How Frieze Managed to Put Together the First Art Fair of the Pandemic

The Art Angle · Apr 30, 2021 · 30m

You know the scene at the end of Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film Snowpiercer where they leave the hellish bullet train and see that the frozen Tundra is starting to melt and nature is coming back to life? That kind of gives you the sense of the relief that the art market is hoping to feel next week when, miracle of miracles, the Frieze New York art fair opens to real in-person audiences.

This marks the first major art fair to return to life since the pandemic shut down the international art calendar, along with the rest of the world, in March of last year.

After all, art fairs are, for better or…