Whisky drinking, dog walking and gardening: art dealers' plans for the alternative Frieze New York

[...] For Rakeb Sile, the founder and managing director of Addis Fine Art who is currently quarantining in Addis Ababa, the fair's cancellation came as sad news: "As the very first gallery based in East Africa to have been accepted to exhibit at Frieze, we are naturally very disappointed not to attend the live fair." The Addis Ababa and London-based gallery will be showing works by the Ethiopian born artist Tariku Shiferaw and Sile hopes "the virtual event will give collectors much more time to discover every section of the fair…maybe find works and galleries that they would not have discovered in the frenetic pace of a live fair."[...]