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An art fair is a subgenre of arts festival that focuses on visual art specifically, or specific fields of visual art such as new media art festivals. Other subgenres of art festivals are termed photography festivals or street art festivals, for example. Typically, an art fair has a wide range of artists, art dealers, collectors, and curators ...
An art exhibition is a space where art objects meet an audience, often for a temporary period. Learn about the different kinds of exhibitions, such as commercial, non-commercial, juried, invitational, open, and pop-up, and their historical significance.
Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned and managed, international art fair staged annually in Basel (Switzerland), Miami Beach (USA), Hong Kong (China) and Paris (France). Learn about its history, activities, initiatives, leadership and attendance since 1970.
Learn about the origins, evolution and characteristics of world's fairs, also known as universal exhibitions or expos. The last world's fair was Expo 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan, and the next one is scheduled for Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Learn about the origins, planning, and legacy of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, a historic event that attracted over 460,000 people to a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, in 1969. The festival featured 32 acts of folk rock, blues rock, jazz, and psychedelic rock, and became a symbol of the 1960s counterculture.
The Great Exhibition was an international exhibition of culture and industry organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole in Hyde Park, London, in 1851. It showcased Britain's role as industrial leader and attracted six million visitors, who admired the Crystal Palace, the first World's Fair building.
A world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. It showcased many technological innovations, international pavilions, colonial power and Art Nouveau style.
The Centennial Exposition was the first official world's fair in the United States, held in Philadelphia in 1876 to celebrate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence. It attracted 10 million visitors and 37 countries, and showcased inventions such as the typewriter, sewing machine, and telephone.