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Top 10 things to do during New York Armory Week 2011
As art collectors and enthusiasts gather in New York City for the annual Armory Show, we present our top 10 selection of things to see during a week packed with the best the art world has to offer.
黑料不打烊
27 Feb, 2011
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As art collectors and enthusiasts gather in New York City for the annual Armory Show, we present our top 10 selection of things to see during a week packed with the best the art world has to offer.
1) The Armory Show - After its largest art fair edition in 2010 with over 60,000 visitors, The Armory Show鈥檚 13th year promises to be just as thrilling for lovers of art. With 274 blue-chip contemporary and modern art galleries from 31 countries, the show will again present two sections, Contemporary and Modern. Don鈥檛 miss out as over twenty prominent art collectors open their homes for private viewings; embassies, international cultural consuls and museums such as the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art will hold special receptions. In conjunction with VOLTA NY, The Armory Show introduces Open Forum, a thought-provoking series of conversations and panels featuring top collectors, curators and museum directors. On March 5th, be sure to attend as Curator Victor Zamudio-Taylor joins artist Ivan Navarro in a conversation on his minimalist, yet socially and politically charged, sculptural practice.
2) Armory Focus Latin America - Focus continues The Armory Show鈥檚 mission to provide an annual platform for one of the world鈥檚 thriving arts communities. After featuring Berlin in 2010, The Armory Show's second edition of Armory Focus has turned its attention to Latin America. An invitation-only component of the fair, it features a selection of galleries from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. 鈥淣ew York City has long been a center of Latin American art,鈥� says Katelijne De Backer, Armory Show executive director. 鈥淎rmory Focus: Latin America will highlight this vital force in the city鈥檚鈥攁nd the world鈥檚鈥攁rt scene.鈥�
To coincide with the program, Armory has expanded the range of Latin American-themed events in its citywide and Armory Circle program, and has commissioned Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri to create the visual identity for the 2011 fair. Kuri is renowned for sculptures and collages made from the remains of everyday purchases and found objects. Kuri reconfigures meaning from tickets and receipts, retail supplies and slabs of marble, stones and other incongruous materials.
3) - In celebration of the city鈥檚 unparalleled artistic communities, Armory Arts Week highlights a neighborhood or borough鈥檚 arts scene each night with events. Past events have included special receptions, open studios, art tours, museum discounts, performances, panels, artist discussions and parties. Among numerous events, here鈥檚 our picks:
Art After Dark - Join members and guests in the Guggenheim's landmark building for a private view of The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918 and The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation, a cash bar, and the sounds of Nat Trotman鈥檚 selected playlist. Time: Starts at 9pm at the Guggenheim.
MTA Arts for Transit 鈥� Robert Kushner: Download a free podcast to learn more about 4 Seasons Seasoned, Robert Kushner鈥檚 glass mosaic artwork located on the mezzanine walls of 77th Street station. The artist, a key figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement, continues to feature vegetal motifs in his works, often along with geometric patterns and architectural shapes. In this artwork he creates bouquets of flowers - from every season - that reflect such influences as Dutch flower paintings and Japanese screens. At 77th Street station. Website: or a free podcast.
4) Verge Art Brooklyn - Art Brooklyn is the first fair of its kind to be held in Brooklyn, NY. The intention of the fair is to promote and support Brooklyn as a cultural bellwether of artistic endeavor that influences artistic practice the world over. Open to artists and galleries alike at all levels of practice, Art Brooklyn recovers the standard of an art fair as a platform for presenting the best work by living artists. Unlike most art fairs, Brooklyn鈥檚 will be free, and the art will be shown in actual galleries, as opposed to booths, and spread throughout an entire neighborhood. Most fairs don鈥檛 stay open after dark, but Brooklyn鈥檚 will run until 10 pm. Featuring 70 gallery exhibitors at nine locations, nearly forty participants for Material Issue: Artist's Projects Spaces and fifty artists for Tomorrow Stars: The Art Brooklyn Open Call Exhibition. Chosen by a distinguished panel of jurors, Tomorrow Stars represents the brightest and best Brooklyn has to offer.
Eric Parnes, Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (in Farsi), Neon Sign, 2009, 20" X 16" - StillLife Gallery
5) Volta - In addition to an impressive array of artists showing solo projects at VOLTA NY - a total of 83 galleries, representing 23 countries and 45 cities 鈥� the cutting-edge art fair will also feature a wealth of content beyond the limits of the fair floor. Special Projects include Michael Decker鈥榮 Old Growth (see image below), a site-specific installation referencing California鈥檚 giant Sequoia forests and their historic displays in metropolises like New York in the mid-19th century. It consists of fifty found metal ironing boards that were designed in the 1950s and have been collected by the artist over the past year. While purely utilitarian in origin, the ironing boards conjure up references to California's artistic and cultural heritage and can be seen as painted panels, minimalist monoliths or surfboards.
6) Pulse - After over 10,000 attended the New York Edition in 2010, the 2011 event will be held in a new venue - Metropolitan Pavilion (see image below) - a centrally-located location, 15 minutes on foot from the Chelsea Gallery District. Pulse's signature program of large-scale sculptures and installations features work throughout the Fair. This year, the spotlight will be on ASSEMBLY: Eight Emerging Photographers From Southern California on view at Pulse New York. ASSEMBLY features recent works by Nicole Belle, Matthew Brandt, Peter Holzhauer, Whitney Hubbs, Matt Lipps, Joey Lehman Morris, Asha Schechter, and Augusta Wood who have all emerged from the Southern California region in the last decade. Approaching the making of photo-based arts in a number of different ways, they create work that both reflects the cultural heritage of the region as well as suggests important trends in current American photographic practice.
听7) Scope - This year Scope expands to a 60,000 square foot hall on the West Side Highway, minutes from The Armory Show. Over 50 international galleries will showcase a wide variety of works. Be sure to check out Katya Hott and Eddie Yoo, members of , who are hosting an invitational dance battle. The contest will highlight eight of the finest b-boy talent in New York, pitting them against each other in a one vs. one, tournament-style competition. In battles like this, members of the same community put aside their friendships to test each other鈥檚 skills and determine the top contender.
If all of the above will not fill your art appetite, we recommend:
8) Picasso: Guitars 1912鈥�1914 at MoMA - Bringing together some seventy closely connected collages, constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings, and photographs assembled from over thirty public and private collections worldwide, this exhibition offers fresh insight into Picasso鈥檚 cross-disciplinary process in the years immediately preceding World War I.
9) John Chamberlain at Paula Cooper Gallery - With works ranging from 1962 through 1990, the exhibition will present a selection of free-standing pieces and wall sculptures made in Chamberlain鈥檚 iconic idiom of crushed metal from car bodies and other detritus of modern industrial society. With their emphasis on spontaneous 鈥渇it鈥� over pre-organized composition and their blend of boldness and lyricism, Chamberlain鈥檚 works have often been described as a three-dimensional expression of Abstract Expressionist painting. Along with Mark di Suvero, he represents a defining moment of American sculpture when the raw power and cultural relevance of industrial and vernacular materials came to surpass previous notions of sculptural beauty.
10) Donald Judd: Works in Granite, Cor-ten, Plywood, and Enamel on Aluminum - In the final two decades of Judd鈥檚 life, the artist introduced a variety of new materials to his work that expanded his possibilities for formal innovation.This exhibition will feature a Cor-ten steel floor box measuring 100 x 200 x 200 cm from 1989 and a Cor-ten steel vertical wall work with black Plexiglas from 1991 measuring 300 x 50 x 25 cm (overall installed).
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