Yesterday's AK Files allowed members of the ARTKABINETT art collector social network to visit the top five events of New York's Armory Show. Today's article offers picks six through ten: 6) Pulse - After over 10,000 attended the New York Edition in 2010, the 2011 event will be held in a new venue - Metropolitan Pavilion - a centrally-located location, 15 minutes on foot from the Chelsea Gallery District.
Pulse's signature program of large-scale sculptures and installations features work throughout the Fair. This year, the spotlight will be on ASSEMBLY:
Eight Emerging Photographers From Southern California on view at Pulse New York. ASSEMBLY features recent works by Nicole Belle (work at right), Matthew Brandt, Peter Holzhauer, Whitney Hubbs, Matt Lipps, Joey Lehman Morris, Asha Schechter, and Augusta Wood who have all emerged from the Southern California region in the last decade.
Approaching the making of photo-based arts in a number of different ways, they create work that both reflects the cultural heritage of the region as well as suggests important trends in current American photographic practice.
7) Scope - This year Scope expands to a 60,000 square foot hall on the West Side Highway, minutes from The Armory Show. Over 50 international galleries will showcase a wide variety of works.
Be sure to check out Katya Hott and Eddie Yoo, members of Floor Obsession breakdance crew (pictured left), who are hosting an invitational dance battle.
The contest will highlight eight of the finest b-boy talent in New York, pitting them against each other in a one vs. one, tournament-style competition. In battles like this, members of the same community put aside their friendships to test each other’s skills and determine the top contender.
8) Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914 at MoMA - Bringing together some seventy closely connected collages, constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings, and photographs assembled from over thirty public and private collections worldwide, this exhibition offers fresh insight into Picasso’s cross-disciplinary process in the years immediately preceding World War I.
9) John Chamberlain at Paula Cooper Gallery - With works ranging from 1962 through 1990, the exhibition will present a selection of free-standing pieces and wall sculptures made in Chamberlain’s iconic idiom of crushed metal from car bodies and other detritus of modern industrial society.
With their emphasis on spontaneous “fit” over pre-organized composition and their blend of boldness and lyricism, Chamberlain’s works (pictured left) have often been described as a three-dimensional expression of Abstract Expressionist painting.
Along with Mark di Suvero, he represents a defining moment of American sculpture when the raw power and cultural relevance of industrial and vernacular materials came to surpass previous notions of sculptural beauty.
10) Donald Judd: Works in Granite, Cor-ten, Plywood, and Enamel on Aluminum - In the final two decades of Judd’s life, the artist introduced a variety of new materials to his work that expanded his possibilities for formal innovation.
This exhibition will feature a Cor-ten steel floor box measuring 100 x 200 x 200 cm from 1989 and a Cor-ten steel vertical wall work with black Plexiglas from 1991 measuring 300 x 50 x 25 cm (overall installed).
