| Scope Art Fair Diary |
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Éva PelczerHaving visited SCOPE Art Fair at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park the morning after it opened, I found a much more sedate crowd than the one that had probably patronized the place during the previous night’s party. Since the Markt wing of the show was strategically placed by the coat check, I, along with much of the crowd, started there. The eclecticism of the fashion/video/painting/installation here was a pretty good introduction to the rest of the fair—a somewhat oversexed and hapless collision of commerce, design, and sculpture. There was a lot going on in the room, from a video installation in one corner to intricate garments hanging from the ceiling. The craft was appreciable—one garment was woven completely of hair—and the theme decipherable, but perhaps I do not “ache” enough for fashion, as its curator Diane Pernet might, to get that immersed in an artistically glorified boutique. I moved on.
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