A New Art Fair, Arrival, Ditches the Basel Frenzy for the Berkshires’ Calm

The idea for Arrival Art Fair was hatched, like many good ideas, in frustration. After a recent deflating visit to a “sterile and lame” fair, Sarah Galender Meyer, Yng-Ru Chen, and Crystalle Lacouture decided that they could do better. Friends with deep backgrounds as an adviser, founder of Massachusetts gallery Praise Shadows, and artist respectively, the trio set their sights on the Berkshires, the lush museum-rich corner of Massachusetts where Mass MoCA and the Clark Art Institute anchor a thriving institutional art ecosystem.