Big art fairs are mammoth gatherings where thousands of artworks are put on view for throngs of buyers. They often take place in sprawling convention centers and exhibition halls in big cities.
“A team comes in and puts up cheap fake walls and it’s very sterile,” said Sarah Galender Meyer, an art advisor and collections manager in San Francisco.“There’s fluorescent lights, and it’s booth after booth packed with artwork.”
“It feels a little rat-race,” she added.
So she and two like-minded colleagues from the Boston art world, gallery owner Yng-Ru Chen and artist Crystalle Lacouture, decided to launch an alternative. Two years after hatching the idea, their vision, Arrival Art Fair, opens this weekend in North Adams. The biannual event is thought to be the first ambitious fair for commercial art galleries in New England...
