Untitled from Book Collection series by Paul Octavious

Happy Friday, collectors! We hope that you are all managing well in the still-frigid clime and that the toasty image above brings a little warmth to your day. We have been ever busy bringing you editions for the week—including a couple delectable treats and an image of snow in its most pristine, just-fallen state. As always, we're ending the week by bringing you our picks for this week's must-see art-related links and stories. Enjoy!

• The Wall Street Journal's Ellen Gamerman and Kelly Crow reported today on the rise in online art buying opportunities, especially for high-ticket items. We're pleased to report that 20x200 makes their short list of places to buy art online, along with the exclusive VIP Art Fair, Artnet and Art.sy. William Wegman's also quoted about some advantages to viewing work online!


• If you're in NYC tonight, or in the near future, stop by Janet Kurnatowski Gallery to see some of Gary Petersen and Greg Lindquist's art up close. Group show Paper 2011 features some of Gary and Greg's work, and opens tonight with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m.


• One of this week's sweet-toothed edition-makers, Martha Rich, also has work on view in NYC. The opening reception for her show Nuts, Charm & Rejection at culturefix gallery is tonight from 7 to 9 p.m.


• And a friendly reminder to those who haven't made it to Jen Bekman Gallery yet, to see Joseph O. Holmes 's The Urban Wilderness, you've got only 9 days left to see those snow-filled prints in person.


• Next up at the JBG is the long-awaited 2010 Hot Shot! Showcase, which opens February 4 and will feature work from this week's other champion of confections and 2010 Hot Shot, Amy Stevens.

First Snow by Paul Octavious	Confections (adorned) #14 by Amy Stevens

Stay Icy by Martha Rich	Chocolate Electric by Martha Rich

Behind the Bay City Log Sorting Yard, Cosmopolis, Washington by Eirik Johnson

Happy Monday-after-Christmas, collectors! What a wonderful year it's been for us at 20x200. We hope that you've enjoyed this year's editions, along with the other goodies we've brought you: a handy framing how-to video, gift wrap and framed prints, along with prints benefiting some of our favorite organizations like Creative Time and the Cooper-Hewitt! For those of you still enjoying the warmth of friends, family and scrumptious food tonight and this weekend, and those of you back at the office, here are last week's art-related highlights:

• As always, the artists behind our editions are ever busy producing more projects and we couldn't be happier for them. The 2011 New Yorker Goings On About Town calendar will feature work from Landon Nordeman.


• Joe Holmes's exhibition Urban Wilderness is on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through January 16, so hop to if you haven't gotten the chance to see it yet. Note: The gallery will be closed for the holidays through tomorrow, December 28 as well as December 31 and New Year's Day.
  


• Eirik Johnson, the 2010 Foster Prize recipient who we've had much to say about, has a photographic sound-based installation, Madre de Dios, on view at the ICA in Boston through January 16. If you won't be in that neck of the New England woods in time to see it in person, check out some video of the installation.
• The indefatigable Jason Polan is still at it, creating those humorous, evocative portraits of the fine people of New York City. NPR's The Picture Show recently weighed in on the project themselves and featured a selection of images from the series that you might want to take a look at.
• This week we also got a once-every-400-years treat: an absolutely jaw-dropping lunar eclipse that happened to fall on the same day as the winter solstice. On the Hey, Hot Shot! blog, Youngna offered up some great images of the ruby-glowing moon along with host of links even more photographs.
• In addition to all the two f's of the holiday season (that's food and family, folks), there is also the overwhelming presence of music: carols, song and instrumentation are a huge part of many winter celebrations. This week, Emma's post draws out a common link between visual art and music, and offers a nice look back at some music-related 20x200 editions that you probably haven't seen in a while.
• Thank you all for a stupendous year!

Untitled from the series Pulsar, 2009 by Yuji Hamada

Hello, collector friends! It's been another frigid but wonderfully productive week for us here at 20x200 HQ, as we hope it has been for you. As the holidays inch ever nearer, we hope that you are gearing up to be merry with family and friends, wherever in the world you are. But for today, we are here to send you off into the weekend with a roundup of the week's must-see art-related stories and links:

• For those of you still getting those last bits of holiday shopping in, a reminder that today is the last day to order prints you'd like to have arrive in time for Christmas using regular USPS shipping. So fill up those carts and order today!


• Not sure of which print to get someone? Don't worry, we've got you covered! From your most feminine of friends to your favorite foodies, our personalized gift guides are bound to have the perfect answer.


• Speaking of foodies, this week we teamed up with our gourmand friends at Serious Eats to release a new, all-cookbook edition from the prolific Jane Mount and hosted a super-fun giveaway of a $50 print and cookbook on Twitter. Congrats to @@fitbomb on taking home those enviable prizes!


• We were psyched to receive more warm words about 20x200 this week, as we're always happy to hear that others agree that we are making collecting more attainable for everyone out there. DETAILS commended our newsletters for offering valuable art knowledge to the newbie collector. And ABC News dropped by the office to hear from Jen Bekman, herself, about her goal of making art available for everyone.


• Another much-appreciated mention came from Forbes.com who recently released a list of what not to buy this holiday season. While many fine art purchases are not cost-effective during the winter months, reporter Lauren Sherman says, "Affordable prints, available on websites like … 20x200, are always in season." We couldn't agree more!


• And if there's anything we value as much as bringing you affordable fine art, it's supporting wonderful, young artists. Keep your eyes peeled for Colin Blakely's work at FotoFest in Houston in January.


• Additionally Ross Racine has recently done a bunch of killer interviews discussing his work, and has piecesfeatured in UrbanSpacemag.


• The Sunday Paper recommended Joseph O. Holmes' gorgeous The Sledding Hill (Dusk) as an unbeatable holiday gift. You can also see twelve gorgeous prints by Joe at Jen Bekman Gallery right now in his exhibition,The Urban Wilderness.
  


• We want you to be out and seeing as much art as possible this holiday season, and what's better incentive than a special offer from the Cooper-Hewitt, which is granting discounted memberships to 20x200 collectors, in gratitude for the recent benefit print from Paula Scher.


• And if you're not in an ideal location to get out for some art-watching this weekend, we've got a couple ideas of how to bring art to you. Browse through a recent look back at the 2010 HHS! contenders. Or if a tangible piece of artwork is what you're looking for, you might want to check out this special offer from Jason Polan and Criterion.


• On the photography side of things, our friends at La Pura Vida named the HHS! blog one of the Top 15 Photography Websites of 2010. We're honored to be in such esteemed company!


• Two of our Hot Shots, Pixy Liao and Zhijie Sui, have also teamed up to curate two 2011 calendars around the theme "Harmonic," a popular Chinese concept online. Read more on the details of the two calendars; proceeds from the sales go to benefit The Pediatric HIV/AIDS Treatment Support Project for AIDS Orphans in Fuyang, China.

Blizzard  by William Wegman	Game Board by William Wegman

Dapper Owl by Don Carney	Timid Whale by Don Carney	Ideal Bookshelf 102: Cooking byJane Mount

Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica by Stuart Klipper

Mel Gibson alongside Little Henry and the Lion by Keith Shore in The Beaver

Friday greetings! We’re inching closer to the New Year every day and the holiday season is here in full force! Whether that means you're hard at work, drinking copious quantities of eggnog, or just starting your holiday shopping—as always, we’re bringing you the week’s roundup of art-related stories and links:

20x200 News

• Along with making the cost of collecting more accessible to all, we’re equally committed to elucidating other important facets of collecting for everyone out there. This week, we unveiled a handy A-Z of printing terms to help you navigate some of the industry's jargon!


• It’s no secret that we’re big fans of picturing animals in artwork. If you feel the same way, stop by William Wegman’s current exhibition at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, featuring 20"x24" Polaroid prints of his dog, Fay Ray, from the 80s and 90s. And be sure to read a bit about what’s behind the exhibition, in The Morning News’s recent interview with Wegman.


• Wegman also made an appearance on The Colbert Report this week, taking on Stephen Colbert's challenge to improve upon his portrait. Wegman gets one of his four-legged friends suited up for the task. Watch the full clip here.


• Gift guide recommendations of 20x200 prints kept rolling in this week! Travel & Leisure touted Lisa Congdon's Day 256: Vintage Airline Tags as a quaint gift for the modern traveler. MSNBC recommended 20x200 as a great affordable gift for just about anyone on your list, Re-Nest also suggests our $20 8x10 prints as a unique gift under $25, and DETAILS points to 20x200 in How To Collect Art Without Breaking The Bank, picking Jason Burch's Ringside and Jenny Odell's 195 Yachts, Barges, Cargo Lines, Tankers, and Other Ships.


• Sunset Magazine also chimed in, suggesting that instead of just one print for a loved one, you consider gifting a bundle of prints, curated to that person's own interests.


• To cap it off, we got a very touching mention from Gotham Gal’s Joanne Wilson, who heralded 20x200 as a sustainable future for art collecting in the midst of these extremely uncertain economic times.


• Aside from all the shopping to get done, there are a bunch of events in the pipeline this holiday season! Joseph O. Holmes’ solo exhibition The Urban Wilderness opens tonight with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Jen Bekman Gallery, and we’re all buzzing with excitement! The great people at WNYC Culture seem to feel similarly, including the show in their list of Must-See Arts in the City. We also picked out a few other great photography shows to make sure you catch this season while you're out and about!


• Joe also sent over a great snapshot earlier this week of his enchanting photograph Prospect Park #2 hanging at the Rockefeller Center's Real Simple pop-up shop. (p.s. We have four of these prints left at 24"x30" ($1000)—a steal, if you ask us!)


• Tomorrow afternoon, catch Trey Speegle and many other local artists selling their works for $50 and less at Art Jamboree #3 on 10 Greene Street from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m..


• On Wednesday December 15, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Gary Petersen will be hosting an open studio as part of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Holiday Party. Stop by 20 Jay Street, 7th Floor, Suite 720, Brooklyn, NY 11201, if you’d like to get a closer look at Gary’s work and studio space!


• Atrophic Existence—a great exhibition at Show & Tell Gallery that features work by Kevin Cyr—opens tomorrow. The show features an exciting line-up of emerging contemporary artists from across North America whose work harmoniously intertwines around the subject of urban decay.


• Tyson Anthony Roberts, who participated in Mixtape at Jen Bekman Gallery, is also involved in two exhibitions running through January! Miniature Art Exhibition will be on view at Ghost Gallery. And Pixelated Landscapes—his solo show—opens tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. at Cupcake Royale.


• What are YOU willing to trade for art? This is what Art Barter, a London-based outfit asks at their events, which invite participants to bid on works with anything but money. Their NYC barter launched yesterday, and continues through Sunday, the 12th, at 131 Chrystie Street. Find details here.


• Penelope Umbrico, whose suns and moons have graced us with their celestial presence and commentary on the web—is working on a new monograph with Aperture, due out next June.


• As the year comes to a close, we took a chance to look back at some of our favorite images from the 2010 competition—and boy, did we see some great work come in.

Day 114: Dice by Lisa Congdon	Day 256: Vintage Airline Tags by Lisa Congdon	Crystallized by Michelle Hinebrook	The World by Paula Scher

Lovebird #6 by Luke Stephenson	Lovebird #5 by Luke Stephenson	50 (+1 for good luck) Giraffes(painting) by Jason Polan	50 (+1 for good luck) Giraffes (silkscreen) by Jason Polan

Untitled by Ross Racine

Hey, collectors! It's been a whirlwind week here at 20x200 headquarters. We're fully in the midst the holiday season, which means we're bringing you more editions and a slew of special offers day-by-day! Check out what you may've missed earlier this week in art stories and links:

20x200 News

• Graphic designer, typographer and writer Marian Bantjes just released a new monograph called I Wonder, featuring her design work alongside brilliantly reflective essays. The New York Times' T Magazine features a glowing review of the book, calling it, "an exquisite computer-era, counterintuitive testament to overly detailed, given-up-for-passé graphic ornamentation, a 21st-century illuminated manuscript that pays exacting homage to the ancient codices illustres..."
  
• And several other 20x200 edition-makes also have projects cooking this week. Starting Thursday and spanning till January 8, Ian Carpenter will have 5 works up on view at Gitana Rosa Gallery, which has been converted into a pop-up shop for the holiday season. Stop by and take a peek!
• Keith Shore caught up with the folks at It's Nice That, letting them into his creative process and the stories behind some of his recurring characters.
• Slideluck Potshow--the NYC-based arts non-profit that aims to bring people together around food and art--will host its benefit auction on Wednesday, December 8, hosted by DJ Spooky and Patrick McMullan. Head to the site to preview images that will be auctioned (including a few by Hot Shots + 20x200 artists) and to buy tickets to the event!
• Ross Racine also has a digital drawing included in IPCNY's Benefit Auction. Conveniently taking place online, visit the site by December 18 to bid on a work! And if you're in New York, be sure to check out the exhibition of works, also on view through the 18th!
  
• If Lisa Congdon's, Mark Richards's and Stuart Klipper's 20x200 editions have left you craving even more, go ahead and peruse Chronicle Books' Friends and Family sale, where you can find projects featuring these artists and more! Enter code FRIENDS at checkout to receive 35% off on orders made before December 5.
• What do Jane Mount, Mark Menjivar and Todd Selby have in common? A recent post explores the inner workings of these three artists whose photography glances into the homes of others.
• Perhaps you've long resolved to get back into the darkroom and start making photographs the "old-fashioned" way. Over at HHS! we put together your ultimate guide to NYC darkrooms to help you get started.
• And if the mere mention of glancing into a home leaves you overwhelmed by the thought of how much time and cash go into decorating one. We've got just the link for you. This designer simplifies the decoration process and agrees that 20x200 is a great place to start, no matter what your budget!
  
• The prestigious and lovely Town & Country also concurs, including 20x200 in a wonderful guide to accessible art collecting via the internet!
• With the gift-giving season in full swing, 20x200 continues to rack up the gift guide mentions. This week After Ellen suggested a number of editions as the perfect presents for "the queer lit lady" this holiday season.
• GQ also recommended the gift of an edition as a great one that won't do too much damage to the wallet and will let that special someone in your life know that you've got a discerning eye.
• And Clifton Burt chimed in with a hilarious Holiday Guide for the Male Humans in Your Life, including great editions from Thomas Prior, Donald Weber and Joseph O. Holmes
• Speaking of Joseph O. Holmes, his first solo exhibition, The Urban Wilderness at Jen Bekman Gallery opens next Friday, December 10th, 6-8 p.m. We took a look back at his work and his role in the JBP family over the last several years.
• Last on the gift guide front, but certainly not least, Daily Candy included JBP's own Youngna Park's Winter Flags (East Village, New York) in its list of "picture perfect" gifts for the ladies in your life.
• What would all these presents be without equally aesthetically pleasing and affordable wrapping? We're now offering wrapping of 8x10" and 11x14" prints for only $5!

Ideal Bookshelf 101: Robert Verdi by Jane Mount	Baby White Tiger No. 5 by Sharon Montrose	Atari by Hollis Brown Thornton

alleverythingthatisyou sno7_077 and	alleverythingthatisyou sno7_057 by Mike + Doug Starn

Untitled by Tracy Brown from the Picture Black Friday project

Good morning, collectors! We at 20x200 hope that last night's Thanksgiving festivities were as joyous, tasty and visually stimulating as possible. As we do each Friday, we've rounded up the week's most notable stories and links. While you recover from this year's tryptophan intake, take a gander at what you may have missed in all the mayhem of the seven days leading up to that turkey dinner:

20x200 News

• As millions across the country stocked their refrigerators and pantries for this year's most gustatory holiday, NPR's Picture Show blog highlighted a selection from Mark Menjivar's poignant series of photographs capturing the interiors of people's fridges. Mark began the project while working on a hunger documentary, calling the photographs "portraits of the rich and the poor". He wrapped up the project last month.
• This week, Refinery29 pulled together a much-needed list of foolproof gifts that just about anybody would love. We're happy to say that Craig Damrauer's edition Modern Art from his New Math project makes the cut! This isn't the first time Refinery29's shown us some love, and we're so thankful for the recognition!
• Speaking of the gift-giving season, if you're not sure of just which print would be perfect for that special person, why not give a 20x200 gift certificate? You can even choose a digital gift certificate, which delivers immediately, if you're in a hurry!
• On this Black Friday--the uniquely American kickoff to holiday shopping--a photography contest called Picture Black Friday, juried by Brian Ulrich and Amy Stein, invites any photographers out there to submit their own shots and documentations of the day's retail madness.
• Also this week, 20x200 and some of our favorite artists were showered with attention from the press! Christian Chaize's gorgeous Praia Piquinia 23/08/07 14h59 was pictured in an Elle Decor spread about the home of NYC home of Kiane von Mueffling, which first appeared at Jen Bekman Gallery in Chaize's solo exhibition, Praia Piquinia.
• Comedian Samantha Bee mentioned Stephanie Cinelli's edition You Are Important in her interview with The New York Times Magazine. The edition also made an appearance in the Huffington Post's Divorce section
• Our friends at Dwell gave 20x200 a nice shout for bringing the joys of art collecting to a larger audience.
• 20x200 superstar Kate Bingaman-Burt also gave a wonderfully elucidating interview with Design Observer's Debbie Millman. Their conversation meanders from the influence of Kate's family's weaving business on her creative process, to her yearning to create dialogue about everyday consumption
• Jorge Colombo's iSketches are continuing to pick up steam, appearing in several of New York's most widely read publications. This week, his greyscale rendering of commuters rushing through the sprawling Penn Station is the illustration alongside a New York Times Opinion piece on the fate of that transportation hub.
• And on Tuesday, an Apple 1 (the first Apple computer and first personal computer with a fully assembled motherboard) was sold at Christie's for $212,267. Why not get your own piece of the action by snapping up a print of Mark Richards's Apple 1 at 20x200. While the $20 size has already sold out, you can still get one for just $50!
• Speaking of big sales, Alec Baldwin also slapped down $10,000 to take home a photograph by our very own Joseph O. Holmes.

• Stefan Ruiz's The Factory of Dreams is now up at Brooklyn's F.L.O.A.T. gallery and takes a look backstage at the characters and sets that comprise the Latin American soap operas of Mexico's Televisa Studios.

• If you're still reeling from the meal last night and yearning for more in the way of edible delight, feast your eyes on this selection of food-related editions from the 20x200 archives!

Dump Truck 1989 by Don Hamerman	Ford Heavy Wreck by Don Hamerman

Vogue March 2010:pg 230... by Lauren DiCioccio	Vogue May 2010:pg 70... by Lauren DiCioccio	The Sledding Hill (Dusk) by Joseph O. Holmes

Nonsensical Infographic No. 1, Nonsensical Infographic No. 2 and Nonsensical Infographic No. 4 by Chad Hagen

Happy almost-Thanskgiving! We can hardly believe it, but Turkey Day (and the holiday season) are right around the corner. But for now: it's Friday again, which means we've lined up our favorite art links and stories that we've come across this week. Here's what's we've got:

20x200 News

• If you've collected works from 20x200 recently, you may have noticed that you're being prompted to create a 20x200 account. What's this all about??! We're trying to make your art collecting experience as easy and satisfying as we can. Head here for details and email support at 20x200 dot com if you have any questions or suggestions.
• You've selected your favorite 20x200 prints, placed your order, and now those prints have arrived in your mailbox. Next up: getting those on your wall! In this video, Jen Bekman shows you how to frame your prints, starting from how to choose the right size and color frame, to the nitty-gritty of getting a mat cut. Now, watch this video and start living with your art!

• Sean Greene has his hand in two exhibits, currently up in the Pioneer Valley. Several of his new paintings are in NONOBJECTIVE at William Baczek Fine Arts through November 27th and he has also curated an exhibit, Pictured Thoughts, at UMass Amherst, on view till December 3rd. More details here!
• Prospect Park #2, one of the first snowy scenes we brought you by Joseph O. Holmes of Frederick Olmstead's beloved-Brooklyn green-space, is featured in the December issue of Real Simple. Works from this series will be at JBG in December, too, in Joe's upcoming solo exhibition, The Urban Wilderness.
• Speaking of Joseph Holmes, his Workspace series was also featured on Unplggd this week. They write: "Helping tidy, organize and decorate small workspaces and homes offices is our bread butter here at Unplggd. But that doesn't mean we don't appreciate the beauty occasionally inherent in cluttered, disorganized and densely packed work spaces, as revealed by the stunning photography of Joseph O. Holmes."

• Paddy Johnson of Art Fag city talked to William Powhida as one of a series of interviews she did about surviving in NYC as an artist or art-organization. Read her full interview, or if you're in London, catch Powhida's show, Dirty Kunst at Seventeen Gallery, on view till December 23rd.
• Wondering what the workspaces of your favorite artists look like? Kate Donnelly's collaborative project, From the desk of... investigates. Recently, she got a peek at the desk of Carrie Marill. Take a look inside her studio and get the full scoop right here.
• Photographer Amy Stein's newest project isn't photography -- but curation! Amy's pulled together a stellar group of seven women photographers for Things Fall Apart, opening tonight at pool gallery in Berlin. Congrats, Amy!
• CNN's Money magazine pulled together a list of their favorite gifts for the domestically inclined, pointing to Raul Gutierrez's Red Truck on the Back Road to Manigango as the perfect pick this holiday season.
• The team at Refinery29 also selected Michelle Hinebrook's candy-coated edition, Sugarcoat as one of "50 Great Holiday Gifts Under $100." Thanks, Refinery29!
• Jessica Snow's Multiple Plot Points is on view at Jen Bekman Gallery for just a few more weeks! Make sure to stop by before December 5th to get a glimpse at these gorgeous works. For those of you far from Soho, start by taking a peek at these installation views.

• Sarah McKenzie's Concrete/Abstract opens up at Denver's Rule Gallery tonight, November 19th.

• ReadyMade is decking-their-walls with projects and ideas for those blank walls in your house and picks Don Hamerman's Rawlings to adorn your space.
• Jessica Eaton tests the own limits of our visual perception once more in her fourth solo exhibition STRATA, now open at Red Bull 381 Projects in Toronto. Head here for exhibition details and for information about her forthcoming artist talk on December 9th.
• Headed down to Miami the first week of December? Jen Bekman Gallery is too! We'll be at PULSE Art Fair in Booth B-403 exhibiting work from Christian Chaize, Beth Dow, Derek Henderson, Kent Rogowski and several others. Find more details, including fair hours and directions to the venue right here.
• Colleen Plumb, whose work will be at the aforementioned booth at PULSE Miami, also has work at Dina Mitrani gallery through Christmas Day from her series, Animals Are Outside Today. While in Miami, we hope you'll head to see her work in both spots.
• Six fabulously framed 20x200 prints appear in the homes of Erica Cerula and Claire Mazur, the founders of Of A Kind, a tumblr-based web store as featured on From Me To You.

New Editions

Louis the Third, by Jessica Snow	Modern Art by Craig Damrauer

Black Box, 2010 by Sarah McKenzie

Happy second-week-of-November! It's Friday again, which means we've lined up our favorite art links and stories that we've come across this week. Here's what's we've got:

20x200 News

• How often do you see an art exhibition in a church? The Arts at Trinity Wall Street and Phenomena Project have put together All Insignificant Things Must Disappear, opening with a reception for the artists (including William Crump), tonight, November 12th, 6-8 p.m. Head here for details.
• Kate Bingaman-Burt gave a talk earlier this week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln along with 9 other super-successful graduates from the school. Miss it? Well, Kate has also launched a fabulous lecture series, Show & Tell, that's running all fall at Portland State University. See the full schedule of speakers here.
• 20x200 + Christian Chaize's Praia Piquinia 06/08/09 14h01 were the stars of The Nate Berkus Show this week, being named one of five design must-haves under $50. See the full clip from the show right here.
• Amsterdam-based newfreshnice gave 20x200 a shout-out from across the pond, letting their readers know that "the time that cool and unique art could only be found in exclusive high brow exhibition spaces is over." We agree!
• Over on the HHS! blog, we featured Q&A's with each of our five 2010 Hot Shots this week. Get the full scoop on: Zhijie Sui, Michael Bodiam, Laura Bell, Amy Stevens and Chikara Umihara.
• Photographer Kurt Tong is very busy these days with his work up (or going up soon) in several London-based exhibitions. He also has an artist talk tomorrow at Blurb Books' London Pop-Up and a forthcoming book. Get the full scoop on Kurt's ongoing and upcoming events.

• Lenscratch takes a look at the portfolio of Joseph O. Holmes, who was recently named a Top 50 Finalist by Critical Mass.
• Jessica Snow's Multiple Plot Points is on view at Jen Bekman Gallery for just a few more weeks! Make sure to stop by before December 5th to get a glimpse at these gorgeous works. For those of you far from Soho, start by taking a peek at these installation views.

• Coming up next week: Sarah McKenzie's Concrete/Abstract opens up at Denver's Rule Gallery on November 19th.

• We honored our country's veterans this week, celebrating Veteran's Day. Artist Lauren DiCioccio has been working on dear soldier, an ongoing collaborative project of hand-embroidered letters made by men and women at the Shamrock senior center to anonymous soldiers in Afghanistan.
• Penelope Umbrico's summer show, As Is receives some well-deserved attention in the November issue of Art in America.

• Jill Singer and Monica Khemserov, co-editors of Sight Unseen, name Joe Holmes’ Engine Lathe Shelves and Gregory Krum’s Chateau Pool, as two of their favorite inspirations.
  

New Editions

prettymaps (paris), by Aaron Straup Cope	144 Empty Parking Lots by Jenny Odell	125 Swimming Pools by Jenny Odell

Untitled, from the series Owner of this World by Shawn Records

Happy post Midterm-elections and Editions|Artists' Books Fair weekend! It's Friday again, which means we've lined up our favorite art links and stories that we've come across this week. Here's what's we've got:

20x200 News

• We're at the Editions|Artists' Books Fair all weekend long with framed prints on view by dozens of 20x200 artists and a special selection of $20 (8"x10") and $50 (11"x14") prints available for sale! We've also got framing inspiration and tips to share, so come over to Booth 28 til Sunday at 4 p.m. And, did we mention it's free? Find all the details right here.
• Speaking of fairs, this weekend is also the NY Art Book Fair at PS1 in Long Island City, filling every nook, cranny and surface with the art of the book and books of art. Find publishers Aperture, Little Brown Mushroom Books, Lines and Shapes, and many others with books, zines, special edition posters, tote bags and lots more on the floors of the fair.
• You may have noticed the Add to Amazon Wish List button on our edition pages; it's a one-click way to let all your friends and family know which prints you love. Now, that click also makes you automatically eligible to win 100,000 in Amazon's Wish & Win Sweepstakes.
• Shawn Records' series Owner of This World has been made into book of the same title by the remarkable Portland, OR-based Publication Studio. Pick up your own copy of this beautiful book and make sure to get the 20x200 edition from the series while you're at it.
• 20x200 gets lots of love from Gotham Gal who writes, "Not only has Jen created a growing business she has created a community of artists and collectors. If you haven't been on her site, check it out. Guarantee you are going to be hearing more and more about 20x200."
• Amanda Mooney of Levi's Shape What's to Come blog interviewed Jen, calling her "a new kind of power player in the art world." Read more here and stay tuned for Part II of the interview.
• As usual, Kate Bingaman-Burt is a busy bee, and recently she did two interviews with Poketo and PUBLIC SCHOOL. Get the full scoop right here.
• Most of us would be wary to live our lives based on the advice of stranger, but artist Marc Horowitz is devoting his entire month of November to putting these decisions—big and small—into the hands of many. Creative Time presents The Advice of Strangers, an ongoing piece you can observe and participate in by voting on Marc's actions online.
• Taking inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges and Michel Foucault, curator Susan Thompson has put together the show The Chinese Encylopedia, which opens tomorrow, Saturday November 6th, from 4-6:30 p.m. with work by Mike Estabrook, Paho Mann, Chad Hagen, and Jennifer Dalton at Cuchifritos inside the Essex Street Market. Find details about the show here.
• We announced our five 2010 Hot Shots last Friday at a party at the Blurb Books Pop-Up/NYC, and couldn't be more thrilled about our many collaborations to come. Congratulations to Laura Bell, Michael Bodiam, Amy Stevens, Zhijie Sui and Chikara Umihara. These five outstanding photographers will each be awarded a $500 honorarium, participate in a group show at Jen Bekman Gallery in 2011, receive a $1,000 credit to make a book at Blurb, and have the opportunity to release an edition on 20x200. Read the full details and learn more about each of the new Hot Shots on the HHS! blog.

• Fotoweek DC kicks off tomorrow (November 6-13) with portfolio reviews, a Slideluck Potshow, exhibitions, viewings and projections all over town. Make sure to check out the full schedule of events, including 100 Portraits - 100 Photographers, curated by the Indie Photobook Library's Larissa Leclair and Flak Photo's Andy Adams, which will be projected at NightGallery @ the Corcoran tonight from 6:00 - 11:00 p.m. See the full schedule of events for the next week of the festival on their website.
• Calling all photographers! Jen Bekman + Jeffrey Teuton are jurying this year's fellowship competition at the Houston Center for Photography and the deadline's just been extended to next Friday, 11/12! Don't dally and get those submissions in!

New Editions

Car Free, by Tatsuro Kiuchi	Culprit by Roger Ballen

Ambivalence, 2003 from the series Shadow Chamber by Roger Ballen

Happy Halloween weekend art lovers, collectors, and kindred spirits alike! It's Friday again, which means it's that time of the week where we deliver to you our favorite art links and stories that we've come across. Here's what's on the agenda:

20x200 News

• As Emma wrote yesterday, we couldn't be more thrilled by the AOL 25 for 25 announcement and proud that of 9000 applicants to the spanking new grant program, five of the 25 award recipients are part of the JBP family: Coke O'Neal, Jason Polan, Rachel Sussman, Tema Stauffer and Taj Forer have all been honored with this amazing opportunity that'll help them grow the projects we've long admired. Congratulations all around, and we can't wait to see what you create and put into the world next!
• Tippy top of our agenda today is our long and muchly anticipated Blurb Pop-Up/NYC event, where this evening we'll be announcing the five final 2010 Hot Shots Ms. Jen Bekman will be giving a talk this afternoon on getting your work out there—but if you're not near the city and still want to benefit from the wisdom she has to share, fear not: we're working on a way to share a recorded version of the talk with you.
• And just a hop, skip and a jump from our big event is the opening of Mickey Smith's Believe You Me at Invisible-Exports. After rubbing elbows with team JBP tonight, make sure to head on down the street and catch her show.
• Taking inspiration from Borges and Michel Foucault, curator Susan Thompson has put together the show The Chinese Encylopedia, which seeks to, "call attention to the various ways in which objects and information are given meaning through association and representation." We got word that all of the artists in the show are associated with—or are soon to be, hint hint—with JBP: Mike Estabrook, Paho Mann, Chad Hagen, and Jennifer Dalton will all have work on view from November 6, 2010 through December 4, 2010 at Cuchifritos, inside the Essex Street Market. Full details about the show can be found on the gallery site.
• Speaking of hints, and surprises, and of artists we've followed, featured and love, the George Eastman House was a finalist for the prestigious Lucie Award (considered the Oscars of the photography world), for their knock-out retrospective show on the career of Roger Ballen, which opened earlier this year. Our release of Ballen's Place of the Upside Down this year was one of our most thrilling to release, and we just might be telling you that if you liked that edition, you may be wanting to pay close attention to our newsletter very soon. And if you're not yet on our mailing list and want to be the first to hear about special upcoming editions, you should sign up now.
• Painter Amy Casey is covering all her geographic bases with showings on the west coast, east coast and stops-in-between, and has been granting interviews and keeping her website up-to-date with new work and musings. Read more about what she's been up to in our post from this week.
• Kate Bingaman-Burt has also been keeping busy, advertising her work and ideas in two recent interviews, one with the Austin-based Public School blog, and the other with the designer blog Poketo.
• Speaking of positive press, Diana Murphy over at s w o o n d just published a feature with an interview of HHS! contender and edition-maker Bryan Schutmaat. Over on the Beauty Equation blog this week, Chrissy Barker (makeup artist, model and wife of ANTM judge Nigel Barker) gives 20x200 a happy shout-out of praise.
• Our friends over at Creative Time have a stellar line up of events, talks, interviews and more going on this month. Check out their current program listing for more details and we'll have more info for you next week.
• Tamara Thomsen has new work on view in the group exhibition The New Intimists over at the NURTUREart space in Brooklyn. The opening is tonight at 6 p.m., the show runs through December 11th (another hint: we are currently in process of working with Thomsen on her third edition for 20x200!).
• If you're spending time with our northern neighbors in Toronto this weekend, you just might want to swing by the Toronto International Art Fair and catch up on Jennifer Sanchez's new work. A full list of highlights is in our post from last week.

New Editions

Now, by Marian Bantjes	Hulk by Amy Stein	Powerpuff Girls by Amy Stein

Untitled, from the series From the Bottom of a Well, by Shawn Records

Happy full moon Friday, art lovers, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled Week In Review!

20x200 News

• Didja catch Ms. Jen Bekman spreading the art gospel this week for Small Business Rules? She says: "If everyone likes what you're doing, then you're doing something wrong." Many other insights and back story to the history of 20x200 can be gleaned in under 4 minutes—well worth your time.
• And also elsewhere: The current issue of Theme magazine focuses on "Collectors" and features Jen discussing everything from what does vs. what should motivate collectors, as well as other venues for collecting that she recommends.
• If you're going to be in NYC in the next week and have been following this year's Hey, Hot Shot! competition, give a thought to penciling in a date with us for next Friday, October 29th from 6-9 p.m., when we'll announce the HHS! finalists for this year in the first-ever Blurb Pop Up/NYC. Jen will also give a talk on the best practices for artists to get their work out and seen. Check out our post for details and RSVP to the event.
• 2009 Hot Shot + 20x200 artist Mike Sinclair has joined the Jen Bekman Gallery roster. See his portfolio of works.
• Michael David Murphy memorializes all of those never-taken photographs in his exhibition Certainty Principle, on view at Sprill Gallery in Atlanta through October 30th.
• Creative Commons, a huge proponent of open and accessible information, is running their Superhero fundraising campaign through the end of the year. Help them reach their goal of $550,000 in the name of increasing creative content that available to the public.
• Artists and dyanmic duo Kate Bingamam-Burt and Clifton Burt have guest-curated a show, Collateral Matters, at Portland's Museum of Contemporary Craft. The show is on view until January 8, 2011, with a participatory archive event scheduled for November 20, 2010.
• Conceptual artist and bibliophile Mickey Smith has an exhibition of new work, Believe You Me, showing at Invisible-Exports. The artist's opening is next Friday, October 29th, from 6-8 p.m. and the show runs through December 5, 2010.
• IPCNY's New Prints 2010/Autumn exhibition opened yesterday featuring work by forty-three artists, including William Powhida and Ross Racine. On view through November 20th.
• Ross Racine also has work in the Lost Horizon show, curated by David Gibson, at the ARTJAIL space on the LES through November 13, 2010.
• We loved the edition put out this week by Shawn Records, from his series Owner of This World, which documented the four months that Records' son Max, worked on the film Where the Wild Things Are with Spike Jonze. If you were moved, as we were, by the fragile anxieties that were so poignantly rendered in that edition, you might be interested in checking out the full book of the whole project, available through Publication Studio.
• Aperture is hosting their semi-annual Benefit, Auction and Snap! party on November 1, 2010. There will be a silent and then a live auction, followed by a dinner honoring Richard Misrach, Steven Ames and Julie Saul.
• If you're aesthetic inclinations lean towards the arborial, you might appreciate what Suzanne LaGasa had to say about us over on the Chronicle books blog. Speaking of trees, our recent awesome edition by David Byrne just was featured in this week's Flavorwire. There are still some prints remaining, so grab yours today while making a contribution towards Creative Time, an organization that helps fund and promote artists.
• We don't usually reveal new artists in advance, but we couldn't miss the opportunity to share this interview with Craig Damrauer, forthcoming 20x200 edition-maker and the man behind New Math. Kate Donnelly of "From the Desk of..." interviews Craig about his work and workspace.
• Images from Nina Berman's Purple Hearts series have made their way to Amsterdam and are part of an exhibition that will open on November 3rd a The Melkweg.

New Editions

Untitled, from the series Owner of This World, by Shawn Records	Roots of War in Popular Song (forest of no return) by David Byrne	Rose-breasted Grosbeak by Amy Jean Porter

From a Seed It's All Downhill, 2007, by David Byrne, Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery

Happy Friday, everyone! We've got a slew of exciting news and announcements for you this week's Week In Review:

20x200 News

• Are you spending your autumn days across the pond? Artist/printmaker/vintage-appropriating-dynamo Linzie Hunter is having an open studio weekend this Saturday and Sunday, October 16th and 17th, from 12pm to 6pm. The open studio event is at the Erlang House, 128 Blackfriars Road, London. For those stuck stateside or otherwise, Linzie will be posting photos from the event on her website.
• Photographer and founder of Collect.Give, Kevin Miyazaki has a full dance card this fall: Images from his Camp Home series are included in the group show, along with those from a coupla Hot Shots and a future 20x200 edition-maker (hint, hint), Repercussions: Tides and Time at Soil in Seattle. Soil is on view through October 31st. Kevin will also be at PhotoMidwest on October 21st, giving a lecture on his work.
• Prolific and popular artistJennifer Sanchez has just been accepted into the Bronx Museum's AIM (Artists in the Marketplace) program. AIM is a program that embodies the Bronx Museum's ongoing commitment to provide professional development opportunities to early career artists in New York. Sanchez will also have several of her panel pieces on display at Art Toronto from October 28th through November 1st. Congratulations, Jennifer!
• Sean Greene has work in an exhibition Skateboarding Side Effects, through November 28th, at Artisphere, in Arlington, VA. This weekend, from 3 to 5pm, there will be an Action Painting Workshop with Sean, and again on the following weekend, October 21-22, from 7 to 9pm. Among the works on display will be the original painting of Try Letting Go, of which there are still prints remaining.
• If you're on an American Airlines flight and short on reading material, the October 15th edition of American Way has a great article, Mission Improbable, on Jason Polan's ambitious and populist mission to draw every person in New York City. Ms. Jen Bekman is also interviewed in the piece, and says of Every Person In New York: "The part of it that's so awesome is that he's saying to every individual person that they matter...It is a hopeful, optimistic, well-intentioned thing." Check out the article from 25,000 feet, or right here.
• We gave away a teaser with the image at the top of this WIR, but our biggest news of the week just might be our announcement of an upcoming David Byrne edition, the proceeds of which will benefit our friends at Creative Time. This is a special Monday edition, which will be released to those on our mailing list at 11am sharp. Make sure you're signed up for that list, 'cause the chance to own a David Byrne piece for $50 won't last very long.
• Mike Monteiro is keeping his name circulating around the web with both his essay in Good Magazine this week, Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow, a part of a larger post featuring five artists and what it means to work as one today. In a post on his Mule Design blog that has gone more viral, Monteiro writes an open letter to GAP offering a peek behind the curtain of the perfect logo he says he's designed for them (and if you're not current on current corporate and web controversies, you can bring yourself up to speed by taking a look at the 99designs site here).
• Lastly, we got a good dose of lovin' from our friends around the web this week:
  In an L.A. Times piece in their Home section, Lisa Boone featured 20x200 as a go-to source for great and affordable art, and displayed several of her favorite works that are still available for purchase. Kat over at the Corporette blog, suggests 20x200 as a good solution to livening up that space you spend 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week in. And on the Chronicle Books blog, Suzanne LaGasa praised our providing the ability to search by so many variables: artists, category, price, date and color. Thanks for the positive press, everyone!

New Editions

Momento Vitae by Alexander Beeching	195 Yachts, Barges, Cargo Lines, Tankers, and Other Ships by Jenny Odell

Untitled from Korea Diary, 2007-2008 by Juliane Eirich

Cooler temperatures and turning leaves are all around us. And it's another week gone by, which means another dose of 20x200's Week In Review!

20x200 News

• This weekend only! The Brooklyn Navy Yard Arts Group Exhibit will be going on Saturday, October 9th and Sunday, October 10th. Tamara Thomson will be among the artists featured, and she just *might* be having a new edition coming out in the near-ish future with us, so get on our mailing list to keep up to date!
• Spells, Spoils and Lucky Charms, the solo show of painter Echo Eggebrecht, is on view for one more weekend at Horton Gallery. Like a love-child between the psychically loaded Gauguin, and the lushly flat coloring of Matisse, the exhibit would be a shame to miss.
• Our friends at Creative Commons have launched their fall campaign. Read about their fight as Superheroes for openness and innovation, and what you can do to contribute, here.
• Michael David Murphy's solo exhibition The Certainty Principle, a collection of photographs and the unphotographable, is on view through October 30th at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. ArtsCriticATL has a review of the show here.
• The 2010 Hey, Hot Shot! semi-finalists have been announced! We'll be making the big announcement of the five Hot Shot finalists on October 29th, 2010 at the first ever Blurb/Popup NYC event at 60 Mercer Street. RSVP here to join in the festivities!
• Some 20x200 love from around the web this week: grateful to be gracing the pages of of the Tory Burch Blog, A Continuous Lean and USA Character Approved, all of which are prosthelytizing our message about affordable art for everyone. Thanks for the shout-outs!

New Editions

prettymaps (nyc) by Aaron Straup Cope	Balloons (Midtown, Manhattan) by Youngna Park

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!

video still from A Line Describing the Sun, 2010, by William Lamson

Welcome, art-minded alike souls, back to the Week In Review, where we dish out the week's best art-related links and events for your happy consumption. We've got a lot on the menu this week:

20x200 News

• A little bit of advance notice on where to catch 20x200 in action: We'll have all hands on deck at NYC's Affordable Art Fair next weekend. We'll be hosting a 20x200 Pop-Up Frame Shop Saturday, October 2nd and Sunday, October 3rd, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. We'll be posting more information on the blog, but if you're not already signed up for our newsletter, it's the best place to stay on top of our comings, goings and new edition releases.
• Prolific and environmentally mindful artist William Lamson has been enjoying a lot of positive press for his latest work, A Line Describing the Sun, currently on view through Pierogi's artist-run gallery located at The Boiler. Make sure to read the piece in the Huffington Post for a peek into what it is about Lamson's work that is leaving them all slack-jawed.
• Fernanda Cohen will be having a retrospective of her work at the Consulate General of Argentina Art Gallery from November 4-24th, 2010. The opening reception will be November 4th from 6-8pm.
• One of our favorite eyes-on-New York artists, Joseph O. Holmes will have work on view at the Capture Brooklyn photo exhibition at the Powerhouse Arena. The exhibition will be on view now through October 15th.
• Greg Lindquist will be having an exhibition, Odes (to the present forgotten), at the Ober Gallery in Kent, CT from October 2-28th. The opening reception is Sat, Oct 2, from 4-7 pm. A catalog will also be available. Lindquist also has work in a group show Planet of Slums, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and La Toya Frazier, at Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ from Sept 24-Oct 23, opening reception: Wed Oct 6, 5-7 p.m.
• Our ears were burning a bit from this happy plug we received from Annie Pauza, founder of Decorator in a Box. Happy to stop hanging up dime-a-dozen reproductions, Pauza boasts that 20x200 makes it possible for her to finally have an art collection of her own. We couldn't agree more—thanks for telling your readers about us!
• Not that we're prognosticators or anything, but we were pretty thrilled to read that Blurb's Photography Book Now awards selected three artists for prizes that are either 20x200 artists or were featured contenders in this round of Hey, Hot Shot! Contender Judith Stenneken took the top prize for her work on the closing of Berlin's Tempelhof airport, Last Call, and Emily Shur placed both as a first runner-up and an honorable mention for her works The Woods and Shizenkan. Our first-curator award winner, Phil Underdown, also claimed a first-runner up award for his book project Grassland. Congratulations to all, and stay tuned for the announcement next month of the 2010 Hot Shots!
• Valerie Hegarty is working her tromp l'oeil magic in a site-specific installation, Break-Through Miami at the Locust Projects gallery space in Miami. The show runs through October 16th, 2010.
• Ever want to take an art-related vacay? Lisa Congdon provides you with just that opportunity this October as she leads a 3-day/4-night painting workshop at a ranch in Oregon. Full details on the blog.

• Art Fag City's Paddy Johnson is on Kickstarter, with her project proposal Sound of Art: "...a limited edition vinyl LP composed of sounds heard in New York galleries, museums, and project spaces over the last five years." Read more about it and how to make a donation in our post.

New Editions

Motukakaho Island by Derek Henderson	Hamish Eli Adlam, Reid's Farm by Derek Henderson	prettymaps (sfba) by Aaron Straup Cope

I Win, You Lose, 2009 by Robert Garcia

Welcome back to the Week In Review, our weekly dish recapping the best art events and links for your reading pleasure. Let's get started!

20x200 News

• 20x200 artist meet up! Lauren DiCioccio and Paho Mann have been curated together in Scatter & Heap, a two-person show at the Sheppard Gallery in Reno, Nevada. Mann will be at the closing reception on September 23. The exhibition runs through September 24, 2010. More information at the gallery site.
• Connecting sound and sight, Eirik Johnson will be exhibiting images shot in the Peruvian Amazon with stereo audio recordings made in situ at the ICA in Boston as a part of the 2010 Foster Prize exhibition. Johnson will be speaking about his work on November 21, 2010, and a preview of what is on display can be viewed here. The show runs from September 22, 2010 through January 17, 2011. More information available at ICA.
• Our 5th Curator's Choice Award, selected by Alec Soth, was announced this week. Contender Glen Erler was the lucky recipient of The Little Brown Mushroom Lovepack, consisting of some rare and out-of-print publications and a LBM t-shirt. Congratulations, Glen!
• Speaking of keeping your eye on the prize, the HHS! judging panel met yesterday for a marathon session of reviewing over 6000 photographs! Winners will be announced at the end of next month, and we will continue to feature contenders over on the HHS! blog till then.
• Christina Muraczewski received some critical praise in the LA Times this week, for a painting featured in the 2010 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition. Christopher Knight writes that this painting, "establishes a Rorschach test of subjective perception."
• Paul Madonna is keeping busy with multiple exhibitions, drawing events and lectures about his work and creative practice. Read about what he's been up to and where to see his newest work.
• In a creative slump? Pull yourself out of the doldrums by watching our pick of the Top Ten TED Talks, selected for their emphasis on art, the creative process and re-orienting of self and values.
• And if you're looking for a little inspiration closer to home, read all about an artist taking the leap of quitting her day job and going creative full-time, in this completely engaging interview that Casey Gollan conducted with Wendy MacNaughton.
• Wendy is also part of the first issue of Longshot Magazine, now out, which sourced over 5,000 virtual submissions from creative types from all over the world and edited them down into a publication over the course of 48 hours.
• JBP's Youngna Park is featured in a new publication by Lines & Shapes titled Brooklyn Diary, which takes a look into the daily lives of twenty-one Brooklyn artists.
• Got writing skills? Love art? We're hiring a copywriter over here at JBP HQ. If you're interested, send your resume and cover letter to jobs@jenbekmanprojects.com with the subject line: “Copywriter, Last Name, First Name.”

New Editions

Grassy Girl by Tierney Gearon	Primos by Robert Garcia

That's it for this week, folks! See anything that we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter or Facebook!

Maurea Marae, from the series Mercy Mercer by Derek Henderson

Welcome, art-lovers, to your regularly scheduled Week In Review, where we dish out our favorite links, and recap the week's events and stories. Here we go!

20x200 News

• Jot this down in your day book (or calendar app.!) and be sure not to miss the opening reception TONIGHT at the JB gallery of Derek Henderson's Mercy Mercer exhibition. The reception will be held from 6-8pm. Henderson's photographs will be on view Saturday, September 11th through Sunday, October 24th, at Jen Bekman Gallery, located at 6 Spring Street, New York, New York. Get a sneak-peek of the show's installation on the gallery blog.
• We're not sure what it is about the end-of-summer/beginning-of-fall, but as soon as that last fleeting three-day weekend of Labor Day comes to an end, our art dance card fills up really fast! This week's long list of openings confirms that for us, with NYC's Fashion Week providing numerous spin-off events, including the Partners & Spade contribution to the Fashion's Night Out celebration. William Lamson and Kevin Cyr will both have works on view; read the full write-up for all the details.
• nota bene: Lamson will also be opening his new solo exhibition A Line Describing the Sun at The Boiler, 191 N. 14th Street, Brooklyn. The reception is also TONIGHT, Friday, September 10th, from 7 to 9 p.m. This new body of work combines performance, video, drawing and sculpture, created in the Mojave Desert earlier this year. This is Lamson's fourth solo exhibition with Pierogi.
• For those on the left coast, we've got things for you to do this weekend, too: This Saturday, September 11th, cartoonists and illustrators will gather at the Charles Schulz Museum to collaborate in a live drawing event in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Peanuts (can you believe Snoopy & Woodstock are 60 years old?! I can't!). Paul Madonna will be there, along with over a dozen other artists. The Charles M. Schulz Museum is at 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa. Admission is $10 general and $5 for ages 4-18 and 62-plus, and college students with valid ID. For more information, visit SchulzMuseum.org
• Here's a little advance notice on an upcoming exhibition combined with a worthy cause: Trey Speegle will be having a one-night only exhibition and silent auction of his works at Benrimon Contemporary
  , Thursday, September 16th, 6-8PM at 514 W 24th Street, 2nd Floor. A portion of the proceeds from the silent auction will be donated to the Trevor Project, the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
• If you're lucky enough to live in the beautiful Berkshires region, or will be traveling through there this weekend, Sean Greene will be exhibiting his paintings at the Geoffrey Young Gallery, at 40 Railroad Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230. The opening reception is Saturday, September 11th, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
• Massachusetts representing! Robert Knight will be exhibiting Sleepless, one of my most uncomfortably favorite bodies of work I've come across this year at the Danforth Museum of Art, in Farmingham, MA. As we wrote earlier this summer, Sleepless is a multimedia work whose end results are portraits of sleepers made over a long period of time—a reconsideration of what it is to rest and what it is for rest to elude us. Knight has said of the work that, "[It] reveals a state of restlessness through the ethereal and translucent bodies which are captured during long-exposure nighttime shots. The resultant images are nighttime narratives—stories of our night's sleep which suggest a contemporary sleep crisis in our society." The images are transfixing and consuming. Knight will be on hand at the opening reception this Sunday, September 12th from 5 to 7 p.m. He will also be giving a lecture on October 24th at 3 p.m. Sleepless will be on view at the Danforth until November 7th. For more information, please visit the Danforth Museum's site.
• Maybe you're jet-setting off to France this weekend. If so, we've got an event for you! Publish It Yourself, an artist's self-publishing event, will be going on just outside of Paris in Nogent-sur-Marne at the Maison d'art Bernard Anthonioz. The event features photographers that have self-published their own work, and will include Geoffrey Ellis, Justin James Reed, Bert Teunissen and Alec Soth among many others (btw: if you haven't seen the new special and limited edition book Broken Manual, four years in the making, that Alec Soth and Lester B. Brown have just released through their self-publishing site, Little Brown Mushroom [in conjunction with Steidl], it's really worth a look. Custom publishing and labors of love at its best).
• Prolific and productive artist Lisa Congdon has less than two weeks to go in her quest to document her collections at the rate of one a day, which she has been cataloging on her blog for the past year. NPR's Picture Show chimed in this week with a feature on the approaching culmination of her project, following Congdon's favorite collections she's shown this year.
• The new issue of FOAM magazine is out, and for their Talent issue they've selected 15 photography portfolios (out of more than 1000 submitted). Luke Stephenson is one of the lucky 15 whose work is featured in their pages.
• Can't a brother get a shout-out? Mike Monteiro's painting I Should Do Drawings Girls Can Pose For is featured prominently in this Dwell slideshow that is otherwise showing off some custom built-in woodwork, but makes no mention of the ironic and imposing art on the wall of the master bedroom. Monteiro thinks it's wonderfully, randomly weird. We do too.

New Editions

Azaruja #1, 23/7/2001 11:58 by Bert Teunissen	Holden by Jacob Escobedo

BG-0006-25A by Bert Teunissen	BG-0004-5 by Bert Teunissen

All-in-all 'twas another great, art-filled week at 20x200 HQ. 'Till next week, collectors!

p.s. See anything that we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter or Facebook!

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!

New Editions

Stormville, by Kevin Cyr	Casino Employee's Day by Jeremy Kohm

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The Ex-Wife's Pies and Things (Study), by Ann Toebbe

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20x200 News

• Try, a silent auction of artwork to benefit Team In Training, an organization devoted to fighting Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin Lymphoma and Myeloma, will be held this Saturday, August 28th, from 7 - 10pm at Jen Bekman Gallery.


• Housekeeping, a solo show by Ann Toebbe, opened last night at at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston.


• 20x200 + Reality TV...an odd couple, but an edition by Jennifer Sanchez can be spotted 12 seconds into this commercial for the new reality show "Model Latina".


• One of Andrew Zuckerman's Birds was Daily Candy's "Pic of the Day" on Tuesday.


• Hey, Hot Shot!, the photography competition through which we find nearly all of the photographs on 20x200, has been extended until Tuesday, and the grand prize has been doubled to $10,000. Think you're a Hot Shot? Apply today.


• Looking for inspiration? Check out our JBP Tumblr Mosaic for an overwhelming wall of art goodness.

New Editions

Chateau by Jeremy Kohm	ny.10.#03 by Jennifer Sanchez

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Untitled, Tidal Bore (Surfer) by Chris Ballantyne

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20x200 News

• If you've ever wanted to see your photographs on 20x200, enter Hey, Hot Shot!—it's the only way we review photography for editions. The competition closes on Sunday.


• Lisa Congdon is included in the inaugural exhibition at Gallery Hijinks in San Francisco, open through September 10th.


• Jaclyn Mendicov and Kevin Cyr are included in Gimme Shelter at Mixed Greens Gallery in New York through August 20th.


• Ian Baguskas was featured earlier this week on Flak Photo.


• Keith Shore designed a label for a new beer produced by Mikkeller and BrewDog.


• Christina Muraczewski is included in the 2010 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition


• Tamara Thomsen is included in The New Intimists at Nurtureart in Brooklyn slated to open in late October

New Editions

The Bison Constellation by Alexander Beeching	Jacks by Katie Baum

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Untitled, 2009 by Joe Kievitt

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20x200 News

• StyledOn talks to Ms. Jen Bekman for their ongoing "Influencer" series about collecting art, bringing art to the masses, and ice cream!
• What's TBDCSPTBSC, you ask? Why, it's the Taco Bell Drawing Club Second Place Tote Bag Stranger Competition! You can win an original Jason Polan drawing by sending him a photo of a stranger with a TBDC Tote.
• Jane Mount's Ideal Bookshelves are featured on ReadyMade.
• Poketo + Target have teamed up to offer stylish goods by Kate Bingaman-Burt, Mike Perry and Lisa Congdon (among others) for a limited time. Get yourself something pretty!
• Kate B-B's awesome book Obsessive Consumption will be going into its second printing. Which means if you haven't got yours yet, you're in luck!
• Paul Octavious's "Books as Art" (which are doubly awesome for LOST fans) are featured in the NY Times.

New Editions

7-sided by Joe Kievitt	crossed by Joe Kievitt	Rift #26 (Heimaey Houses) by Marion Belanger

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Business Art, a project by this week's edition-maker Jonathan Lewis. Posted in honor of Andy Warhol's birthday.

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• "20x200 is a gift from the Heavens," writes decorator Annie Elliot, on putting together a safari-inspired (yet sophisticated) room. You can read more about the design, complete with a few choice 20x200 prints, on her blog.
• A portfolio of work by Ross Racine is featured this week on Fast Company's Co.Design blog. Click through for some giant images of Ross's work and, like they suggest "buy one now!".
• "20x200 is a more open art market that manages to hit the high and low ends of the spectrum.," writes Mike Carlucci for The Next Web.
• Land Use Survey at Jen Bekman Gallery gets 4 out of 5 stars from Time Out New York! Read the full review here.
• "State and County fairs are for me the perfect combination of city and country. They have the chaos and energy of the city with all the exotic character of rural life," says Mike Sinclair in a short interview with MOSSLESS.
• With the heat in NYC still unbearable (even at night!) we turn to watery and icy art for visual relief.
• Mike Monteiro and Ryan Carver have teamed up on the book Firecracker, self-published on Blurb. Read their tale of love, loss and obsessively checking an ex's Facebook status on the site, then vote for them for the Photography.Book.Now People's Choice Award.
• If you haven't heard the news, Alec Soth is the guest curator for our 5th and final month of Hey, Hot Shot! He'll be reviewing all work submitted between July 30th and August 20th and select one photographer for a Little Brown Mushroom Love Pack.
• Allison Arieff writes about the work of Amy Casey for the New York Times Opinionator Blog.

New Editions

Sugarcoat by Michelle Hinebrook	Dots by Jonathan Lewis	Jelly Belly by Jonathan Lewis

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Morningsands, 2009 by Ross Racine

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20x200 News

New Editions

Prarieside Forks by Ross Racine	Moore Estates (West) by Matthew Moore	Moore Estates (detail) by Matthew Moore

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Installation shot from New Work by Ky Anderson at Dolphin Gallery

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20x200 News

• What happens on the rare occasion that a 20x200 print gets messed up in printing or transit? We help you replace it, of course, but not before we see proof that the faulty print has been destroyed. We explain this process a little more, and share a few of the best of these stories in our post Achieving Perfection Through Destruction.
• Ky Anderson has updated her website with new work from her solo-show at Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City.
• Work from Mark Menjivar's series You Are What You Eat is included in (Por)trait Revealed a juried group exhibiton of portrait photography at RayKo Photo Center, opening on Wednesday.
• Flipping through Thomas Prior's blog, I was overjoyed to read that sales of his last two 20x200 editions fully funded his trip, equipment and film to create the amazing new body of work he's been making (which we recently wrote about on the Hey, Hot Shot! blog).
• ...and speaking of HHS!, there is less than a month left to apply. We've been updating the blog like crazy with write-ups on the amazing entries that are pouring in.
• JBP's Assoc. Producer (and one of the very first 20x200 edition-makers) Youngna Park will be guest curating the Bodies of Water showcase on Pictory. Send in your picture stories by August 11th!
• From the Desk Of... has posted a short interview with Don Hamerman, including a peek into his studio and a shot of his baseball collection.

New Editions

Wedding Portrait by Jorge Colombo	Post #471 by Thomas Prior

Starlite Drive-In, Roseburg, OR from Sawdust Mountain by Eirik Johnson

Happy Friday, Collectors! Welcome back to Week In Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

• The image above is from Sawdust Mountain by this week's edition-maker Eirik Johnson. The work was recently featured on The Morning News, along with a great interview.


• We prefer air conditioning, but some artists like it extremely hot, cold or just plain dangerous. Check out our roundup of artists who are weather extremophiles!


• Mike + Doug Starn and Carrie Marill both have work in From the Ground Up, an exhibition at Lisa Sette Gallery in Arizona.


• Have you seen Americans for the Arts 40 Best Public Artworks of 2009? It's quite the list, and we're proud to say that it includes Mickey Smith, selected for her glass photography installation at University of Florida. If those panels look familiar to you, it's because they're also available as 20x200 editions.


• Mike Monteiro has turned his Brooklyn Museum 1stfans Twitter project into a self-published book, with photographs by Ryan Carver.


• Jane Mount's bookshelves are spotlighted in a Forbes.com article on things for bookworms (besides books, of course!) and also in lmnop magazine.


• Chad Hagen's Nonsensical Infographics were recently featured on Motherboard.


• Some(Are) Painting, curated by David Gibson, is up at Jaeckel Gallery through July 31st and includes two works by Sean Greene.


• Thanks to ParentDish for their 20x200 feature this week—art is great for kids too!

The Tortoise by Carrie Marill	Behind the Bay City Log Sorting Yard, Cosmopolis, Washington, by Eirik Johnson

Collection #3, 2009, from the series Desire by Emily Noelle Lambert

Happy Friday, Collectors! Welcome back to Week In Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

20x200 News

• Two new works by painter/skateboarder/Josef Albers-loving Sean Greene are included in Some (Are) Painting, the summer show at Jaeckel Gallery.
• Valerie Roybal will be unveiling her first ever exhibited textile work in a fiber arts show, Unraveling Tradition, at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque. The opening is Saturday, July 17, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and the exhibition runs through Sept. 11, 2010.
• Emily Noelle Lambert currently has work in two exhibitions. At the Priska C. Juschka Gallery, Lambert's work is included in the group show Big Picture. From the press release:

  The pictures—all paintings—are big in terms of size, subject matter, energy, ambition and visual generosity. Many are aggressive or even garish in the color, they are often over worked, heavy layer upon layer of paint, combining dissonant styles and subject matter. These paintings are big in that there is a hell of a lot to look at.

  Big Picture runs through August 6th. Lambert also has work in Chicago's Thomas Robertello Gallery, in the show About Face, on view through the end of July.

• Also on our gallery-going list of must-sees are 20x200 artists Kevin Cyr and Jaclyn Mednicov in the Mixed Greens show Gimme Shelter. From the press release: "This show brings together 17 artists and investigates the delicate balance of perception of 'shelter': whether a space is inviting or uninhabitable, comforting or crumbling, being constructed or consumed." Be sure to make the opening, next Thursday, July 15th from 6 to 8:00 p.m., where there will be a Waffles & Dinges truck on hand offering s Belgian waffles with ice cream to soothe your sweet tooth.
• We're pleased as punch to have been featured as a daily dish pick this week, in a post highlighting our kid-friendly offerings. If you've got baby showers to go to, giving great art to deck the newborn's walls is a solid way to go.
• Speaking of online shout-outs, Chad Hagen received quite a favorable one on Motherboard, where they are as in love with his "nonsensical infographics" as we are.
• Ever seen a phrenology chart? Well Wendy MacNaughton, creator of our recently debuted and muchly loved Things Happen print, made a similar psychological map of her hometown of San Francisco for 7x7 Magazine. The feature also includes a great Q&A with the artist. Check it out!
• Ms. Jen Bekman has been selected to serve on the advisory board for the newly launched 25 for 25, which seeks to award twenty-five $25,000 grants to "tomorrow's ground breakers and visionaries," which specifically refers to journalists, artists and innovators. Read more about Jen's role and the grant here.
• Zoe Strauss is in the Gulf of Mexico, documenting landfall and the anxiety of landfall from the BP oil spill. She's crowd-sourcing donations for this documentary work on the arts-funding platform Projectsite, and would really appreciate a look-see at what she's doing and a possible donation to her work.
• Keep showing us your frames! We love seeing how our fellow art collectors are housing their 20x200 bounties in their homes. Send us your images of framed or otherwise displayed prints by uploading photos of your wall to our Facebook wall, and we'll post our favorites on the Facebook page.

New Editions

We Are Who We Are by Robert Garcia	Midway, Neshoba County Fair, Philadelphia, Mississippi by Mike Sinclair

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Fourth of July #2, Independence, Missouri by Mike Sinclair

Happy (pre-)Independence Day! Welcome to our regularly scheduled Week In Review: a sweet and succinct view of all that's been happening in our little sphere of the art universe this week.

20x200 News

• Mike Sinclair got a shout-out in this week's New Yorker Photo Booth blog post, specifically for his rendition of a Midwestern July 4th, shot, appropriately enough, in Independence, Missouri (shown above). (Psst: editions of this print are still available.)

• Artist Mickey Smith had her enviably clean desk featured on Kate Donnelly's blog From Your Desks, a site dedicated solely to, "...the canvas of the desk." In a smart and understated show on one of our favorite topics, books, the work of Mickey Smith, as well as HHS! honorable mention Mary Ellen Bartley and Maira Kalman is on view at McKenzie Fine Art in Reader's Delight. The show is on view through August 6th.

• Karolina Karlic is graduating from CalArts! That means her MFA show is currently on view at the POV Gallery in L.A.'s Chinatown. If you're on the left coast, the opening reception is TONIGHT from 6-10pm. Full details of all participating artists and galleries can be found on the CalArts website.

• Juliane Eirich was named one of the winners of the 2010 National Photography Competition, juried by James Casebere. The show opens next Thursday, July 8th, at the Camera Club of New York. Read all about Juliane's work and the juried competition in our blog post.

• Our very own Youngna Park and Yijun Liao are featured in a show that bucks the trendiness trend. Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian is on view at Arario Gallery. A write-up of the show is available here.

• For all those too-hot-to-be-moved in quick action, we extended our semi-annual RIDONK sale through last Tuesday evening. We only have 2 sales a year, and this was the last one before Christmas. Hope you partook, and cashed in on that 20% deal.

• Our awesome 20x200 intern Keren has been playing around on Polyvore, making fun room collages that include 20x200 editions. You can head to 20x200 Editions on Polyvore to start adding our editions to your own collages. Have fun!

• Having just this last birthday graduated to the next rung of tickey-boxes in most surveys, I most certainly appreciate the release of the new zine Get Off My Lawn, featuring the work of photographers 34 and over. Get Off My Lawn is also available for purchase online for $10 here and here. It's 7"x7", color laser printed, and available in an edition of 222. See Youngna's post, and if your interest is piqued, get your copy soon 'cause they're selling out fast!

• Have you heard about the Let's Color Project? Do you know about our in-house color browser for finding 20x200 prints? Read all about it here.

• While the BP oil spill disaster enters its third month, artists have taken up arms in the tools of their trade—are taking to the streets, quite literally—and creating work in reaction to what's happening with big oil, birds and the environment. Read our full coverage here.
  

New Editions

No Fun Sleeping Under a Picture Like This + Pink Elephants by William Wegman

Hard at work this week responding to orders from our RIDONK sale, we released only one new edition this week, but it's a whopper of one. Our second release from the famed photographer William Wegman, there are still a handful of small prints left, so don't miss out! If you're in the city, Wegman also has work in the JBG Land Use Survey show.

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

Welcome back to the Week in Review. We're keeping the recap short-and-sweet this week because we're busy, busy, busy being 20% more ridiculous than usual!

20x200 News

• Penelope Umbrico is included in the show Housed at the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island.


• Thanks to PopSugar for featuring the sale in their Daily Tips email!


• Scott Listfield has updated his website with "a bunch of new paintings that will almost definitely blow your mind (unless you've become so hardened by life that paintings of astronauts no longer thrill you)." Scott will also have work in the upcoming shows: Crazy 4 Cult at Gallery 1988 and the Mass Grant Winners show at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.


• 20x200 gets a little mention in this article about The Art of Selling on the Web in Adobe Airstream online magazine.

New Editions

Things Happen by Wendy MacNaughton	Frozen by Katie Baum

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Kate Bingaman-Burt at the Obsessive Consumption Draw-a-thon at Jen Bekman Gallery yesterday

Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

20x200 News

• The inimitable Kate Bingaman-Burt did a 6-hour draw-a-thon at Jen Bekman Gallery yesterday! See lots of pictures: here, here, here, and here.


• Thanks to Daily Candy for featuring 20x200 in their Father's Day gift guide! Photographer Liz Kuball told us that her and her sisters bought their dad this print by Landon Nordeman.


• ...speaking of Father's Day, we have a gift guide especially for dad. You weren't really considering getting him another tie, were you?


• Don't miss this great interview with Jeff Lewis about art, India, and acid.


• Clare Grill is included in a show of petite works titled Amuse Bouche, on view at Sloan Fine Art


• Creative Commons, an organization you've probably already heard of (and maybe even donated to by buying Matt Jones' Get Excited and Make Things benefit edition!) just launched their new Catalyst Grants program to spread the virtues of remix and reuse across the globe.


• Thanks to CasaCullen for the great writeup about 20x200. We especially love that they picked up on our Hunch widget that can help you find art by answering a series of simple questions.


• Lisa Congdon's epic project A Collection a Day was featured on Flavorpill's Daily Dose on Thursday!


• Thanks to JustFabulous for featuring out Father's day prints as "the most chic sports related art" they've seen.


• We're hiring! Are you an obsessively organized, art-loving task masker? We're looking for an office manager/executive assistant to join our team. Head over to our jobs page for all the details.


• The great debate over Greg Allen's edition, Untitled (300x404), continues on Art Fag City.


• A huge week for Rachel Sussman, who was featured in the Wall Street Journal for her Oldest Living Things in the World project and will be speaking at TED Global Oxford. Congratulations Rachel!


• Austin Kleon's book of Newspaper Blackout Poems is featured on Book By Its Cover.


• Mark Ulriksen has updated his website, with awesome features like a tour of his studio and new work. Go check it out!

New Editions

ny.10.#10 by Jennifer Sanchez	Place of the upside down by Roger Ballen

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Untitled (cowboy) by Richard Prince

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20x200 News

• We anticipated some strong reactions to Greg Allen's edition (appropriated from the image above) and we've been enjoying the dialogue it has sparked, see: Dinosaurs and Robots, Blake Andrews, Art Fag City, Hyperallergic, C-Monster, and everyone on Twitter.
• The Whitney Art Party auction was held earlier this week, and three 20x200 artists (Jonathan Allen, Curtis Mann, and Lawrence Weiner) generously donated works of their own to benefit the museum's educational programs.
• A show of Jeff Lewis's grid drawings opens at We-Are-Familia in Brooklyn on June 11th.
• William Swanson's solo exhibition Mass Continuum is on view at Walter Maciel Gallery in LA through July 2nd.
• Did you know you can browse 20x200 by color? We plucked some colorful favorites from our virtual flat file to demonstrate how cool color browsing is.
• Many JBP artists are ambitious project-starters, using Kickstarter to fund their creative projects. The latest two are Kevin Cyr and Mark Marchesi, whose projects we posted about earlier this week.
• Happy end of the birthday-week to our own Sara Distin and David Yee, two of the hard-working people behind the editions!
• We've added nine new submissions to our "Show Us Your Frames!" album on Facebook. As Jen says, "you guys are aces!"

New Editions

EMPATHIC INVENTORY (Sea Creatures 2010) by Ed Baynard	Untitled (300 x 404) by Greg Allen

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Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

20x200 News

• Over on Facebook we put together an album of how collectors (like you!) are framing their 20x200 editions. We've got quite a few awesome examples so far, but we're looking for even more. Send us a picture of your wall by posting it to our FB Wall, TwitPic'ing it, or emailing it to casey [at] 20x200 [dot] com!


• Robert Knight's series Sleepless is currently on view at Gallery Kayafas in Boston.


• JBP's Jonathan Melber (co-author of the book Art/Work) is giving a workshop at the School of Visual Arts on Saturday, June 12th about "10 Things Every Artist Should Know." The workshop will cover "professional practice, including finding grants and residencies, understanding contracts and copyrights, and courting galleries and non-profits."


• Thanks to MailChimp (the people who power our newsletter delivery) for sending us these awesome hats! We are taking turns sporting them in the office.


• What does Andrew Zuckerman trust? Find out in a series of beautifully shot series of videos on The Anthropologist.


• We hear that Mike Monteiro is taking over Brooklyn Museum's @1stFans Twitter Feed for the month of June. You can see a preview of his artist project and get more info on how to access the member's only feed on our Tumblr. Mike promises that this will be, "some kind of fun." Uh oh...?


• Eager to get out of town, and looking for somewhere to go? Over on the Jen Bekman blog, we suggest an art-filled weekend road trip to Massachusetts, including stops to check out work by Holly Lynton and Sol Lewitt among many others.


• The Paris Review blog interviews Jane Mount about her Ideal Bookshelves.


• Over at Hey, Hot Shot! we've announced Aperture Publisher Lesley A. Martin will be our Guest Curator for the 3rd month of competition. She'll select one photographer who applies by June 17th to win seven outstanding photography books. Every contender who applies by that date will be automatically considered for the award! Sound good? Send us your best photos.
  

New Editions

Ringside by Jason Burch	Team Picture by Keith Shore

Both of these new editions make great Father's Day gifts; art does have a way of warming the heart, after all!

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9-11-02 by Nina Berman

Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

20x200 News

• Tonight at 7:30 p.m. in NYC, Nina Berman hosts an evening that "brings the war home" at the Whitney Museum. The Biennial closes this Sunday, May 30th, so hurry uptown before time runs out.
• We are honored to announce that 20x200 is one of Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Brilliant Ideas for 2010".
• Lauren DiCioccio is included in a group exhibition titled Stitches at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA.
• Want Todd Hido looking at YOUR photos? We're thrilled to announce that he has joined the Hey, Hot Shot! panel.
• The arts in NYC need your help! The governor has proposed 40% budget cuts in the arts that will affect museums, galleries, educational institutions and cultural landmarks across the state. Here's info on how to support NYFA, sign a postcard petition, and speak up against budget cuts.
• Progress Report visits the studio of Gary Petersen in midtown Manhattan.
• Communication Arts profiles Bob O'Connor for their series on "Fresh" artists.
• Ropes by Pattie Lee Becker finished it's run at BMOCA on May 23rd, but we could stare at these images forever. Pattie was also recently in residency at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, which you can read all about on her blog.
• Rachel Sussman is raising money to fund her project, The Oldest Living Things in the World through Kickstarter, and she is so close to reaching her goal with 22 days left! Help her get to the Antarctic to photograph 5,000 year old moss by backing her in the next few weeks.
• Mark Marchesi is also using Kickstarter to find backers for his project, Documenting Portland Maine, aimed at capturing the coastal fishing community of the city's waterfront as both the fish and the fisherman grow more scarce. Help Mark reach his goal of $2K—just 23 days to go!

New Editions

Ideal Bookshelf 42, JMM by Jane Mount	Kite Hill by Paul Octavious

Install shot of Ideal Bookshelves by Jane Mount at The Curiousity Shoppe

Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

20x200 News

• Jane Mount's Ideal Bookshelves opened last week at The Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco and the install shots (above and more here) look great! You can also purchase individual paintings online.
• Artists: the ArtPrize deadline is May 27th! Over 226 venues in Grand Rapids, MI await the installation of your art for this sixteen-day art-stravaganza. A prize of $250,000 is at stake, more details here.
• Paho Mann is included in Subjective Research, a show opening tonight at SCA Contemporary Art & ARTLAB Studios in Albuquerque, NM.
• Big Bambú a rooftop installation at the Met Museum by Mike + Doug Starn is now open! You can read all about the interactive sculpture, comprising 3000 bamboo poles climbing 50 feet high, on the blog.
• Jen Bekman will be speaking on a panel at Girls in Tech on May 27th. More info on tickets and times here.
• Photographers! JBG's Jeffrey Teuton has rounded up a list of Portfolio Review Dos and Don'ts (One Reviewer’s Opinions).
• Have you seen the gorgeous install shots from the opening of Gregory Krum's solo-show ...Practice... at JBG? You can read all about the show on the T Magazine Blog, which had some nice words to say about Greg's work.
• The Rema Hort Mann's annual LES Art Crawl is happening this weekend.
• Colleen Plumb is in Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image, a group show opening at Dina Mitrani Gallery in Miami on June 12th.

New Editions

Going Under by Jorge Colombo	Corner Cafe by Jorge Colombo	Jump by Thomas Prior	Steps by Thomas Prior	Baby Giraffe No. 5 by Sharon Montrose

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Untitled (Whale), 2010 by Gregory Krum

Before we begin this week's recap, we have one special announcement:

A solo-show of work by Gregory Krum titled ...Practice... opens TONIGHT, Friday, May 14th at Jen Bekman Gallery! We hope to see you at 6 Spring St. at 6 p.m. for the opening reception.

Titled after Gerhard Richter’s book The Daily Practice of Painting, ...Practice... embraces Richter’s convictions about art and art making. In a series of carefully grouped photographs, Krum explores the ways in which truth is derived simply by virtue of belief.

Of Krum’s work, Jen Bekman notes:

I cannot articulate what makes Greg’s work so magical for me. That formal qualities and deep intellect inform his practice doesn’t justify the way that it seems perfectly acceptable for me to allow his truths to serve as impostors for my own memories. But does that matter, really? Is memory about experience and belief, or an emotion?

...Practice...
37 Photographs by Gregory Krum
Opening Reception: Friday May 14, 2010, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
On View: May 15, 2010 through June 27, 2010
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
New York City, 10012

And without further ado...the Week in Review: a (somewhat) short and sweet recap of everything in the 20x200-iverse!

20x200 News

• William Powhida is lecturing on "Art Sorcery" tonight in Brooklyn. The event is completely sold out, but you can tune in online at 8 p.m. tonight to catch a live stream. "Prepare for a trainwreck," tweets Powhida.


• Check out Jen Bekman's lightning-speed Ignite talk on "Disrupting E-Commerce" given last week at the Web 2.0 Expo SF.


• A few JBP'ers were out on the LES last night to check out new work by Penelope Umbrico, whose show As Is opened at LMAKprojects.


• San Franciscans! Swing by The Curiosity Shoppe tonight to check out the opening of Jane Mount's Ideal Bookshelves. If you submitted a photo of your shelf, it just might be in the show, alongside the shelf of JBP's own Youngna Park.


• This weekend you're invited to tour the studios of Jaclyn Mendicov, Marcie Paper, and a host of other Brooklyn based artists at the MADARTS Open Studios. Saturday and Sunday 12-6 p.m. at MADARTS (255 18th Street, Brooklyn, NY) in South Park Slope.


• Jeffrey Teuton, Associate Director of Jen Bekman Gallery, gave his semi-weekly good links on Monday and they are not to be missed.


• Birthe Piontek, Scott Eiden, and Cara Phillips are featured in The Portrait as Allegory and Graphic Intersections, a joint show at Umbrage Gallery in Brooklyn on view through June 26th.


• JBP's resident art world insider and gallery fanatic Philae Knight will be leading a Lower East Side gallery walk this Sunday, 5/16 and only a few spots remain. Several of the artists will be on site at their respective shows to talk about the work. RSVP to info@jenbekman.com.

New Editions

Salty by Michelle Vaughan	Slurp by Michelle Vaughan	#4124 from the series House Hunting by Todd Hido

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

20x200 prints on display at the Collectors Confab in SF

Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short and sweet review of 20x200 news, links and happenings!

• Thanks to everyone who came out to our San Francisco Collectors Confab at Chronicle Books. We had an awesome time and it was great to meet you all! If you couldn't make it, don't miss our recap with photos of the event.
• Gary Petersen is included in a group show in New York titled Drawing on Drawing, the exhibition is open for viewing by appointment only during the next two weeks.
• This Saturday, May 8th is the opening reception for a solo show of work by Juliane Eirich at Gallery Schuster Miami.
• Bert Teunissen has posted a new series of images from the Balkan on his website.
• The Santa Fe Art Colony is having their annual Open Studio Day on May 16th from 12 to 6 p.m. Make sure to stop by studio 205 to visit Christina Muraczewski.
• While in sunny SF, Jen, Sara and Philae got to swing by the studio of Jessica Snow for a visit.
• Have you seen our framing inspiration page lately? We've been keeping it updated with photos of how people frame their 20x200 prints!
• Thanks to Yay Today for featuring us as their 200th post.
• Meighan O'Toole over at My Love for You... had a timely studio visit with Kevin Cyr, just before the release of this week's edition.

New Editions

Hausman by Kevin Cyr	Regency TR1 First Pocket Radio by Mark Richards

That's it for this week, collectors! See anything we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter and let us know.

Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

A quick announcement before we begin! Get 20% off on almost all editions and purchases $50+ till 11:59 pm PST TONIGHT. Enter 20x2much @ checkout. If you're already a collector, you know the drill, otherwise see here for more details.

20x200 News

• Fast Company has crowned 20x200 founder Jen Bekman as one of 2010's Most Influential Women in Technology. Don't miss Alissa Walker's great interview with Ms. JB on why we're so passionate about art for everyone.
• West Coast: You're Invited! Our annual collectors confab is happening this Tuesday May, 4th at Chronicle Books in San Francisco. We'll have drinks, snacks, and plenty of Bay Area artists in attendance so please RSVP to rsvp at 20x200 DOT com.
• We weigh in on Alex S. MacLean's exhibition of aerial shots of Vegas and Venice, up now in Germany.
• Remember Jorge Colombo's beautiful drawing of NYC's iconic Empire Diner (featured on the cover of The New Yorker)? We heard just this week that the landmark has lost their lease and are set to close. We're glad he captured it before it goes.
• Who's that sitting across from Marina Abramovic at the MoMA? Why, it's 20x200 edition-maker Joe Holmes! (Nope, she didn't make him cry)
• To all who kicked in for Sara's marathon, thank you for helping raise $6,432.95 for First Descents. Sara says that it was the longest 4 hours, 1 min, and 4 seconds of her life...but, she crossed the finish line! A huge congratulations to Ms. Distin on her Herculean race.
• Noah Kalina, Jessica Eaton and fourteen other photographers have works in Cercle Vicieux, opening tonight in Montreal.

This Week's Editions

Blue-fronted Parrot_00032 by Andrew Zuckerman	HEAD OVER HEELS by LAWRENCE WEINER

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

Flamingo by Colleen Plumb

Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

20x200 News

• What's happening in the world of photo books? See our two part investigation (Part One, Part Two) into the ch-ch-changes in the world of publishing.


• We posted a review of Michael Lundgren's transcendent book Transfigurations, one of the prizes that a HHS! contenders will win if selected for the Curator's Choice Award by publisher Radius Books' editor Darius Himes.


• Megan Whitmarsh is featured in Common Jive, an exhibition celebrating craft.


• "We're living the golden age of print" says the London Evening Standard with a nod to 20x200.


• 20x200 is featured on Glo as one of the Top 10 Interior Design Sites to Bookmark!


• Hyperallergic and Art Fag City, two of our favorite art blogs who just so happen to be office-mates, are having an informal 6-month launch party for Hyperallergic tonight in Williamsburg. The event is already booked, but you can get on the waitlist here. Rumor has it that Paddy Johnson will be making balloon animals.


• JBP's own Sara Distin is running a 26 mile marathon THIS SUNDAY! Earlier in the week she surpassed her fundraising goal of $5,000, enough to provide five cancer survivors with a week at a First Descents program. As of this writing she is up to $6,332.95, and there's still time to donate to a *great* cause.


• DLK Collection's review of the 2010 Whitney Biennial ranks the work of Nina Berman and Curtis Mann as among the "most compelling and likely to lead somewhere exciting or new."


• Work by Colleen Plumb is on view at the Milawaukee Art Museum


• Remember the gorgeous print by Andrew Zuckerman we released a few weeks ago? Well, two of Andrew's editions are now featured on Gilt Groupe through next Tuesday, with proceeds going to The National Audubon Society. Sign up for a membership to get the scoop.


• In the Bay Area? Well save the date of May 4th, 'cause we're throwing a party! That means you—yes, you!—are invited to come mingle with some of team 20x200, artists and collector at Chronicle books from 6-9 p.m. More details, soon!
  

New Editions

In honor of Earth Day we released these two earth-y editions and vowed, as a team, to be better at turning off the lights when we leave the room.

Sewanee No. 17 by Don Hamerman	Salmon Hole (Chico, California) by Youngna Park

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

Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

Star Wars Kids Come Out of the Woodwork for Sad Vader

One of this week's definite highlights was witnessing the force—that is, all the strong reactions from our favorite nerds about Alex Brown's (Untitled) Sad Vader.

Getting to the Unstuck

What do you do when you're stuck in a rut? We recently rounded-up responses from Scott Hansen's ISO50 blog and Daily Routines to get a sense of strategies for overcoming creative block. Just reading the post, which includes a great contribution from Chad Hagen, got me excited to get the creative juices flowing.

Rachel Sussman Is Searching for The Oldest Living Things in The World

Rachel Sussman has been photographing the Oldest Living Things in the World, but she needs your support to finish the project. Thanks to the magic of Kickstarter, you can quickly and easily kick a few dollars her way to make sure that this epic project sees completion. There are 64 days remaining to raise just under $8,000. Donations will help cover travel expenses, film, and special gear like Antarctic parkas and scuba rentals!

Obsessively Consuming Ms. Kate Bingaman-Burt

Kate Bingaman-Burt, whose beautiful benefit edition was released just this week to support the non-profit, Girls Write Now, was recently featured in The New York Times, profiled on Fast Company, and interviewed for the Herman Miller Blog. You can read all the buzz about Kate on the Jen Bekman Blog and pick up a copy of Obsessive Consumption directly from Kate's website (along with a free random original drawing)!

Get Stuck Up in Long Island This Sunday

If you happen to be escaping the city in Long Island this weekend, be sure to stop in at Stuck Up, opening this Sunday, April 18th at the Islip Art Museum. The exhibit, curated by Karen Shaw, explores "the inventive ways artists create works from adhesive materials," and Michelle Weinberg will have several pieces on display. In addition, an edition of 50 signed and numbered silkscreens will be for sale on-site, available both unframed and framed. The show remains on view through June 6th, so if you can't make it out this weekend, catch it the next time you're headed out that way.

New Editions

Nonsensical Infographic No. 3 by Chad Hagen	Nonsensical Infographic No. 4 by Chad Hagen
Untitled (Sad Vader) by Alex Brown	Significant Objects by Kate Bingaman-Burt

• Austin Kleon had us laughing when he took our namesake tote and added his own blackorange-out flare for his wife. The new message?: "Live With Art, Not an Artist."
• We spotted Hollis Brown Thornton and his glorious VHS tapes over on Boing Boing.
• Curious what a 20x200 print looks like from package-to-frame? Collector Sarah Hennessey shows us how she unveiled her new print, Myriad by Yellena James.
• Jason Jagel has a new show up at Fifty24SF Gallery in San Francisco featuring work from a collaboration with MF DOOM for the forthcoming reissue of hit album, Operation Doomsday. There's a great video of the install over on YouTube.

That's it for this week, collectors! Spot anything we missed? Let us know on Twitter @20x200.

Welcome back to the Week in Review, a (somewhat) short-and-sweet recap of 20x200 news and links!

Guess who's in New York Magazine this week? 20x200's Austin Kleon, whose new book of poems, Newspaper Blackout, makes the mag's Approval Matrix somewhere between Highbrow and Brilliant. Score! Last week we released Austin's fourth edition on 20x200, The Travelogue.

Lisa Congdon's Collection a Day in Martha Stewart Living

"Collections have been documented for centuries—but never like this," writes Martha Stewart Living on Lisa Congdon's Collection a Day project. Through 2010, Lisa will drawing, painting, or a photographing a different collection every single day and uploading it to her blog.

Obsessive Consumption book on the T Magazine Blog + Daily Candy

“Read from beginning to end, 'Obsessive Consumption’ reveals a happy (if somewhat guilty) grasshopper who likes a good bargain as much as she likes a good burrito. Bingaman-Burt engages in the same name-brand culture as the rest of us, but in her life, at least, it’s art.” - Andy Port on Kate Bingaman-Burt’s new book, Obsessive Consumption, in the T Magazine Blog

Daily Candy's online version of The Weekend Guide also suggests you flip through Kate's book, noting, “Because buying it is delightfully meta.”

Valerie Hegarty at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Not that we're not excited about the gorgeous weather as of late, but spring turns our minds to the fantastic museum and gallery shows going up, coming down, and vying for our attention in this season of artful heavy-hitters. What we're trying to say is, make sure to enjoy the sunshine, but don't miss Valerie Hegarty's show Cosmic Collisions, currently on view at Nicelle Beauchene through this Sunday only!

Youngna Park on GOOD Magazine's Picture Show

20x200 edition-maker and JBP's own Youngna Park was featured yesterday on GOOD Magazine's Picture Show! Youngna's series, Off Season Sugar Cane Workers, documents the 2 - 3 months of daily life during the rest period between harvests.

• 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 (video) proposal to speak.
• Sara and Jen took at field trip to Tucker Nichols studio at the Marin Headlands and snapped this tantalizing picture of his space and works in progress.
• Looking for the perfect place to hang your Mike Monteiro? Here you go.
• Noah Kalina created a special series of portraits for this show in LA which, he says, probably won't be shown anywhere else.

New Editions This Week

Try Letting Go by Sean Greene	Lumber Mill by Bryan Schutmaat	Train Yard by Bryan Schutmaat

That's it for this week, collectors! We're off to bask in the sunshine hit those closing gallery shows. See anything we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter.

Welcome back to the 20x200 Week in Review! Here's our (relatively) short and sweet rundown of what's going on in the 20x200-iverse:

Juliane Eirich and Dana Miller in the Silverstein Photography Annual

Juliane Eirich and Dana Miller are included in the Silverstein Photography Annual at Buce Silverstein Gallery. Guided by curatorial adviser Nathan Lyons, ten curators nominated ten artists who they felt deserved "the opportunity for further exposure within New York's cultural milieu." Congratulations to both of these fine photographers!

Gregory Krum's Perfectly Appointed Home

A peek inside the Brooklyn home of Gregory Krum was recently featured on Sight Unseen, an online magazine founded by two former editors of I.D. A solo show of Krum's photography, ...Practice..., opens May 14th at Jen Bekman Gallery.

UPSO on The Strange Attractor

In case you missed it, The Strange Attractor ran a great feature a few months ago on Dustin Amery Hostetler (a.k.a. UPSO) and his wife Jemma as part of their "Creative Couples" series. The interview has hilarious bits about everything from working from home with your better half, to speculation about flying cars.

Jane Mount on SFGate.com

Jane Mount's Ideal Bookshelves (several of which are available on 20x200) were featured yesterday on SFGate.com! The paintings will be on view next month at The Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco.

Romp with the Rumpus, Next Tuesday, 4/6

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.

New Editions

Myriad by Yellena James	Piglet No. 2 by Sharon Montrose	Lamb No. 3 by Sharon Montrose	The Travelogue by Austin Kleon

We started out the week with an intricate edition by Yellena James, followed by a cute overload courtesy of two adorable animals photographed by Sharon Montrose (whose work we first discovered through her submission to Hey, Hot Shot!). On Thursday, we were excited to announce a bonus edition with newspaper blackout poet Austin Kleon.

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

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)

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...

Read more in Jen's newsletter →

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...

Read more in Sara's newsletter →

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!

The highlight of this week here at JBP would definitely have to be finding this AWESOME missed connection about a beautiful blond carrying a 20x200/Jen Bekman Projects' tote. We *really* hope you find each other! If you think this might be you, the original posting can be found here.

Happy Birthday Dear JBG, Happy Birthday To Youuu!

Monday, March 15th marked the seven (!) year anniversary of Jen Bekman Gallery opening at 6 Spring Street. So with lots of joy and lots more nostalgia, we rounded up a few of the gorgeous works that have graced the gallery walls over the the last few years. The Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition Exhibition is currently on view at the gallery through this Saturday, March 20th, and we’d love to celebrate with you, so come by and say hello! Look forward to lots more to come, starting with the opening of Carrie Marill’s Visual Aides next Friday, March 26th from 6 – 8 p.m.!

Jorge Colombo's Latest New Yorker Cover

The intrepid Jorge Colombo, ever willing-to-stand-in-the-cold-with-iPhone-and-fingerless-gloves, is back this week with his fourth New Yorker cover featuring a passerby with her dog in front of Chelsea's oft-documented Empire Diner.

Previously painted by Harry McCormick in 1970, Ralph Goings in 1992, and John Baeder in 1999, Colombo adds his depiction of this classic Fodero Dining Car to the treasure chest of interpretations.

Everything You Need To Know (And Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career

Our very own Jonathan Melber, JBP's Director of Business Development and co-author of ART/WORK, will teach a one-day class tomorrow, 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.

New Editions

Untitled (I like you 'cause you like me and you don't like much.) by Mike Monteiro	Patsy Cline and Hank Williams by Mark Ulriksen	Nethermead by Joseph O. Holmes

In honor of SXSW in Austin, Texas, two of this week's editions were country-themed! Mike Monteiro's Lyle Lovett lyrics rendered in black and white were followed by Mark Ulriksen's painting of country music heroes Patsy Cline and Hank Williams. But that wasn't all! On Thursday we released a bonus edition to celebrate Snapping Out of Winter! From the time that we first gushed about this photo by Joe Holmes when he posted it about a month ago, we were able to whip up an awesome 20x200 edition. As one Tumblr-er pointed out, "that was fast!"

That's it for this week, collectors. As always, if you see anything cool that we missed drop us a line on Twitter @20x200. We're off to put together some spring and summery editions for next week!

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

ART FAIR SURVIVAL KITS FOR EVERYONE!
Look at all those smiling faces above! Yesterday team 20x200 hit the fairs to give away our Art Fair Survival Kits where—we're pleased to report—they practically flew out of our hands and into yours.

Today you'll find us at:
+ 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!

There will also be totes for all at tonight's Hey, Hot Shot! opening at JBG (more on that below). Check out our Jen Bekman Projects Tumblr for all the photos of AFSKs spotted in the wild.

A HUGE thanks to all the awesome companies + peoples who have contributed to the survival kit: Popcorn Indiana, Coca Cola, Kevin Murphy, Elemis, Daily Candy, 'wichcraft, and Robert Verdi!

Another HUUUGE thank you to everyone who has tweeted, blogged, and twitpic'd our Art Fair Survival Kits so far! You guys rule.

TONIGHT: Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition Exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5th 6pm - 8pm
March 6 – March 20th, 2010
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring St. (btwn. Elizabeth and Bowery)

We hope that you'll tear yourself away from the fairs for an hour or two this evening to stop by the opening of our Hey, Hot Shot! 2009 Second Edition Exhibition tonight at 6 p.m. at Jen Bekman Gallery.

TOMORROW: The Upside to the Downside Armory Panel with Jen
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.

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)

SUNDAY: Jen speaking at SMart CAMP
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.

Our previous post has more details on how to register for that.

New Editions

This week we had the pleasure of bringing you two hilarious editions. On Tuesday, just in time for the art fairs, came William Powhida's satirical Why You Should Buy Art (otherwise known as buying art for all the wrong reasons) making a splash among collectors, bloggers, and twitterers. It quickly sold out in all but one size so run, don't walk, and pick one up! On Wednesday, we released a Landon Nordeman edition titled Nice Pants—yes, really. Even though I knew the edition was coming, when I saw the announcement in my inbox I still laughed out loud. "Who doesn't love a man in zany pants?" says our very own Philae Knight in the newsletter.

Why You Should Buy Art by William Powhida	Nice Pants by Landon Nordeman

20x200 News

• This week's New Yorker cover was illustrated by Mark Ulriksen, inside is a feature mentioning Nina Berman, and Curtis Mann is included in an online slideshow. It's a 20x200 triple threat!


• “Wait, if all your 20x200 prints are gone, does it finally make you a sellout?” wrote Hrag Vartanian. “I’ve been waiting to call you that.” — Katya Kazakina reports for Bloomberg on this week's William Powhida edition.


• Our friends at Artlog have partnered with Flavorpill, NY Art Beat and us to open up voting for the People's Choice Award to all the fairs across Armory Arts Week so you can select your favorite exhibition. Vote for your Armory favorites at vote.artlog.com!


• Ky Anderson, Jason Jagel, and over 100 other amazing artists were asked to create new work on an 8.5 x 11 sized piece of paper for PAPER!AWESOME! at Baer-Ridgway Exhibitions.


• I got the chance to check out Paula McCartney's show Birdwatching at Klompching Gallery last night, and I can't recommend it highly enough. If you can't make it out to DUMBO, be sure to check out our writeup of the show.


• Don Hamerman's photographs of found baseballs were featured this week on Hall Ready, a blog about how to display art. We're lucky to have six of these awesome photos from this series available as 20x200 editions!


• Interior design blog 2 By Design pairs a William Powhida print with a selection of colorful decorations and a color-coded library.


• Brain Pickings, a website which curates "eclectic interestingness" has given 20x200 the top spot in their guide to buying "sticker-shockless" art online. "Wonderfully user-friendly and meticulously curated, 20x200 is an absolute treat.

That's it for this week, collectors—we're off to the fairs to hand out some more Art Fair Survival Kits!

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

Installation shot of photographs by Nina Berman at the 2010 Whitney Biennial

20x200 News

• The 2010 Whitney Biennial opened earlier this week, featuring work by edition-makers Nina Berman (above) and Curtis Mann. Check out reviews by Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine, Linda Yablonsky for Bloomberg, Todd Eberle for Vanity Fair, and Kelly Crow for The Wall Street Journal.


• 20x200 got the top spot in Brain Pickings' round up of where to buy "sticker shockless" art online. Thanks for the kind words Brain Pickings!


• Jen Bekman will be speaking about The Value of Building Community on March 7th at details on how to register.


• What You're Told, paintings by edition-maker Clare Grill at Jen Bekman Gallery, closes tomorrow. Those who brave the snowpocalypse will be rewarded with the warmth of Clare's paintings. Head over to 6 Spring St. and check it out, we promise it's worth it!


• JBP blogger Stacy Oborn blogged a retort about the Dodge Charger Superbowl commercial featuring Noah Kalina.


• We welcome to the JBP team Anjie Paranjpe who will helping coordinate production, meaning getting prints into your hands!


• Several edition-makers, including Yijun (Pixy) Liao and Emily Shur, are auctioning prints to benefit Haiti through March 7th, coordinated by The Nymhoto Collective.

New Editions
In this week's edition-releases Jen waxed poetic about Valerie Roybal's wordy new edition and also brought you a sunny edition for a snowy day by JBP's very own Youngna Park.

Encyclopedia 2 by Valerie Roybal	Winter Flags (East Village, New York) by Youngna Park

That's it for this week, collectors—we're off to build some snowmen!

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

Digital rendering of Doug and Mike Starn’s “Big Bambú,” a site-specific sculpture made of 3,200 interlocking bamboo poles lashed together with nylon rope. (image: NYT)

20x200 News

• This summer, edition-makers Mike and Doug Starn (whose four 20x200 editions nearly sold out within minutes of appearing on the site) will be constructing a 50-foot tall bamboo structure (above) on the roof of the Met Museum in New York. Did we mention you can CLIMB ON IT? Check out our post for renderings of the insane view and the full scoop.


• A photograph by JBG-represented artist Nina Berman was published in today's Wall Street Journal as part of an article about the 2010 Whitney Biennial.


• Gregory Krum has curated, Quicktake: Rodarte at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a show surveying the work, process, and inspiration behind these avant-garde fashion designers.


• In the past few weeks, you might have noticed some great new posts by Stacy Oborn, who—it was officially announced this week—will be joining the JBP crew and contributing daily to all of our beloved blogs. Welcome to the team, Stacy!


• Jonathan Melber, legal eagle turned JBP's Director of Biz Development, wrote a great article for the Huffington Post on how the Brooklyn Museum is using Creative Commons to allow remixing of their content.


• Yesterday marked the conclusion of Jason Polan's collaborative art project and exhibition The Assembled Picture Library of New York City. We posted a little bit about it, but will keep you updated on how this experiment turned out as we hear more.


• Penelope Umbrico gave a lecture last night at SVA. We wrote a bit about her awesome work, some of which is still available on 20x200.


• 20x200 got a shout out on feminist blog Feministing, who ran a picture of our "Live With Art" motto and this wonderful quote by Angela Davis: "Ultimately, [progressive art] can propel people toward social emancipation." We concur!

Prospect Park by Joe Holmes

From the Web

• We're smitten with this photograph of dogs in Prospect Park by Joe Holmes and—if the like-and-reblog count is any indication—so is the rest of the internet.


• Check out how good these prints by Mike Monteiro and James Deavin look framed against a brick wall.


• Bland desktop blues? Noah Kalina has got you covered.


• Kate Bingaman-Burt has been posting daily drawings for February on her Flickr, including an instant camera which we totally covet.

New Editions

This week we went art-crazy, bringing you not two, not three, but four editions! The fresh perspective (or is it non-perspective?) of Justin James King's manipulated image and wittiness of Carrie Marill's visual aid painting are complemented perfectly by two nostalgic drawings by Hollis Brown Thornton.

Be Realistic Demand the Impossible by Carrie Marill	And Still We Gather With Infinite Momentum 1 by Justin James King
VHS by Hollis Brown Thornton	Closing Credits at the End of the Movie by Hollis Brown Thornton

All-in-all 'twas another insane(ly great), art-filled week at 20x200 HQ. 'Till next week, collectors!

p.s. See anything that we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter.

La Paz, Bolivia by Stefan Ruiz

20x200 News

• Say this five times fast: The TEDsters are tweeting about 20x200! Stefan Ruiz's image flashed across the screen and one lucky winner from the TED audience was chosen to take home one of our largest prints.
• Stylist Robert Verdi, who is now the star of his own reality show, told New York Mag's Daily Intel that above his sofa hangs a Doug + Mike Starn 20x200 edition! Excellent taste indeed.
• Sara Distin, Associate Director of JBP, is running a marathon to raise $5k for young adults with cancer. As of this writing she has reached 43% of her goal. Please take a moment to learn more about her race and donate to First Descents. Thank you!

20x200 totes at the Brooklyn Museum event last Saturday

• We had a blast at the Brooklyn Museum last Saturday, meeting and greeting collectors both new and old. Check out our photos from the event and then grab one of the gorgeous benefit-edition prints by Valerie Hegarty.
• Edition-maker William Wegman popped up in a New York Times article about photographers who used Polaroids. One of his photos is published with the caption, "Polaroid provided great talents with equipment and film, and they gave it photographs."
• The face of edition-maker Noah Kalina flashed across million of TVs during this Superbowl commercial.
• Edition-makers Amy Park, William Crump and William Lamson have all generously donated work to a Haiti Benefit Auction in New York.
• Liz Kuball is featured in the latest issue of Fraction Mag.
• By now your tolerance for Snowtorious B.I.G. jokes may be waning, but in honor of the blizzard outside the 20x200 HQ we rounded up A Blizzard of Wintry Editions (and some summery ones too!)

New Editions

This week we released two editions from Valerie Hegarty and Daniel Cheek. The larger sizes of Valerie's Pileated Woodpecker arrived on Tuesday, after we gave all the 8"x10" prints away to Brooklyn Museum 1stfans. On Wednesday, we were pleased to bring you Daniel Cheek's quiet Rookery Bay, an image dealing with how we experience nature in a world inundated with boundaries and barriers.

First Harvest in the Wilderness with Pileated Woodpecker by Valerie Hegarty	Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida by Daniel Cheek

Openings + Events

• America Now is a star-studded photography exhibition that includes work from Daniel Cheek, whose 20x200 edition was released this week, as well as Ben Huff, Shane Lavalette, Laura McPhee, Alec Soth and Zoe Strauss.

  America Now
  February 5 – April 10, 2010

  Montserrat College of Art Gallery
  23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA

• Edition-maker Mike Monteiro puts the "gauche in gouache" in Text Me Later at Rare Device, the gallery of fellow edition-maker Lisa Congdon.

  Text Me Later
  Work by Mike Monteiro and Omar Lee
  February 5 – February 28, 2010

  Rare Device
  1845 Market Street between Valencia + Guerrero Streets
  San Francisco, CA

From the Web

• Most-delicious-blog-ever Serious Eats posed the question: how much about cooking can actually be learned from cookbooks? And Jane Mount's cookbook shelf was the perfect illustration.
• 20x200 and Austin Kleon got a shout out on Sean Ear1ey's Phonocast this week.
• We're collecting photos of framed 20x200 art for a framing inspiration page! For examples, see these dinosaurs in a law office and Clare Grill's Overachievers in a frame with its own special history.

  To contribute, upload photos of your amazingly arranged wall to Flickr and use the tag "20x200" so that we can find your pics.

Anything we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter. Until next week, collectors!

About Four Thirty by William Wegman

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we look back on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

20x200 Print Giveaway at the Brooklyn Museum THIS SATURDAY!

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. Hope to see you there! Don't let the snow stop you! Read More →

New Editions

We Are So Good Together by Dylan Fareed	The Architects + About 4:30 by William Wegman

Daisy 2008, Woodgrain series by Christina Muraczewski

Openings + Events

• Edition-eaker Christine Muraczewski is featured in a group show in LA titled Woodie, which runs through February 28th.


• Edition-makers Valerie Roybal, Lisa Congdon and Kate Bingaman-Burt all have work in Nahcotta Gallery's annual Enormous Tiny Art show up in New Hampshire through March 1st.


• This Saturday afternoon from noon - 5 pm, MoMA is hosting a free art book swap! "The public is invited to swap any art books in good condition for any one of the hundreds of art books donated by publishers, distributors, galleries and other art world professionals." Sounds to us like the perfect way to spend Saturday before heading to the Brooklyn Museum for the 20x200 Print Giveaway from 6 - 8 p.m.!


• Edition-maker Chris Ballantyne has a show titled Some Songs from the Shore at Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, which is up through March 6th.


• Text Me Later, an exhibit by edition-maker and master of the clever aphorism Mike Monteiro + Omar Lee, opens tonight, February 5th at Rare Device in San Francisco.

20x200 News

• A portfolio of drawings by Rachell Sumpter and Jacob Magraw is the exclusive content of this week's McSweeney's iPhone app.


• Gotham Magazine ran a full-page feature on Trey Speegle, who talked about his work as it relates to the intersection of art, fashion and commerce.


• Show us your frames! 20x200 collector Jennifer wrote in suggesting that we make post some images of how collectors around the world have framed their 20x200 editions. We love it! To contribute to this project, simply tag your photos "20x200" on Flickr and we'll select the most inspiring walls to feature on our site.


• A friendly reminder that Clare Grill's GORGEOUS painting at Jen Bekman Gallery are not to be missed! Her solo exhibition, What You're Told is on view through February 27th.


• Our semi-annual 20% More Ridiculous Sale came and went, offering first-time and veteran collectors the chance to pick up remaindered prints for a price that is 20% more affordable than usual. Thanks to everyone who brought home some art and spread the word to all their friends. You rock!

From the Web

• We completely forgot to include this amazing New Order video (above!) directed by William Wegman in our newsletter, but there was "some serious pogo dancing happening" at the JBP HQ after we discovered it. See also: Wegman's early films.


• For the blackout poem obsessed—a group in which we count ourselves—Austin Kleon has created a new blog devoted exclusively this art. Check out Newspaper Blackout.


• Congratulations to team "Glen Lowry's Apartment," who took home 20x200 tote bags, prints, and gift certificates in last Friday's Art:21 Trivia Night!


• Themed menu lunch drawings, like last week's "Hunger Apocalypse," are a regular midday fixture at HQ. (We have fun over here).


• 20x200 was featured into today's VSL infographic with Pentagram Design and Obama's Hope Poster. Also make sure to take a look at Albert Exergian's modern TV posters featuring lines and shapes to depict The Wire, 30 Rock, Mad Men and 12 other popular shows.

Until next week, collectors! Anything we missed? Reply to @20x200 on Twitter.

Bierstadt with Holes, 2007 by Valerie Hegarty

Welcome back to the Week in Review! What's that, you ask? Every Friday we reminisce on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet and drop hints about what the future holds.

* Before we begin, I have a RIDICULOUSLY MAJOR, LAST MINUTE HINT: If you are not on the 20x200 mailing list, you would be wise to sign up for it RIGHT THIS SECOND. I can say no more, really, but sign up!!! *

Now back to our regularly scheduled programing:

New Editions
Let's face the facts: Valentines Day was invented by big evil corporations to sell greeting cards. Before you dip into your nearest drugstore to fulfill this Hallmark prophecy, may we suggest giving some art instead? Trust us, it's so much classier. For this very occasion, we have brought you these three totally lovable V-Day editions, so far, with more to come:

#51 by Kent Rogowski	#52 by Kent Rogowski	Lovebirds by Lisa Congdon

20x200 and Brooklyn Museum
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. Read more →

20x200 News

• 20x200 edition-maker Brian Ulrich will be giving a talk tonight at Hous Projects Gallery, and is part of a two-person show with Amy Stein currently open in Brooklyn. We've got all the details on that here.


• Dads love us! 20x200 got an awesome shout out from The Dad List, a parenting website for both dads and moms, recommending that you surround your kids with (affordable) art from an early age to help grow huge imaginations.


• We're thrilled that edition-maker Liz Kuball will be donating proceeds from a self-produced print to Haiti through wall space gallery's life support benefit sale. Go, Liz!


• You know you've made it when your work not only graces the cover of The New Yorker, but is projected on stage during a Stevenote!! You heard that right, the famous New Yorker cover by 20x200 Edition-Maker Jorge Colombo was shown in a demo of the Brushes app for the new Apple iPad.


• Last night at 92Y Tribeca, Art:21 threw an art/culture trivia night, Team 20x200 was competing fiercely, and though we didn't win, we were glad to throw in a few prints, gift certificates and totes for the winning team. Congratulations to all who played and thanks to Art:21 for an awesome night.


• Inspired by 20x200 edition-maker Lisa Congdon's new project, A Collection a Day, we put together our own collection of artists who are collectors.


• Edition-maker William Crump's piece Everlasting Light is in the group show VISION QUEST now on view at OBSERVATORY, a presentation/exhibition space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The show is on view through February 21st.

Live With Art III by Mikey Burton

From the Web

• Mikey Burton, the designer who created our logo and awesome Live With Art posters (above!), was featured on Swissmiss this week. Woohoo!


• Somebody in the office has been anonymously brainstorming new 20x200 Brand Apparel. Perhaps we should stick with art.


• It's not that we don't love New York, but we're dying to go to Philadelphia. Why, you ask? Well, Maira Kalman (an artist on Jen's 20x200 wishlist) has a survey exhibition opening called Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World).


• Have you heard about YoGA @ MoMA? So cool! The yogis among us were bummed to have missed the chance to do our downward dogs under Gabriel Orozco's giant drawn on whale skeleton, but we're keeping our eyes peeled for next opportunity.

What You're Told by Clare Grill at Jen Bekman Gallery, Installation Shot by Elizabeth Leitzell

Welcome back to the Week in Review, where we reminisce on the highlights of the week, point out all the great things we saw on the internet, and drop hints about what the future holds!

New Editions:

• Our photo edition this week was a beautiful-yet-sinister artificial landscape Rincon Artificial Island and Pipeline, Ventura, California by Ian Baguskas.


• Our fine-art edition was a brightly colorful off-the-grid island-scape titled Gauntlet by Rachell Sumpter.

20x200 News:

• Last week we posted a guide to Buying Art to Benefit Haiti and today we posted Even More Ways to Buy Art (& Design) to Benefit Haiti, an update including your suggestions and additions to the list. If you have contributions, please let us know!


• Gary Petersen has been included in a group show titled Paper Works which opens tonight in Brooklyn!


• Ms. Jen Bekman herself wants to know which artists you would love to see 20x200 editions from. She posted her own wishlist on Tumblr and you can comment on this post to chime in!

On the Web:

• We had lots of fun at the opening of Clare Grill's What You're Told opening last week. The reception was packed and the tweets were full of praise. We're delighted to hear that others love Clare's work as much as we do! We posted two sets on our Flickr: photographs from the opening and installation shots taken by photographer Elizabeth Leitzell.


• Youngna spotted the sold-out 20x200 edition Prospect Park by Joe Holmes in a photo posted by her friend Brian Ferry. Boy does it look good framed. If you've got framed 20x200 editions in your home or office, let us know by leaving a link to the image in the comments.


• William Crump was interviewed by LittleBird Gallery and had some some really wonderful things to say about how working with 20x200 has given him support and exposure as an artist.


• Edition-makers Penelope Umbrico and Jessica Eaton, as well as Hey, Hot Shot! Panelist Lesley A. Martin are included in the upcoming photography magazine Lay Flat 02: Meta


• Kevin Miyazaki posted a beautiful photo on his blog this week. If you haven't collected his two 20x200 editions yet you are seriously missing out.


• Jeffrey posted about Holly Lynton's great new work-in-progress on the JBG Blog. Her photo The Turkey Madonna is pretty unforgettable.


• Austin Kleon has been making waves across Tumblr and blogs in general with his Newspaper Blackout series, including Agoraphobia, released last week. If you haven't yet seen this snapshot of Austin's process and timelapse video then head on over to our Tumblr to check them out. And, how great is this DIY Blackout Poem that someone created in response to Austin's? So great!


• The name of our very own Raul Gutierrez popped up on someone's name tag at a recent Creative Mornings event with Michael Bierut, in answer to the question: "If I could have any Creative Mornings speaker it would be..."

Hot Shot Q&As:

• On Monday we posted our final Hot Shot Q&A, meaning all five are now available online. This is a great way to get to know this round of Hot Shots and future 20x200 edition-makers: Jessica Eaton, Justin James King, Alejandro Cartagena, Leah Tepper Byrne, Marisa Aragona

See anything we missed? Let us know in the comments or on Twitter by replying to @20x200. Have a great weekend!

The Snowy Road Less Traveled by Emily Shur

It's that time again for the Week in Review, where we reminisce on the week, point out things we saw on the internet, and drop hints about what the future holds.

Haiti:

• We were shocked and a little bit somber this week around the HQ after hearing—and seeing—all the destruction happening in Haiti. The images we're seeing from Haiti are incredibly humbling. We wanted to take a minute to recognize all the incredible photographers who are putting their lives on the line to show the rest of the world how this devastating story is unfolding.
• The Big Picture has two posts (Earthquake in Haiti, Haiti 48 Hours Later) full of images from press photographers in Haiti, and if you've seen other documentation, please let us know in the comments.
• Google has a great list of ways you can help, and don't forget that you can easily donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting HAITI to 90999 and donate $5 to Yele's Earthquake Relief efforts by texting YELE to 501501, all charged directly to your cellphone bill.

You're Invited!

• Tonight from 6 - 8 p.m. you're cordially invited to JBG at 6 Spring Street for the opening of Clare Grill's solo show, What You're Told. The exhibition features six paintings on canvas and eleven works on paper, you can see more images here and check out our Facebook invite for more info. Hope to see you there!

Three New Editions:




• The Overachievers is a gorgeous painting by Clare Grill. We can't wait to show her work tonight at the gallery! (See above for details)


• offSET #29 is a richly textural photograph by Lacey Terrell, a new-to-20x200 photographer.


• Agoraphobia is the latest edition from our series of Austin Kleon's Blackout Poems.



20x200 News:




• Have you ever played Exquisite Corpse? Then you'll love the Exquisite Book, a group drawing project featuring a handful of 20x200 edition-makers!


• If you're a subscriber to New American Paintings, you'll already have recieved Edition 84, featuring the work of edition-maker and JBG artist Sarah McKenzie. If not you can order a copy for $20, we're got more info on that here.



Hey, Hot Shot Q&As:




• Our Hot Shot Q&A series is drawing to a close. Check back on Monday for our final Q&A with Hot Shot Marisa Aragona. So far we've heard from Jessica Eaton, Justin James King, Alejandro Cartagena, and Leah Tepper Byrne. If you missed any of these be sure to check them out.



From the web:




• Edition-maker Emily Shur hit the front page of Flak Photo this week. Go Emily!


• Have you seen edition-maker Lisa Congdon's ah-maz-ing new project: A Collection a Day?


• Have you seen our Tumblr? Throughout the week we've been posting images that catch our eye, quips from our office, sneak-peeks of secret things, and photos of dogs and kittens. Head over there and subscribe to that nonsense!



Did we miss anything worth seeing this week? Leave a comment or reply to @20x200 on Twitter and let us know!


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alleverythingthatisyou sno6_005 and alleverythingthatisyou sno7.1_003 by Mike + Doug Starn

TGIF collectors—not because we're tired, but because—we're totally excited to bring you a new feature called Week in Review. Every Friday from today til' infinity we will reminisce on the highlights of the week, point out some great things we saw on the internet, and drop hints about what the future holds! Let's do this thing:

What we've been up to:

• Tomorrow is the absolute last day that you will be able to catch Mixtape at Jen Bekman Gallery! From time-to-time we sneak a few 20x200 editions into shows at the JBG, but once a year we put on a show like Mixtape that is overflowing with genuine 20x200 editions. Earlier in the week we rounded up these editions for people who wish to bring a little Mixtape into their own homes.
• Have you heard about the next show at JBG? A solo show of paintings by 20x200 edition-maker Clare Grill. We can't wait to get these gorgeous works up on the walls.
• As if three blogs wasn't enough for you, JBP is officially on Tumblr! We haven't made a fuss about it yet since we're still kicking the tires, but it's a casual running dialogue from our team in New York (a.k.a. an opportunity for us to share the funny things we find on the internet and drop hints about upcoming editions, exhibitions and things you can look forward to from JBP). If you're on Tumblr, follow us for the inside scoop.

New editions:

• Our art edition this week was the kaleidoscopic Mixup by Gary Petersen. If you get down to the JBG by tomorrow, the original painting is definitely worth a look!
• For our photo release, we unveiled another gorgeous Starn edition titled alleverythingthatisyou sno6_005. This nearly sold-out snowflake is so hot that it almost brought down our poor servers!

Press:

• Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi was literally wowed by 20x200 in a video we posted earlier this week.

Openings:

• On Wednesday, a whole bunch of us headed to Brooklyn to catch the opening of Leonards for Leonard & 5,537,594 Suns (above), two found-photographic installations at BAM by edition-maker Penelope Umbrico. The works are photographic in the unorthodox sense that Umbrico used printouts of photographs she found on Google Images and Flickr to create her installations. See this next time you catch a movie at BAM, highly recommended!

  Natman Room, BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building
  Jan 6-Mar 14, 2010
  30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY

• Versus, a show pitting photographers against each other as well as pairing them together, opened at Hous Projects yesterday. The show includes 2008 Second Edition Hot Shot Cara Phillips, photographer and 20x200 edition-maker Brian Ulrich, and 2008 Second Edition Honorable Mention Alex Leme, among others.
  
  Hous Projects
  Mon-Sat, 10 am-6 pm
  January 7 - March 8, 2010
  31 Howard Street 2nd fl
  New York, New York

Hot Shot Q&As:

• If you really want to be ahead of the curve with your collecting, then check out our awesome Hot Shot Q&As. Chances are you'll see some editions from these folks in the coming months. This week we heard from Leah Tepper Byrne and Alejandro Cartagena. The last three Q&As will run this coming Monday, Wednesday and the Monday after that, so get pumped and stay tuned.