Congratulations to 20x200's Whitney Biennial Artists

Good day collectors! It's Sara with a quick note and warm congratulations to 2010 Whitney Biennial artists Nina Berman and Curtis Mann. I won't go into details but the exhibition is stunning!

While the rest of us eventually ducked out of last night's preview for burgers at Melon's, Jen kept her party shoes on till the wee hours. Flying like Superwoman from the art world to the tech world, this morning she's at the Web 2.0 Expo Advisory Board meeting, helping to plan the next expo in NYC. (She'll also be speaking at the upcoming SF Expo — no wonder she never sleeps!) She will be back tomorrow with a full dispatch and a new edition from a talented photographer who is near and dear to team JBP.

In the meantime, recaps of the evening are starting to trickle around the web. Todd Eberle of Vanity Fair offered this glowing recount of Nina's work:

...there were some knockout moments, particularly from Nina Berman, whose brilliant and sensitive photojournalistic images of an American soldier whose injuries at the hands of an Iraqi suicide bomber left him beyond any reasonable description of "disfigured." After 50 reconstructive surgeries, he wed his high-school sweetheart. Berman's pictures... are at once beautiful, intimate, and defiantly deny the act of "looking." (I had to go back three times to take in their terrifying poetry.)

The 2010 Whitney Biennial opens tomorrow, Thursday, February 25th and runs through May 30th. I highly recommend that you pay a visit. Until you can go see for yourself, we'll keep you up-to-date on all of our blogs: 20x200, Hey, Hot Shot! and Jen Bekman Gallery. But don't spend too much time browsing — you just might miss the chance to pick up the last remaining prints from Nina (only 2!) and Curtis (only 1!).

2010 Whitney Biennial Artist Curtis Mann:

Tree Tops, from the series Somewhere in Israel
by Curtis Mann

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