Fair Fetched: The Wrapup

See You in Miami
Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse

Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs

Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3,  Miami Project,  Nada, Scope

Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink

Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap      

Fair Fetched: Some Paintings  

Fair Fetched: Punctum  

Fair Fetched: Material Mashup, Part 1   

Fair Fetched: Material Mashup, Part 2

Frida #1 at Scope: Kazuhiro Tsuji at Copro Gallery, Santa Monica

Three Fridas showed up in Miami. No, this is not the start of a joke. There might have been more, but all I saw was three. You know the saying, "Two of anything is a coincidence. Three's a trend." Of course Frida has been trending for the past 25 years. But towels? They were all over the fairs as well (and they could have been put to good use with all the rain). Then there were the requisite oddities. Take a look. And may everyone own a reflective sculpture that adds a few inches to your height and knocks off 10 pounds.

Frida #2 at ABMB: Walter Pach at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York City

Frida #3 at ABMB: Yusamasa Morimoto at Luhring Augustine, New York City

The Beaded President at ABMB: Liza Lou at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris and Salzburg

The Alien Among us at ABMB: Matt Johnson at 303 Gallery, New York City

(cast and painted bronze)

The Love Child of Carl Andre and Estee Lauder at ABMB: Sylvie Fleury at Salon 94, New York City

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Pop Quiz: Art or Not Art?

Top: not art | Middle: art | Bottom: not art

Middle photo at NADA: Installation at The Sunday Painter, London

Trending: Towels

ABMB: Paul Lee at Stuart Shave Modern Art, London

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ABMB: Amanda Ross-Ho at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York City

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ABMB: Alexandre de Cunha at CRG Gallery, New York City

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NADA: Brendan Fowler at Capital Gallery, San Francisco

SCOPE: Jonathan Santoro at Crane Arts, Philadelphia

Detail below (actually, this one is cast plaster)

ABMB: Your intrepid reporter, a little bit taller and thinner reflected in polished steel

All Over But the Recovery

It's actually quite great to spend five days doing nothing but looking at art, but it's tiring. The subsequent 25 days spent slogging through some 3500 images to select and prepare several hundred for publication come with a different physical experience: pressure and exhaustion. Consider the following images metaphors for the experience. I look forward to unwinding, loosening up, and re-inflating. And I'm going to take the rest of the year off.

Aqua Art: Ross Bonfanti at Projects Gallery, Miami

ABMB: Jose Davila at Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen

Frank Hyder sculptures, from his Janis Project, in need of some inflating

The End

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