Weekly arts agenda: Contact, Art Show Zurich, New York Gallery Week
The Independent – Friday April 30, 2010

“During the week of May 3 galleries across Toronto will host the world’s largest annual photography festival, Contact. In Zurich, emerging artists from around the world will have their work shown at the Art Show Zurich and in New York more than 50 galleries and not-for-profits will take part in the inaugural New York Gallery Week”

New York Gallery Week kicks off this May
Flash Art Online

“Coming back to our topic that is New York, I think that the city is a gallery-driven city. I’m not saying a market-driven city but a gallery-driven city. There are galleries in Chelsea that probably don’t even profit or that don’t make enough money, however it’s true that we have 400 galleries in Chelsea and you probably have the equivalent of a couple of Documentas happening every month. I’ve always thought — and this is something we tried to do with Maurizio Cattelan and Ali Subotnik with the second issue of Charley — that what makes New York fascinating is that you could treat the whole city as an exhibition and every month you would have the most incredible exhibition, on a scale that no Documenta or Venice Biennial could compete with. This kind of energy has of course an impact on institutions.”

Business Slow? Let’s Put On A New York Gallery Week
Real Clear Arts – Wednesday April 7, 2010

” Emails went unanswered, phone calls unreturned. Business had ground to a halt. That’s pretty much how Chelsea dealer Casey Kaplan (right) described the atmosphere in New York’s gallery world in recent months, as he said last night (at a press reception) what he, and a group of 49 other contemporary art galleries and seven non-profit groups, plan to do about it: Start New York Gallery Week.”