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Favorite Art from The Affordable Art Fair, Spring 2024!

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50 Foot Woman By Monica Mangano is just $1500 (All Photos By Gail)

I’ve been attending NYC’s biannual Affordable Art Fair for the past ten years, with the exception of 2020, when both the Spring and Fall fairs  — like everything else — were preempted by Covid.  Since that Year Without Art, the AAF has come back bigger than ever! This season, the art seemed especially vibrant and varied, and I had a fantastic time, strolling from floor to floor while sipping a free Hard Iced Tea from the open bar and checking out all of my favorite art and art peeps. Please enjoy my photos from a really good first night at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Continue reading Favorite Art from The Affordable Art Fair, Spring 2024! →

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Favorite Art From The Affordable Art Fair, Fall 2023

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Original Melting Pops Plus Blinged-Out Mix Tapes By Betsy Enzensberger, at Art Unified of Venice, CA (Photos By Gail)

Welcome at last to my much-anticipated photo recap of NYC’s 2023 Affordable Art Fair, Fall Edition! While the event took place back in September, we’ve been busy curating all the best photos for you to savor in the crisp days of October. This fall’s fair was a testament to the enduring allure of this unique art marketplace, offering a vibrant and diverse array of creative expressions that will surely captivate your imagination without putting you in the poorhouse.
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Pink Thing of The Day: Show Pink Love Together By Damilola Odusote

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Artist Damilola Odusote is known for his eclectic and intricate works that combine ink drawings with tiny human figures. His favorite artists  MC Escher and David Shrigley for the detail and humor in their deep thought provoking drawings, and you can definitely see an Escher influence in this piece, entitled Show Pink Love Together. Spotted at the recent Affordable Art Fair in NYC, this work is priced at $950 from Arteria Gallery.

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Affordable Art Fair, Spring 2023: The Photo Recap!

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Twiggy By Angee Ferrin at AC Latin Art. $800 Each /$5,000 Set of 9 (All Photos By Gail)

Even if you’ve been attending New York’s biannual Affordable Art Fair for the past decade, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the blocks-long queue snaking east from the Metropolitan Pavilion for that of yet another big retail chain’s going-out-of-business sale. On my way to the Wednesday night Private View, I thought maybe the Container Store was in its final days, so it was kind of crazy to realize that the line lead directly to my destination, meaning the AAF is back post-Covid as a bona fide social event, attracting an eclectic group of VIPS, art enthusiasts, collectors, and assorted fans. Judging by the body-to-body crowd and vibrant atmosphere inside the venue, art events have entered a new, new normal. Welcome to it.

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Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Glitter French Fries Sculpture

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When I spotted this sparkling resin sculpture replicating a batch of glitter-drizzled Pink French Fries — intermingled with what looks to me like Pot Leaves —  at the recent Affordable Art Fair, I immediately thought another artist was highjacking the ideas of whimsical pop artist Betsy Enzensberger, but I was mistaken.
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