2022 July
Paul Michael Glaser exhibits alongside three hundred international exhibitors. PAF Screen, LED NFTs, GAP Booths and PAF Music are integrated into the fair for the first time.
Our Story
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Parallax Art Fair is Europe's largest entretive fair for creative entrepreneurs. We have managed 30 editions over 10 years. That is 9000 creative businesses and tens of thousands of visitors. Check out our timeline below for our story.
Dr C G Barlow writings
Digital Democracy (album in production); A Dialogue on Direct Democracy (in research); The Art of Painting by John Smith (preface and footnotes; in research); The Aporia (in research);Guide to Buying Art: the End of Art Collecting (2022) UK edition /US edition; Three Modes (2021) UK edition /US edition; The Principles of Painting by Roger de Piles [preface & footnotes] (2020); The Education of the Eye by John Burnet [preface & footnotes] (2020); Probability of Historia (2020); Prescient and Ahistoric (2019) UK edition / US edition; In the Name of (2018); "Hanging Offence": Interview with Trebuchet (2014);Proem 4571 (2014); Twelve (2013); Proem 1812 Dialogue [Magma Catalogue] (2012); Parallax (2010), with Donald Preziosi, Alun Munslow and Paul Gladston; Parallax II: Juries and their delusions [Blog] (2013); Copernican Revolution [Blog] (2009)
2021 July
Parallax Club website is launched. Underscoring a key philosophy of no selection committee, it includes the first automated shopping-cart-style application for a fair in the world.
2020 September
Parallax Art Fair launches "Shop Parallax" as part of its fully e-commerce website.
2020 March
PAF TV is launched.
2019 October
C G Barlow publishes The Prescient and Ahistoric; the theory and history of Parallax Art Fair and entretive fairs.
2019 February
Parallax Art Fair opens at two venues in London in Kensington and Chelsea. Over 500 exhibitors take part.
2018 November
Parallax Art Fair opens in Manchester, UK.
2018 February
Parallax Art Fair moves to a larger venue in Kensington, London, UK. Three shows of Setsuko Ono are curated by Dr C G Barlow in his trademark style, including at Asia House and Daiwa Foundation in London. Catalogue is available here. See also. Some images.
2016 April
Parallax Art Fair opens in Los Angeles, USA. For an archive of the website from April 2016, go now. Please note, some icons and images do not now exist.
2012 December
Parallax Art Fair opens in Miami, USA.
2012 August
Parallax Art Fair opens in New York, USA. For an archive of the website on 02/04/2012 see archive.org. Go now. Please note, some images do not now exist.
2012 February
Parallax Art Fair moves to Chelsea in London, UK. (Prof. Alun Munslow gives a lecture at the October 2012 edition.). See an archive of the website from 15/01/2012. Go now.
2011 July
Parallax Art Fair opens at Royal Opera Arcade, London, UK. (Prof. Donald Preziosi gives a lecture at the October 2011 edition. See an archive of the lecture programme on archive.org Go now.).
2011 February
Parallax Art Fair website and application is live on 2 February 2011. Over 500 applications are received.
2011 January
The first communication is sent to exhibitors on 25 January 2011. An archive of the original website from 19th February can be seen on archive.org. Go now. Please note, some images do not now exist.
2010 November
Parallax is held over 22-28 November at the Royal Opera Arcade, London, UK. Catalogue contributors are: Alun Munslow, Donald Preziosi, Paul Gladston and C G Barlow. See archives of 2009 website on archive.org Go now. Please note, some images do not now exist. See the original catalogue
2010 October
Second Parallax pre-exhibition held over 14-16 October at The Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK. A rare image of this installation can be seen in an archive from 2010 on archive.org. Go now.
2010 August
First Parallax pre-exhibition held over 8-10 August at the ROA Gallery, London, UK.
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