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It's that time again, Collectors! Please join us for the FOURTH annual 20x200 Bay Area Collectors' Confab—happening next Thursday, May 19th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.—which is generously being hosted by our friends at Chronicle Books in San Francisco.

Many of our awesome artists will be in attendance. Plus, it's a great opportunity to meet a few of the very fine people from team 20x200. And—just for those SF/Bay Area fans who join us on Thursday—we'll have a special selection of prints in sizes big and small, presented in custom mats + frames and ready for you to purchase right then and there. Many of these prints have never been offered in their framed-and-ready-to-hang form at 20x200. That's right—come see us and you'll be able to snap these super spiffy 20x200 prints right off our wall and hang them on yours.

To sum it up:

Who: Collectors, Artists & Team 20x200
What: 20x200 Collectors' Confab
When: Thursday, May 19th | 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Where: Chronicle Books | 680 Second Street (btwn Brannan + Townsend) San Francisco, CA
Why: Because we love you.

Space is limited, so make sure you RSVP to rsvp@20x200.com.

Here at 20x200, our motto of “Art For Everyone” means we’re always interested in new ways of making great art accessible. It’s good for collectors, helps support artists, and enables everyone to live with art. A new-ish London outfit has found an intriguing way to address this concept with their Art Barter events. Art Barter is an auction, open to the public, taking place over 3 to 4 days. However, unlike at Sotheby’s, bidders are allowed to offer anything at all EXCEPT money for the work. Past bids have included a year of private chef services and cases of wine, but anyone is free to offer whatever they think is fair. At the end of the event, artists review all offers and decide what they’d like to accept. It’s an amazing way to open up the auction as a viable format for all kinds of collectors, and allows artists to trade their work for something of value to them without worrying about setting minimum reserves or what the long-term effect on their pricing will be.

Previous Art Barters have been held in London and Berlin. Art Barter 3 launches in New York today and continues through Sunday, December 12th. While the auction will feature some big-name artists such as Terence Koh and Mick Rock, all work will be identified only by a number, so the “value” of the work will really be determined entirely by each interested bidder.

Not only is this a fun idea, it’s a great way to make the auction sale format super un-intimidating for potential collectors. It’s interesting to note that Art Barter is also a Kickstarter project. We’ve featured some great art-related Kickstarter endeavors before, including Kevin Cyr’s Camper Kart and Rachel Sussman’s extremely successful journey to track down and document The Oldest Living Things in the World, which led to an invitation to give a talk at the prestigious TED conference on the project. One of the unique things about the Kickstarter model is the little incentives project owners offer to their supporters, which can range from a limited-edition copy of the work produced to lunch with the artist. As a whole, micro-funding sites like Kickstarter have the effect of fostering a personal, reciprocal exchange between donor and recipient that goes far beyond traditional funding models. Art Barter has the potential to do much of the same for the fine art market by encouraging art lovers to be creative and contribute more than just money. It’s less an auction than an exchange, based on the assumption that all participants have something unique and valuable to offer.

Art Barter New York
Thursday, Dec 9 - Sunday, Dec 12
NP Contemporary Art Center
131 Chrystie St, New York
Open daily from noon to 6 p.m.

Poster designed by Emily Yoble

On top of interviews and curatorial endeavors, Kate Bingaman-Burt has got yet another thing to get excited about! She will be making a journey to her old alma mater, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, this week: Along with 9 other super-successful graduates in a whole range of professional fields, Kate has been chosen as a 2010 Alumni Master. She will be giving a lecture for this event on November 10th at 4:00 p.m. in Richards Hall 15 at UNL.

When she's not eating pizza and catching up with old friends, she'll be "spreading the word of craftism", talking to students, offering portfolio crits, and attending various Alumni Week functions. If you're in Lincoln (and especially if you're a student at UNL!) make sure you stop by and see what sage advice Kate has to give.

20x200's booth at the Editions|Artists' Books Fair

We've been down at the Editions|Artists' Books Fair setting up our booth and have to say: it's lookin' pretty darn good. Here's a shot of our wall to give you a taste of our booth, and to remind you to come visit us in-person to see these fifty framed prints!

As a reminder:
20x200 at the Editions|Artists' Books Fair
Preview Party: Tonight, Thursday, November 4th, 6-9 p.m. ($20)
FREE to the Public: Friday–Sunday, November 5–7, 2010.
Hours: 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday & Saturday; 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday.
548 West 22nd Street, Between 10th & 11th Avenues
Booth 28

We have work on view by dozens of 20x200 artists, with a special selection of $20 (8"x10") and $50 (11"x14") prints available for sale right in the booth. Check out our earlier post for a full list of artists whose work we'll have up on our walls and a map of where to find us.

See you at the fair!

Scenes from past NY Art Book Fairs

What do you get when you cross a museum and a bookshop? Printed Matter's fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, which returns to MoMA PS1 this weekend! The three day fair is completely free and open to the public, taking over three floors of the museum to occupy every nook and cranny with the art of the book.

The New Yorker writes:

Does the artist’s book contain the art, or is the book itself the art? Not limited by materials or size, the artist’s book can take any form: letterpress and bound by hand, photocopied like a zine, contained in a cigar box, as big as a table or as small as a fingernail. This free, hands-on event features more than two hundred exhibitors from two dozen countries...

The friendly, hands-on environment is part of what makes the event an annual favorite event among Team JBP. The fair is a great chance to see what's happening in the world of books, from established publishers like Aperture to independent zine makers and self-publishers like Little Brown Mushroom Books, with whom Jason Polan and photographer Trent Parke are collaborating on posters specially for the fair. Not only is the fair a great chance to purchase great books and get to know the people behind them, but several experimental publishers and artists will be holding events in the fair's project spaces:

Bedford Press & AA Bookshop (London), in collaboration with artist Joseph Grigely, will present Exhibition Prosthetics, an examination of art, architecture, and the conventions of exhibition production; Andrew Roth (New York) will present Ten Years of PPP Editions, a retrospective of work examining the historical intersections of photography and book art; e-flux (New York) will map a cosmology of texts, ideas, and contributors for its journal; Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI; New York) will present a screening program featuring new and historical video works drawn from its extensive collection; Fillip (Vancouver) will operate a free-distribution center for critical texts from the database of AAAARG.ORG (Los Angeles); PictureBox (Brooklyn) will present a survey that includes work by graphic artist King Terry, imagist Karl Wirsum, and horror-core draftsman Mat Brinkman; and students of Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem), the Dutch super-school, will establish an alternative economic system for design services.

You can see a full list of exhibitors at the NYABF website. For extra pointers, check out T Magazine's feature on booths to check out while you're there. There's only one NYABF a year so if you're in or around New York, bring good walking shoes, a couple of dollars and head on over this weekend.

The New York Art Book Fair
presented by Printed Matter

at MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.
Long Island City, NY

Free and open to the public:
Thursday, November 4, 6-9 p.m.
Friday & Saturday, November 5 & 6, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, November 7, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Come join 20x200 at the Editions|Artists’ Book Fair this weekend in NYC!

To kick things off, we're giving away *free* passes to the Opening Night Preview on Thursday. Find us on Facebook to participate by telling us which print from the featured artists below is your favorite. We'll randomly be selecting winners a few times a day through Thursday. Every pass admits two people--a $40 value--for a first look at the latest in contemporary publishing while enjoying a glass of champagne and an extraordinary view of the Hudson River from the rooftop lounge.

If you’re in the tri-state area, here are some excellent reasons to stop by--admission to the fair is free over the rest of the weekend:

+ 20x200 art--out of your computer, into frames, and onto walls. Come gather inspiration for affordable framing and creative hanging, check out a selection of 20x200 prints, and find out just how large those 40"x50" prints really are.

+ An immediate cure for your affordable art cravings: we’ll be selling a special selection of $20 (8"x10") and $50 (11"x14") prints, right in the booth. No need to delay gratification!

+ Art by Aaron Straup Cope, Alex Brown, Alex MacLean, Alexander Beeching, Amy Stein, Bert Teunissen, Bryan Schutmaat, Carlo Van de Roer, Carol Padberg, Carrie Marill, Chad Hagen, Christian Chaize, Derek Henderson, Dorthe Alstrup, Dylan Fareed, Greg Allen, Hollis Brown Thornton, James Deavin, Jane Mount, Jason Burch, Jason Polan, Jenny Odell, Jeremy Kohm, Jessica Snow, Jorge Colombo, Joseph O. Holmes, Katie Baum, Kent Rogowski, Kurt Tong, Landon Nordeman, Lawrence Weiner, Marian Bantjes, Marion Belanger, Matthew Tischler, Michelle Vaughan, Mike Monteiro, Mike Sinclair, Parsley Steinweiss, Paul Madonna, Penelope Umbrico, Rachel Hulin, Roger Ballen, Ross Racine, Shawn Records, Thomas Prior, Tierney Gearon, Trey Speegle, Tyson Anthony Roberts, Valerie Hegarty, William Lamson and William Powhida.

+ Free admission all weekend! Stop by and say hi, or peruse the fair all afternoon—definitely worth it either way.

The Details:
20x200 at the Editions|Artists' Book Fair
FREE to the Public: Friday–Sunday, November 5–7, 2010.
Hours: 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday & Saturday; 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday.
548 West 22nd Street, Between 10th & 11th Avenues
Booth 28

Here's a map of where to find us in Booth 28:

Look forward to seeing you this weekend!

Untitled, from the series Erasure by HHS! contender Ben Alper

It's no secret that many of the photographers we work with on 20x200 are discovered through our photography competition, Hey, Hot Shot! We at JBP are excited to invite you to celebrate our five newest 2010 Hot Shots on Friday, October 29th from 6 to 9 p.m. at the first-ever Blurb Pop Up/NYC at 60 Mercer Street (between Broome and Grand).

Jen Bekman, members of the Hey, Hot Shot! Panel and the Jen Bekman Projects' team are excited to meet and mingle with you—the New York City photography community. We'll have wine and snacks, you'll be able to browse a library of Blurb books, meet fellow artists, have the chance to win 20x200 prints and be able to learn about creating your own book. At 7:00 p.m., Jen Bekman will announce the five 2010 Hot Shots.

Space is limited, so make sure you RSVP here by Thursday, October 28th.

Who: Hey, Hot Shot! Panelists, contenders, Team JBP + the NYC Photography Community
What: Meet the 2010 Hot Shots
When: Friday, October 29th, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Where: 60 Mercer Street, New York, NY

Jen will also be giving a talk, Getting Your Work Out There, earlier that afternoon from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

You've collected the best of your work, checked and triple-checked that each image is the absolute best it can be. But who's going to see it? Jen Bekman, founder of Jen Bekman Gallery, 20x200, and Hey, Hot Shot!, will give you the scoop on presenting yourself to potential fans and collectors online, as well as how to land a spot on a gallery wall. Jen is an art dealer, curator, writer, and entrepreneur whose inventive approach to the art world has created new models for connecting artists and collectors.

RSVP for Jen's talk here and be sure to take a look at the full schedule of events, lectures and workshops happening at the Blurb Pop Up/NYC from October 21 - 30th. See you on the 29th!

We want to extend a huge thanks to all who stopped by our booth at the Affordable Art Fair the weekend before last! We hope you picked up some sound advice from Jen and Jeffrey, grabbed a tote and some chocolate, and/or left with freshly-framed 20x200 prints to hang on your walls. Or course, we hope you also enjoyed seeing a special selection of 20x200 editions on the walls of our booth, too. Team JBP really loved mingling with our collectors and checking out which editions you brought to be framed at our Framing Pop-Up Shop.

For those of you who couldn't make it, here are some snapshots from the fair. Hopefully we'll see you out there next time! For all of you who did stop by—do you have your art up on your walls yet? Send us pics of your install shots!

Photo by Don Hamerman

Teaser video for The Creative Time Summit

This weekend is an exciting one for the New York arts community: Creative Time, one of our favorite organizations, is hosting the two-day "Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice." The event will bring together over forty artists, curators, and thinkers from around the world to present their work in The Great Hall of The Cooper Union in New York.

Creative Time writes:

Their international projects bring to the table a vast array of practices and methodologies that engage with the canvas of everyday life. The participants range from art world luminaries to those purposefully obscure, providing a glimpse into an evolving community concerned with the political implications of socially engaged art. The Creative Time Summit is meant to be an opportunity to not only uncover the tensions that such a global form of working presents, but also to provide opportunities for new coalitions and sympathetic affinities.

Tickets to the event sold out in the blink of an eye (I'm happy to report that I snagged one for myself!) but for those who can't make it, Creative Time will be streaming the entire event online for free, live! Online viewers will also have the opportunity to submit questions, chat, and participate in a conversation with artist Gregory Sholette, who will be running the @CreativeTimeNYC Twitter account during the event.

As we hinted in Wednesday's newsletter, we're just about ready to announce a ridiculously exciting benefit edition with Creative Time. They're going to announce the artist we're partnering with in their newsletter on Monday—make sure you're on their list by then so that you don't miss out!

If you find yourself hooked, consider becoming a Creative Time member. You'll get insider access to their projects, fabulous events, artist meet and greets, a tax deduction, and so on. Most importantly, your membership directly supports artists' dream projects. Join here.

The Creative Time Summit
October 9 - 10
The Cooper Union
7 East 7th St.
New York

This year's conference will feature presentations by Danielle Abrams, Basekamp, Saskia Bos, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Chen Chieh-Jen (represented by Amy Cheng), Chto delat/What is to be done?, Phil Collins, Agnes Denes, Dilomprizulike, Claire Doherty, Eating in Public, FEAST, Amy Franceschini, Andrea Fraser, Regina José Galindo, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Shaun Gladwell, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, InCUBATE, The International Errorist, Jakob Jakobsen, Laura Kurgan, Surasi Kusolwong, Dinh Q. Le, Learning Site, Aaron Levy, Chus Martínez, Otabenga Jones & Associates, Trevor Paglen, Claire Pentecost, PLATFORM, J. Morgan Puett, Oliver Ressler, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Bisi Silva, Superflex, Christine Tohme, Anton Vidokle, WAGE, Eyal Weizman, Stephen Wright, and more.

Show & Tell Poster by Frank Chimero

Do you live in Portland? Or, are you planning to be there at any point over the next eight months? Portland State University’s Graphic Design Program (where Kate Bingaman-Burt is an Assistant Professor) has just launched a fantastic lecture series to take place over the coming school year, called Show & Tell.

The series will feature one guest nearly every week – some virtual and some in person – from October 7th, 2010 to early June 2011. There are some terrific names on the roster, whether you're a designer, artist or curious about both, including Lisa Congdon, 20x200-logo designer Mikey Burton and many friends of JBP. Lectures will take place (almost) every Thursday at noon, in Room 160 of the Annex of P.S.U.’s Art Building.

Not enrolled as a P.S.U. student? Not to worry! The Show & Tell Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Take a peek at [command save], the Graphic Design Department’s excellent blog, for a complete list of speakers and we’ll keep you posted of any major developments in the series line-up, and informed about approaching lectures.

Rock Generes, v. 21, 996-97, by Ward Shelley

The Drawing Center is back, with Drawing Gifts, its 7th Annual Benefit Auction, which will take place next Wednesday, October 6th, at 6:30 p.m. at the former Dia Art Foundation building in Chelsea. By buying a ticket, you can help support The Drawing Center—the only non-profit Museum in the United States that focuses exclusively on the exhibition of drawings—and perhaps pick up a drawing of your very own!

Works by an amazing selection of artists are available, including William Powhida and Xylor Jane (keep your eyes peeled - we just might have something to offer from her ourselves in the coming months!), not to mention Elizabeth Peyton, Fred Sandback, Ed Ruscha and Sol Lewitt.

Auction tickets are available for purchase here, and you can browse some of the available works here, and in certain cases even do a little online advance-shopping.

If you’re busy next Wednesday, but still want to see all of the drawings in person, you can also check out the Free Auction Preview (no tickets needed!) the night before the main event on Tuesday, October 5th, at 7p.m.

The Details:
Free Auction Preview
Tuesday, October 5, 7:00 p.m.

Drawing Gifts: the 7th Annual Benefit Auction for The Drawing Center
Cocktails, Live and Silent Auctions
Wednesday, October 6, 6:30 p.m.

Both the Preview and Auction will take place at 548 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor.

The Affordable Art Fair 2010 is coming to NYC this weekend. It seemed like a great place for us to connect with collectors who will get excited about our whole "art for everyone" mission, so we've cooked up quite a presence for 20x200 at this NYC event. If you're in the tri-state area this weekend we'd love to see you. The chance to see your favorite 20x200 prints live and in person, all framed up and pretty, is reason enough to make a beeline for Booth E-200, but there's more! So much more! We're hosting a series of presentations and our pop-up framing shop will be making its grand debut.

Plus, friends of 20x200 (that means you!) get $5 off AAF admission (tickets are regularly $20). Get your discounted tickets here.

Here's where to find us:

20x200 at The Affordable Art Fair
The fun starts TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 29th, and continues through the weekend–Saturday, October 2 and Sunday, October 3.
7 West 34th Street
11th Floor Market Suites
Booth E-200 (scroll to the bottom for a map!)

There's so much to cover that we'll break it down into sections:

GREAT ART TO BROWSE (AND TAKE HOME)

We went through our archives and plucked prints from a wide range of 20x200 artists, which we've had professionally framed. See something you like? Take it home!

We'll be showing (and selling) work by: Clare Grill, Bert Teunissen, Carlo Van De Roer, Christian Chaize, Don Hamerman, Greg Allen, Hosang Park, Jane Mount, Jason Jagel, Jennifer Sanchez, Jeremy Kohm, Jessica Snow, Jonathan Lewis, Kent Rogowski, Kevin Cyr, Lauren DiCioccio, Michael Lundgren, Michelle Hinebrook, Mickey Smith, Penelope Umbrico, Sharon Montrose, Stefan Ruiz, Wendy MacNaughton and William Powhida.

20x200 TALKS

We'll also be hosting five talks in our space about the 20x200 story as well as practical advice for collecting and living with art.

Live With Art
Date: Friday, October 1 at 7pm
Speaker: Jen Bekman
Summary: Jen will be giving a personal talk about why she started 20x200. She'll also share some of our best 20x200 stories from a wide range of collectors.

Get Your Art On
Dates: Saturday, October 2 at 3pm + Sunday, October 3 at 3pm
Speaker: Jen Bekman
Summary: Jen will be talking about alternative ways to learn about and buy art—including, of course, the abundance of great resources available on the internet, as well as more personalized services.

Finishing the Picture: The Basics of Framing and Hanging
Dates: Saturday, October 2 at 1pm + Sunday, October 3 at 1pm
Speaker: Jeffrey Teuton
Summary: Jeffrey, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Gallery, will share his knowledge on framing and hanging artwork. He'll have a variety of examples on hand and will demonstrate installation techniques and offer tips on how to organize and save money when approaching a big art-hanging project.

20x200 POP-UP FRAME SHOP

** If you will be at the fair, we have just a few spots left for our framing pop-up shop, which is by reservation only. You can reserve a spot here and we'll be in touch to confirm your appointment. **

How many 20x200 prints do you have that you've never managed to get up on the wall that are, instead, sitting in a drawer? (Don't be ashamed! Some of us are guilty as well.) To remedy this we're running an affordable framing pop-up shop. Make an appointment and bring in your 8x10 and 11x14 20x200 prints and you'll leave with art that's ready to hang on your walls. We'll be offering high-quality, black, wooden frames, fitted with glass and custom archival mats, cut on site for your prints.

You'll also get a one-on-one consultation as we assemble everything for you, hopefully imparting some helpful tips along the way. The whole package is a steal: $45 per 8x10 print and $70 per 11x14 print. Plus, we've arranged for everyone with a framing appointment to get free admission to the fair.

Fill out our form to schedule your appointment--it will be fun and fast--a matter of minutes per print!

Select a one-hour slot between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m on Saturday, October 2nd or Sunday, October 3rd and we'll have time to frame up to five prints together. Unfortunately, we have limited space; appointments will be filled on a first come, first served basis, so book today--don't delay! We'll be in touch to confirm your appointment and will look forward to seeing you soon.

WHERE TO FIND US

20x200 at The Affordable Art Fair
TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 29th–Saturday, October 2 + Sunday, October 3
7 West 34th Street
11th Floor Market Suites
Booth E-200

Here's a map of where to find us in Booth E-200:

All Over Coffee #508, 07 11 10, Buenos Aries by Paul Madonna

On top of producing two weekly strips – one for The San Francisco Chronicle and one for theRumpus.net, Paul Madonna has been keeping himself awfully busy. This past Saturday he joined fifteen other comic artists in a fun, interactive draw-a-thon at Santa Rosa’s Charles Schulz Museum, in honor of Peanuts’ 60th anniversary.

This week sees an exhibition of his work, titled All Over Coffee and Creative Practice, up at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, (on view September 10 – November 5, 2010). What's more, Paul will be giving a public talk about his creative process in conjunction with the show, at the club on September 23rd (tickets for the event can be purchased here).

Paul’s also got original drawings from his first ALBUM Collection on view at the nifty San Fran Café, Ritual Roasters (team JBP's West Coast coffee shop of choice), a fitting venue for his work, given the title of his strip for The Chronicle: "All Over Coffee". If you're in the Bay Area, be sure to swing by any or all of these events in the coming weeks!

The Details:
1. All Over Coffee and Creative Practice
Exhibition on view: September 10 – November 5, 2010
Artist talk: Thursday, September 23rd at 6:00 p.m.
The Commonwealth Club
595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco CA

2. Original drawings at Ritual Roasters
1026 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA

Today marked the start of New York's Fall Fashion Week: seven days of non-stop parties, runway shows and models spotted on the subway. But, the couture and the hubbub aren't just behind closed doors—tomorrow, September 10th, is Fashion's Night Out, a global celebration of fashion, the retail industry, and a way for stores to often artfully celebrate patrons—like you—through parties, exhibitions, installations, refreshments and special deals.

In New York, over 800 stores across the boroughs will participate from 6 to 11 p.m., so if you're out and about: walk briskly! Our pick for the evening (aside from Derek Henderson's opening at the gallery, of course) is what's on view at Partners & Spade, Andy Spade's Great Jones Street storefront that's part gallery boutique, part creative consultancy and part cabinet of curiosities.

Spade will be teaming up with fashion label Vena Cava and mobile retail company Subports for Non-Fashion People's Fashion Night Out. They've invited a cast of not-usually-fashion designers—including visual artists of all mediums, a gardener, a boardgame designer, a metal fabricator and a wallpaper designer—to create beautiful objects and wearable items that will be exhibited through Sunday, September 12th and are available to buy by text message.

William Lamson's Automatic Tee

Several 20x200 artists will have works on view, including the Automatic Tee, designed by William Lamson. This limited-edition t-shirt's design was inspired by a contraption Lamson made while in Uruguay. Lamson rigged a drawing tool to a kite and as the kite was carried back and forth by the wind, what emerged was a kinetic explosion of inky black lines. The pattern was screen-printed by hand onto cotton t-shirts in Brooklyn, and are available in several sizes. You can also watch the video Lamson made of his kite-drawing contraption that produced the original design.

Kevin Cyr, whose paintings of iconic and eclectic vehicles we've released as prints over the last few years, has die cast his vans and re-created them in miniature. If you're a fan of his 2-D work, we bet you'll like his 3-D; Cyr's vans will also be on display at the store tomorrow night.

Without further ado, head to Partners & Spade tomorrow evening to catch sight of Kevin and William's creations, then have a gander around the neighborhood to check the evening's many other events.

Fashion's Night Out at Partners & Spade
40 Great Jones St.
September 10th, 2010
6:00 - 9:00 PM

Statistics from research studying what makes people happy reveal that when given the choice, those who spend money on other people and on experiences are generally happier than those that spend only on themselves. Art and giving to good causes are among my favorite things to support and this Saturday, August 28th, Jen Bekman Gallery is offering its gallery space for the Try Art Benefit and Silent Auction.

100% of the auction proceeds will go towards Team In Training (TNT), an organization that raises money to help fight Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin Lymphoma and Myeloma. TNT is the world's largest endurance sports training program. Participants receive training and experience by expert coaches for their event, transportation and accommodation costs to their event, and free personal web publicity for their participation. In return, the participants agree to raise funds and donation pledges for their hard work in training and in the final competitive event.

Isabel Schofield and Jacob Rhodes, the team behind the Try Benefit blog, in addition to serving as auctioneers at Saturday's art benefit, are also in training for a triathlon with TNT.

The Bedroom, Brooklyn, NY by Amy Elkins, starting bid $200

Interior VIII by Kathryn Parker Almanas, starting bid $200

Over 30 artists have donated work to participate in the benefit, including:

Per Billgren, Lee Clarke, Clayton Cotterell, Jeannie Crosby, Jen Davis, Bobby Dohrman, Kathleen Dohrman, Amy Elkins, Keith Gonzales, Bradlee Hicks, Eunice James, Matt Kaelin, Kristen Kee, Lucy Kim, Soo Kim, Julie La Rue, Derek Larson, Leigh McCarthy, Leeza Meksin, Julie Moon, Betsy Odom, Erik Oost, Kathryn Parker Almanas, Jacob Rhodes, Mark Roeder, Sasha Rudensky, Isobel Schofield, Katie Shook, Shannon Smith, Jeffrey Teuton, Anna Ullman and Alison Walker

The Details:
Saturday, Aug 28th
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Auction Winners will be announced at 9:00 p.m.
Where: Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street, NYC

Check out artists and work in the auction here and come out on Saturday to show these artists your support and help find a cure for cancer!

A favorite tongue-and-cheek moment of this year's Whitney Biennial was had when I wandered up to the fifth floor where there is a retrospective of work from eight decades of Whitney Biennials past (this being the anniversary of the storied art festival). On a facing wall of the entrance to the retrospective where painted quotes from art critics and other raconteurs through the years that have delighted in belittling the biennial as if they were invited guests at Oscar Wilde's dinner party. The tone of all of these can be summed up in Roberta Smith's observation that, "The world would be a duller place without the Whitney Biennial to kick around every two years."

While it is true that every biennial there are things to love and things to hate (and even, or especially, things that we love to hate), the work of 2010 Biennial artist Nina Berman falls into a strange category unto itself. As you pore through reviews of her work you'll notice a confluence of striking synonyms, "Unflinching," "terrifying poetry" and "heartbreaking beyond description." These were three succinct summations that accurately reinforced other reviews that have been published about Berman's body of work, Marine Wedding, which follows ex-Marine sergeant Ty Ziegal, returning home disfigured and disabled from the war to marry his high school fianceé.

Ty and Renee, 2006 by Nina Berman

Ty gets dressed for his wedding, 2006 by Nina Berman

The thing about biennials at the Whitney (and most biennials in general), is that it is easy and expected to stroll through huge exhibition halls and rooms, blithely taking in what's on display, and offering up diminishing commentary along the way. Irony and disappointment are often as much as on view at these affairs as any art hanging from the walls, and yet when you come to the room holding Nina Berman's photo essay on Ziegal, all of that is silenced. I'm certain that Berman has her own agenda with these images, but whatever that agenda is, it is humbled and present in front of her subjects, who she reveals to us with utter respect and openness to both their experience and our experiencing of them. I've heard some wonder aloud what place documentary or reportage photography has in a contemporary art venue like the Whitney Biennial, but to that I'll defer to the wisdom proferred by DLK Collection, that wrote of her work:

In terms of sheer "memorableness", I found the work of Sinclair, Berman, Casebere, and Mann to be the most compelling and likely to lead somewhere exciting or new. Many of the others seem to be working in styles that we have seen before (in the inbred world of photography), but have yet to coalesce into wholly original lines of thinking. Taking a straight photograph, documenting a performance, appropriating an image, or mastering a process are not enough to make it in the 21st century art world; there are some forgettable photographs here I'm afraid. The photographic works I found most thought-provoking in this show were those that are built on layers of outward looking ideas and realities, that took on the larger forces in our society at this particular moment in time, rather than those that were overly self-conscious or inwardly reflective. The disruptions I saw were based in the context of the times, rather than the fabric of ourselves.

This last week of May is also the last chance you'll have to see Berman's work at this installment of the Whitney Biennial. If you've been putting off going, you'll have ample time to do so before it closes, as the Whitney will have special hours (as part of another participating artist's entry): From Wednesday, May 26th at 12:00 AM through Friday, May 29th 11:59 PM the Whitney Museum of American Art will be open TWENTY FOUR HOURS. And if you are interested and moved by Nina Berman's work, she is having a special event this Friday night at the Whitney, starting at 7:30 p.m. She will be giving a slideshow and audio presentation from three bodies of work pertaining to the war and the military industrial complex since September 11, 2001, and her intent for the evening is, "to bring the war home," presumably with no subterfuge or irony, but with loads of intelligence and heart in its stead.

My Turn: Nina Berman
Friday, May 28th at 7:30 p.m.
The Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
New York, NY 10021

Nina adds this bit of info on her site:

"The event is free with admission which is Pay What You Wish on Friday nights. No special tickets or reservations are required."

Come and be moved.

A recent New York Times article by Tara Siegel Bernard looked into pay discrepancies between men and women at the top of their games—and their companies. Bernard quotes Hannah Riley Bowles, an associate professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, who says of studies on gender, negotiation and leadership, "We have found that if a man and a woman both attempt to negotiate for higher pay, people find a woman who does this, compared to one who does not, significantly less attractive."

And there are more challenges than pay discrepancies. Successful, entrepreneurial women are also confronted by a lack of role models, difficulty navigating an "opaque and clubby world" dominated by men, and left out of invitations to speak at conferences, even when positioned with phenomenal business experiences to share.

A few entrepreneurial women will come together next Thursday, May 27th, to address these challenges—particularly those faced in the process of raising venture capital. Jalak Jobanputra, the senior VP and venture investor at the New York City Investment Fund, will lead a discussion with female innovators who have done so successfully, including our very own Jen Bekman. The panel is part of the kick-off event of the Girls In Tech Entrepreneurship and Venture Series with ASTIA, a global non-profit working to propel women's participation as entrepreneurs.

The panel will also include the following panelists:

Heidi Messer – Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of LinkShare
Stephanie Sarka – Co-founder and SVP Product and Marketing and Executive Director of Overture Europe
Jenny Fleiss – Co-founder and President of Rent the Runway
Jen Bekman – Founder of 20x200

So, if you're a budding business-person (men and women, both!), looking for advice on how to start your own fundraising, or simply curious about how others in the field have paved their way, make sure to snap up a ticket in advance.

The GIT NYC Entrepreneurship and Venture Series Kick-Off with ASTIA
May 27th, 2010
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
$5 (to benefit Girls in Tech)
DogPatch Labs, 36 E. 12th Street (between Broadway + University)

We want to extend hearty thanks and glad-to-meet-yous to all who came out to Chronicle Books on Tuesday night for our Collectors Confab! We hope you had plenty to nibble on, wine to sip, and a tote (and perhaps some books) to take home. And, mostly, we hope you enjoyed seeing just a few of our favorite editions on the walls—after all, they could be on your walls too. We had a terrific time learning a little bit more about what you've collected (or plan to), what kind of art you like to live with, how you discovered us, and what kinds of projects you're working on. Also, we're always glad to have a bit of face-time with our Bay Area artists, many of who dropped by.

Of course, none of this would have been possible without the help of Chronicle Books, wine from Cameron Hughes, and snacks in your bags from popchips. For those of you who couldn't make it, here are just a few snapshots from the evening, and hopefully our Confabs will soon start to spread out to your neck of the woods.

We're heading out west for our annual Collectors Confab and you're invited! Jen and a few members of the 20x200 team are excited to meet you—West Coast collectors—on Tuesday, May 4th from 6 - 9 p.m at Chronicle Books in San Francisco. We'll be serving wine and beer along with a few nibbles, and perhaps have a surprise or two for you too. Many of our Bay Area artists will also be in attendance, so come say hello and have a drink on us!

Space is limited, so make sure you RSVP to rsvp AT 20x200 DOT com.

Who: West Coast Collectors, Artists & Team 20x200
What: Collectors Confab
When: Tuesday, May 4th, from 6-9 p.m.
Where: Chronicle Books | 680 Second Street, San Francisco, CA

The Web 2.0 Expo is entering its third year of gathering designers, developers, innovators and entrepreneurs under one room for three full days of inspiring talks. On October 18-21st, the New York branch of the conference will gather, and you (yes, you!) too can submit a proposal to speak.

What can you propose to talk about? Almost anything. Share stories about lessons learned using social media, design epiphanies, customer-service experiences that changed how you do business, or visual communication. Tell a tale about what has and hasn't worked for you in a way that'll appeal to developers, designers, marketings and business strategists alike.

Then, take this idea and turn it into a compelling video proposal. You can propose a talk solo or with a partner, and create a 2-3 minute clip about what your session will cover and what your audience can expect to learn. It doesn't have to be feature-film quality and don't worry about winning any editing awards. Once your video is ready, post it on Youtube, Vimeo or another video-hosting site, and send a link to Web 2.0 Expo by April 12th. The advisory board, including Jen, will carefully watch your videos, and notify selected speakers in June.

If you need help getting started, Web 2.0 Expo has made their own video to help you out: Insider Tips for Submitting a Winning Proposal. They also have lots of tips for writing successful proposals online and a list of this year's themes (including startup strategies, social media marketing, cloud computing and design for satisfying user experiences).

Our fine friends over at The Rumpus, that awfully addictive site that writes about books, comics, music, art, film, politics, sex and so, so much more is teaming up with Flavorpill and Tin House for a A Night Together of readings, music and all kinds of funny stuff next Tuesday, April 6th at The Highline Ballroom.

For just $10, you get to enjoy this star-studded lineup:

• Readings by authors: Sam Lipsyte, Colson Whitehead, and Lorelei Lee with This American Life’s Starlee Kine.
• Jokes and things that'll make you laugh with comedians: Michael Showalter and Dave Hill
• Tunes by musicians: Jeffrey Lewis and Alina Simone

And, in addition, four lucky writers will be selected by The Rumpus to read onstage at the event. To enter, sharpen your pencils and work out your finest alliterations, then simply write a 300-words-or-less fictional prose piece using one line from Sam Lipsyte's new novel, The Ask. You'll join the author and win the prize of reading your entry to the entire audience. Head over to The Rumpus for details, and a list of selected sentences from The Ask (i.e. you don't even have to buy the book to enter the competition).

A Night Together
The Highline Ballroom (431 W. 16th Street b/w 9th & 10th Ave)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Doors @ 6 p.m.
Ticket: $10 in advance (buy them online!) or $12 at the door

If you've ever been to an Ignite event, you'll know they're often funny, thought-provoking and highly entertaining. Ignite is a series of energetic 5-minute talks by experts in their fields ranging from designers and entrepreneurs to lawyers and writers. Each speaker gets 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds, so it's a race against the clock to share your passionate insights, ideas and demonstrate your expert with the Powerpoint slide presentation format.

For those in the Bay Area, the next Ignite will be held Monday, May 3rd (at Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, San Francisco)and you can send your witty and compelling ideas for a 5-minute talk in until midnight on April 11th. Ignite notes, "Historical, knowledge-sharing, and funny talks tend to resonate better than product pitches in this format, and we encourage you to think big. Our only ask: enlighten us, but make it quick."

So, get out there and share your passion and know-how. Here are the details on how to apply:

Write to ignitesf@gmail.com with "submission idea" included in your subject line. Send a paragraph pitch by midnight on April 11 for consideration. Speakers will be notified the week of April 19 for the next set of public talks to be hosted by Ignite co-founder Brady Forrest, TechWeb, and Bay Area planners Carmel Hagen and Emily Goligoski.

Head over to the site for more info and to watch videos of previous presentations from Ignite events all over the country.

If you haven't heard it on The Internets, a great event is underway now, and it's for an institution near and dear to us here at Jen Bekman Projects: The Brooklyn Academy of Music is hosting its 6th Annual Silent Auction, with over 160 artists' works represented. The proceeds from the auction will go directly to support BAM's programs and exhibits. Bidding is open from now through Sunday, March 28th at 8 p.m. This year's honorary artist's chair is the multimedia artist Shirin Neshat.

And here's where we come in:

On Saturday, March 27th, Jen Bekman Gallery invites you to ride with us to the Sixth Annual BAMart Silent Auction and Cocktail Reception aboard the Jen Bekman Projects’ coach. Leaving from Jen Bekman Gallery, the coach will transport event-goers to the cocktail reception at the Dorothy W. Levitt Lobby to join participating artists and special guest Andrew Andrew in celebrating the ten-day auction. This year’s auction includes works by over 160 visual artists and designers, including JBG artists Ian Baguskas, Sarah McKenzie and Colleen Plumb.

Traces, Ocotillo Wells, California, 2008 by Ian Baguskas

We’ll be providing transportation for the afternoon, making two departures from the gallery at 6 Spring Street in Manhattan and two returns from BAM in Brooklyn.

Riders can take the coach in one direction, or both, but seats are limited and must be reserved in advance. Email your seat reservation to info@jenbekman.com. Please indicate if you will be taking the coach in one direction or both. Any additional seating will be available on a first come first serve basis.

Bus Schedule:
Departing Jen Bekman Gallery (meet inside gallery) >> Brooklyn Academy of Music
3:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m.

Departing BAM (meet outside in front of lobby) >> JBG
3:45 p.m
6:00 p.m.

There really is something for everyone in this amazing roster of artists committing their work for this event. In addition to work by Baguskas, McKenzie, Plumb and William Powhida, there are also great works by people we love like Amy Stein and Maira Kalman, as well as the Super Famous such as Chuck Close, Yoko Ono and Shirin Neshat herself (and personally, if I had the Benjamins I'd be looking hard at the work by Michal Rovner, James Welling, Robert Wilson, Goerge Booujy and Michel Demanche, but that's just me full of wishin').

Register to bid today and start watching those items—with opening bids starting around $100, you really might pick something up that begins or greatly adds to your budding art collection!

More details on lots and bidding are available at the BAMart Auction website.

What are you doing this Friday night to ring in spring? We hope you'll join us at Aperture's SNAP! Out of Winter Party where there will be giveaways, raffles, drinks, desserts, a polaroid photo booth, chances to meet and mingle with Jen Bekman (a party co-chair), the JBP crew and the many friends of Aperture.

Party tickets are available at a range of prices, from $100 to $250, and we're also giving away two pairs of tickets for you and a guest on Twitter! All you have to do is follow @20x200 + @aperturefnd + tweet "SNAP! Me" to be eligible to win a set. Tweets will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. tonight, and we'll randomly select the winner and announce he or she on Twitter first thing tomorrow (3/19) morning.

We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway, one set that gets you +1 entry into the party and access to all the fun schwag, drinks and entertainment we mentioned above. And, we have one set of tickets that includes all of the above and an exclusive limited-edition print by Dan Winters (the image below) and a subscription to Aperture magazine subscription.

Movie Theater, Midland, Texas, March 25, 1995 by Dan Winters

Keep in mind that the party is in New York, so if you enter the contest, make sure you can be here tomorrow night!

SNAP! OUT OF WINTER
Friday, March 19, 2919
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor (Between 10th + 11th Avenue)
New York, NY 10001

Our very own Jonathan Melber, JBP's Director of Business Development and co-author of ART/WORK, will teach a one-day class this Saturday, March 20th, full of tips, tricks and insights for artists at all points in their careers.

Titled Ten Things Every Artist Should Know, Jonathan will address topics ranging from how to find grants and residencies to the more legal side of navigating the art world like understanding copyrights, contracts, and all the fine print. The course is open to the public—you don't have to be a student (or an artist) to attend.

Ten Things Every Artist Should Know with Jonathan Melber
Saturday, March 20th, 1:00PM - 5:30 p.m.
Course fee: $100.00
Location: 209 East 23 Street
Click HERE to register.

Jonathan and his co-author Heather Darcy Bhandari will also be speaking on a panel next Thursday, March 25th with Jackie Battenfield of The Artist's Guide. They will discuss tools for artists as they pursue their careers and following the discussion, all three authors will sign copies of their books.

Barnes & Noble
150 East 86th Street (@ Lexington Ave)
Thursday, March 25th
7:00 p.m.

So, if you've been feeling artist's block, or are just looking to spring into motion in your search for grants, galleries or in making new work, sit down with these experts to learn some of the tricks from the trade that fall outside the realm of putting paint-to-paper.

So, by now you know that the JBP street team is hitting the art fairs starting today with our Art Fair Survival Kits. They are in the form of our rather stylish orange and green Live With Art tote bags, and we want you to have one. And, better yet, we want you to take a picture (on your phone, with a camera) of people carrying the tote bags and upload them to Twitter or Flickr with a 20x200 hashtag (#20x200) or tag. We'll be following all the posts and every person who uploads a pic will get a $5 20x200 gift certificate and one lucky fair-goer will win a $200 print from 20x200. To keep track of our tote-distribution locations, follow us on Twitter @20x200 starting right now!

In short:
+ Take a picture of someone (yourself, a friend, a stranger) carrying a Live With Art tote at the art fairs and post it on Twitter or Flickr.
+ Include #20x200 in your tweet or tag 20x200 on Flickr and we'll send you a $5 gift certificate to 20x200.
+ Our favorite photo from the weekend will win a $200 print from 20x200.
+ The contest ends Sunday at midnight (EST). Only three photo entries per person will be accepted. Retweeting doesn't count. Please play fair!

As an extra bonus (!), we'll secretly/randomly be giving away selected 8"x10" 20x200 prints to people we spot carrying Live With Art totes in the fairs.

What's in these fabulous kits?
+ An awesome map drawn by Jason Polan with a guide to where the shows are by Casey Gollan.
+ postcards, stickers & special invites, Daily Candy's City Pocket Guide.
+ Our "Visual Palate Cleansing System" for the visually overstimulated
+ Various snacks, beverages, hair care products, coupons and more!

So, head out to:
+ The BAM Booth (P-7) at PULSE
+ The Blind Spot Booth at The Armory, Pier 92 (12th Avenue & 55th Street), near the entrance
+ SCOPE: look for us around the fair handing out totes!
+ Jen Bekman Gallery! 6 Spring Street between Bowery & Elizabeth.

Sound good? See you at the fairs!

The Armory Show and VOLTA NY will be hosting a series of conversations among industry professionals titled OPEN FORUM beginning on Thursday, March 4th and running through the weekend. Curated by Stamatina Gregory, the dialogues range in topics from art publishing and the socioeconomics of art to the future of Biennials (and lots more!).

On Saturday, the 6th, Jen will participate in a panel with Joshua Adler of Adler Development, Sharon Coplan Hurowitz of Coplan Hurowitz Art Advisory and Thomas Solomon of his eponymous LA-gallery on the topic of "The Upside to the Downside: Young Collectors in the Global Market." The panel will be moderated by Lindsay Pollock of Art Market Views and address the myriad opportunities available to collectors in the art market today. Are you a young collector or interested in becoming a collector yourself? Hear what this panel of art advisors, curators, gallerists and developers has to say.

The details:
The Upside to the Downside: Young Collectors in the Global Market
Time: Saturday, March 6; 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: : The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92 (12th Avenue & W. 55th Street)

See the full schedule of OPEN FORUM conversations, and we hope to see you at Jen's panel!

By now we're all familiar with the lingo of social media: there are tweets and check-ins, re-blogs and pokes, likes and follows. We use twitter, facebook, flickr, Vimeo, foursquare and countless other networks that connects to friends and acquaintances and industry professionals.

But, what does all this connected-ness really mean, how do artists and arts organizations use these social media tools to develop relationships with collectors, build communities, and generate excitement and attention in the art world? These are the questions that the first-ever SMartCAMP (Social Media Art Camp) will be tackling from March 5th - 7th at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City.

For two days, SMartCAMP will host a series of speakers, round-tables, panels and demonstrations to teach artists and organizations to how to best utilize blogs, community-tools, mobile-technology and existing networks on the internet to support the arts.

On Sunday, March 7th, from 2:30 - 3:15 p.m., Jen will speak on The Value of Building Community alongside Yancey Stricker of Kickstarter, Charlie Festa of Threadless/skinnyCorp and Anda Corrie of Etsy about each of the models these companies have undertaken to create their own circle of support.

Anyone can register to attend, either for a half day ($35), full day ($65), or the entire duration of the conference ($120). Click here to see the full list of conference speakers and the stellar-looking schedule for the weekend -- perhaps a good respite for your tired feet if you've been dashing around the city for the slew of art-world events that weekend.

87 Suns From Flickr - 29 Visible by Penelope Umbrico

As part of a lecture series presented by the Camera Club of New York, 20x200 edition-maker Penelope Umbrico will be speaking and doing a Q&A tomorrow night at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Penelope's work, which deals largely with groups of images found on the internet or in catalogs, is conceptually rigorous and often humorous. Her 20x200 edition, 87 Suns From Flickr - 29 Visible, composites nearly 100 clichéd photographs of sunsets to create a symbol of the world's "most photographed" subject.

About the edition she writes:

Suns From Flickr is a project I started in 2006 when, looking for "the most photographed" subject, I found 541,795 photographs of sunsets searching "sunset" on the photo-sharing web site Flickr. At the time that seemed like a lot; today there are more than 4,786,139 hits for "sunset" on Flickr. I think it's peculiar that the sun — the quintessential life-giver, constant in our lives, symbol of enlightenment, spirituality, eternity, all things unreachable and ephemeral, omnipotent provider of optimism and vitamin D... and so ubiquitously photographed — is now subsumed to the internet — the most virtual of spaces equally infinite but within a closed digital circuit.

This cheeky investigation of the mass-produced image is present throughout Penelope's work, much more of which is available on her website. Also of note: though she has lectured far and wide, tomorrow should be special because Penelope has both graduated from and taught at SVA.

Penelope's 20x200 editions are available here and here. Proceeds from Moons go to benefit the Aperture Foundation.

Penelope Umbrico Lecture
Thursday, February 18, 7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheatre
209 East 23rd Street (between 2nd/ 3rd Ave), Third Floor

Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
General admission $5, $3 for other students with valid student ID

Second only to Jersey Shore, we think that Art:21 is hands down the best program on TV. This pioneering documentary series, now in its fifth season, goes behind the studio walls to interview influential contemporary artists and catch a glimpse of their process. When we heard that Art:21 was hosting an art and culture trivia night (and happy hour!) here in New York, we were happy to kick in a few prints and gift certificates as prizes for the winning teams.

Here are some more details from the Art:21 crew:

Art21 and 92YTribeca present a trivia event inspired by contemporary art and the culture of our time. In the spirit of Art21's mission to increase knowledge of contemporary art and in combination with the social traditions of game night and happy hour, this multi-media event invites you to test your knowledge of current art, film, music and online cultural phenomena. Form a team of colleagues, friends and frienemies—or come solo and join a team on the spot to meet other art appreciators/lovers/aficionados —and compete for cultural greatness...or maybe just a prize.

If you're not familiar with Art:21, we can't recommend this series highly enough. Call in sick and cancel all your plans for the next few days while you prepare for trivia night by watching full episodes of the series online. The Art:21 website has more details about the event and, though it's not necessary to RSVP for your team, doing so ahead of time will help them prepare team rosters. Good luck to all participants and may the best team win!

Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia with Art:21
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 6:30 p.m.
at 92YTribeca
200 Hudson Street
New York, NY

Teams will be limited to 5 people. This is not a ticketed event; however, there will be a cost of $5 per team, payable at the bar, to participate.

Bierstadt with Holes, 2007 by Valerie Hegarty

On Saturday, February 6th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., join some of us from 20x200, including Ms. Jen B. herself, at the Brooklyn Museum for a Target First Saturday event with 1stfans. We'll be giving away 10"x8" prints by artist Valerie Hegarty to new and renewing 1stfans members and Jen will be speaking to an intimate group of 1stfans at a meetup. Meetups are an opportunity for 1stfans to interact exclusively with the Museum's staff, its collections, artists, and other members every month at Target First Saturdays.

We've been collaborating with 1stfans founders, Shelley Bernstein and Will Cary, and Valerie over the last few months to produce this unique benefit edition. For the first time ever, collectors will be able to pick up a print in person and become a 1stfans member all for the ridiculously affordable cost of $20! 1stfans is the Brooklyn Museums's socially networked membership. Valerie Hegarty and 20x200 have donated the prints for this event.

If you can't make it to the event, you'll have another chance to pick up one of Valerie's prints plus the 1stfans membership. We'll release the prints in two larger sizes, 11"x14" and 16"x20," the following week on 20x200. Every print from Valerie's edition will include a one-year membership to 1stfans and the proceeds from the print will benefit the Brooklyn Museum as well. The prints are gorgeous and we think they'll go fast, make sure you're signed up for Jen's newsletter to get first dibs on one!

Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Jen's talk with 1stfans will be from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, BK, NY

Hope to see you there!

Browse other benefit editions released on 20x200 here.

Can You Imagine by Trey Speegle

Two-time 20x200 edition-maker Trey Speegle will join a handful of artists in throwing an "Art Jamboree" in Soho this weekend. The event will feature an independent art sale, where all work costs $50 or less! It looks to be a great chance to pick up some artwork and to meet the artists themselves, who'll be doing the selling. Trey will be on-site with his work (Saturday only), so don't miss this chance to pick up one of his prints!

ART JAMBOREE #2
All work $50 or under
Saturday, October 24 & Sunday, October 25, 1–6:00pm
10 Greene St., 2nd & 3rd Floors

Artists include:
Billy Erb, Brent Van Horne, C.A.T.S. (Collective Arts Thinking Space), David Yarritu, Dino DeGuiceis, Fernando Santangelo, Holly Hein & Bryson Brooks, DJmeatnmore, Jason LeBlond, John-Paul Phillipe, Kenny Scharf, Josef Astor, Lourdes Sanchez, Martin Keehn, Matthew Burcaw, Michael Ingulli, Richard Haines, Raphael Sanchez & Kathleen White, Roz Allen, Santiago, Scott Lifshutz, Trey Speegle, Grace Kim, Julia Chiang, Tony Cox, Leah Durner, Lower East Side Girls Club and more!

20x200 stars Jane Mount and Kate Bingaman-Burt will both be speaking at the AIGA Design Conference, Make/Think in Memphis, TN, October 8-11. So, if you've been itching for inspiration, are trying to polish your design practice, or just want to make a trip to the home of William Eggleston, early October would be the optimal time.

Jane and Kate will join a talented cast of design-industry professionals and artists including Jill Greenberg, Stefan Sagemeister, and Daniel Eatock at a series of main stage presentations, roundtables, a Design Fair, workshops, and tours of host-city, Memphis.

Kate will be on an early morning roundtable discussion on Friday, October 9th from 7:45-8:45 a.m. along with Andre Andreev, Dan Covert, Nick Law, Bobby Martin, and Paul Sahre.

Jane will be on a panel alongside Jim Coudal, Liz Danzico, and Derek Powazek called Wisdom of Communities; Inspiring Communities also on Friday, October 9 from 2:15–3:30 p.m. See more details about the conference and the locations of their presentations on the 2009 AIGA Design Conference site.

Interested in attending?: Register here.

Team JBP is gearing up for our first-ever Confab + Print Trade on Tuesday, September 29th from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Come mingle with Hot Shots, esteemed panelists, contenders and fellow artists at White Rabbit, 145 E. Houston Street (between Eldridge + Forsythe).

We'll also be having a Print Trade! To participate, bring an 8.5" x 11" (or smaller) photographic print of your own and leave the party with another artist's work!

When you RSVP, please email us a jpeg of the photograph (800 px across @ 72 dpi) you plan to bring to the Confab.

RSVP to RSVP@heyhotshot.com.

In addition, there will be drink specials, giveaways from our generous sponsors at Arlo/Artists and Crumpler—with a few surprises from JBP as well—and ample opportunities to meet fellow photographers and artists in the JBP community.

We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Forever, 2009 by Jonathan Allen

This Sunday 20x200 artist Jonathan Allen will be generous enough to open his studio to the public. He's about to transition into a new studio space, but before he packs he'd love to show you what he has been up to.

Jonathan Allen Open studio
29-16 38th Avenue
Long Island City, NY

See you there!

Jonthan's edition print, Torn is available here.

Jonathan's site

79 Moons From Flickr - 51 Visible and 87 Suns From Flickr - 29 Visible by Penelope Umbrico

If you caught Lyle Rexer's panel at NYPH'09, you know he's uber-knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the subject of his new book, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, so tonight's talk and book signing at Aperture should be a treat!

Join Rexer at Aperture, 547 W 27th Street, 4th Floor, at 6:30 p.m. tonight.

If you're so inspired after meeting/listening to Rexer and seeing the accompanying exhibition, you should still have time later this evening to bring a little bit of the show home with you, support Aperture and their amazing programming AND save 20% — all at once! Before the stroke of midnight tonight, you can collect two works, created by Penelope Umbrico, exclusively for 20x200, in support of Aperture. Proceeds from the sale of 79 Moons From Flickr - 51 Visible benefit Aperture.

We're into the final hours of the 20x200 site-wide sale. Don't miss out!

Image of Ms. Jen Bekman by Zach Klein

Hey, hey!

The charmingly inexhaustible Jen Bekman will be speaking TONIGHT @ Ignite NYC. Watch Jen magically click through 20 slides (in 5 minutes!). Jen promises she'll be "the fast-talking, nervous blond with the lo-tech deck, entitled Overcrowded - How crowd sourcing is ruining everything.

See you there!

Ignite NYC III
Monday, February 23 | 6:30-10:00PM @ Santos Party House

96 Lafayette St (between Walker + White)

Schedule 6:30PM- Doors

6:30-7:30PM- Happy Hour: $2 Buds and $5 mixed drink

7:30-8PM- Know Your Meme: The Game Show! Pwn, Win, or Fail! w/ Rocketboom

Last Friday we brought you a super special double edition from Superdeluxe to commemorate our one year anniversary here at 20x200. We also had a very lively party here in New York filled with lovely faces and lots of yummy treats and drinks. You can check out the photos of the festivities here on our new 20x200 flickr!

Sleeping Lion by Hey, Hot Shot! winner Colleen Plumb

It's opening time again at Jen Bekman Gallery! The Hey, Hot Shot! winners are ready to have their time in the spotlight! The opening is this very night, August 8th and the show will continue through Saturday, August 23rd.

Winning artists in the exhibition:

Juliane Eirich
Derek Henderson
Roc Herms Pont
Kate Orne
Colleen Plumb

If you're in our neck of the woods I hope you get a chance to swing by to see the work up close and share in all of the excitement. Jen Bekman openings are always lovely nights filled with smiling faces and (of course!) superior art.

Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, New York 10012

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday | Noon – 6pm

Minds/Mines Don't Care, 2008. Photogram C-Print by Rebecca Loyche

Rebecca Loyche is part of an all female artist collective called tART who have organized a salon show opening tomorrow evening. If you happen to be in New York, hop on over to Rabbit Hole Studio in DUMBO. An added bonus: you'll also be able to see two of Olafur Eliasson's wonderful waterfalls on your way.

Rabbit Hole Studio
33 Washington Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
718.852.1500
July 3 - August 1, 2008
Opening: Thursday, July 3, 6-8pm

Gas Station by Tema Stauffer

For those of you nearer to the Potomac than the Hudson, Tema Stauffer will be showing work in DC at Randall Scott Gallery. The show will be up for two weeks, opening July 12th.

Randall Scott Gallery
1326 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.332.0806
Gallery hours:
Tuesday by appointment
Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm

Left: Lazuli Bunting, 2008, gouache on paper
Right: Yellow Headed Blackbird, 2008, gouache on paper

Lastly, for all of you Texas roses, Carrie Marill is showing new gouache paintings she made while on an artist residency, cleverly titled Resident Birds. The work is up now through July 19, 2008 at Conduit Gallery in Dallas.

Conduit Gallery
1626 C Hi Line Dr.
Dallas, TX 75207
214.939.0064
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 10-5

UPDATE: Carrie Marill just got a nice write up about this show in the Dallas Morning News. Read the article here. Congrats to you, Ms Marill!

http://www.christinamuraczewski.com/
If you happen to be one of our dedicated Los Angeles collectors be sure to stop by 20x200 artist Christina Muraczewsi's space at Open Studio 2008.

May 3rd-4th 12pm-6pm
Santa Fe Art Colony
2401 South Santa Fe Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90058

Christiana's prints on 20x200 are almost sold out but there are still a few medium and large sized prints of Daisy and Polly available. The Polly original is also still available.

Muraczewski has just launched a brand new website.

Someone browsing a piece by Dan Perjovschi at the Armory Show, photo by Harry Swartz-Turfle

Friend of 20x200 Paddy Johnson's L Magazine column this week is on how art fairs are actually making it harder to see art:

Every time a series of works is exhibited for the first time at an art fair, its sale shrinks the public viewing time, while charging us for something we’d have previously seen for free. Sure, this art may be seen again on the secondary market or in exhibition, but tracking down a complete suite of works that may have been sold to a number of different clients often requires more resources than a space has at its disposal.

That's not something I'd ever thought about, but the increasing popularity and importance of art fairs, with their pricey admissions and exclusive off-site parties and viewings—Art Basel and its Miami offspring being the two most prestigious/notorious examples—mean that more than ever before, art is making it way into the hands of moneyed collectors without ever being seen by the public, i.e. the likes of you and me. Sad.

Untitled, Winter 2006 by Gregory Crewdson

One of my most vivid memories from my first few months in New York is standing in front of Gregory Crewdson's Twilight series at the Guggenheim and finding bits and pieces of myself in the photographs; despite being too perfectly staged, set in places I'd never go and featuring no one who looks anything like me, there was something so primal about the loneliness and longing in all the unerringly lit scenes that spoke to the part of me terrified I wasn't going to make any friends or get anywhere in the city. It's such a strange, painful thing to remember, and I guess it's why I have such a love/hate relationship with his work—I appreciate the beauty of the photographs and I enjoy the exercise of making elaborate stories in my head around the moment they present, but they always leave me so cold inside.

Having said all of that, I'm excited to see Crewdson's new show at Luhring Augustine here in NYC, Beneath the Roses, which opened this past week and runs through May 3rd. Amy Larocca talked to Crewdson about his process and approach for New York Magazine recently; the most interesting thing to me in the piece is finding out that someone who creates photographs with such a cinematic feel—using about the same manpower as a film crew to make his work, even— has zero desire to ever direct a movie himself. He says, "I think in terms of single images. My work is profoundly connected to that tradition. I really don’t know what happens before or after an image. I really have no clue."

Hyper No 04 by Denis Darzacq

The city of Fremantle in Australia is currently hosting the largest photography festival in the southern hemisphere: FotoFreo 2008 is a "biennial international festival of photography lasting a full month to showcase the work of photographers, to generate an awareness of and a discussion about their work, and to create a forum for the exploration of ideas and issues relating to the practice and art of photography." It's a very long and horribly expensive series of plane rides from New York to Fremantle, which is unfortunate because FotoFreo's list of core exhibitions looks amazing, there are so many photographers whose work I'd love to see in person.

Chief among them is Denis Darzacq, whose work I first encountered through his 2007 World Press Photo prize-winning series La Chute, in which he captures young people seemingly falling at high speed, in the moment before they hit the ground. The photograph above is from his show Hyper et Casqués, now open at the Perth Centre for Photography; "For Hyper," Darzacq says, "I asked young dancers and sportsmen to jump for the camera, inspiring themselves from the aggresive setting of the hypermarket as well as the body language found in mannierist paintings, unreal and exaggerated, futile. A form of resistance against an increasingly rampant consumer society."

Other highlights: Agnès Dherbeys' photos of the ongoing turmoil in East Timor, Chen Nong's hand-colored black and white prints of his recreated terra cotta armies at the Three Gorges Dam, and Wang Gang's portraits of the Yi people in remote China.

Installation Shot from Obsessive Consumption on view at Jen Bekman Gallery until October 27.

Please join us at Jen Bekman Gallery this Saturday, October 20 , from 3pm-5pm, where we'll be hosting an artist talk and book signing from this week's 20x200 artists, Michael Perry and Kate Bingaman-Burt.

Kate Bingaman-Burt will be talking about her current exhibition, Obsessive Consumption. She'll be joined by Michael Perry author of Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, which happens to include some work by KBB herself.

Hand Job: A Catalog of Type published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Kate and Mike will talk about art, design, typography and books. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the event. If you'd like to reserve a copy in advance, send an email to rsvp@jenbekman.com.

Check out Mike's drawing and Kate's photo. [Her superb illustration is still available for purchase.]

You can read up on the editions on the 20x200 blog.

See you Saturday!

Postcard Image from Obsessive Consumption.