Author Archives: ArtJetSet

dash snow memorial

July 24, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Dash Snow, East Village Artistic Rebel, Dies July 13, 2009 Grafitti artist, polaroid photographer of the sex- and drug-fueled young bohemian circles in which he moved, recording his life and times in a style similar to that of his close friend Ryan McGinley and older artists like Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, was a forefather of the current trash Lower East Side art movement. Memorial is being held at Deitch Projects, where the artist’s friends and the public are invited […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Dash Snow, Memorial

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Hans Ulrich Obrist book talk at the Guggenheim

July 22, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Walter Hopps will be here in 20 minutes!! On stage with recently appointed Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong and Curator Nancy Spector, Hans Ulrich Obrist discussed issues on curating and his career, as a presentation of his new book A Brief History of Curating. As curator of over 140 shows to date, and current director of the Serpentine Gallery, Obrist explains that the curator is really an accomplice of the artist, and that looking and looking again is the adage to […]

Categories: Book • Tags: A brief History of Curating, Hans Ulrich Obrist

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West Queen West, the Gallery District

July 21, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Highlights from Toronto’s West Queen West, and burgeoning Ossington art district. Talia Shipman resin coated black and white photos interpreting Exodus: The Ten Plagues, James Olley and Brendan Flanagan both brilliant emerging artists that stay true to Jamie Angell’s program of encouraging Pop impasto painting with a pure Canadian/Group of Seven-esque soul at Angell Gallery . MKG127 presents COMMON WEALTH, 5 artists living in the United Kingdom exploring the relationship between word and image. I loved the audio piece by […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Angell Gallery, Brendan Flanagan, Giorgio Sadotti, James Olley, Jim Verburg, MKG127, Talia Shipman

Pulp Fiction at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

July 15, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Pulp Fiction at the MOCCA, curated by Corinna Ghaznavi, brings together a group of fourteen artists from across Canada as a means of examining this phenomenon of art practice. Because the work bypasses the space, systems and many of the concerns of Canada’s established institutions, this show developes as an unintelligable dialogue between regional artists with museum standards speaking to a commercial gallery with a strong Canadiana thematic. Little dolls by Jennie O’Keefe. James Kirkpatrick, the talking that influences everything […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Jason Mclean, Mark DeLong, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

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Younger than Jesus, continued

July 12, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Categories: New York, Uncategorized

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On the Pleasure of Hating: Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; Hatred alone is Immortal at Lisa Cooley Gallery

July 12, 2009 by ArtJetSet

An insanely long but severly poignant title for the current show at Lisa Cooley Gallery- On the Pleasure of Hating: Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; Hatred alone is Immortal. The title comes from an essay by English writer William Hazlitt, about antipathies and the unruly passions of men. To me the title and the show both feel like a ripened more profound teenage angst and highschool heartache. Dario Robleto’s Sinew of Purpose. Josh Faught’s Triage, […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Dario Robleto, Josh Faught, Lisa Cooley Gallery

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Don’t Panic at Rental Gallery

July 12, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Rental Gallery is an atypical exhibition space that invites galleries to host shows in their Chinatown space. There is definatly an obvious program in selecting the collaborating galleries. The last exhibition was a solo show featuring Richard Kern, who is part photographer, part filmmaker, and infamously occasional pornographer. Current show Don’t Panic! I’m selling my collection, is an assemblage of super trendy, low grade works by blue-ish chip artists, from a variety of New York based collector’s private collections. The […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Hope Atherton, Marilyn Minter, Rental Gallery

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Michael Jackson Pollock video by Marco Schmitt

July 11, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Invisible Exports presents a hilarious video program negotiating the consequence of television struggle between high and low culture. Curated by Mike Bouchet, the program consists of works by a roster of contemporary artists interwoven with segments and episodes swiped from digital cable. Throughout the show, the work will be continuously replenished with new videos and new content from network programs, a democratic gesture that raises questions about influence and audience, scope, depth, and quality in the narrative arts. As the […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Invisible Exports, Marco Schmitt

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After Color at Bose Pacia

July 7, 2009 by ArtJetSet

After Color presented by Bose Pacia, curated by Amani Olu, a discussion on Black&White photography in the age of large scale massive colour imaging. Many of the photos seemed more like ephemeral graphite on paper rather than b&w photography, like Talia Chetrit’s Gradient Tool and Matthew Gamber’s Untitled Chalkboard. Very beautiful landscapes by Arthur Ou. I remember being surprised by these large photos at Hudson Franklin’s booth at 2008 NADA Miami Fair.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Amani Olu, Arthur Ou, Bose Pacia, Hudson Franklin, Matthew Gamber, Talia Chtrit

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East Houston: Whitewash Facelift

July 3, 2009 by ArtJetSet

On East Houston, between Billy’s Antiques and Bowery stood the recreated mural by famous NY grafitti artist and AIDS awareness advocate Keith Haring (framed by the contemporary grafitti artist Mr. Brainwash) The weekend of July 4th, these two walls were whitewashed, and a new mural is on its way up. In other East Houston news, the scandal that broke around this threesome Calvin Klein ad created such a stir, that it was taken down and replaced by blond model in […]

Categories: Graffiti, Public Art, Street Art • Tags: Deitch Wall, East Houston Mural, Keith Haring, Mr.Brainwash

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We’re All Gonna Die at Sue Scott Gallery

June 28, 2009 by ArtJetSet

A vibrantly existentialist We’re All Gonna Die at Sue Scott Gallery, curated by Ron Keyson.This two part exhibition divides death into Comedy and Tragedy. Highlights of this show, Marlyin Minter (seems like every corner you turn in the LES these days has a Minter on it), and a hallucinogenic WallPaper by Fred Tomaselli. Markus Linnenbrick’s abstract painting titled DYINGDOESNOTMEETMYEXPECTATIONS/DEATHOFADISCODANCER and the somber frosty Anthony Conway Due North.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Anthony Conway, Fred Tomaselli, Marilyn Minter, Markus Linnenbrick, Sue Scott Gallery

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Sculpture Center Long Island City – Summer show

June 28, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Sculpture Center Long Island City summer show In Practice features new works. The creepy dank basement of the Sculpture Center at once houses and compliments the artist’s works bringing a sculptural environment to these works. Michael Ashkin’s project consists of a miniaturized model of a fictional urban agglomeration at a scale of 1:128. Built entirely of found cardboard, stretching the length of the central basement tunnel at SculptureCenter the piece emulates a stretch that would extend for two miles and […]

Categories: New York • Tags: Cindy Loehr, Michael Ashkin, Sculpture Center Long Island City, Virginia Overton

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WhiteWall Magazine

June 28, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Whitewall Magazine, a gorgeous art and luxury lifestyle magazine, should be on the coffee table of everyone in the arts. The Summer Issue launch party was held at 60 Thompson Hotel, where ArtJetSet caught up with Andres Serrano.

Categories: Book • Tags: Andres Serrano, Whitewall Magazine

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Katrin Sigurdardottir at two concurent shows Eleven Rivington and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery

June 16, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Katrin Sigurdardottir has two concurent solo shows which explore two polar aspects of her sculptural practice. At Greenberg Van Doren Sigurdardottir has constructed serene mountainous landscapes in portable boxes and shipping crates. Conversly at 11 Rivington we are confronted by a massive plywood box, the installation housing a guard tower opposed by a two-way mirror. The infinite reflection and distance of a closed interior. 11 Rivington also featured the inverted house chandelier at NADA Miami, a gorgeous piece that harmonizes […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: 11 Rivington, Greenberg van Doren, Katrin Sigurdardottir

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The Living Art Exhibition by ArtBattles

June 10, 2009 by ArtJetSet

ArtBattles presents a two week showcase at the RedBull Space titled Living Art Exhibition. Artists battle live on stage producing paintings infront of a live audience. The audience votes, and the paintings are available for purchase. The winning artist receives a solo show and $20 000 Commision for a mural at Griffin Court Developement.

Categories: Performance • Tags: The Living Art Exhibition by ArtBattles

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Younger than Jesus… one more time

June 9, 2009 by ArtJetSet

I Kitty Kraus revisited the New Museum Younger Than Jesus and decided that I really like Kitty Kraus Robert Morris-esque sculptures, Mark Essen super old school technology video game (ps boys…. share with others), and water colour video installation by Wojciech Bąkowski.

Categories: New York • Tags: Kitty Kraus, Mark Essen, Wojciech Bakowski

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Dark and Dirty in the Lower East Side

June 1, 2009 by ArtJetSet

In dialgue with New Museum’s summer show Younger Than Jesus, there are some challenging shows in the Lower East Side. Oil Now by Theo Mercier at Envoy Enterprises presents an ironic sculptural installation of found objects, cut and pasted pornography, and racial non-sequitors. I did like the fresh grave that emminated soft muffled music titled Punk is not Dead. More death, multiples and irony at Terence Koh’s Asia Song Society (charming acronym ASS) Everything Must Out Going ASS is unique […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Asia Song Society, Envoy Enterprise, Terence Koh, Theo Mercier

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Berlin, Art on Every Corner

May 29, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Berlin is a city filled with art and artists. The streets are clean and the graffiti is abundant. Tacheles – An abandoned department store that was taken over by artists it is a well known artist collective housing studios, bars, and gallery spaces. The building was bought by Fundus Group investment fund in the 90s, but to avoid conflict with the artists they leased the building back to the squatter-tenants for 10 years at $0.50 per year. The lease has […]

Categories: Berlin • Tags: Banksy, Christian Boltanski, Tacheles

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Jonathan Monk Inflated Deflated at Casey Kaplan

May 15, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The current show at Casey Kaplan I was anticipating a pop contrived show of Jeff Koons-esque work. Not only was I wrong, I was pleasantly surprised with an intimate and engaging exhibition of Jonathan Monk stainless steel sculptures of deflated rabbits paired with the hyperrealistic paintings of his art making process. Oil paintings titled Production Stills lend to a very intimate dialogue about how profoundly the artist is engaged with his body of work in creating this kind of mass […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Casey Kaplan, Jonathan Monk

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Fairs, Biennales, Parties OH MY!!

May 11, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Fairs in Basel Switzerland Art Basel Volta05 Biennale 53rd Venice Biennale titled Making Worlds, directed by Daniel Birnbaum. Art Parties and Fundraisers Whitney Museum Art Party and Auction Eyebeam Non-profit Digital Media space

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Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian

May 10, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Gagosian has two outstanding shows on at the moment. Picasso: Mosqueteros, a musuem quality presentation of Picasso paintings from the late years of 1963 – 1973. Yayoi Kusama, massive abstracted paintings of vibrant coloured tiny loops contrast with the installation Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity. Also called the Infinity Room, Kusama plays with relation of the viewer within these engaging optical environments.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Gagosian New York, Yayoi Kusama

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Banks Violette at Team Gallery

May 9, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Banks Violette show Not Yet Titled at Team Gallery showing drawings and one sculpture (cast motorcycle resin and salt). Violette calls his drawings “film cells from the world’s slowest movie.” Here is Banks Violette with supporters of all ages. ArtJetSet caught up with Agathe Snow who is just back from preparing a show in Paris Jeu de Paume and on her way to Toronto for a show at The Powerplant.

Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Agathe Snow, Banks Violette, Team Gallery

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Berlin Private Collections

May 5, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Art critic to the New York Times Michael Kimmelman likened Berlin to a Potempkin village – a place of perpetual becoming. The city itself is in the process of making itself and remaking it self. Since most of the city was destroyed in during World War II, and the reprocussions of the Fall of the Wall and German reunification, Berlin as a city has a feeling of secret dispersed energy. There is a lot of vast empty space with no […]

Categories: Private Collection • Tags: About Change, Daimler, Sammlung Boros, Sammlung Hoffmann

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Gallery Weekend Berlin May 1 – 3

May 3, 2009 by ArtJetSet

38 Galleries, 38 Openings 1 – 3 May 2009. The slogan for Gallery Weekend Berlin is Feel Invited and Be Surprised Here is a little selection of interesting shows from ZIMMERSTRASSE Contemporary Art – Georg Herold Klosterfelde – Hanne Darboven Galerie Max Hetzler Arndt & Partner – Ralf Ziervogel Young German Art Galerie Barbara Weiss – Rebecca Morris Wentrup – Gregor Hildebrandt Volker Diehl Gallery- Frauke Eigen Galerija Gregor Podnar – Attila Csorg Konrad Fischer Galerie – Jan Dibbets Upstairs […]

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Marylin Minter at Salon 94

April 27, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Green Pink Caviar is the second Marilyn Minter solo show at Salon 94. Minter examins glamour and its underbelly in a lush, subtly erotic juxtaposition in her photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs. Absolute must see video http://www.greenpinkcaviar.com

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Appraisers Association of America Honours Thomas Krens

April 23, 2009 by ArtJetSet

On April 21 The Appraisers Association of America honoured Thomas Krens, Guggenheim Senior Advisor for International Affairs. The award was presented by Jeff Koons, who gave a very sincere and warming introduction about his relationship with Krens. Koons gave a sweet nod to Krens as a visionary the art world as well as a compassionate friend, making sure to emphasize that chit-chat is definatly not his forte. Thomas Krens joined the Guggenheim in 1988 and revolutionized the museum structure with […]

Categories: Foundation • Tags: Appraisers Association, Thomas Krens

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OMG! WTF is going on at the New Museum – Generational: Younger than Jesus

April 13, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Younger than Jesus at the New Museum, This exhibition is an excercise in endurance.Featuring fifty artists from 25 countries, all are under the age of 33. This generation has been categorized by sociologists, marketers, and social anthropologists as the iGeneration or Generation Me… a generation distinguished by technology and their consumption patterns. Granted this was the main theme that translated through the show. The New Museum has consistently presented “challenging” shows. There are some elements of in Younger than Jesus […]

Categories: New York • Tags: Adrian Lara, Chu Yun, Icaro Zorban, Liu Chuang, New Museum New York, Ryan Trecartin, Younger than Jesus

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Liz Glynn 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project at the New Museum

April 8, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, a part of the Generational: Younger than Jesus exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles artist Liz Glynn and the help of volunteer artists (including myself and my unsuspecting brother) used found materials to chronolgically reconstruct the Rome. The construction began at 6.30pm April 6 and at 6.30pm April 7 – Rome was destroyed.The only elements remaining are displayed polaroids of the succsive building that took place. Here is the wall […]

Categories: New York • Tags: 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, Jerry Saltz, Liz Glynn, New Museum New York

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Sun Xun: Shock of Time at The Drawing Center

April 3, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The Drawing Center presents hand-drawn animations by artist Sun Xun. This stunning animation is made from hundreds of drawing on old Chinese newspapers. A stunning and curious must see show.

Categories: New York • Tags: Sun Xun, The Drawing Center

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Black & White Gallery presents Nostaligia for the Future paintings by Michael Van Den Besslaar

April 1, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Black & White Gallery presents Nostaligia for the Future paintings by Michael Van Den Besslaar The title of the show is poignient, the large sized oil on canvas paintings are stunning. The gallery is a gorgeous and very large space in the far far extreme edge of Chelsea. Originally Dutch, Van Den Besslaar lives and works in Paris, France, his paintings are architectural refrences of California and suburban Chicago.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Black and White Gallery Chelsea, Michael Van Den Besslaar

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Greene Contemporary Welcome to My Word

March 29, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Greene Contemporary show Welcome to My World, and interesting mix of artists, media, and themes. I love Andrew Junge, Pandora’s Box – a metal tool kit with neon hope. Very much enjoyed Shawn Pettersen, Disrupted Migrations; pummeling through a torn sky, 200,000 miles above the falling vishnu mountains, another failed docking mission, fabric sculpture.

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Andrew Junge, Greene Contemporary, Shawn Pettersen

AIPAD – Park Ave Armory

March 28, 2009 by ArtJetSet

AIPAD is the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, held their 29th annual photography show at the Park Ave Armory. Unlike other art fairs, photography fairs cause your eyes to shoot around like pinball… so much to see. A wide array of everything photographic, from daguerrotypes to large digital C-prints.We saw a lot of secondary market, a lot of Great American Photographers (Steichen, Weston, Arbus) and the great photographers throughout history as a part of the AIPAD program Innovation: An […]

Categories: AIPAD • Tags: Kenneth Josephson, Laura Letinsky, Robert Polidori, Stephen Bulger

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Michael Raedecker at Andrea Rosen

March 26, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Michael Raedecker exhibition is titled Fix, on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery. These large paintings are accented with stitching and embroidery which give a nostalgic quality to an already airy imagery. Raedecker’s tablecloths and linens hanging on a drying line are so faint yet have such a heaviness of the drapery. Very beautiful.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Andrea Rosen, Michael Raedecker

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Tony Oursler at Metro Pictures

March 24, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Tony Oursler is a pioneer of New Media and video art. Metro Pictures presents a variety of new works, including this stunning Cigarette Forest, 6 foot tall columns upon which smoldering cigarette projections burn away. Other multimedia works in this show incuded issues on money (a giant talking five dollar bill), scratch lotto tickets, and gambling machines.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Metro Pictures, Tony Oursler

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Gordon Cheung at Jack Shainman

March 21, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Jack Shainman Gallery presents large paintings by London-based Gordon Cheung. These techno-coloured landscapes are stocklistings, acrylic gel and spray paint on sail cloth. Resulting in an amazing layered quality and depth. Cheung alliterates the dialogue between fantasy, history, and overlays that upon the stock list numbers elluding to the underlying tones of the current financial systems.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Gordon Cheung, Jack Shainman

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Jon Kessler and Ryan McGinness at Deitch

March 20, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The very lovely director Mlle Nicola Vassel gave us a brilliant tour of the current two extremly different shows at Deitch Project Soho spaces. Ryan McGinness new works are florescent technocoloured silkscreens of icons, interlaced and layered upon each other, echoing the noise of the everyday and technology. McGuinness designs his own icons, ranging from people, to calculators, to arrows, trees, etc.I especially like this green one, the 2D icons layer and grow into a very naturalistic organic feeling techno […]

Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Deitch Project, Jon Kessler, Ryan McGuinness

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Memories of the Future, Jakob Kolding at Team Gallery

March 17, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Team Gallery presents a fun show by Danish born Berlin based Jakob Kolding. Cultural collisions in the contemporary city, we have a melding of architecture, urbanisms, grafitti, skateboarding, electronic music, nature and technology in these printbased mixed media works.

Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Jakob Kolding, Team Gallery

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Scope Foundation – Cheap Fast and Out of Control

March 14, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The Scope Foundation is a not for profit that grew from the Scope Fair, with a mission to support emerging artists. Cheap Fast and Out of Control was a benifit space, selling artists multiples (t-shirts, photos, prints, editions) where 70% of the profits went to the artists, and 30% went to the foundation to support future projects.There was a lot going on in this space, I know well since I have been collaborating with the Scope Foundation since January.Film and […]

Categories: Ashley Higgins, Scope • Tags: ashley Higgins, Cheap Fast and Out of Control, Scope Art Fair

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Scope Art Fair New York

March 11, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Scope Art Fair New York is the FUN emerging contemporary fair. Where most of the fairs this season were quiet and modest, Scope promotes a lively dynamic program. Scope is refreshing and high energy. Scope Fair is held at the Lincoln Center, the exterior surrounded by highrises, the interior an hommage to nature and camping. The entry was crowned by the resin deer head by Carolyn Salas and Adam Parker, from there we are guided down a ramp lined with […]

Categories: Scope • Tags: EVOL, Kristen Schiele, Marc Séguin, Scope Art Fair, Yigal Ozeri

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The Armory 2009 at Chelsea Piers

March 7, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Art Fair week in New York openned to much worry and whispers about the state of the economy and the reprocussions upon the art market. Break it down…. there is the Art Dealers Association of America ADAA Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, then there is The Armory Show at the Chelsea Piers. Volta, featuring a single artist in a curated booth, is a sister fair owned by the same parent company as The Armory Show. Pulse and Scope […]

Categories: The Armory Show • Tags: Alexandra Mir, Barbara Astman, Gabi Trinkaus, Ian Wallace, James Casebere, James White, Kibong Rhee, Nicolas Hlobo, The Armory Show, Tony Matelli

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