Art Fair
Zombies Attack in Artist Mak2’s New Art Fair-Themed Video Game
Imagine that you’re at an art fair. You spot the familiar faces of industry players, art aficionados, and art-world wannabes between the aisles of gallery booths. They roam the fair floor looking for the next buyer, the next deal, and the next market star. All of a sudden, their focus shifts and they start coming at you—as zombies. In order to survive, you must shoot them all.
Such is the plot of Hong Kong artist Mak2’s latest work Art Survivors (2024), a three-minute first-person zombie shooting game set in an imaginary art fair showing just her artworks that serves as a critique of the capitalistic commercial art world system. The game is featured in the artist’s solo exhibition of the same name at de Sarthe gallery in Hong Kong, where visitors are invited to pick up the controllers and play. Players will be ranked on a score board and their performance in the game will decide whether they can become an art guru or remain as interns.
Read more: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mak2-art-fair-zombies-video-game-2479688
Three passionate Lancaster based freelance artists, Hannah Corbett, Lidia Ranns, and Julie Evans, are uniting their creative forces to transform the city into a vibrant hub of artistic expression with the expanded Lancaster Art Fair (LAF), running from August 19th to 23rd, 2025.
This year, LAF is evolving into a larger, city wide festival, thanks to their dedicated collaboration and partnerships with established local arts organisations.
Source: Lancashire Post
Contemporary Lynx is a proud media partner of the SPARK Art Fair, which will take place from 21 to 23 March in MARX HALLE in Vienna.
SPARK Art Fair Vienna advocates for a new art fair concept, addressing the challenges of the art market. Based on a strong trust in art and the role of the galleries in the primary art market, SPARK Art Fair Vienna is the only international art fair focusing exclusively on solo presentations.
Read More:https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/lynx-x-spark-art-fair
On the plane back from Miami, I add up expenses versus income from this year’s Untitled Art Fair. It is our third year here, and our first bust. As a small Midwestern gallery, two major art fairs a year — Untitled in Miami and the Outsider Art Fair in New York — can generate a quarter of our annual income. Even more importantly, they help us develop a national collector base for regional artists. There is no other way to survive.
It is expensive to participate in more selective and carefully curated international fairs, such as Untitled. Our three-walled, 14 x 14-foot space cost $17,400. Housing for the staff, transportation, food, and additional framing rounded out the total to about $30,000.
Read more: https://hyperallergic.com/978630/my-small-gallery-lost-money-at-an-art-fair-it-hurt/
