Open Art Fair
(Picture: Open Art Fair)Amid growing panic over the capital’s place slipping in the art world, the Open Art Fair says it will relaunch this year to stop Paris overtaking London. Open Art Fair founder Thomas Woodham-Smith tell us the government “have basically thrown the antiques and art world to the wolves with Brexit” and that without action “Paris will take on pre-eminence in Europe.”
The fair has been in abeyance since the pandemic, but Woodham-Smith has relaunched following news that Masterpiece, a major art fair, has cancelled its London event for 2023. Justifying their decision to cancel, Masterpiece cited escalating costs and a fall in exhibitors partly, they say, due to Brexit. Woodham-Smith was previously a director of Masterpiece. The Open Art Fair will take place in Chelsea in April.
