The news follows the organization’s abrupt termination of a long-running partnership with the Henry Street Settlement.
Isa Farfan
December 3, 2025
— 2 min read
The now defunct ADAA Art Show in 2023 (photo Alice Procter/Hyperallergic)
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) announced this week that it is launching a new fair, just months after the organization cancelled this year's edition of its 36-year-old annual Art Show benefiting the Manhattan social services nonprofit Henry Street Settlement.
After an absence from New York City's Park Avenue Armory this year, the ADAA will return to its longtime venue with a new event, simply titled the ADAA Fair, from November 12 through November 16, 2026.
The new fair replaces the Art Show, which contributed unrestricted funds to the Henry Street Settlement. This fall, the nonprofit launched its own fundraiser to recoup the approximately $1 million in expected funds lost as a result of the ADAA's cancelled partnership before landing a new fundraising partnership with Independent Art Fair in October. Previously, the ADAA characterized the cancellation of its 2025 fair as a "pause."
A press release for the new fair characterized the event as "centered on championing the visual arts and the institutions that sustain them." The ADAA did not respond to Hyperallergic's inquiries about any new philanthropic partnerships.
In August, ADAA described the cancellation of its longstanding art show and partnership with Henry Street Settlement to Hyperallergic as part of the organization's reevaluation of its "philanthropic and programmatic strategies to better support a national arts infrastructure."
The nonprofit membership organization said in its release that its new fair would highlight the work of the ADAA Foundation, which separately provides grants to arts organizations for exhibitions and art historical research.
In 2025, the foundation's awards included the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago for the exhibition Paris in Black: Internationalism and the Black Renaissance and the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York for the exhibition Guerrilla Girls: 40 Years Ago. ADAA has not responded to Hyperallergic's inquiries as to how the fair would specifically support the foundation's work.
The ADAA has approximately 200 members across 40 cities. Eligibility for participation in its annual art fair is listed as a benefit of its paid membership.
"Our new fair provides an opportunity to highlight the extraordinary work of our member galleries while deepening our support for museums and cultural organizations nationwide,” Mary Ryan, ADAA Fair committee chair, said in a statement shared with Hyperallergic.
