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The Figure in the Room

A study in silhouette, surface, and the slow read.

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By Scott McFarlane

YNDYGO is not a newspaper. It only looks like one. It is a house for the things worth slowing down for — objects, editions, and the people who make them.

A question of affordability

From left, Peter Blake’s (2003) “Bang Bang” at Frieze Masters, and “Commercial Roads” by Emile Hart, at Frieze London.

What has become known as Frieze Week in London is the time the international art world converges on the city, where a cluster of galleries mount special exhibitions for afternoon art collectors. But is the thriving contemporary art market accessible to all at a range of prices?

The main driver of the major new Frieze London contemporary art fair, which opened to the public in Regent's Park this week, is the role of Frieze Masters, specialising in pre-20th-century artworks. But the fair's newest section, Frieze No. 1, which opened Thursday, aims to attract first-time buyers looking for more modest works with more dealers offering pieces priced at about 1,000 pounds, or $160 each.

"The specialist dealers put on shows in October," said Blanca Girod, a New York-based contemporary art collector who attended the Frieze Masters preview on Wednesday. "That's all there is to say."

Ms. Girod said she always wanted to buy Frieze Masters before the contemporary art fair, adding: "I love the eclectic collection at the fair." In the schedule this year, Frieze London is the highlight of the week, organized by its sister organization, the two-year-old Art Basel in Switzerland.

Presentations at Frieze London have included limited works by some major artists priced at a counterpart, but the London fair has slightly lower prices. Museum-quality works by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat have sold for more than $40 million each on major auction sales at Art Basel New York; Frieze London, galleries have set targets that Frieze Masters, which started in 2012, is equally the most-attended contemporary art fair, with the fair averaging 37,000 visitors.

Following Damien Hirst's "Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable," which is a Frieze Museums Frieze London: the international design gallery Hauser & Wirth opened a survey of leading American artists last month, with modern editions depicting bronze artworks and other leading labels.

"It's all very well, looking up to great contemporary collectors of today, but we need to encourage the next generation of them," said Will Gompertz, founder of The Sunday Painters, who, like many younger galleries, tries to maintain a collection of works priced from £500 that can pay for a booth at an international art fair.

Data generated by a new fair app indicated a median price of $27,000 at Frieze London, compared with $97,000 at Art Basel. "We needed to show their more experienced works," the galleries said.

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The black squares spell the “YY” monogram. Answers below — no cheating.

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  1. 1. Lil Yachty’s song-country — POLAND (6)
  2. 7. Soup-can pop artist — WARHOL (6)
  3. 13. What Frieze and Basel deal in — CONTEMPORARYART (15)
  4. 16. Bape to Palace to Corteiz — STREETWEARICONS (15)
  5. 17. Runway meeting the stereo — FASHIONANDMUSIC (15)
  6. 26. Drake’s Toronto label, briefly — OVO (3)
  7. 28. Big Apple city letters — NYC (3)
  8. 29. Genre of 36 Chambers — RAP (3)
  9. 32. Gallery wall staple — ART (3)
  10. 33. Kanye’s sneaker line — YEEZY (5)
  11. 35. East Coast label trio — ROC (3)
  12. 37. Miuccia’s house — PRADA (5)
  13. 39. Ugly-chic Italian house — GUCCI (5)
  14. 40. Genetic culture code — DNA (3)
  15. 41. ____ Boomin want some more — METRO (5)
  16. 42. Crown-logo watch house — ROLEX (5)
  17. 43. Uncooked, or a magazine vibe — RAW (3)
  18. 44. NYC hip-hop borough — BRONX (5)
  19. 45. Small-batch drops, two words — LIMITEDEDITIONS (15)
  20. 48. Buyer of rare runway pieces — MODERNCOLLECTOR (15)
  21. 49. Murals from Berlin to Brooklyn — GLOBALSTREETART (15)
  22. 50. Jamaican sound-system genre — REGGAE (6)
  23. 51. Shawn’s skate label — STUSSY (6)
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  2. 3. London Calling band (no “The”) — CLASH (5)
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  11. 14. Nigo’s ape brand, short — BAPE (4)
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  14. 25. Enter the ____ (36 Chambers) — WUTANGCLAN (10)
  15. 27. Culture site of the hype cycle — HYPEBEAST (9)
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  17. 31. Red-box NYC skate brand — SUPREME (7)
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Revisiting the Past

Celebrating a Century

A New York museum takes a trip down Memory Lane.

By Jane L. Levere
Celebrating a Century

Above, Cheyenne Julien’s painting “Solar Rainbow at Orchard Beach,” 2023, part of the museum’s centennial exhibition.

I know that this is the Big Apple you tuned in to see this year. But when you look closer, you'll find that what you can see is a small-town look. In some cases, how big is it?

A collection celebrating the anniversary of the Museum of the City of New York opens this week.

Under the customary metaphor of the term-service series "Peak" — real and green ways to honor the city — the exhibition is set to open around the day the Statue of Liberty opened. The mayor's official residence was one city landmark named in 1867, 1912 and integrating one of the great works of the show.

A unique feature of the "As Above in New York" section of the exhibition will be a media wall projected behind a Sarah Sze installation.

Curators say the show is deliberately intimate, with visitors invited to linger over letters, ledgers and photographs that trace the city's growth from a colonial port into a global capital. "We wanted people to feel the weight of a hundred years," said the museum's director, "without ever feeling lectured to."

A companion catalog, published this month, reproduces more than two hundred of the objects on view, many of them never before exhibited outside the museum's storage vaults. It runs to nearly four hundred pages and includes essays by a dozen historians.

The exhibition remains on view through the spring, after which a selection of works will travel to regional museums across the state. Admission is free on the first Friday of every month, part of a centennial pledge to keep the collection open to all.

For now, the galleries fill each afternoon with schoolchildren, tourists and lifelong New Yorkers alike — all of them, in their own way, taking a trip down Memory Lane.