Frieze Week in New York: mammoth auction sales and a shifting art fair landscape

The Shed in Hudson Yards, New York. Photo: Unsplash / John Angel
From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke, The Week in Art is sponsored by Christie’s.
This week, as Frieze New York takes place at The Shed in Hudson Yards, and we come to the end of two weeks of huge auction sales, we talk to The Art Newspaper’s editor in the Americas, Ben Sutton, about the New York art market.
Rendering of the proposed Bët-bi museum and center for culture and community in Senegal © Atelier Masōm, courtesy Bët-bi
Nicholas Fox Weber, the executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, tells us about Bët-bi, a new museum the foundation hopes to open in Senegal in 2025, with a building designed by Mariam Issoufou Kamara, the Niger-based architect.
Decree issued by Mughal Emperor Shah ‘Alam II, on red silk brocade with gold calligraphy. India, (1789). Courtesy of The British Library Board
And in this episode’s Work of the Week, Annabel Gallop, one of the co-curators of Gold, a new exhibition at the British Library in London, discusses a shimmering golden farman, or decree, from Shah ’Alam II, issued to a British woman, Sophia Plowden, in India in 1789.
• Frieze New York, The Shed, New York, until 22 May.
• Bët-bi, near Kaolack, Senegal, opens in 2025. 
• Gold, British Library, London, until 2 October.

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