Best Fair: Volta
Best Booth: Fred London Ltd at Volta NY with Cathy de Monchaux‘s installation
Best Chelsea Gallery Show: Angelo Filomeno: Betrayed Witches at Gallery Lelong
Best Auction Deal: Jeremy Blake’s print, Liquid Villa in the April 2 Contemporary Sale Sotheby’s (only went for $6250 – the reserve)
Best Armory Show Deal: Johan Nobell’s work in the Andréhn-Schiptjenko booth
Most interesting work at the Whitney Biennial: Omer Fast: The Casting
Stupidest Thing I Said: asking Sweet P from Project Runway why she looked so familiar and if we went to the same gym
Cathy de Monchaux in her installation at Volta (thank you Mary Barone for the image)
Johan Nobell – The Pond, 2007. Oil on linen, 27 x 35 7/8 in.
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May 28, 2008 at 8:40 pm |
[...] the Whitney Biennial – after I visited the exhibition in March, I claimed that out of all the works Omer Fast’s, The Casting, was the best. So listen up all you nonbelievers out there, this month’s ARTnews reports that Fast won this [...]