Celebrating an Anniversary Edition, ARCO Madrid Returns with a Pre-Pandemic Vibe

Though Covid continues to force many art fairs around the world to postpone (like the London Art Fair or TEFAF in the Netherlands) or to cancel altogether (like 1-54 in Marrakech), ARCO Madrid went forward as planned this year. Earlier this week, it successfully opened its “40(+1) Anniversary” edition at the city’s IFEMA convention center, with 185 contemporary art galleries from 30 countries.
“Forty years plus one, because 2021, when we actually turned 40, was a time to