J. Cabelle Ahn

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | J. Cabelle Ahn

Long before art fairs, advisory firms and mega-galleries, there were barbers, tailors and innkeepers managing the flow of art in 17th-century Italy. Beyond the Fringe, an exhibition at Nicholas Hall Gallery in New York, spotlights this understudied corner of the early art market, when a dramatic increase in the supply of art helped expand the trade to a surprising new class of participants.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | J. Cabelle Ahn

Este quarto parece uma República! (This bedroom looks like a republic!), on view until 6 October at MoMA PS1 in Queens, marks the Angolan artist Sandra Poulson’s first museum exhibition. It arrives at a very poignant moment. Taking an archaeological approach to materials, Poulson creates installations that explore how symbols embedded in common objects sustain global power structures—a theme fit for the new era of trade protectionism.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | J. Cabelle Ahn

“Nothing gold can stay,” as Robert Frost wrote in his 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning poem—but Solid Gold at the Brooklyn Museum (until 6 July) insists on the material’s endurance. Spanning fine art, numismatics, fashion, jewellery and design, the exhibition traces gold’s perennial association with political, economic, technological and religious power from ancient civilisations to the present day.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |Tim Schneider |J. Cabelle Ahn

Three years into a downturn of the global art market, fairs and dealers dedicated to prints say editioned works on paper are faring better than other media and have even managed to capture the attention of a new collector class. The phenomenon may have been on display best on Thursday (27 March) at the VIP preview of the annual International Fine Print Dealers Association’s (IFPDA) Print Fair (until 30 March).

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |J. Cabelle Ahn |Brian Allen

Almost a century after it first opened its doors on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Frick Collection unveils its first-ever education centre. Part of the museum’s renovation—repurposing 60,000 sq. ft of existing space, and adding 27,000 sq. ft of new space—the Ian Wardropper Education Room is an 846-sq.-ft multipurpose space named after the museum’s outgoing director.