ART: 90% of all major art collectors, major art galleries, art stars and the most interesting art appreciators in the world have arrived, simultaneously, in NYC to see and be seen for the next 4 days!
If you have heard of NYC’s Fashion Week, well this is NYC’s Art Week. This year, March 3-6 is the most intense and important week of the entire year for the art world. This huge gathering of people who share one common interest (ART) is not a centrally planned event but has naturally grown around the Armory Contemporary Art Fair. Every other art fair has decided to create an event, or embrace these dates for their big event, while everyone interested in or associated with the world of fine art is gathered together.
The lead dog, “The Armory Show”, is in its 12th year of this incarnation and is one of the top international art fairs. It is now devoted to offering for sale important artworks of both the 20th and 21st centuries from the world’s top galleries.
The original “Armory Show” was held in 1913 and became synonymous with all that is new and exciting in the art world. It was held at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Ave.at 25th Street and was actually named the “International Exhibition of Modern Art”. That legendary show introduced many New Yorkers to modern art for the very first time by displaying 1,250 paintings by Impressionists, Fauvist and Cubist artists. For a crowd who had mostly seen only realism, the stand out piece was Marcel Duchamp’s: “Nude Descending a Staircase”! One reviewer said the effect was like an explosion happening in the Armory.
“Nude Descending a Staircase”,
Marcel Ducamp (1912), is now in
the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, PA.
NYC’s 2011
ARMORY SHOW ART WEEK!
This issue is mostly listings with links, because there is so much happening, a comment on each would create a huge book. I will comment on the events of the week, after it is over in a follow up issue on Monday, March 7, 2011. The Food segment of this issue is also a part of the Armory Arts Week.
First some frenetic music to listen to while you peruse the week’s events.
Every March approximately 60,000 artists, galleries, collectors, critics, curators and art tourists from all over the world attend the Armory Show at the passenger ship terminal, Piers 92 & 94 (West Side Highway – 12th Ave. – at 55th St.) in New York City. ARMORY SHOWhttp://www.armoryartsweek.com/armoryarts/index.cfm/home/
There are two Armory Art Fairs in one at these Piers. There is the Contemporary Fair at Pier 94 selling work of working artists today and there is the Modern Fair at Pier 92 selling works from major artists, both past and present, from the 20th Century. Open Thursday (March 3rd) through Saturday (March 5th) from Noon until 8pm and on Sunday (March 6th) Noon until 7pm.
OTHER ART FAIRS THIS WEEK IN NYC:
“THE ART SHOW” sponsored by the Art Dealers Association of America, is actually being held at the 67th Street Armory. It is a show by many of the great galleries of NYC showing great art of the 20th century. THE ART SHOW
Featuring over 20 galleries, artist projects, and street artists, this fair bills itself as a renegade art fair.
Pier 66 Maritime
26th Street & 12th Avenue
in Hudson River Park
March 3-6
Inspired by the French tradition of Artists Fairs, starting from Courbet’s 1863 Salon des Independents. PooL is the premiere fair in the US dedicated to unrepresented artists.
Gershwin Hotel, 7 E.27th St.
March 4-6
Note: 3pm – 10pm Pool video below: Performance artist, Clarina Bezzola: “Swiss Miss – a Gathering”
More Armory Arts Week listings and information after food.
FOOD:
“In Good Taste”
A collaboration between
individual artists and NYC
dining establishments!
Will Ryman’s Roses (installation) currently displayed
on the Park Ave. median strip.
Five artists were asked to choose a restaurant and help the chef design the evening’s menu. These dining experiences include a cocktail reception followed by a sit-down dinner. This started on Tuesday with the chef at “Le Caprice” (in the Upper East Side) teamed up with Will Ryman of “Roses on Park Ave.” fame. Although you have missed this event you can always just dine at Le Caprice (795 Fifth Ave. at 61st, in the Pierre Hotel) an upscale place to see and be seen. It is modeled after the original London Le Caprice Brasserie and is located near the of S/E corner of Central Park. Their review says “…exciting and restful at the same time, a rare trick.” LE CAPRICE http://www.capriceny.com/
Tacombi (in SoHo) teamed up with artist Maya Hayuk, Dutch Kills (in Long Island City) teamed up with artist Shelter Serra, Bottino (in Chelsea Arts District) teamed up with artist David Ellis, and Orange (in the Lower East Side) teamed up with artist Megan Whitmarsh. Times and registration links below.
Will Ryman was born in New York. His most recent work, The Roses, is an outdoor public art installation on the Park Avenue Malls from 57th to 67th streets in New York City. The site-specific installation consists of 38 sculptures of vividly colored pink and red rose blossoms, some towering as high as 25 feet, complimented by 20 individual rose petals scattered randomly on the median malls. Combining fantasy with reality, The Roses are made of stainless steel and fiberglass, and many of the sculptures contain individual bugs, beetles or bees.
Will Ryman is the latest in a long list of distinguished artists to exhibit on Park Avenue. Previous exhibitions have included Deborah Butterfield, Robert Indiana, Jun Kaneko, Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Yoshitomo Nara and George Rickey. To view a complete history of art on Park Avenue visit www.nyc.gov/parks/art and www.fundforparkavenue.org.
Ongoing Events during Armory Arts Week
(also see Museums and Gallery Openings at the end of this posting)
Zabludowicz Collection: Six Weeks in New York
The Zabludowicz Collection proudly presents its first US exhibition, taking over the top floor of a New York skyscraper to showcase emerging talent in contemporary art. For six weeks, the 33rd floor of 1500 Broadway will be transformed into a space for US audiences to discover the activities of the London based Zabludowicz Collection, which supports emerging artists and innovative curatorial practice by collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. The Shape We’re In (New York), and Proposal for a Floor.
Exhibition dates: 1 March – 15 April 2011
Address: 33rd Floor, 1500 Broadway at 43rd Street, New York
The Times Square Show 2011
The Armory Show and Times Square Alliance announce a new public event in the heart of New York City during Armory Arts Week in March 2011. The Times Square Show 2001 showcases four sculptures by artists on view at the Armory Art Show and a site specific installation produced in collaboration with the West Harlem Arts Fund. The artists and galleries are David Kennedy Cutler with Derek Eller Gallery, Tom Otterness with Marlborough Gallery, Niki de Saint Phallewith Nohra Haime Gallery and Grimanesa Amoróswith Nina Menocal Gallery. Kyu Seok Oh’s 36 foot long installation, “Counting Sheep,” is comprised of 24 uniquely made paper sheep sculptures on an undulating platform under the lights in the city that never sleeps. Time: March 1 – 7, 2011
Access: Free and open to the public 24 hours daily. Location: Duffy Square with TKTS Booth / Red Steps andBroadway Pedestrian Plazas between 46 & 47 Streets.
The not-for-profit visual arts institutions of SoHo present SoHo Night
Time: 6pm-9pm
Access: Public, No RSVP required
Location: SoHo
SoHo Night is an evening of extended exhibition viewing and special programs by the not-for-profit visual arts institutions in SoHo.
• apexart (291 Church)Change the Channel: WCVB- TV 1972-1982. 6pm-9pm
CITYarts (Thompson Street Playground, between Spring & Prince and Thompson & Sullivan Streets) presents Tributes To Kusama: Art Infinity-Net, a mural produced by CITYarts in collaboration with Jessica Diamond and New York youth. 6pm-8pm
The Drawing Center(35 Wooster St) presents reading by novelist Lynne Tillman. She will read her Drawing Papers essay, entitled Drawing from a Translation Artist. Extended exhibition viewing hours will follow. 6:30-9pm
HarvestworksDigital Media Art Center(596 Broadway #602 and Studio Anise at 23 Greene Street)presents Electronic Art in the Home 6-9pm
Location One (26 Greene Street) presentsDavide Balliano: Giving My Back To The Night I Heard You Lying To A Giant Solo Exhibition and Live Performance 6-9pm
John Bock: Howdy Bamington
Third Streaming
10 Greene Street, 2nd floor, 646-370-3877
Thursday, March 3, 6 – 8 PM
Pieced Together
HKJB
1205 Manhattan Avenue, Suite 154 (5th Floor), 214-457-2048
Friday, March 4, 7 – 10 PM
Joy Curtis, Empty is Run About Freely
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
54 Ludlow Street, between Grand and Hester, 212-777-7756
Friday, March 4, 6 – 8 PM
WOW! I enjoy reading your blog but this time you truly outdid yourself! Lots of stuff to pick from. Thanks so much for making us aware of the famous Art Week in NYC! Will try to check out at least some of the galleries.
Congrats on your fantastic blog! Enjoy the art, Alina
Hi Jack,
Great posting of all what's going on during Art Week. With so much to choose from what is your recommendation of "must see" shows/events?
Thank you,
Dirk
Hi Jack,
WOW! I enjoy reading your blog but this time you truly outdid yourself! Lots of stuff to pick from. Thanks so much for making us aware of the famous Art Week in NYC! Will try to check out at least some of the galleries.
Congrats on your fantastic blog!
Enjoy the art,
Alina