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TEFAF New York 2026 Opens With Strong Crowds and Optimistic Dealers

TEFAF New York 2026 Opens With Strong Crowds and Optimistic Dealers

Published by José Betancourt

By 4 p.m. on Thursday, the aisles of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory should have started thinning out. Instead, dealers were still pinned into conversations, collectors crowded around vitrines, and the low roar that had echoed though the building since the doors opened for its VIP day at 11 a.m. had barely let up. “This is probably the best TEFAF I’ve seen for a long time,” dealer Sean Kelly said after making several laps around the fair. “People are really, really enjoying this thing. It’s as if, after years of keeping our heads down and trying to get through the depression the Trump administration has forced of the country, everyone’s decided start enjoying themselves again.”  Related Articles That sense of momentum hovered over the entire fair. TEFAF, which runs through Tuesday, May 19, has always occupied a different lane from the rest of New York’s May fairs: the lighting is warmer, the champagne more effervescent, the pace slower. And, this year’s edition also arrived with a sharper sense of confidence than the …

‘Glock Switch’ Bill Is Driving up Gun Sales in CT, Dealers Say

‘Glock Switch’ Bill Is Driving up Gun Sales in CT, Dealers Say

Published by Sam Flores

Connecticut’s proposed sale ban on “convertible pistols,” prompted by an increase in seized machine guns and devices that can turn ordinary pistols into machine guns, is driving up gun sales, gun dealers say. HB 5043, which aims to ban handguns that can be easily converted into machine guns using thumb-sized device, was introduced by Gov. Ned Lamont in February and passed the House this week. Connecticut is the smallest state considering the legislation and among the first to tackle this issue, along with California, Maryland, Illinois and New York. The bill would primarily affect the sale of Glock handguns, which use a cruciform trigger mechanism that can be depressed by a switch to allow it to fire rapid rounds. Gun dealers and industry advocates say the bill targets consumers, not criminals, and is unconstitutional — although they say it has led to a recent increase in handgun sales. “We figured it’s about 30% of our sales,” said Richard Sprandel, the owner of Blue Line Firearms and Tactical in Monroe, referring to Glocks. “There are other …

Dealers Doing Brisk Business at ‘More Intentional’ Fair

Dealers Doing Brisk Business at ‘More Intentional’ Fair

Published by Jenni Sidey

Tears of joy are not the first thing you expect to hear about at art fairs, but that was the order of the day for Tennessee artist Annie Brito Hodgin at Thursday’s VIP preview at the thirteenth edition of Expo Chicago (April 9–12), where she is showing her paintings with Red Arrow Gallery. “It’s the artist’s first time showing outside Nashville and her first time showing at an art fair, and she’s here with us,” gallery director Ashley Layendecker told ARTnews. Raised in a Southern Baptist fundamentalist Christian culture, the artist paints surreal modern interpretations of Biblical passages, populated entirely with versions of herself. “She works out of her kitchen and is raising three children,” Layendecker added.  Related Articles The tears came when it was revealed that one of her paintings went to the Bennett Collection (founded by Steven Alan Bennett and Elaine Melotti Schmidt, retired from careers in corporate law and education), which created a fund to buy works from the fair by women-identifying artists painting women in a realist style; acquisitions will go …

Dealers at TEFAF Maastricht Report Robust Sales

Dealers at TEFAF Maastricht Report Robust Sales

Published by José Betancourt

Despite global unrest and a continually worsening conflict in the Middle East, dealers surveyed by ARTnews in their stands at the TEFAF art fair in Maastricht, when willing to discuss sales, were more than pleased. Even if, as one dealer observed, collectors from the Middle East may have been unable to travel. (Another quipped, “There’s email. There’s WhatsApp.”) The show must go on. “The caliber of collectors is extraordinary,” said first-time exhibitor Alison Jacques, of London, who noted a greater international attendance than she expected. By the end of day one on Thursday, the dealer had placed works by Eileen Agar and Sheila Hicks. Also on offer are pieces by Pacita Abad, Ana Mendieta, and Dorothea Tanning, among others. Related Articles Jorn Günther, a rare books dealer from Basel who has exhibited at TEFAF for thirty years, said this year was his best. The fair is marked by luxurious wide aisles, and expansive stands that are built out at an incredibly ambitious level by the dealers, this year numbering 277 from 24 countries. In hopes …

How Art Dealers Are Doubling Down on LA—and Winning

How Art Dealers Are Doubling Down on LA—and Winning

Published by Sam Flores

But for all the gossip, if you’re actually on the ground, it’s a mad dash, a spree of great gallery openings and spare-no-expense dinners to follow. Gladstone isn’t the only dealer to double down on the city. Other extremely successful bicoastal enterprises—galleries that make New York and LA their primary home bases—include David Kordansky Gallery, Karma, Matthew Brown, Jeffrey Deitch, Hoffman Donahue, François Ghebaly, and James Fuentes. They all have big shows on both coasts, and that’s not even mentioning the LA-operating mega-galleries that also have outposts in Europe (Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Lisson, Marian Goodman, Pace, Perrotin) and decided to stage their major shows in LA while everyone’s in town for Frieze. Another data point: As I mentioned in my profile of the artist Paul McCarthy, The Journal Gallery is staging possibly its most important show in over two decades of existence, not in New York—where it started—but in LA, where they opened an outpost in 2024. Gallery dinners for The Journal in the past have been nice affairs at Dan Tana’s, …

Dealers Are Abuzz at Frieze LA’s VIP Day: ‘It’s a Frenzy’

Dealers Are Abuzz at Frieze LA’s VIP Day: ‘It’s a Frenzy’

Published by José Betancourt

First-day sales reports from galleries at the latest edition of the Frieze Los Angeles art fair indicate an abundance of enthusiasm. Enough New Yorkers escaped the snow to be everywhere in the aisles, and major California collectors and cultural figures were spotted in numbers. “It’s a frenzy,” said clearly harried LA dealer Charlie James, standing amid works by Kristopher Raos, Manuel López, and other gallery artists. “We’ve already sold three times as much as at the entire Art Basel Miami Beach in December,” said Niamh Coghlan, director at London’s Richard Saltoun Gallery, by early afternoon. “This is the perfect-sized fair,” she added, with about 100 exhibitors at the Santa Monica Airport. The gallery is exhibiting works by two Italian artists, Romany Eveleigh and Bice Lazzari.  Related Articles Big galleries were making big sales, with David Zwirner placing a 2016 work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Grandmother’s Parlour, for $2.8 million to a European foundation. The gallery had also sold a 2020 painting by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for $1.5 million and two Lisa Yuskavage works for $280,000 and …

Nor’easter Causes Delays for New York Dealers Going to Frieze LA

Nor’easter Causes Delays for New York Dealers Going to Frieze LA

Published by José Betancourt

I arrived in Los Angeles last Friday afternoon, expecting that the showers that drenched my hometown last week might have dampened spirits ahead of Frieze Los Angeles. That proved not to be the case—temperatures here have been steadily increasing into the mid-70s over the past few days—but it turns out that weather across the country, on the East Coast, had been the true problem for some attendees, who were left scrambling after a nor’easter blanked New York City in nearly two feet of snow. Jonas Albro, an associate director at Magenta Plains, which is participating in the new Enzo fair opening Wednesday afternoon, was slated to take a direct flight from New York to LA on Tuesday morning, but after it was canceled, he was rebooked three times. Speaking to ARTnews while en route to LaGuardia Airport, which doesn’t have direct flights to LA, he said he was flying to Pittsburgh, then taking another flight to Salt Lake City, and then another to LA. His expected arrival time is 10 p.m. PST, about eight hours …

Oscar nominee Wagner Moura: ‘I didn’t want to keep playing drug dealers. Latinos are way more than that’

Oscar nominee Wagner Moura: ‘I didn’t want to keep playing drug dealers. Latinos are way more than that’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Just two days ago, Wagner Moura was dancing the samba at a Golden Globes afterparty. He’d beaten the likes of Michael B Jordan and Oscar Isaac to become the first ever Brazilian to win the award for Best Actor in a Drama. Still a bit delirious, he was shoved on a plane to London the next day – and now he’s speaking to me over Zoom. In a matter of hours, he’ll be gone again, on to the next stop of the press tour. “It’s brutal, man,” he says, rubbing his eyes with the heels of his hands. The 49-year-old is on the campaign trail for The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s blackly funny drama about an academic attempting to flee Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s. Moura doesn’t know it yet, but there’ll be no respite. It’s become an unexpected …

In Minneapolis, Vintage Dealers Build Mutual-Aid Networks as ICE Raids Intensify

In Minneapolis, Vintage Dealers Build Mutual-Aid Networks as ICE Raids Intensify

Published by Jenni Sidey

That organizing began as “block clubs”—text message chains and emergency phone trees, created during the pandemic. Since then, they have evolved to encrypted Signal groups, where residents carefully vet any new members and coordinate specialized roles for emergency response: drivers who shuttle people to work or school, grocery shoppers, delivery volunteers, fundraisers, and neighborhood patrols. Witte’s neighborhood has created this division of labor, which is designed to keep people safe while meeting community needs. “People have chosen the thing that they’re best suited to be doing in Minneapolis,” she explained. “We’re trying not to cross streams”—meaning those providing rides, for example, can’t also be the most visible protesters, as that could endanger people they’re protecting. But no matter the role, whistles have become ubiquitous. “Everyone and their mom has a whistle,” Witte said. She hears them constantly—multiple times daily, she estimates—mixing with the sound of helicopter blades overhead. Following whistle bleats, community members emerge from their homes at a moment’s notice to respond like watch-dogs. Rapid responders say that if the agents know bystanders are …

Dodge dealers don’t need a Charger — they need a Caravan

Dodge dealers don’t need a Charger — they need a Caravan

Published by skeptic

If the market failures of the Dodge Charger Daytona and VW ID.Buzz have proved anything at all, it’s that the Baby Boomer era is over, and their kids — GenX and Millenials alike — aren’t willing to pay a premium for a vehicle that looks like something their dad once thought was cool. As GenX becomes the largest and richest new car-buying demographic, manufacturers need to find out what they are nostalgic about. To that end, I propose the following nostalgia play: the “Goonies Never Say Die” edition 2027 Dodge Caravan BEV. If you’re under a certain age, you’ll have to just believe me when I tell you that all sorts of great memories were hatched in the back of the K-based OG Dodge Caravan, both as young kids and as teens — and these economical, practical, and generally fun to be driven in (if not to drive) minivans were absolutely everywhere in the late 1980s and early ’90s. It’s easy to understand why. With small-ish engines and unibody construction, they offered a much more …