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Ob Ects of Wonder F rieze New York 2019 This year’s fair showcases an extraordinary cross-section of work, New Curated Exhibitons Publications Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center from today’s most exciting emerging artists to seminal figures The Doors of Perception Browse major leading arts & A major new public art initiative curated by Brett Littman (Isamu 12–27519 of the 20th century. In addition, two new exhibitions explore is an exhibition of works by lifestyle titles from around the Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum) and presented with virtual reality and the significance of self-taught artists, and two visionary self-taught artists world in the Reading Room. world-leading galleries. Explore new and significant sculptures new gallery-led sections celebrate contemporary Latinx and Latin from around the world, Visit frieze magazine at stand across the Rockefeller Center campus by 14 international artists. American art, and a pioneering New York arts organization. curated by Javier Téllez and M8 in the Reading Room to Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center is free to the public and is Obects focused on uncharted areas enjoy special discounts, and open through June 28, 2019. Frame, Focus & Spotlight of human consciousness. pick up your free copy of Frame , advised by Andrew Bonacina (The Hepworth) and Laura Presented in collaboration Frieze Week, your essential McLean-Ferris (Swiss Institute), features solo presentations of companion to the fair. of Wonder with the Outsider Art Fair. air Guide emerging artists; Focus is a platform to support galleries 15 years Electric, curated by Daniel Brtsh Sculpture Talks F and younger; and Spotlight, curated for the first time by Laura Birnbaum (Acute Art), presents from the Tate Collecton Hoptman (The Drawing Center), presents solo presentations of Tom Eccles and Amy Zion a selection of VR and AR (Bard College) pair today’s significant work by overlooked figures and rarely seen practices works by artists of different 1950s–Present of modern masters. most searching and innovative generations who explore these novelists and non-fiction new media from radically New Curated Sections: Diálogos & JAM writers with artists, writers different angles. Two programs, In celebration of El Museo del Barrio’s 50th anniversary, Patrick and curators working in the “Alternating Current” (AC) Charpenel and Susanna V. Temkin (El Museo del Barrio) present contemporary art field. Talks © David Annesley and “Direct Current” (DC), Diálogos, showcasing 13 Latinx and Latin American artists, from are free to attend and take will alternate every hour in the influential figures to the next generation of cultural leaders. place in the Talks Lounge. stand. Electric is realized in ( ) Franklin Sirmans’ Pérez Art Museum tribute section pays homage partnership with LIFEWTR. Friday, May 3 to the pioneering New York arts organization Just Above Midtown 12.30pm Saidiya Hartman ( JAM). Founded by Linda Goode Bryant, JAM provided a much-needed Frieze Artist Award (writer, scholar) & Simone platform for African American artists during the 1970s and 1980s. Curated by Courtney J. Martin Leigh (artist) (DIA Art Foundation), and 3pm Sheila Heti (writer) Frequent ticketed ferry services run between East 35th St supported by Luma Foundation, & Josephine Decker in Manhattan and the ferry dock near the North entrance the recipient of this year’s (performer, filmmaker) Buses run every hour between the Solomon R. Guggenheim award is Lauren Halsey. Saturday, May 4 Museum on East 88th St and the North and South entrances Entitled Prototype Column 1, 3, 8 Paulo Nazareth 10 Nick Cave 12.30pm Aruna D’Souza Mendes Wood DM Jack Shainman Gallery For Tha Shaw (RIP The (writer), Nico Wheadon 2 Hank Willis Thomas 11 Rochelle Goldberg Frieze Art Fairs app Honorable Ermias Nipsey (curator, writer) & Sable Jack Shainman Gallery Miguel Abreu Gallery Download our free app to guide you around the fair Hussle Asghedom) I & II, Elyse Smith (artist) 4 Sarah Sze 12 Ibrahim Mahama her new commission can be 3pm Andrew Durbin (writer) Gagosian White Cube Free WiFi sponsored by Deutsche Bank found at the North entrance. & T. J. Wilcox (artist) 5 Jose Dávila 13 Kiki Smith Sunday, May 5 Visit frieze.com and follow @friezeartfair Tours Sean Kelly Pace Gallery 12.30pm Valeria Luiselli (writer) Gate Bags, 2019 #frieze #friezeweek #friezeny Take a guided tour for an 6 Joan Miró 14 Jaume Plensa insider’s look at the fair and & Terence Gower (artist) Acquavella Galleries Richard Gray Gallery a selection of fascinating 7 Pedro Reyes and Galerie Lelong & Co. highlights. Book at the tours Lisson Gallery 15 Goshka Macuga desk in the South entrance. 9 Aaron Curry Andrew Kreps Gallery Michael Werner Gallery 16 Walter De Maria Global partners Gagosian Unter den Linden 5, 10117 Berlin db-palaispopulaire.com US partners Media partner Frieze Artist Award partner Global media partner loewe.com 303 Gallery A4 Henrique Faria B30 Embajada DLG3 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery JAM3 Miguel Abreu Gallery D2 Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel C32 Kavi Gupta DLG11 Sprüth Magers JAM1 Acquavella Galleries D4 Foxy Production A11 Kaikai Kiki Gallery C21 Nature Morte C34 Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran F9 Almeida e Dale Galeria Galeria Marilia Razuk S20 Hutchinson Modern DLG8 Alfonso Artiaco B15 Fredericks & Freiser D21 Casey Kaplan B1 David Nolan Gallery B35 Jack Shainman Gallery B28 Experimenter C12 mor charpentier B33 Galería Nora Fisch F10 de Arte S20 Ronchini S15 Inman Gallery DLG6 NON-PROFITS Balice Hertling B3 Stephen Friedman Gallery C30 Karma D12 Galleria Lorcan O’Neill B23 Sikkema Jenkins & Co. D13 James Fuentes C10 Morán Morán C43 Gordon Robichaux F16 Anglim Gilbert Gallery S6 Rosenfeld Porcini S8 Isla Flotante DLG5 Allied Editions B2 Peter Blum Gallery D19 Frith Street Gallery D14 Kasmin A13 Overduin & Co. C46 Tang Contemporary Art B21 François Ghebaly C31 Night Gallery B11 Mariane Ibrahim F4 Dastan’s Basement S5 Richard Saltoun Gallery S7 Galerie Lelong & Co. DLG10 White Columns D17 Boers-Li Gallery C20 Gagosian C26 Kayne Griffin Corcoran C1 P.P.O.W C33 The Third Line C27 Half Gallery D16 Ryan Lee B8 Instituto de Visión F17 Davidson Gallery S9 Casado Santapau S11 Proxyco Gallery DLG3 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery B13 Goodman Gallery C36 Sean Kelly A9 P420 B7 Travesía Cuatro C6 Hannah Hoffman C40 Seventeen C41 Marinaro F15 Frameless Gallery S29 Georgia Scherman Projects S14 Lyle O. 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Starr Gallery S13 Royale Projects DLG4 The Doors of Perception The Box C35 Richard Gray Gallery A2 Tina Kim Gallery A7 Franklin Parrasch Gallery C37 Vermelho D22 Jhaveri Contemporary B37 Simone Subal Gallery B32 Microscope Gallery F3 Leila Heller S27 Marc Straus S31 Salon 94 DLG1 next to F16 The Breeder B31 Garth Greenan Gallery D20 David Kordansky Gallery A3 Parrasch Heijnen Gallery C37 Axel Vervoordt Gallery C17 Koenig & Clinton B10 Rachel Uffner Gallery C7 PM8 F18 Galerie Kornfeld S28 Hollis Taggart S23 Electric next to B28 Canada D6 Grimm C16 Andrew Kreps Gallery C8 Peres Projects B25 Vielmetter Los Angeles A15 LC Queisser C2 Vigo C44 Proyectos Ultravioleta F11 Loevenbruck S26 Trapéz S21 JUST ABOVE MIDTOWN (JAM) Cardi C18 Kavi Gupta B22 Lehmann Maupin C23 Perrotin B16 Waddington Custot B17 David Lewis B36 Kate Werble Gallery B20 Unit 17 F5 Galería Javier López Walden S17 Rena Bransten Gallery JAM7 READING ROOM Chi-Wen Gallery C45 Haines Gallery C15 Galerie Lelong & Co. D1 Pierogi B26 Offer Waterman C24 Josh Lilley B34 Various Small Fires (VSF) F14 & Fer Francés S1 Weiss Berlin S25 Stephen Daiter Gallery JAM7 The Art Newspaper M5 James Cohan A8 Hales A10 Lisson Gallery D9 Project 88 C38 White Cube C13 lokal_30 B9 FRAME Veda F20 Marlborough S24 Zürcher Gallery S30 Thomas Erben Gallery JAM1 Artforum International M1 Alan Cristea Gallery B19 Hauser & Wirth D5 Marlborough B14 Galeria Marilia Razuk B29 David Zwirner C25 Lyles & King B38 And Now F2 Walden F19 MCMC S3 Alexander Gray Associates JAM2 ARTnews / Art in America M3 Massimo De Carlo A6 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery D15 The Mayor Gallery C11 Roberts Projects D7 MadeIn Gallery C4 Bank F12 Partners & Mucciaccia S18 DIÁLOGOS Garth Greenan Gallery JAM2 Financial Times M4 Durham Press C5 Xavier Hufkens C14 Mendes Wood DM B12 Galeria Nara Roesler C19 FOCUS Magenta Plains B18 Capsule Shanghai F1 SPOTLIGHT Galeri Nev S4 James Cohan DLG11 Hauser & Wirth JAM4 frieze M8 Andrew Edlin Gallery C47 Gallery Hyundai D18 Victoria Miro A5 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac B27 Nicelle Beauchene Gallery C3 Edouard Malingue Gallery C29 Company F6 Gallery 38 S16 Parafin S19 Commonwealth and Council DLG2 Jenkins Johnson Gallery JAM6 Galerie M6 Derek Eller Gallery C42 Ingleby A12 Mitchell-Innes & Nash D8 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery D10 Bridget Donahue C2 Meessen De Clercq B6 Downs & Ross F8 George Adams Gallery S12 Pi Artworks S10 Luis De Jesus Los Angeles DLG12 Lévy Gorvy JAM1 Magazine Kiosk M2 Donald Ellis Gallery C39 Bernard Jacobson Gallery A14 The Modern Institute C9 Salon 94 A1 Anat Ebgi B4 Nino Mier Gallery D11 Drei F7 Aicon Art S2 Piano Nobile S22 Cecilia de Torres DLG9 Project EATS JAM5 W Magazine M7.
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