Kyle DeWoody & Manish Vora
This week Kyle DeWoody and I, co-founder of Artlog, tackle Armory Week in NYC.
Manish Vora
The ADAA’s Art Show benefit on Tuesday night is the start – I missed curator Anne Huntington’s “Failed Dinner Party” Monday night performance, featuring Anne Grauso and Day Le. The ADAA benefit is for the Henry Street Settlement, a community shelter and arts center in the LES, which is a cause I am eager to support. This year seems particularly NYC heavy (Zwirner, Kasmin, Cohan, Terras, Goodman), but is that such a bad thing? After, I am running to see a special performance, produced by BOMB, by Rashaad Newsome and many others, including opera singer Stefanos Koroneos and artist Franklin Evans at Marlborough Chelsea. Newsome’s pieces in MoMA PS1’s Greater NY were some of my favorite video pieces in 2010, so I am excited to see him live.
Wednesday morning I speak at an Armory Panel on art as investment and then head to the Armory Show opening. As a frequent traveler to Latin America, I am most excited about the LatAm section at the fair, though it should probably be called the Brazil/Sao Paulo section. Art advisor Simon Watson has been extolling Sao Paulo for years, but this may be the year when folks start putting the city in the same sentence with Berlin and LA. The MoMA Armory Party is uptown and is sure to be packed.
Thursday is a fair day for me. VOLTA opens in the morning, and Artlog is filming interviews there with artists, collectors, and curators. PULSE and Moving Image open as well.
Friday evening is the reception for The Times Square Art Show, sponsored by The Armory Show and Artlog. It features sculptures from David Kennedy Cutler, commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park, Tom Otterness, Niki de Saint Phalle, Grimanesa Amorós and Kyu Seok Oh in the middle of the Square! Then I jump to another Artlog-sponsored event, the Humble Arts Foundation Party at the Chelsea Museum.
Over the weekend I am planning on catching up with more fairs, particularly Independent, and seeing friends at Fountain at the Frying Pan, my favorite summer destination. I will also head to Le Bain at the Standard to check out Country Club’s Ryan McGinness installation. Saturday night will be the end of my journey with a special event at Lu Magnus Gallery: a fantastic Panamanian artist, Miguel Fabrega, and designer Rafa Arroach bring their Panama City fashion and art boutique, Diablo Rosso, to NYC for one night.
Kyle DeWoody
What I’m excited to see this week. Let’s see. I’m mostly excited for the new, so while the Armory is like a giant text book of current art, it’s harder to find new artists. I’m ambitiously planning to hit every fair, but am most excited about Independent. Fingers crossed there will be some great pieces I can afford.
Monday night I’ll be checking out Zabludowicz Collection, of which I have no knowledge, so I’m quite intrigued. Tuesday I’m going to head over to Salon Zürcher, showing only six galleries, mostly from Brooklyn, including my friends at Journal.
Meghan Boody is an awesome artist who is in two shows this week Tuesday she opens at Affirmation Arts and Friday at James Salomon’s gallery in a show called Psyche & Smut Lives. How can you miss that? Also on friday night is a one night production of Upon My Word at the Players Club. It’s a period musical raunch comedy and it’s hysterical and in the perfect setting. So Friday will have a fun theme.
But between now and then there is a lot to do. Wednesday the Armory opens, so it and Scope will dominate my time. Thursday, my longest and most artful day, looks to be most promising. The night itself will be action packed starting with a Jose Parla opening at Bryce Wolkowitz gallery. Bryce and his wife are friends, so I’ll be attending the dinner as well, but in between I’m heading over to the Fizzy Water Panel at Phillips downtown. it is a discussion about what sculpture is today, hosted by my friend Marina Kurikhina of 360 Bespoke and including Simon de Pury. After all that I’ll be topping my night off at my home base, The Wooly, the social venue downtown at the Woolworth building that one of my best friend runs and I helped design. That night there is a party hosted by Invisible-Exports and Smith-Stewart with installation work by Fay Ray and Alexander May (a pal) to celebrate the opening of the Moving Image fair, ANOTHER fair I’m excited to check out. Wow there’s a lot to see…
Armory Arts Week Updates from Kyle:
Monday and Tuesday
