Run as a satellite to the main Frieze Art Fair, Zoo offers a showcase to new cutting-edge artist collectives, galleries, curatorial groups and publications.
In mid-May, the "No Soul for Sale" show, initiated by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and the freelance curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni, filled Turbine Hall with nearly 70 independent art spaces and curatorial groups for one weekend.
Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund and a member of Lincoln Center's curatorial advisory group, said that Mr. Curry's work has "a musicality, a theatricality and a playfulness" against "the grand silhouettes of the modernist buildings".
Art lovers have come to accept overdesigned spaces, jangling gift shops, rambunctious tour groups, patronizing curatorial wall texts, the babble of Acoustiguides, and other evidence of marketing and educational policies whose target audience is not us.
And Mr. Roy is just one of a growing group of rising curatorial stars cutting quite a different figure from the age-old image of museum curator as a fusty academic.
Started by Shelly Bancroft, it provides space for short-term curatorial projects like its inaugural group show, organized by the curator Franklin Sirmans as a joint project of Triple Candie and the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, which supports the work of young artists.
As a title, "From Where I Stand" captures Ms. Dufault's curatorial intention to present a grouping of individual artistic visions.
Mr. Manning has several pieces in a group show at Dorsky Curatorial Projects in Long Island City.
Through March 31 If the ultra-Conceptual, undervisual, often color-free curatorial approach endemic to New York gallery group shows is wearing thin, spend some time sorting through "Material," the walk-in amalgam of art, artifacts, textiles, furniture, jewelry, books and garments assembled by the London-based lawyer-turned-fashion-designer Duro Olowu.
(Schwendener) ★ Duro Olowu: 'Material' (through March 31) Assembled by the London fashion designer Duro Olowu, this amalgam of art, artifacts, furniture, jewelry, photographs, books and garments offers an inspired antidote to the ultra-Conceptual, undervisual, often color-free curatorial approach frequent to New York gallery group shows.
