Sydney is to get its own contemporary art fair. These vast supermarkets for selling art are ever more popular: the past two months alone have seen the inaugural New York edition of the London-based Frieze in May; Art HK in Hong Kong just two weeks later; and Art Basel in Switzerland, the grandest modern and contemporary fair of them all, earlier this month. Galleries that took part in all three describe the gruelling sequence as a “marathon”.
悉尼即将举办自己的当代艺术展。这些销售艺术的巨大“超级市场”如今的影响力越来越大:单单过去几个月,艺术盛会不断。今年5月,伦敦弗雷兹艺博会(Frieze Art Fair)就在纽约举办了艺术展;仅仅两周后,香港也举办了国际艺术展(Art HK);不久前,现当代规模最大的博览会——巴塞尔艺术博览会(Art Basel)在瑞士举办。参加这三大盛会的画廊形容这些紧锣密鼓的艺术展如同“马拉松”。