Week in Review: March 26th, 2010
Filed Under: Week in Review On: March 26, 2010 posted by: casey
Photo by Rudy Pospisil, Modelizing
Work by 20x200 edition-makers Ian Baguskas and Colleen Plumb is currently hanging in the windows at Bergdorf Goodman as part of the BAMart Silent Auction. Swing by 5th Avenue at 58th Street to check it out and then bid on the pieces to benefit BAM! (more on that below)
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Carrie Marill Opening TONIGHT @ Jen Bekman
You are invited to the opening of Carrie Marill's Visual Aides this evening at Jen Bekman Gallery! Eight of Carrie's works on paper — found 50s didactic materials updated to reflect social and environmental changes — will be on view.
Jen Bekman Gallery / 6 Spring St. / 6-8 p.m.
Hope to see you there!

Get 30% off of BIRD by Andrew Zuckerman
Our awesome friends at Chronicle Books are offering 20x200 collectors 30% off and free shipping (within North America) on purchases of Andrew Zuckerman's book BIRD, featuring 200 color photographs from the series. Simply use promo code BIRD30 at checkout at ChronicleBooks.com

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Powhida But Were Afraid To Ask
How much do you really know about William Powhida? Can you tell the difference between Powhida the person, Powhida the artist, and Powhida the high school teacher? For those who don't follow @Powhida's banter on Twitter and scour the art blogs, we rounded up the controversy surrounding muckraking edition-maker William Powhida: the Reluctant Revolutionary
Ride from Jen Bekman to the BAM Silent Auction + Cocktail Reception
We'll be chartering a coach bus from Jen Bekman Gallery to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and back on March 27th, for the 6th Annual BAM Silent Auction + Cocktail Reception. Three of our artists and edition-makers are on the block so we hope you'll come out with us to bid on their work and support BAM! You *must* RSVP ahead of time to reserve a seat on the bus.
New Editions
| Flying, Shipping and Selling by Carrie Marill | Blue-and-yellow Macaw_044 by Andrew Zuckerman |
Tuesday Edition: Carrie Marill:
Fragments of Carrie Marill's fantastical Visual Aides series are as surprising to the eye as Obama's uttering of "clean coal technology" is to the ear. What at first seems a bucolic glimpse into agrarian idyll reveals itself to be a mind-boggling mash-up: equal parts pre-industrial Arcadia and post-apocalyptic terrain...
Wednesday Edition: Andrew Zuckerman:
This edition has been in the works since Jen, Jeffrey and I cabbed it over to Chelsea to pay Andrew a visit a few blustery months ago. After trudging up 10th Avenue to grab a snack and gas-station coffee, we ascended to Andrew's 7th floor studio and were welcomed by clean, white light and the low buzz and hum of productive, creative energy...

20x200 News
- Jane Mount has painted a wonderful new ideal bookshelf (right), this time based on the design books of mastermind Liz Danizco (a.k.a. Bobulate).
- Did you know that applying to Hey, Hot Shot! is the only way for photographers to get their work considered for 20x200 editions? If you're interested, we just opened this year's competition and will also be doling out monthly prizes and one grand prize of $5,000 + gallery representation.
- Jamie of From Me To You was one of the winners of our Twitter contest who got invited to the SNAP! Out of Winter Party at Aperture last Friday. She posted a nice set of pictures from the event. Also, JBP's own Kika and Sukhchander won a raffle at the party and got this beautiful Paul Strand print.
- This week in internet humor, some people on Yahoo! answers are very seriously debating the merits and feasibility of Jason Polan's Every Person in New York project. Hilarity ensues.
- The home of design aficionado (he's the head of the Cooper Hewitt shop!) and photographer Gregory Krum is featured this week on Sight Unseen.
- Photographer Colin Blakely was featured this week on NPR's The Picture Show blog, which presented a slideshow of Colin's work, along with a 100 word statement.
- Megan Whitmarsh is featured on The Creative Lives
- We spotted photos of editions in the wild all over the web this week. We love it, keep sending them in!
- We <3 Ignite, a rapid-fire series of 5 minute talks on a topic of the speaker's expertise. You should sign up to host a talk at the next Ignite event, in San Francisco. Seriously!
That's it for this week, collectors. As always, if you see anything we missed drop us a line on Twitter @20x200. Have a great weekend!

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