Art Dealers Association Replaces Long-Running Art Show With New 2026 Fair
51Dec. 5, 2025
TheArt Dealers Association of America(ADAA) will inaugurate a new fair next year, aftercanceling the 2025 edition of its flagship Art Show, established in 1988. Titled theADAA Fair, the novel event will run November 12–16, 2026, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the traditional home of the Art Show. Whereasthe Art Showsupported the Henry Street Settlement, a social services nonprofit on New York’s Lower East Side, that partnership has ended, and the ADAA Fair will support art and museums.
“Our new fair provides an opportunity to highlight the extraordinary work of our member galleries while deepening our support for museums and cultural organizations nationwide,” said ADAA Fair committee chair Mary Ryan in a statement. ADAA executive director Kinsey Robb in a statement noted that the organization’s “new era” will be more “responsive to the cultural needs of our time.” Related Stephen Friedman Gallery Exits New York Talladega College Sells Hale Woodruff Murals
The cancellation of the 2025 fair came last July, as the art market seemed to be undergoing a period of retrenchment, with galleries closing or moving away from brick-and-mortar operations; and as auction and fair sales in the sector softened, battered by tariffs, economic and geopolitical uncertainty, and shifting tastes and buying patterns. This year, auctions have achieved record prices and fair prices appear to be strengthening.
ADAA, which was established in 1962 and has about two hundred members spread across forty US cities, revealed that its new fair would highlight the work of the ADAA Foundation. Established in 1972, that body issues grants to arts organizations in support of research and exhibitions. Among the foundation’s 2025 grantees are Chicago’s DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York.