transformative power of artificial intelligence, art, and design in reimagining our urban environments as more inclusive and engaging spaces for all.
With its newest AI exploration to imagine innovative and often surreal design concepts, Berlin-based studio Ulises ponders a poetic exploration of surreal and playful public spaces with an eco-friendly approach to design. The poetic renderings feature large, multi-layered installations crafted from recycled plastic, bringing city life onto the water as they float along the River Seine against the Parisian backdrop.

The use of sustainable materials and emphasis on fostering a sense of community further serve as an eco-friendly and socially conscious approach to urban design.

So, let's imagine that this summer we'll spend on sustainable Floating Fantasies 💭

Meet the ANASAEA artist!
Tatiana Soteropoulos about her work:
"When a Gestapo officer pointed at Picasso’s painting, Guernica, and asked, “Did you do that?” Picasso responded, “No, you did.” Inspired by Picasso’s response, my artwork is meant to appear as though it was painted through the eyes of a child who has experienced the horrors of war".
Visit her gallery.

On the cover: Untitled - from the series “YOU DID THAT”
by Tatiana Soteropoulos , 2023

Tatiana Soteropoulos was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, and studied with a Fulbright Scholarship at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in the Division of Illustration. She has done freelance work for advertising firms, collaborated with publishing houses, and illustrated over twenty children’s books. She has exhibited her artwork in many solo and group exhibitions in Cyprus, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Slovakia, China and the U.S.A.

She created the designs for the new national currency of Cyprus, and these illustrations were chosen by the Central Bank of Cyprus to become the first Euro ever issued for the country. She has also represented Cyprus in the 18th Biennial of Illustrators in Bratislava, Slovakia, in the 6th Beijing International Art Biennale in Beijing, China, in Osten Biennale of Drawing, in Skopje, North Macedonia and most recently in the first Larnaca Biennale, in Larnaca, Cyprus. Her work is owned and exhibited by many national and international organizations, as well as in Museums. Currently Tatiana resides in the U.S.A.

Inspired by the art world’s knee-jerk hostility to crypto art, POP PRINCIPLE is a battle that pits key names in the traditional arts scene against pioneers in the digital realm to shed light on the rapid evolution of the creative industry. The NFT art game, imagined by Kenny Schachter and powered by digital art platform Daata, positions the likes of art critic Jerry Saltz, mega-dealer Larry Gagosian, and artist Yayoi Kusama in one camp, and digital artists Refik Anadol and Osinachi, and record-breaking NFT artist BEEPLE in the other. Hans Ulrich Obrist adopts a neutral stance and stands in the middle ground. Across several rounds, players are invited to select and mint unlimited editions of their favorite creators to become the leading collector of the most popular character.

The eight characters, encapsulated as 3D animated avatars with distinct personalities, will be released as a series of open-edition NFTs at Kenny Schachter’s show at New York City’s NFT Gallery on May 18. The tokens will then be sold on Daata for one month, through June 17.

Its creator, Kenny Schachter has long eschewed gallery models and market winds, instead embracing emerging technologies in ways that have rubbed against the traditional art crowd.

Cover photo: Kenny Schachter, Larry Gagosian [left] and Yayoi Kusama [right] (2023). Photo courtesy of Kenny Schachter.

David Hockney. Keith Haring. Larry Rivers. Jennifer Bartlett were artists who experimented in the 1980s with the Quantel Paintbox, a forerunner to Photoshop.
Decades later, graffiti artist and photographer Adrian Wilson, himself an early Paintbox user, has tracked down the artists’ long-lost pieces made using the obscure computer graphics machine. Now, Wilson is showing a selection of 20 Paintbox artworks to the public for the very first time in “How Quantel’s Paintbox Changed Our World,” an exhibition from the Computer Arts Society at the Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre, Leicester, U.K.

Cover photo: David Hockney, Ceila Birtwell (1984). ©David Hockney. Courtesy of the Adrian Wilson Paintbox Archive.

Quantel invited six artists to try out the Paintbox for the BBC2 series Painting With Light in the mid-’80s. Richard Hamilton and Sidney Nolan were so impressed that they went on to buy their own personal Paintboxes. Hockney spent eight hours working with the BBC on the Paintbox at the Quantel headquarters. He made his “first colored glass drawings,” sparking a decades-long engagement in digital art that continues today with his iPad drawings and animated projected art show, on view through June 4 in London.
The new Quantel exhibition includes a Hockney portrait of British textile designer Celia Birtwell, one of the artist’s recurring muses. The image never made it into the BBC broadcast. Wilson got his hands on it when someone came to him with a box of slides and other Quantel ephemera that had been saved from the trash.
“How Quantel’s Paintbox Changed Our World” is on view from the Computer Arts Society at Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, U.K., May 9–June 30, 2023. It will travel to the British Computer Society Moorgate, 25 Copthall Avenue, London.

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On May 20th, 2023, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), designed by the renowned Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye in collaboration with S. Ghosh & Associates, unveiled an architectural model of its upcoming building, set to open in Delhi in 2026 and serve as India’s largest cultural center. The preview took place during the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Lesley Lokko.

An installation showcasing the model was presented as part of the Curator’s Special Projects, to coincide with the groundbreaking ceremony for the new museum in New Delhi. The exhibition, titled ‘Mnemonic,’ explores the theme through artworks from the museum’s collection by prominent Indian artists Tyeb Mehta (1925-2009), Zarina (1937-2020), and Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990). Additionally, contemporary filmmaker Amit Dutta’s film, ‘Touch AIR (2023),’ accompanied the presentation.

Founded in 2010 by Kiran Nadar, one of India’s prominent art collectors, KNMA is a pioneering private museum dedicated to exhibiting modern and contemporary artworks from India and the subcontinent. With a collection of over 10,000 pieces, the museum draws inspiration from the region’s rich cultural history. The upcoming KNMA location, sprawling over 100,000 sqm near the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, will be an international cultural destination for visual arts, music, dance, and theatre. This new space will enable the museum to showcase a more significant portion of its collection at any given time, hosting ever-changing exhibitions, permanent displays, and captivating performances. Currently situated in New Delhi and Noida, the expansion to a larger, state-of-the-art facility signifies KNMA’s commitment to becoming a premier global hub for artistic expression.