Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs

<strong>Frieze Art Fair</strong><br /> A fabric room by Do-Ho Suh at the Lehmann Maupin booth. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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A fabric room by Do-Ho Suh at the Lehmann Maupin booth.
Photo © John Berens / Frieze Art Fair

<strong>Frieze Art Fair</strong><br /> An installation titled <em>Cockpit</em> (2013) by Marianne Vitale installed among the booths at Frieze. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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An installation titled *Cockpit* (2013) by Marianne Vitale installed among the booths at Frieze.
Photo © John Berens / Frieze Art Fair

<strong>Frieze Art Fair</strong><br /> The Galeria Elba Benitez booth won the Frieze Fair’s stand prize for a solo installation by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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The Galeria Elba Benitez booth won the Frieze Fair’s stand prize for a solo installation by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga.
Photo © John Berens / Frieze Art Fair

<strong>Frieze Art Fair</strong><br /> A massive work by Ugo Rondinone at the booth of London gallery Sadie Coles HQ. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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A massive work by Ugo Rondinone at the booth of London gallery Sadie Coles HQ.
Photo © John Berens / Frieze Art Fair

<strong>Frieze Art Fair</strong><br /> Work by Steve Bishop at the Carlos/Ishikawa booth. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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Work by Steve Bishop at the Carlos/Ishikawa booth.
Photo © John Berens / Frieze Art Fair

<strong>Frieze Art Fair</strong><br /> Fiona Connor at the Hopkinson Cundy booth. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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Fiona Connor at the Hopkinson Cundy booth.
Photo © John Berens / Frieze Art Fair

<strong>Frieze Art Fair</strong><br />A giant balloon dog by Paul McCarthy apes Jeff Koons while guarding SO-IL’s Frieze tent. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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A giant balloon dog by Paul McCarthy apes Jeff Koons while guarding SO-IL’s Frieze tent.
Photo © John Berens / Frieze Art Fair

<strong>NADA</strong><br /> David Shaw’s <em>Collider</em> (2013), a “room” demarcated by aluminum coated in a holographic laminate, at the NADA fair. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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David Shaw’s *Collider* (2013), a “room” demarcated by aluminum coated in a holographic laminate, at the NADA fair.
Photo © Architectural Record

<strong>NADA</strong><br /> Work by Danish collective A Kassen in the booth of Paris’s New Galerie. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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Work by Danish collective A Kassen in the booth of Paris’s New Galerie.
Photo © Architectural Record

<strong>NADA</strong><br /> A Kassen’s work frequently begins with images of architecture that the group alters with their frames and presentation. The 2011 work, <em>Flatten Image</em>, plays w — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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A Kassen’s work frequently begins with images of architecture that the group alters with their frames and presentation. The 2011 work, *Flatten Image*, plays with PhotoShop-style layering in physical space.
Photo © Architectural Record

<strong>Cut/log</strong><br /> At Cut.log, Paris-based Galerie Olivier Waltman showed Jean-Pierre Attal’s voyeuristic images of offices after hours. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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At Cut.log, Paris-based Galerie Olivier Waltman showed Jean-Pierre Attal’s voyeuristic images of offices after hours.
Image courtesy Galerie Olivier Waltman

<strong>Cut/log</strong><br /> An architecture firm with offices in Marseille and Los Angeles, Sériès & Sériès presented a playful series of ideas for a cubic museum hovering a — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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An architecture firm with offices in Marseille and Los Angeles, Sériès & Sériès presented a playful series of ideas for a cubic museum hovering above an L.A. freeway.
Photo © Architectural Record

<strong><em>Wish Meme</em></strong><br /> David Alexander Flinn’s steel-and-concrete <em>See You There</em> (2013) staked a claim inside the former school building that hosted <em>Wish Meme</em> — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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David Alexander Flinn’s steel-and-concrete *See You There* (2013) staked a claim inside the former school building that hosted *Wish Meme*.
Image courtesy Wish Meme

<strong><em>Wish Meme</em></strong><br /> Joseph Burwell’s drawings of modular forms at <em>Wish Meme</em>. — Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
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Joseph Burwell’s drawings of modular forms at *Wish Meme*.
Image courtesy Wish Meme

Editors' Picks: Architecture-Inspired Work at the New York Art Fairs
In keeping with what is by now an art fair tradition of recreating bars located in one art capital in another, artist Tobias Rehberger (with London gallery and Frieze exhibitor Pilar Corrias) brought a version of Frankfurt’s Bar Oppenheimer to a tiny basement space at New York’s Hôtel Americano.
Image courtesy Pilar Corrias, London

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A fabric room by Do-Ho Suh at the Lehmann Maupin booth.

A snaking white tent designed by Brooklyn firm SO-IL kept out occasionally torrential rain at the second New York edition of the Frieze Art Fair, which opened during a break in the clouds on Thursday. Despite the weather, crowds made the trip to Randalls Island to check out work on offer from some 180 dealers and a series of related programs and exhibitions.

Elsewhere in the city, a roster of other fairs also opened their doors in time for the weekend, including NADA (the nonprofit New Art Dealers Alliance fair), PULSE, and the Collective.1 Design Fair, among others. Cut/log, a three-year-old Paris fair making its NYC debut, set up shop in an former school building, as did Wish Meme, a curated show of mostly emerging artists that opened in conjunction with the New Museum’s Ideas City festival, and both used their respective venues to great effect.

All in all, there was a lot of art to see, some of the best of which referenced architecture, urbanism, and ideas about the built environment. Click the image above to view some highlights.