Art Fairs Day one

Valerie Hegarty installation at Guild & Greyshkul

We attended the press preview of the Armory Show today. It was called a press preview, but we often had trouble looking at work because of roaming packs of coifed collector women. I'm sure all the big name collectors were there, and I spotted the Rubells and Horts right away. I had heard from at least one gallery that they had had some difficulties with getting a reasonable number of passes for their collectors, but I guess plenty of them didn't have too much trouble.

On to the positive!

My favorite galleries in the fair so far:

• David Kordansky - Patrick Hill, Mark Flores, Aaron Curry
• Zeno X - Jenny Scobel, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
• Stuart Shave Modern Art - Tom Burr, Collier Schorr

We only made it through most of one pier, so we have to go back.

Strangest overheard utterance at Armory:

Commercial. It's the new non-profit.

I have no idea to what it referred. Perhaps the presence of non-profit art spaces selling work at the fair?

We tried to go to the press preview for Scope, but that didn't work out.

Fountain had some fun stuff from several galleries, and a good mixed crowd, ranging from grungy art collective types to prosperous collectors.

I just put up a bunch of photos of things I liked, and could get decent photos of, on Flickr.