Making the Cut

October 21st, 2009

Maybe you don’t have the gold to fund the hunt for a McGinnis or an Emin at Art Basel Miami, but if you’re really sharp, you can head to Paris to score yourself a more hidden treasure. Making its grand debut this week, the premiere edition of the Cutlog art fair caters to emerging artists and the independent galleries that support them.

The fair benefits from the curatorial bent of founder and director Bruno Hadjad, who runs the Parisian art/fashion/design concept store Spree (which is also one of the galleries in the show’s stable). Amongst the painting, drawing, sculpture and photography from 29 international galleries beneath the dome of the Bourse du Commerce may be an artist or two who will one day spur high bids and heart attacks at Heffel and Sotheby’s, but for now they’ll give that blank wall in your apartment that thing it was missing.

October 22-25, Bourse du Commerce, 2 rue de Viarmes, Paris
http://www.cutlog.org