Untitled II, Urban Scotland by Christoph Gielan

Happy Friday, art lovers! Welcome back to your regularly scheduled Week In Review, where we deliver to you good people all the art-related news that's come across our desk this past week:

20x200 News

• First things first! We are front and center at this year's Affordable Art Fair. We're doing all kinds of cool things there, like introducing our Pop-Up Frame Shop and having a host of great talks throughout the weekend. Ms. Jen Bekman will be giving a talk tonight, at 7pm, on collecting, why she started 20x200 and stories from the vault. Check out our post for all the dates and times of events and get out to meet us this weekend!
• Shack Nation revealed that at this week's EisnerAmper panel discussion, "Digital Cocktails: Art Investment 2010" panelists were urged to visit 20x200, reporting that, "What began as a modest gallery on the Lower East Side, Bekman transformed into an online undertaking. As the site’s clever tagline reveals, “It’s art for everyone.” So glad the word is getting out!
• Mark your calendars for the NURTUREart benefit, set for Tuesday, October 12th. Greg Lindquist will have work on preview for the benefit, among a host of other great artists. All artworks will be available for purchase at the gala for $150 each. Read more about the event on NURTUREart's benefit page.
• Speaking of great opportunities to see and collect art while supporting worthwhile art venues, Radius Books will be hosting a silent auction benefit Thursday, October 21st at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A full list of participating artists is available at the benefit announcement page.
• One more benefit! The Drawing Center will be having its 7th Annual Benefit Auction on Wednesday, October 6th at 6:30pm at the former DIA Art Foundation. William Powhida, Xylor Jane, Elizabeth Peyton, Fred Sandback, Ed Ruscha and Sol Lewitt will all have works on display and bidding.
• Wendy McNaughton has a new monthly column, "Meanwhile" in The Rumpus. In her words: "Every month I'm hanging out with a different subculture in San Francisco—spending time with them as they do what they do, drawing and interviewing them. The results become a visual narrative or portrait of sorts using my drawing and the subject's own words. This first one is on the chess players at 6th and market street."
• Is it just me, or are there an unusually high number of really top-rate, stimulating online photography magazines? Add another one to your list: Unless You Will, founded by Heidi Romano, has just launched its tenth issue. This issue features Hot Shot Julianne Eirich and 20x200 artist Bryan Schutmaat. Best thing about online magazines? They're frreeeeeeee.
• Christoph Gielan, most recently seen at our Land Use Survey show, was featured in the NYT this week for his ongoing work on contemporary urban sprawl. Read "The Geometry of Sprawl".
• I'm always game for a good lecture, and if you're on the left coast there will be a bevy of them this fall at Portland State University (where Kate Bingaman-Burt teaches!). Their graphic design program has launched Show & Tell, featuring a fantastic roster of artists and designers for the entire year. Lectures are free and open to the public; details and a schedule can be found on the departmental blog.
• Are you a collector of photobooks? Are you trying to get a grasp on the wild (and exploding in number) world of self-published monographs? We sat down with a list of questions for Larissa Leclair, the founder and curator of the indie Photobook Library, whose main purpose is to collect, archive and share just this kind of work from all over the world. Check out what she had to say over on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog.

New Editions

Central Park South by Joseph O. Holmes	prettymaps(la) by Aaron Straup Cope

That's it for this week, collectors! See anything we missed? Let us know on Twitter, @20x200 or our Facebook!