At the fair’s new and bigger Chelsea venue, I admired taxidermied crustaceans, homages to Puerto Rican life, and textures galore.
I gasped when I saw them: a pair of hermit crabs, poking out of resin-printed sculptures resembling a daisy and a gaping toad. I had been walking around the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) fair for over an hour after giving up on its no-frills map and resigning myself to plunging into the sea of gallerists, collectors, artists, and fair staff pushing snack carts.
This year’s edition, which runs through Sunday, May 11, features 120 galleries splayed across the third floor of the Starrett-Lehigh building, a loft-style edifice perched on West 26th Street in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. It’s a new venue for NADA, which has more exhibitors than last year, and organizers told me that the location is linked to this expansion. Extra space aside, it’s a welcome change from the 2024 edition’s exhausting four-floor layout.
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