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self-help guide to frieze Frieze Art Fair - The question within the inaugural edition of Frieze may be whether or not the British interlopers would upset the Armory Show, our increasingly moribund local art fair, as New York's leading festival of recent art and conspicuous consumption. For your dealers and also the collectors it's too soon to share with - Frieze opens on Friday after having a collectors' preview on Thursday. But this is a far better fair than has been expected initially out, though in comparison with its old world cousin it is a safer affair, with little grit and plenty of gloss.

Frieze Art Fair - The best news: Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover made the right call by holding Frieze on Randall's Island, a park inside the East river usually frequented only by little-league baseball players. New Yorkers had been sceptical - it really is hard enough to get us to cross Manhattan, aside from have a ferry (or limousine) across the water. But about the island, Frieze has enough space for any sinuous white tent, designed by the young Brooklyn architectural duo SO-IL, which curves over the waterfront. The tent offers continuous vistas along the fair - handsomer than other events' gridded chicken coops, though a bit intimidating too. You can find 180 galleries here, but nowhere to hide. The initial Frieze art fair, for many its wealth, remains nearer to its scruffy east London roots than the old-money fairs in Basel or Maastricht. However, there is no mistaking that Frieze Ny is perhaps all business, and provocations from the type London audiences have learned to expect - wrecked booths, disruptive performances, installations that mock art market absurdities - usually are not in evidence. Maccarone, an often confrontational gallery, is showing a sculpture from the brothers Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen, incorporating a tree from an Alaskan island where they lived for weeks - but also a 12-metre abstract striped painting by Ann Craven, elegant but benign. Even Gavin Brown, a once reliably provocative Anglo-American dealer, has mounted a beautiful but extremely safe booth, focused on seven achingly delicate paintings by Laura Owens, all linked together by way of a wooden mesh.

This article - Mentionened above previously within this frieze review: The biggest galleries have got few chances. Need a monochrome Anish Kapoor disc to embellish your third home? Grab a giant yellow one or even a a bit smaller version in tasteful bronze - or else just hold back until you and the 1% friends meet later this spring in Hong Kong or Basel, to try again. It's more rewarding to spend in time the single-artist installations by younger galleries, which Sharp and Slotover have placed smack in the centre from the fair. One of the lessons you'll learn: The big apple is finished and all sorts of the cool American kids has progressed to LA. At Redling Art work, Liz Glynn makes papier-mache replicas of gold jewellery from pawn shops across the Town of Angels. Money comes and goes, she reminds us, then there is a market for everything.

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