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Here is the front of Jason Polan’s—awesome!—hand drawn map of the Art Fairs and Other Useful Spots. Though the scale may be a little off, you will find all the major fairs, museums, some nice galleries + shops, Marfa, Texas, Taco Bell, and TWO zoos. Well played, Mr. Polan.

In addition to chasing celebrities (last year I may or may not have been following Chuck Close around The Armory Show), you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for the Jen Bekman Projects | 20x200 Street Team who will be handing out free totes, maps, popcorn, and a few more things that are clever, useful, hilarious and still top secret!

(via jenbee)

Was up late last night collaborating with the JBP crew on cramming all the major art fairs, museums, some nice galleries + shops, a Taco Bell, and TWO zoos onto the back of Jason Polan’s—awesome!—hand drawn map that we’re handing out this weekend at the fairs. 8pt font to the rescue!

Oh, and jenbee is making me blush:

This is the back of the printed version of our opinionated map + guide to the 2010 NYC Art Fairs, painstakingly, logically and gorgeously laid out for us by the if-I-wasn’t-so-goddamned-principled-I’d-pluck-him-out-of-undergrad-and-give-him-a-fulltime-gig Casey Gollan.

Copies will be exclusively distributed in our nifty Art Fair Survival Kits, which we’ll be distributing to a few hundred fortunate fair-goers. Assembled in our rather handsome and reusable totebags, our kits will include this map, a swank city guide from Daily Candy, primping materials, things to eat (popcorn, for instance) and other surprises. And also: plenty of room for all the art-fair related things you’re bound to accumulate during your travels.

We’ve also got an online version of our 2010 NYC Art Fairs map here — less visually delightful, sure, but highly useful! (No popcorn though, you have to find us in person for that.)

(via jenbekmanprojects)

This past week, Mel Bochner’s paintings have been making their rounds on the blogs that I follow. I didn’t recognize his name, but the style was strangely familiar. After some Googling, I realised that it’s because he had a bunch of work at the Armory Show at the Two Palms gallery. I searched for him on my own site but didn’t find, so here’s the late addition of Mel Bochner to my armory posts.

In my googling I also found a really nice armory wrap-up on Art Observed, that was similar to mine, but more complete.

Best of The Armory 2009

Title: Soundsuits (Series)
Artists: Nick Cave
Medium: Sculpture

I know I said the Armory posts were over, but I forgot one absolute favorite: Nick Cave’s fabulous soundsuits!! The best part of seeing these was overhearing the art snobs behind me discussing the “subtleties of the work” and which one was “the most understated yet complex.” I wanted to turn around and shout, “DON’T YOU GET IT!? IT’S JUST HAPPY ARTWORK FOR DANCING IN! EITHER SMILE OR GO BE ANNOYING SOMEWHERE ELSE!!” Apparently the three on display at the fair (including the one above) were sold by Sunday. I posted a video about these a few weeks ago. They’re ridiculous, whimsical, and so so fun.

Chicago artist Nick Cave creates full body suits out of objects that make noise when they move — things like sticks, bells, and garbage bag ties. He calls these garments Sound Suits and he puts on performances in which he and all sorts of “non-artists” dance in the suits. Cave considers the Sound Suits a second layer of skin — and as an African-American man, his work often deals with themes of skin and race. (PRX)

More information on Nick Cave at Jack Shainman Gallery.

Who Made This?

Title: ?
Artists:  ?
Medium: Painting

I photographed the wrong label for this massive, blue piece, which took up a whole wall. I didn’t catch the gallery either. The photo obviously doesn’t do it justice, it’s awesome in person.

Best of The Armory 2009

Title: Untitled — 1980
Artists: Deborah Butterfield
Medium: Sculpture

I had the amazing privilege to work hands-on for two weeks with Deborah Butterfield and her husband John Buck at Oxbow. They are two of the nicest, most inspiring people I’ve ever met. My favorite story is how they traded all the work they had ever done to one guy for his property in Hawaii, where they built a studio. How liberating!!

It’s always a pleasure to see their work, and I do see it everywhere!

More information on Deborah Butterfield.

Best of The Armory 2009

Title: Cuadrilateros
Artists: Elias Crespin
Medium: Kinetic Sculpture

I liked the way this looked so I walked up to it and noticed it very subtly moved. Strings supporting the “grid” are pulled up and down to form some really interesting shadow compositions.

More information on Elias Crespin.

Best of The Armory 2009

Title: Monument
Artists: John Coplans
Medium: Photography

Really big, really bold studies of the aging body. Unfortunately my pictures were too angled so I had to grab this from the Tate website, but it has terrible contrast.

More information on John Coplans.

Who Made This?

Title: ?
Artists:  ?
Medium: Installation Sculpture

This installation in Italian “Studio La Citta” is excellent, but I only hastily snappd a photo and forgot to grab the artists name. Anyone?

More information on Studio La Citta at Frith Street Gallery.