Esther Art Fair Returns to a Beaux Arts Architectural Gem

For its second edition, 25 galleries from 17 cities are showing works across the sumptuous interior of New York’s Estonian House.
For its second edition, 25 galleries from 17 cities are showing works across the sumptuous interior of New York’s Estonian House.
The blue-chip art market inflates with anger and slams its fist if you keep pestering it with the nuisance of the outside world.
At the fair’s new and bigger Chelsea venue, I admired taxidermied crustaceans, homages to Puerto Rican life, and textures galore.
Having launched in the choppy waters of the pandemic, the show has since nestled comfortably into New York’s busiest fair week.
The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.
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