March 19, 2008

Art in New York

The commotion that began earlier this month with the opening of the Whitney Biennial 2008 escalates to a full frenzy this week, as galleries, collectors, artists, and curators head to Manhattan for the annual influx of art fairs. In this issue, we hand-pick artists from the Armory Show, VOLTA NY, Pulse, and Scope, while steering you in the direction of a slew of other noteworthy fairs. Beyond the markets, we highlight the ceramics and photocollages of Sterling Ruby and chat with Whitney Biennial curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin about the exhibition's range, installation highlights, and the curatorial spotlight on found materials. For those partial to painting, we recommend Rosson Crow's radiant, large-scale depictions of historic haunts in LA and the flat, graphic acrylic portraits by Brian Alfred in Berlin. Finally, for our media pick, we suggest the catalogue from MoMA's acclaimed exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind .