excerpt from
Interview: Andrew Clarkin of Keith Talent Gallery
By Caryn Coleman, May 16, 2007

..."Last year we built a fair [Year 06] in 2.5 months; we just got out the starting blocks. We had an idea that fairs follow too similar a model - cold, not very cool, trying too hard. I can't describe it. Zoo, the satellite to Frieze was like a cartoon fair, silly. It's not creative, it's banal, like a mini-Frieze. Why do that? Why can't we have another model? Aqua [Miami art fair] was so good because of its model, it worked! It's just right. The organizers should drive the potential of that home, not try to be like the others..."

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