Armory

Sorry about the lack of posts today – I spent the morning working on a long piece about vulture funds (coming soon!) and the afternoon at the Armory Show. The fact that it's all in one place now, rather than being spread over two piers, is great.

It's a good one, this year – largely thanks to the Brits, who really stand out. (Keith Tyson at Haunch of Venison, Ceal Floyer at Lisson, and, much as I hate to admit it, Damien Hirst at White Cube spring to mind.) One gallery I hadn't come across before (it's been a long time since I've really done the galleries in London) is Timothy Taylor, who has a huge collection of all-stars on his list but who devoted a lot of wall space to Ewan Gibbs, whose small drawing on graph paper of the Empire State Building is just lovely. Also from London is Alison Jacques, who was showing an utterly gorgeous Catherine Yass Lock. And, of course, there are my great friends Christabel Stewart and Darren Flook, of Hotel, showing for the first time this year, and whose Rita Ackermann was much better than the one mirroring it at Almine Rech next door. That said however, Rech has a really great neon piece by Nathaniel Rackowe which is one of the standouts of the Armory. Michelle's favorite piece, I think, was Mark Dion's piece about stuffed polar bears at Tanya Bonakdar. My favourite pieces might well have been the Tony Fehers at D'Amelio Terras and PaceWildenstein, if only because they were such a pleasant change from all the freneticism elsewhere. Oh, and a message from Michelle: Sean Kelly's getting fat. So anyway. Must get back to those vulture funds...

Posted by Felix at 20:09 EST