Comments on: Will Any New York Fair Best Pulse?

By: Lisa Hunter

Lisa Hunter — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:12:57 +0000

Yossi Milo gallery has such amazing taste in artists. I’m not at all surprised to hear you say it was a stand-out.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:58:45 +0000

The man holding the Hyena is Nigerian, not South African. Pieter Hugo is South African.

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:03:23 +0000

Thanks Ian! Correction made.

By: Ben Stewart

Ben Stewart — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:30:41 +0000

You’re way off base on this one. Pulse was HORRIBLE! The long entrance, the false walls, there was chaos everywhere! Too much art, too many exhibitors! Volta was a much better fair, easy to navigate, solo shows, room to breath, natural light. And your argument about it being commercial - isn’t that what a fair is!? If you want non-profit programming, go to a non-profit. If you’re a buyer, go to a fair!

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:37:41 +0000

Nobody is saying the fairs aren’t a for profit enterprise. All I’m saying is that the supplemental programming — the stuff that doesn’t make the fairs money — is important, and can lessen the commercial feel. Frieze has all kinds of supplemental programming and as a result feels like the least crassly commercial fair of them all. That’s a good thing.

As for Pulse, perhaps you went at a different time than I did, because when I was there, there weren’t very many people, and it certainly didn’t feel like there was too much art. Volta was boring by comparison.

By: Paul Pincus

Paul Pincus — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:46:43 +0000

Sze Tsung Leong’s Horizon series is stunning and Pieter Hugo’s portraits from The Hyena and Other Men are very, very powerful. I’m with Lisa, I was not surprised that Yossi Milo’s booth was so strong…and easily one of the best!

Loretta Lux confuses me.

By: Ben Stewart

Ben Stewart — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:06:02 +0000

Why lessen the commercial feel? Why does commercial = crass? That’s one of the central functions of art - something to be bought and sold.

By: Ben Stewart

Ben Stewart — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:06:33 +0000

By the way, isn’t your headline misspelled here? Shouldn’t it read beAt?

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:13:47 +0000

Ben: Refer to your dictionary. Best is a verb too.

By: Ben Stewart

Ben Stewart — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:34:44 +0000

Just because it’s allowable, doesn’t mean it’s right :o}