Sunday, May 04, 2008

The Armory Show!





Well the Armory show was a hoot!  Such a concentrated view of the contemporary art market is seldom available and it was amazing to see the art-selling machine all greased up and running at full speed.  Gursky, Koons, Hirst, you name they had it and I have to say I liked that.  After running all over the city looking at art it was nice to see a lot of stuff in one place under one roof.  The whole market frenzy side of things didn't really bother me either to be honest.  The booths were well organized and I was able to get a good look at the stuff I liked - which included a solo booth by Martin Creed that was fantastic, a solo booth of Colby Bird and a solo booth of Hans Schabus.  All three of these guys had great stuff that was really interesting and carefully arranged and displayed.