There was the rise of a brand new medium, and there was the return of performance art. There were artworks that spoke to a continued reckoning with systemic racism, and there have been highly effective pieces that supplied types of therapeutic in a time when sickness was prevalent. The record below, that includes 15 works that defined this yr, attests to that. Nick Lawrence, who runs Freight+Volume in New York, advised ARTnews that as a newcomer to ABMB’s Survey sector, he’s re-staging a censored 1990s Art News performance by poet Karen Finley, a proposal that secured him a spot on the fair after many years on the waitlist. Lawrence says he’s navigated two decades of “guerilla-financing” during different downturns to keep the gallery going. He estimated the total spend to attend the fair will value $100,000.
- Hito Steyerl, one of the few internationally acknowledged participants in an version dominated by