Article: The American Antiques Show - Art - Review - New York Times

Art fairs can put some fairly magnificent obsessions on display, where they function like traps. Step into a booth, and an unfamiliar area of visual culture suddenly exerts an irresistible force, changing your life. Few art fairs do this as seductively as the American Antiques Show, which is ensconced in the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea through Sunday. The fair is manageable in size 44 dealers this year and relatively precise in focus. Nearly everything on view is American,made either by American Indians or settlers and dating from about 1750 forward. The prevalence of objects made by the people and for the people with plain-spoken modesty and simply handled materials gives it a ...

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