Newsletter Our guide to this week’s many fairs, what to see Upstate, and master printmakers and virtuosos. May 12, 2026 — 8 min read Frieze, Independent, NADA, Future, oh my! Welcome back from Venice, art world — it’s fair week in New York. Read below for this week’s offerings (and there are many ; don’t say I didn’t warn you). Stay tuned for our coverage of the more major of the bunch. What a season it’s been. Can you believe that everything from the New Museum reopening to the Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1’s Greater New York — not to mention The Met’s Raphael exhibition and MoMA’s Duchamp show — happened in the last couple of months? This is the last push, I promise. Memorial Day’s right on the horizon.  But if you need that change of pace sooner, we’ve also got a guide to what to see Upstate this month, written by the ever-ebullient Taliesin Thomas. I’ll admit it, I’ve abandoned the city for a weekend or two this spring, and I think I’m the better for it.…