Installation view of the Armory show.
These days contemporary-art fairs tend to travel in franchised packs. A large successful fair spawns parasite copycat fairs, and before you know it, you’ve got an art-fair fair.
New York is having one this weekend. The Armory Show, now in its 10th incarnation, is back, accompanied by nine younger, smaller, less [...]

It is hard to know if the once-distinguished International Asian Art Fair has been dealt a fatal blow or just knocked backward into starter mode, a phase it had previously managed to skip. The fair was born grand 12 years ago, and for a while grew only grander, sailing along as the flagship of Asia [...]

Collectors, curators, museum directors and auction house experts have flocked here in record numbers in recent days to browse through Rembrandts, Warhols, opulent French furniture and rare antiquities at the European Fine Art Fair. Yet so far sales have been mixed, many dealers said.
“It seems slower this year,” said Richard Nagy, a London dealer. “People [...]