It seems appropriate to hold 2020’s SPRING/BREAK Art Show, a fair themed this year around baroque excess, just blocks away from Billionaire’s Row. The baroque was an era of decadence: the decay of Renaissance rationalism into theatrics, spectacle, and opulence. Today’s world seems similarly degenerate, with our theater of choice being fake news and social media rather than the opera, and the wealth being hoarded by billionaires instead of absolute monarchs. The baroque had Versailles; we have Trump Tower. The only real difference is that Versailles had better decorators.

Still in the afterglow of their Los Angeles Frieze week presentation, Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori present the 2019 New York edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show at 866 UN Plaza, featuring their curatorial exploration into the paradoxes of FACT AND FICTION.