The 20x200 Blog: Week In Review: September 3, 2010

Untitled, from the series Playing by Alex MacLean

Welcome back to the Week In Review, collectors! WIR is a short-'n-sweet recap of news and links.

20x200 News

Did you know that 20x200 is a Virgo, as is its erstwhile founder, Ms. Jen Bekman? It's our birthday week, and in celebration of our 3rd anniversary we're passing on a little gift to you: $3 FLAT RATE shipping on 8"x10" + 11"x14" prints NOW till Monday at midnight EDT! (the rate is applied per size, can only be applied to orders within the U.S. and does not apply to international orders.) If you, like many of us here who work for 20x200, have had your eye on a few prints and have been meaning to grab them sooner rather than later, this is a great time for some savings, as shipping usually starts at $8.50 per print. If there are still a few that you have to wait until later to purchase, check out our nifty "Save to Amazon Wish List" feature next to every edition (right underneath the edition sizes).

Last week we posted about Try, a benefit auction held at the Jen Bekman Gallery to raise funds to help research and fight terminal illnesses. We're very happy to report that the auction raised nearly $3000, all of which will go to the charity. There are still a handful of works available if you missed the auction; check out their website to see if there's something you'd like to bid on.

Coke Wisdom O'Neal shares some sage musings and tales about art-making in this short interview with filmmaker Poppy de Villeneuve.

Looking for some good, new reading material? Long Shot magazine, formerly 48HourMag, has just released its inaugural issue, featuring the work of Wendy MacNaughton, author Alissa Walker, one of our VIP edition pickers and co-founder of The Awl, Choire Sicha. Read selected stories from Issue One here, and if you like what you see, purchase a copy on MagCloud.

Venice, anyone? Photographer Alex MacLean has his work of aerial photographs of Paris on view at the Venice Architecture Biennale, on view through September 19th, 2010. Though not featured in Venice this year, we wrote earlier this spring about MacLean's Return of the Landscape project, in which he examined the relationships between two "artificial" cities that have very different relationships with water, Las Vegas and Venice. His work was also featured in our recent Land Use Survey exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery.

Continuing in the tradition of the Surrealists' parlor game Exquisite Corpse, 100 artists were selected by the good people at Chronicle Books to play a new collaborative game, the end result of which is the publication The Exquisite Book. Kate Bingaman-Burt, Jill Bliss, Lisa Congdon and Mike Perry have all contributed pages.

And lastly, in honor of Labor Day, we've posted a few new jobs to our site. If you've got the skills and are looking for something new, this is a great place to work!