A Fair to Remember

By Carol Lee

Who was the fairest fair of them all? Everywhere you turned in New York City last week there seemed to be an art fair of some kind ready to swallow you in. With almost a dozen or so bazaars -- the Armory, the Scope, the Pulse, the bridge, the Dark, the Volta, the DiVA, etc. -- and the last bang (finally!) at Passerby. if you were anywhere near the arty radar, chances are you're still recovering from: a) swollen feet, b) a huge hangover, c) buyer's remorse or d) all of the above. I strolled through a few fairs and on Saturday partied till the high noon on Sunday at Passerby -- the night was a serious cocktail of pure joy and nostalgia for someone as myself who spent an obscene amount of time there. But as far as the fairs go, the Dark Fair at the Swiss Institute presented by Milwaukee International was by far the weirdest, the sweatiest, the least well-lit and with a special appearance by New York's Bravest (the NYFD), it was the most lively of them all.

Check out the Dark Fair photos below courtesy of Rosalie Knox.

p.s. Also, belatedly, here are some photos from Agathe Snow and Rita Ackermann's Easter Sunday gypsy feast Abat-Jour from the Whitney Biennial at the Armory.

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