PS1 art book fair

this weekend was pretty awesome. it involved two separate parties, one where it felt like the whole williamsburg emergency department showed up because some kid was climbing on a construction site,

(ex. 1)

and me being naively shocked at how packed the L was at 4.30am. (ex. 2 above)

and one where the party hosts' owned 9 goya etchings on their living room wall, which me and another friend had a small conniption about for a few minutes on saturday night.

it also included attending a really overwhelming art book fair at PS1 in queens, the MOMA's counterpart. there were a ridiculous amount of artists and galleries selling themselves. i have to say i did really want to buy a beautiful sophie calle book, but somehow decided not to when i saw the 150$ price tag. i saw a william powhida piece like i said in my last post, and a lot of other interesting things. i signed up for a lot of mailing lists and half heartedly looked at prints, books, and posters that i couldn't really afford. i did love this elevator installation they had at PS1 though, although it was also pretty seizure inducing (you can see my friend jordan's face in the corner):

i liked this smart ass note on the wall someone put up in contrast to all the posters and prints and merchandise hung up on other artists' walls (if you can't read it, it says THIS SPACE DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING, MOVE ALONG):

i liked how they were screenprinting bags right there in one of the rooms:

and these bittersweet manhattan circa 9-11 matchboxes by tobias wong:

this huge installation outside PS1:

those few pictures are only the tip of the iceberg of what was all being shown. one thing i didn't like was the pouring rain that managed to get us all wet. what i did like about the rain is that PS1 had these huge tarps outside to ward off rain, but every once in a while too much rain would collect and- whoosh! dump all over some unassuming art fair goer. success! it missed me by about 30 seconds when i was going inside.

i also got to spend some time hanging out with one of my teachers from corcoran who happened to be in town, which was really nice, as well as go out to dinner with a newer friend from nysp. yay! good weekend.