ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By
Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
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| “Distanced Figures 3” by George Condo was a perfect match for an art fair forced online by the coronavirus. George Condo/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Hauser & Wirth
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Before
COVID-19, we gathered in church on Sundays (
a lot of us did), and we gathered at art fairs too, like
Frieze New York, Chicago's Expo, or our local Broad Ripple Art Fair. We'd spend hours inside talking to both dealers and artists, and
we'd buy art. Both fairs in
Chicago and
Indianapolis are now postponed until 2021, but this week's virtual Frieze art fair was a
surprising success.
George Condo's fractured figurative
painting "Distanced Figures 3" sold at Frieze for $2 million, and that's why
masked art continues to be our collector's tip of the week.
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| Condo in the studio. George Condo with his work Linear Contact, 2020. © Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
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NEWS OF 2008-2019 from across the USA, and around the world:
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| Condo's The Cracked Cardinal (2001) |
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| My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) album cover for Kanye West by George Condo |
