With more than a dozen fairs occurring simultaneously this week and next, New York’s spring art season can be dizzying. But across the Brooklyn Bridge, away from the perhaps buzzier Manhattan shows, a more intimate opportunity to engage with artists awaits.

Independent artists run the show at The Other Art Fair held at ZeroSpace in Boerum Hill, which is returning for its 15th edition and features 127 artists from 14 different countries and a heavy Brooklyn contingent. The fair is presented in partnership by SaatchiArt.com, the Santa Monica-based online gallery, but it’s much less stuffy than their chichi counterparts across the river.

“It’s meant to encourage people who may be intimidated by the art world, give them an opportunity to learn about an artist’s process and potentially walk out with a piece that’s very affordable,” The Other Art Fair spokesperson Kate Greenberg told Hyperallergic.

At the opening last night, May 8, pop music blared through speakers as a crowd clustered outside an antique subway car currently occupied by the fair’s co-sponsor, the Texas-based distillery Balcones, which gave samples of its whiskey. Nearby, multimedia artist and writer Ann Marie Tendler adjusted her Leica M10 as she prepared to take styled portraits of art fair guests in a photo booth outfitted with an ornate Victorian couch, bouquets of flowers, and a leopard skin draped on its side. The space was inspired by her photography series Rooms in the First House (2022) and her memoir “Men Have Called Her Crazy” (2024).

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