TEFAF New York, the Maastricht-rooted fair for modern and contemporary art, design, jewelry and antiquities, closed on May 19, 2026 after five days at the Park Avenue Armory, its tenth year since the fair's 2016 New York founding. In a closing statement issued May 20, 2026, the fair reported energetic crowds and abundant sales, with representatives of more than 260 museums and institutions — among them the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art — and visitors from more than 60 patron and trustee groups including the American Friends of the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum.
The edition brought 88 exhibitors from 14 countries to the Armory's drill hall, per the fair's exhibitor announcement of February 3, 2026 — 9 new dealers joining 78 returning ones — and retained the fair's signature vetting process, the committee system for which TEFAF has been known since its Maastricht beginnings. An invitation-only preview on May 14 preceded public days running 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with the final day closing at 6 p.m. Tickets had been set at $65 for single entry at the door, $85 for multiple entry, with student pricing below both, per the February announcement.
The sales the fair chose to disclose skewed blue-chip and, in several cases, historical. Per the closing statement: White Cube sold out its booth of Cai Guo-Qiang works, priced up to $700,000, on the opening day; Waddington Custot sold a Joan Miró painting at $1.3 million and a Barry Flanagan sculpture at $480,000; the Paris dealer Mitterrand sold François-Xavier Lalanne pieces at approximately $1.4 million, $1 million and $800,000; Offer Waterman sold a Magdalene Odundo ceramic above $500,000; and Alison Jacques sold a Dorothea Tanning painting at $800,000.
"Against an evolving global backdrop, TEFAF New York continues to demonstrate the enduring demand for artistry, culture, and connoisseurship," said Leanne Jagtiani, the director of TEFAF New York, in the closing statement. The fair did not release total attendance or aggregate sales figures, and self-reported fair sales exclude quiet private transactions, as is standard.
For the city's art public, the tenth edition settles TEFAF's role in the reshaped May week: the fair that closes New York's densest art stretch, after Frieze New York at The Shed wound down on May 17, and the one venue in the week where antiquities, design and jewelry hang beside modern painting. Applications for the 2027 edition, the fair said, run through September 16, 2026.
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