The Global Art Fair Or How ARCO Invented the ‘Experiential’ Art Fair
By Paco Barragán
The 20th century knows basically three typologies of art fairs: modern, contemporary and global. The Armory Show represents the modern, or “artist-frame-to-frame,” art fair: organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in 1913 in New York, it represented 1,300 works hanged frame-to-frame on the walls in 18 partitioned spaces, [...]
