Over the last several years there has been an increasing number of dealers who have chosen to abandon the International Asian Art Fair and to exhibit independently in several locations in New York, principally on the Upper East Side. This year, with the International's cancellation, leaving those exhibitors without a venue, and the relocation of the Arts of Pacific Asia Show to new quarters on West 34th Street, a certain level of reorganisation was needed, a situation compounded by the existing economic uncertainty.
Keenly aware of all of the ramifications, Joan Mirviss and Jiyoung Koo have devised a strategy to create this ad hoc AADUENY group. This creates a clever and economically intelligent tactic by joining forces of dealers in various fields of Asian art in order to promote themselves as a block by means of public announcements and printed advertisements.
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