San Francisco Offers Three Charms in Bid to Make Fair Circuit

Before last year's San Francisco Fine Art Fair (SFFAF), the city's most recent fair was the 2005 International Art Exhibition (SFIAE), put on by Blackman & Associates. But this month [May 19–22], San Francisco gets three simultaneous fairs: artMRKT, the first event put on by upstart artMRKT productions; the second annual SFFAF, organized by Hamptons Expo Group (HEG); and another newcomer, ArtPadSF. Each offers robust auxiliary programming.