INDEPENDENT ART FAIR FINDS NEW HOME
The Independent Art Fair has found a new home in Spring Studios in TriBeCa. It‘ll be relocating from its previous space on West Twenty-second Street, a space that once housed the Dia Center for the Arts. The new studios occupy the upper half of Fifty Varick Street, in a space that the Tribeca Film Festival and New York Fashion Week have also used for events and offerings.
Independent’s next iteration will take place from March 3 through March 6. In its new location, it‘ll have access to more than twenty-five thousand square feet of space, overlooking St. John’s Park.
“The majority of the art world has never seen this space,” said Matthew Higgs, Independent’s creative adviser. Architect Jonathan Caplan will oversee the exhibition design of Spring Studios for the next edition of Independent. Higgs and Elizabeth Dee, the fair’s cofounder, said that the November 2016 edition of the fair, called Independent Projects, will focus on work only by female artists.
