Sentence examples for commercial fairs from inspiring English sources

The most transporting single artwork on view in Miami, however, is not at any of the commercial fairs.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Champagne became the site of commercial fairs at the crossing of roads from Flanders, Germany, Italy, and Provence.

The establishment, in 1464, of commercial fairs together with the arrival in the city of Italian merchant bankers enabled Lyon to flourish.

Meanwhile, the very success of the hajj trade discouraged the development of the nonreligious commercial fairs that spurred growth in Northern Europe.

But the broader San Francisco's arts scene lacks the big institutions or commercial fairs like London and New York's Frieze or Art Basel that provide grants, sales and financial opportunities for large numbers of working artists.

That the museum would agree to show at a commercial fair held annually at the Seventh Regiment Armory in Manhattan is not as surprising as it might seem.

I was present in September 1934 at the commercial fair in Bari, where I had supervised the construction of the pavilion of the Assicurazioni Generali.

Art Beat Istanbul This new platform for contemporary art in Turkey has grand ambitions, beginning with a commercial fair through Sept. 18 at the Lutfi Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Center.

The scene resembles a commercial fair or a convention, and you would hardly guess that the show is devoted to an evil that Communist leaders call one of the gravest threats to China's stability.

The patchiness of the commercial fair was countered by independent shows of young designers' work staged in the industrial suburb of Lambrate by institutions like Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, the Z33 design gallery in Belgium and the IN Residence project in Italy.

Those fare hikes when people actually need something could come back to bite him – not because charging what the market will bear is a bad idea (it's by far the most efficient system), but because a quadruple-price ride during, say, a natural disaster would offend anyone's sense of commercial fair play.