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13/7/2005

ART Santa Fe 2005

Sweeney Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Sixth Biennial Art Fair

The international art fair circuit is the most glamorous part of the art world today – the place where collectors and purveyors of fine contemporary art come from around the world to meet and do business. A rising star in this constellation of sophisticated events is ART Santa Fe, the biennial art fair that will present its sixth edition July 14-17 at Santa Fe’s downtown convention center.

ART Santa Fe is known as a "boutique" fair. Big enough to be interesting, small enough to be intimate and digestible, the fair offers visitors a highly selective overview of the contemporary art market. Visitors to the 2003 edition of ART Santa Fe found it to be a gem among art fairs.

The 2005 lineup of exhibitors will include several top Asian galleries, a strong contingent of Europeans, an exciting array of work by Latin American artists, and outstanding galleries from New York and elsewhere in the United States. Exhibiting galleries will range from edgy to established. The cutting edge new media group currents (including Steina, David Stout, Frank Ragano and Mariannah Amster) will return with a fresh matrix of interactive installations; in addition, the fair will offer project spaces for the first time. Bloc-Busta, an initiative by the Santa Fe art scene’s younger set, will feature on-site installations at venues all over the city, including the Center for Contemporary Arts and College of Santa Fe.

ART Santa Fe 2003 inaugurated ART Santa Fe Presents with a lecture by Time Magazine art critic and award-winning historian Robert Hughes. This standing-room-only event was such a rousing success that ART Santa Fe Presents will become an annual offering, while the fair itself remains biennial. This year’s featured speaker is Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum for over 25 years. His address on “Museums: Why Should We Care?” will be presented on July 15; tickets are available through the Lensic box office (505.988.1234).

The glittering set of special events surrounding ART Santa Fe 2005 will also include the fair’s Vernissage, an opening gala benefiting the Santa Fe Jazz and International Music Festival and featuring an elegant champagne buffet. The Inn of the Anasazi, the official hotel of ART Santa Fe, will cater the Vernissage.

Museum groups from all over the country will attend the fair, enjoying tours of private collections and artist studios as well as the fair’s exhibitions and special events. The city’s own museums will feature exhibitions; other arts organizations such as the renowned Santa Fe Opera, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Santa Fe Jazz and International Music Festival, also offer programming on this, arguably the most important weekend in the city’s high cultural and social season.

ART Santa Fe 2003 attracted wide attention in the press, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, the major art trade magazines (The Art Newspaper, ARTnews, Art & Auction, and Art & Antiques, among others) and virtual blanket coverage in statewide press. Word of the fair’s success also spread by the international art community grapevine, prompting a flood of applications for ART Santa Fe 2005.

ART Santa Fe’s focus is on presenting carefully selected contemporary and modern art, from contemporary masters to the cutting edge, for an audience of art professionals, collectors, museum groups and the general public. Visitors to the fair have praised the quality and wide reach of the offerings, presented in an accessible format that allows an intimate, unhurried viewing experience.

Visit the ART Santa Fe website for news about the fair and for travel and tour information or contact the fair office at 505.988.8883. For tickets and information about the Vernissage and the ART Santa Fe Presents lecture by Philippe de Montebello, call 505.988.1234

Vernissage: July 14, 5 – 8 pm

Sweeney Convention Center
201 W. Marcy St.
Santa Fe, NM 87501

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