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INSIDE HELLUVA TOWN Source Lunch An Alvin Ailey director dances offstage PAGE 22 Out and About Last-minute tix to off-B’way shows PAGE 23 Time for healing Some 30 New York-area artists who were affected by Hurricane Sandy are getting their own show. The exhibit, sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, will open on Feb. 8, featuring works that were storm-damaged and repurposed and new art related to the disaster. The exhibit, “After Affects,” will take place at 303 10th Ave. in space donated through Chashama, an organization that asks landlords to provide empty space for art exhibits. The show, featuring works by John Gordon Gauld (left) and others, will run through Feb. 24. Michael Royce, executive director of NYFA, said he hoped the exhibit would help artists heal emotionally. “It will be a place where we honor the work that was damaged and then celebrate the work that comes out of it and move the artist forward.” Shortly after the hurricane, NYFA launched an emergency assistance fund for artists, which received requests totaling $12 million. So far, NYFA has distributed $600,000 to more than 200 artists and expects to grant another $500,000 in the next few weeks. It is still raising money to meet the need. Fifteen percent of sales at the show will go into this fund, with the rest going directly to the artists. —miriam kreinin souccar Fair game for art Shows in the city expand and update as the market draws new players French class STATE OF THE ART: Executive Director Noah Horowitz has “restructured and repositioned” the long-running Armory Show. A buck ennis Gazing at paintings by Monet and Renoir could make a person wish they spoke French. A new language course taught by an art historian at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies will help make such dreams come true. This semester, Stephané Zaborowski will use paintings and sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (below) as the basis for a French conversation course that will focus on how works from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries reflect what was happening in France at the time they were created. “I thought it would be an interesting way to learn the language,” said Mr. Zaborowski, who studied art history at the Louvre and earned a master’s degree in the subject from the City University of New York, where he also teaches it. So when the students are standing in front of rococo work by Boucher, they’ll not only be discussing the painting’s finer points, but also the cultural and political forces at work in the 18th century that created it. However, Mr. Zaborowski says that while the class may seem like a two-for-one, its main objective is to improve students’ French. “Grammar is still crucial to the class,” he said. “It is still a language class.” —theresa agovino BY THERESA AGOVINO ndrew Eldin became fascinated with “outsider art” in the late 1990s, when he sold collages made from postage stamps created by his deaf uncle. The pieces eventually won critical acclaim, and in 2001 Mr. Eldin opened a gallery featuring work created by untrained artists who often lived outside society’s mainstream. ¶ Mr. Eldin’s involvement in the genre intensified last year, when he purchased the Outsider Art Fair for an undisclosed sum. He is hoping to cash in on the growth of art fairs in the city by breathing new life into the four-day event, which celebrates its 21st anniversary this month. He plans to add more galleries, change the venue and introduce curated exhibits. ¶ “The fair is already legendary,” said Mr. Eldin. “I just think I can bring the art to a much wider audience.” ¶ The local art-fair market is undergoing a period of rapid growth and change. Last May, London-based Frieze, which has been running a highly respected event in Britain for a decade, debuted on Randall’s Island, adding to the more than a dozen fairs that took place in the city last year. ¶ Others are on the way, while more established brands are expanding, changing See FAIR GAME on Page 22 FRIEZE FRAME 180 NUMBER of galleries scheduled to exhibit at Frieze art fair in May 65% PERCENTAGE of those galleries that will present work by overseas artists January 21, 2013 | Crain’s New York Business | 21

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Crains New York - January 21, 2013
In the Boroughs
In the Markets
The Insider
Business People
Corporate Ladder
Opinion
Greg David
Real Estate Deals
Report: Small Business
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New York, New York
Source Lunch
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Crains New York - January 21, 2013