I was just in NYC for Thanksgiving, I was so excited because the ONE OF A KIND Show in NYC was supposed to be going on Nov 11-13 and Nov 17-20.This is a show I had always wanted to see and this time it was finally going to happen. NOT!!!
While at my sisters house in Riverdale NY I double checked the show information online. I was somewhat surprised to find that the event was not posted consistently throughout the web. Some posts had both weekend dates listed and some posts only listed the November 11-13 date. There was no phone number readily available either but my sister and I went to the address given. GUESS WHAT ? NO SHOW! The doorman to the building said the show was canceled. It would have been nice for the sponsors of the show to post it was canceled. What if I made a special trip to see it.
In the meantime I remembered that the ACC show was also going on this weekend so we jumped in a cab and off we went. We were going to have our art show experience after all.
However and I hate to say this , (because I thought one day in in the future I might want to try to jury in the NY show, since my sister lives there) the show was not up to standard. My sister and I both felt half of the items displayed in the fair looked as if they could have been at a flea market. What a disappointment! There were a few artists whose work was noteable, so I was glad to see that, but .... I certainly expected to see great things. It is NYC, after all.
I asked one exhibitor if she knew what happened to the ONE OF A KIND SHOW, she answered that the booth fees were so high very few people could afford to do it.
This post address the same subject as the higher booth fees article. These promoters may just run themselves out of business if this keeps going on.
