OK, so how does the New Museum one-up trickster Urs Fischer (which, if you recall, won a spot on my Top Ten LIST-related Cultural Events of 2009), their awesome gallery-wide exhibition? Why, by featuring a swath of the Athens-based Joannou Collection, one of the leading in contemporary art, who hasn't shown this stuff in the states YET, and having Koons curate the whole thing. It is times like this when I am pleased to be writing such a piece where words like DOPE and MAYJAH come like totally naturally, b/c my review of this exhibition will no doubt be inundated w/ the aforementioned adjectives and all their variations (DOPER, the adverb MAYJAHLY). * "Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons" New Museum / 235 Bowery (FV to 2nd Ave).
You'd better believe I've got a lot to say re: these art fairs, so follow my talking-points on #voltany, #armoryshow and all that.
My main base of operations is VOLTA (+ the Armory, when I can get there), though I will try to hit Korean Art Show and Independent (since they're in my neighborhood) and at least Scope (since I dug it last year), and ideally I'll make it up to ADAA. * Fountain / Pier 66 aka W 26th St + 12th Ave (CE to 23rd St) * Independent / 548 W 22nd St aka the former X (CE to 23rd St) * Pulse / 330 W St Houston (1 to Houston) * Scope / Pavillion Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, 62nd St & Amsterdam (1 to 66th St) * Korean Art Show / 608 W 28th St (CE to 23rd St) * ADAA / Park Ave Armory aka 67th St + Park Ave (6 to 68th St) * VOLTA / 7 W 34th St (BDFV/NRW to 34th St, 6 to 33rd St, or take shuttle from The Armory Show) * The Armory Show / Pier 92/94 aka 55th St + 12th Ave (CE to 50th St or take shuttle from VOLTA)