Moving into a new apartment in NYC, you want your space to feel like your home. A great way to do this is to put up some art! Art is an easy way to personalize your own space and bringing character to your Glenwood apartment. While some of us may know what type of art we are drawn to immediately, other may find the process a bit daunting. Whether you are an art aficionado or novice, attending The Armory Art Show this March is a great way to gain some inspiration!

Attend The Armory Show

The Armory Show is taking place March 5^th-8^th, from noon to early evening, at Piers 90 and 94, which are at 711 12^th Avenue. The show usually is hosted at Pier 92 and 94, but due to some structural damage of Pier 92, the works that would have been shown at Pier 92 are being relocated to Pier 90.   This is convenient for Glenwood residents living at Emerald Green, Crystal Green, The Sage, The Encore, Hawthorn Park, The Regent and The Grand Tier, and is definitely still worth the subway or cab ride from uptown or downtown Glenwood buildings. The Armory Show exhibits some of the most critical artworks from the 20^th and 21^st centuries. This year is the 26^thAnniversary of the event, so it is sure to be extra special!  Click here to find out some more logistics for the show. This art show was founded by four New York based gallerists Colin de Land, Pat Hearn, Matthew Marks, and Paul Morris, who held their first fair at The Gramercy Park Hotel in 1994. Notable artists like Tracey Emit participated in the very early years of the fair while it still took place at The Gramercy.

At this point in time, the art fair was called The Gramercy International Art Fair. You may be wondering how the name of this world known event became The Armory Show. Well, due to the popularity and size of the show, it needed to relocate to encompass all of the galleries and artists who wanted to display their work. So, in 1999, the fair moved to The 69^thRegiment Armory in NYC to be able to display a large amount of works. With the art fair’s consistently growing popularity, it eventually had to move to the NYC Piers, where it is today and kept its name of The Armory Show.

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Make A Day Out Of The Armory Show

Do:

If you are looking to make a day out of this art fair, you are in luck! There are great things to do and eat close to the Pier!  If you are looking for another activity to tag onto the art fair, The Intrepid is close by. The Intrepid Air and Space Museum is located at Pier 86 on West 46^th Street. This unique museum is aboard a US aircraft carrier, The USS Intrepid. There are numerous, interactive exhibits that are fun for all ages! And, who doesn’t want to experience what being on a real aircraft carrier is like!

Another fun activity is Lucky Strikes, the bowling alley. It is also close by located at 624 West 42^nd Street. The bowling lanes fill up, so make sure to reserve a lane ahead of time. Be sure to note that the bowling alley is 21 and over at night.

Eat:

If you are visiting the art fair during the day and are looking for a coffee shop to grab a coffee and bite before or after walking around, visit Fika located at 824 10^th Avenue. Not only does Fika have great coffee, but it has the best chocolate! A wonderful Swedish coffee and chocolate shop, it is sure to make your day that much sweeter!

If you are looking to have a nice dinner after visiting the Armory Show, there are great restaurants close by! Marea is a high end Italian restaurant located at 240 Central Park South. It is sure to have a lively crowd filled with many people from the Art Fair—you will definitely have a fabulous time! Another great dinner spot nearby is Taboon, located at 773 10^th Avenue. It is a great Mediterranean restaurant with a fun ambience.

Find Inspiration For Your Apartment:

Now that you have visited one of New York City’s most popular art fairs, you may have some inspiration ready to fill your Glenwood apartment walls with art! Paying attention to colors, patterns, and types of art that spoke to you, you can begin your artwork search. Was it bright reds or cool blues that you liked most? Perhaps you found a specific artist that really spoke to you? Instead of splurging for the astronomically priced piece, you can sometimes find great posters online. Now, yes, some posters can look rather bleak on a wall.  But, if you take it to your neighborhood framer, you can turn that poster into something really special! Additionally, be sure to check out The Affordable Art Fair taking place March 26th-29th at the Metropolitan Pavilion that showcases contemporary art starting at $100.

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Contemporary art fans, prepare to be completely overwhelmed! Yes, it's that most wonderful time of year again, Art Fair Week 2015, when galleries from all over the planet descend upon our beautiful city with literally tens of thousands of pieces of art, all of which they want us to buy for astronomical amounts of money. Or, like me, you can just look at everything. Starting on Tuesday, March 3, and really kicking in over that following weekend, this year's Armory Arts Week features at least eight different art fairs in Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea, all of which contain enough immediately engaging work (everyone breaks out their most attention-getting stuff, to try and stand out among the throngs) to keep you entertained for hours… and days… until you just can't take it anymore. It's exciting, it's eye-opening, it's tedious, it's beautiful, it's exhausting. And here's how you can get through it all…. 

The Armory Show 2015

The biggest, glitziest, craziest, most monied art fair of the week will definitely be the 16th annual Armory Show, held once again on Piers 92 and 94 at 55th Street and the Hudson River. Divided into contemporary and modern, and with some 2,500 international exhibitors breaking out their most sellable stuff, The Armory Show 2015 promises to be just as much of spectacle as always. Admission is pretty steep–usually about $40–but if you've never been, it's sort of a bucket list NYC thing to do. Always fantastic for people-watching, too. Running from Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8. 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m. More info here.

Volta NY 2015

Volta's always a treat because each of the 90 or so exhibitors display work done by a single artist, so it really gives you a sense of each person's range and style. This "solo-project" rule also means there tends to be a lot of installation-type pieces as well, which are always fun to look at and photograph (yes, Armory Arts Week is something of photographer's dream). Unfortunately, Volta NY 2015 is moving away from its usual Soho digs and setting up shop at Pier 90, just south of the Armory Show, which I guess is convenient, but I always liked the "fresh-start" feeling of taking the shuttle to a different neighborhood. Running Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, from 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m., and on Sunday the 8th from noon to 7:00. More info here.  

The (un)SCENE Art Show 2015

Switching gears a bit here, the semi-rogue, most definitely raucous (un)SCENE Art Show is one of my favorite of the newer events that spring up in order to counteract the "glamour" (and money) of the Armory Show. Held just a few blocks away from the piers in an abandoned Hell's Kitchen tenement, the (un)SCENE–previously known as the (un)FAIR–is a rowdy gathering of interesting, usually off-the-radar artists and the people who love to party with them. Running from Wednesday, March 4 to Saturday, March 7, from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. There are private events each night until midnight, too, if you want to try and crash. More info here.      

Spring/Break Art Show 2015

Another personal favorite from among the smaller shows, Spring/Break 2015 is a curator-driven art fair that used to be held in that great old school house in Nolita but, because of imminent condo development therein, has had to move up to the Skylight at Moynihan Station on 31st and 8th Avenue. It will be interesting to see if Spring/Break, a showcase of (mostly) young NYC-based artists, can maintain the energy and sense of surprise that made it work so much fun downtown. Running from Wednesday, March 4 to Sunday, March 8, from 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m. (closes at 6:00 on Sunday). More info here.

 Scope New York 2015

Also potentially interesting: how the the folks at Scope will pull off their new "progressive format", debuting in a space on 46th Street and 12th Avenue, a few blocks down from the Armory Show piers. As far as I can tell, the new format essentially means that Scope's more than 50 exhibitors won't be assigned separate, enclosed booths, but rather one gallery will flow into next across what appears to a be a single, huge room. Anyway, Scope has always entertained in the past with their emerging and mid-career artists, and I'm looking forward to checking out how this plays out. Running on Friday, March 6, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8, from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. More info here.   

Pulse, Independent, Moving Image 

Finally, the three Chelsea-based fairs are certainly worth a walk-through at some point over the weekend. Pulse New York 2015 calls itself the "premiere fair for cutting-edge contemporary art", which may or may not be exactly true, but judging by the names on its roster of more than 50 exhibitors, should hold more than a few bizarre delights. Independent 2015 is dedicated to showcasing smaller galleries and non-profits from all over the world, with reliably engaging results. And Moving Image 2015, once again held in the great Waterfront Tunnel space, cues up hours of contemporary video art. All three run from March 5 to 8; for more information, click on the bold-faced links above.   

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The Whitney Biennial 2014, for which the museum's curators, or guest curators, attempt in one fell swoop to deliver a definitive snapshot of what is happening NOW in contemporary art in NYC and beyond, is always one of the most talked-about and hashed-over exhibitions of the year, for fairly obvious reasons.

No one ever likes everything, of course, and some years the critics can be particularly harsh about inclusions and exclusions. But whether praised or chided, everyone goes, and since this, the 77th iteration of the museum's signature show, will be the last one installed and hung in the distinctive Breuer Building on Madison Avenue, it seems even more of a must-see than usual.

So Many NYC Art Shows

I went to the Whitney Biennial 2014 last week, and maybe I was simply burnt out from seeing 14,000 works of art at all the Armory Show fairs recently, but this year's show left me underwhelmed. That doesn't mean you shouldn't go! For 1) what do I know? and 2) with works by more than 100 different artists sprawled across three floors (and spilling into the stairwells), even if you only like a quarter of the pieces on display, that is still more subjectively good contemporary art than you'll find in most American cities, much less single museum exhibitions. So, please do check it out and let us know your opininon.  But here's more of mine for now!

Artwork With Plenty of Different Perspectives

The gimmick this time out was to hand over the picking-and-choosing duties to three different curators, with three different backgrounds and, presumably, unique perspectives on what's most exciting, most representative, right now. There were a number of works on all three floors that made me smile, made me think, or just stopped me dead in my tracks. I liked Bjarne Melgaard insane and somewhat erotic "pillow lounge" installation, for example, and Terry Adkins' "sculpted songs" shooting out high over a gallery on the second floor, pictured at top.  

A Few Of Our Favorite Pieces

There were other bright spots in this year's Whitney Biennial. Peter Schuyff's display of hundreds of carved pencils (above) had an obsessive quality that always appeals to me. Lisa Anne Aurabach's topically-themed ugly sweaters made me chuckle. Zoe Leonard's simple transformation of an entire gallery, one of the ones with the building's quirkily-shaped windows, into a giant camera obscura, is so beautiful and quiet that it makes you wonder why no one thought of it before. Plenty of other things also caught my eye, but I think I'll return in a few weeks, when I'm more art-rested, and take another look around.  

More Information: The Whitney Biennial 2014

The Whitney Biennial 2014 runs through May 25. The Whitney Museum is located on Madison Avenue and 75th Street, and is open Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

Have you seen the Whitney Biennial this year (or in year's past)? If so, what did you think?

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