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Armory Show
Pooja kept pointing to this piece at the show and saying, "Matt! It's you!" At which point, of course I cursed her. And then she asked, or rather, begged that I pose with it, which brings me to the next photo...
Haha.
And then silliness afterward at the bus stop.
Couple weekends ago I attended the Armory Show with Pooja.
I spotted these near Pooja's apartment actually.
Across the street from the show space, we spotted this...sandwich looking thing smashed against the window of the Audi dealership.
Yuck.
And after the jump, some of the pieces at the show that I appreciated. Warning: Lots of photos to follow.
Close up of above.
Close up of above.
Close up of above.
Inverted reflective bowl.
This is a vegetarian's nightmare.
Close up... (No, they aren't real flies).
Close up.
I loved this.
I'm going to buy this and just point to it if someone is annoying me.
This made me motion sick.
Pedestrians?
Nope. Globs of paint.
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One of the paintings that caught my eye and made me chuckle at this year's Armory show was a a 60-inch-by-90-inch watercolor portrait (see my photo above) of the now notorious Bernie Madoff, a finance genius who confessed to operating a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Painted by Chinese-born artist Yan Pei-Ming, it remained unsold at $100,000.
Given the economic crash, it was hardly surprising that no one wanted to pay six figures for a portrait of one of the most vilified figures in the world. Writing by e-mail from Paris, Mr. Yan said he had finished the painting in one day, and chose Mr. Madoff because he was “a kind of symbol of the economic crisis, a kind of personalization of the savage speculation, without control.”
