One of the best benefits in NYC for art buying is this Saturday, 3-8, at Artists Space. Hopefully I will be able to spend some of the money I’m saving in case we have to go into exile.

In no particular order other than north to south:

• Despite the Sun at Foxy Production, 547 West 27th Street — particularly the sculpture/paintings of Yuh-Shioh Wong.
• Larissa Bates at Monya Rowe, 526 West 26th Street, 5th floor — One of the best shows up in Chelsea right now, and I’m not just saying that because we own one of her works.
• Valaire Van Slyck at Capsule, 521 West 26th Street — paintings of the Detroit as “the physical manifestation of American failure.” The next show there looks great. It’s curated by Andrew Guenther.
• Rob Thom at LFL, 530 West 24th Street — for the drawings especially
• Bozidar Brozda at HaswellEdiger, 465 West 23rd Street — I’m thrilled to see a new gallery in Chelsea that’s more like an edgy LES/Chinatown gallery than the typical Chelsea fare. The two partners are Angela Kotinkaduwa, former director of Maccarone Inc., and Samantha Tsao, former associate director of Thread Waxing Space. See the write-up by James. Also, it looks like there is a performance by Cola Freaks (Danish punk I believe) on November 11, 7:30-8:30.
• Ina Diane Archer video installation at Heido Cho, 522 West 23rd Street — Ina creates films in which she inserts herself into older films, ranging from a medley of Richard Widmark films to early African-American Vitaphone films and Fassbinder’s Fox and his Friends [Fassbinder’s estate should sue Fox for having a fake news show called Fox and Friends
• Christy Rupp at Frederieke Taylor, 535 West 22nd Street — I think the poster works are more effective than the sculpture, with quite good use of corporate logos and globalization themes. A lot of people try to work with these issues without making visually compelling art, but she pulls it off.

There are other shows worth seeing, but this is based on what I looked at over the last few days. James and I have already written about some other shows of note in Chelsea.

This looks like a great show at the Three Rivers Arts Festival gallery — Daydream Nation, opening November 5, runs through January 1.

It includes Noah Lyon, Paper Rad and other people of note.

Related:

• James on Tag Projects show including Noah Lyon
• Tom Moody on Noah Lyon
• Tom Moody on Paper Rad at Foxy Production
• James on Paper Rad
• me on Paper Rad

Noah is still on our “to buy” list. There isn’t too much art there — that’s not possible — but we need a bigger art budget.

I went to some galleries (more on that later), launched a web site for Joe Ovelman, got Joe mentioned on Wooster Collective, and had some business meetings for several new art-related web sites.

I told you earlier to go. Here is my gallery of photos of the work. All but one were still there when we reached them.

Joe just called to let me know that this time there is a map, because he has spread the work across a number of blocks. The endpoints are West 16th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and Tenth Avenue between 26th and 27th Streets. Every location has a map showing the location of the other works. We have go out and see them now.

Here is the last post I did on one of his installations two weeks ago. James did one too.

Photo from the last one:

I hope to be celebrating, not drowning my sorrows, on election night. I actually hope we know who the “winner” is that night, and that they don’t put NYC under martial law.

I know of two lists of election night events:

• From Joy Garnett, a list of exhibitions related to the election, which includes some election night events
• From culturebot.org

I also know of parties at White Box, Exit Art, in Manhattan, and Four Walls Projects at Supreme Trading in Williamsburg.

Also, Not in Our Name is gathering at Union Square, 5-10.

Let me know if you hear of any others, and where you’re planning to be on election night.

Copper Greene latest:

Don’t remember the iRaq posters? Go here.

[via Wooster Collective]

I previously mentioned Julian Montague’s appearance in the summer group show at Black and White.

I just found out he has a web site, and the Stray Shopping Cart Project has its own web site. The project is a kind of taxonomy of shopping carts as they’re found away from their original locations. You can see it at Art in General through November 6.

I’m not posting much, as I have a couple of urgent projects, plus I’m trying to not get too stressed out over the election. It’s making me ill.

• Guardian Article/Interview with Terry Richardson
• Painting Mass Media and the Art of Fair Use lecture by Joy Garnett
• Comic takes Google to task on China
• Greg Sandow on bringing audiences and orchestras together
• How to get a flu shot in NYC

Also, James has put up quite a few art posts in the last few days. Go read those.