Art Fair
Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit August Art Fairs
Are you ready to be both shocked and dismayed? I’m here to tell you that summer is already half over. August in the art world can feel like a long, hot, somewhat unpleasant slog toward Frieze Seoul and the Armory Show, not to mention all the other early-autumn art fairs in New York. But wait! Don’t write off summer’s dreariest month just yet. The list of August art fairs is surprisingly long—particularly for those art enthusiasts willing to country hop. If you thought this month would give you a moment to catch your breath after the July art fairs and festivals, think again. The serious art fair enthusiasts of the world have already planned out their 2024 August art fair calendars and are hitting the road to go to some, or even most, of these fairs and fair-ish art events.
Read more: https://observer.com/2024/08/guide-to-august-art-fairs-august-art-fair-calendar/
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/
