Frieze New York Is an Assembly-Line Salad
A Hyperallergic report characterizes Frieze New York at The Shed in Hudson Yards as a monotonous trade-show experience, likening it to eating an “assembly-line chopped salad,” while noting moments where individual artworks break the rhythm. The piece follows Lucien Zayan, founder of Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center, who visited the fair seeking art about food for the NAFAS Festival in Tokyo in September (nafas meaning “breath” in Arabic). Works cited include David Lamelas’s 1972 film “To Pour Milk into a Glass” (from Dia Art Foundation’s archives), Mungo Thomson’s 2023 bronze sculpture “Snowman” made of stacked Amazon boxes at Karma, and an installation by Aki Goto at Europa featuring a glittery dentist’s chair and multimedia elements. Zayan said he was not buying art this year but valued discoveries that connect food, politics, and history.
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This story was covered in Auction Fever, Restitution Fights, and Workers Rising