Scene & Herd at the Armory Show
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SCENE & HERD AT THE ARMORY SHOW Artforum’s online diary takes you behind the scene during New York’s art fair week
02.24—BRIAN SHOLIS on the fairs
“The buttoned-up uniformity was a little disappointing, but, always up to a challenge, I offer the names of (more or less) new-to-me artists whose work I enjoyed: Charlie Hammond, Adel Abdessemed, Anne Hardy…”
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02.22—TRÂN DÚC VÂN on Jeff Wall at MoMA
“One virtue of Galassi’s extra-taut Jeff Wall retrospective is that I had time to make four laps of the exhibition before the dinner trumpets sounded. When I located my table in a part of Russia where some of you have likely done time, a glance at the place cards revealed another happy/worrisome sign of global warming….”
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02.24—BRIAN SHOLIS on the fairs
“These days the big-four fairs are a bit like publicly traded companies (and dealers impatient shareholders): Fair organizers have to beat expectations. As one first-time exhibitor put it, ‘You’d have to be an idiot not to make a profit,’ so making back the booth-rental fee is no longer enough….”
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