TEFAF New York Opened to Crowded Aisles, Bullish Collectors, and Strong Booths
Daniel Cassady, ARTnews
May 2026
[…] At London-based Alison Jacques, visitors clustered around a booth that paired two ghostly Dorothea Tanning paintings with striking large-format photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and Gordon Parks. On one wall hangs Mapplethorpe’s stark American Flag (1977), while nearby hangs his painted wooden Stars, arranged like fragments of patriotic theater. Jonathan Maisie, the gallery’s managing director, described TEFAF as one of the few fairs where discovery not only feels possible, but is part and parcel with the whole experience. “It’s never a feeding frenzy,” he said. “You allowed take time, learn about what’s on offer. And you can be sure at this fair you’re not going see the things you see everywhere else.” […]