The Armory Show International Fair 2008

James Kalm joins the early birds and tours this year's edition of the Armory Show. This event kicks off a weekend of frantic art viewing. Though not as large as Basil Miami, but with over 160 international galleries represented, this is New York's premier fair. Highlights include glances of work by Mary Heilmann, Gilbert and George, Thomas Hirschhorn, Richard DuPont and many of today's hottest talents. Also included is a demonstration of "Vigilomiter" by Brian Dewan at Williamsburg's Pierogi

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[boils2]

Wanna find sales tax cheats....go here....

[artworldpirate]

It's full of twisty, sparkly, shapely thingies with a lot of pretentious pretenders talking nonsense.

[Tenedos2008]

very nice... what is this place? A horbor building?

[MrWowforever]

sorry:)

[johnhitchen]

I didnt say I dispised the market, I said it was no more honest than the institution. But MrWF...they're all rich to me!

"Society does not consist of individuals; it expresses the sum of connections and relationships in which individuals find themselves."

[MrWowforever]

it's a complicated web that is born of spurious means. to be fair....the money the market sends in is used for good things too, sustaining careers of worthy artists of talent. the means are insidious but the ends, sometimes, can be good. which side of the fence your on.... point taken:)

[jameskalm]

MrWow,

The market is totally insidious, like it or not, it is what it is. It's built into the museum structure publications and media, even academia. If it's working for them, people appreciate it, if it's not they despise it. Johnnitchen's view seems to be the latter

[MrWowforever]

thanks for the response mr. kalm and you need a weekend on the beach!!!!! your videos are a gift!

[MrWowforever]

i agree with your points, especially with Krens at the guggenheim, and Lowry's 'entertainment' agenda and the whitneys bit streams and biannuals decline; i hear you mr. kalm, i prefer the value of taste (the market), they buy what they like! the curators for the new whitney biannual seem so boringly academic in interviews, no real personality, it shows in their exhibition. i think your right here, the market is not just rich people, many mid-level collectors help support younger artists.

[jameskalm]

We're not talking about the abstract notion of a totally honest exhibition or person. We're talking about whether an open market is a more honest reflection of societies wants needs and desires than the efforts an institution which has no transparency in its curatorial choices.