NADA: The Wrapup

Our final stop on the ‘art train’ today was to NADA’s art fair here in Miami. The New Art Dealers Alliance has been active since 2002, and consists of a non-profit collective of professionals working with contemporary art. Their mission: ‘to create an open flow of information, support, and collaboration within [their] field and to develop a stronger sense of community among [their] constituency.’ Their enemy: the adversarial approach to exhibiting and selling art. Unfortunately, the fair closed its doors 20 minutes after we arrived, but what we did see was interesting to say the least– a lot more experimental art at this fair than the others we had visited. My ‘best in show’ had to have been Kota Ezawa’s illuminated photo boxes. And while we were leaving, we had the chance to quickly peruse a little pop-up shop from Cerealart, which had some great design pieces for sale like the Yoshitomo Nara Clock we know and love. Check out photos from our brief visit to NADA after the jump…