Ten, Part 1

Ten. Deka. On the recently finished detective series Monk, Monk wanted everything symmetrical, even, his favorite number was ten. In ancient Greece some say Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans who followed him believed the number ten was mystical. The Pythagoreans used the tetractys for ten.




If you add the number of dots in the tetractys it comes out to ten. The point of this? This is my tenth post. So this is my tenth post, whoopty doo. So what. Have I got something to write about? How am I passing my days? my nights? Well it's the same boring mundane life. This weekend was the Armory Show in NYC. For those who have no idea what the Armory Show is, it is an annual event gathering galleries from all over the world, Franch, England, Germany, the U.S., China, Japan and they show art in two huge piers over by the water on 12th avenue. In any case, what there is is thousands of works of art, and even more visitors, artists, sellers, buyers and press. So you have a few hundred galleries. Each gallery varies with what they show. A gallery may show one artist while another gallery might show two or more. If a gallery shows one artist, chances are that the work will be stylistically homogeneous. If it shows many artists, you can probably wager that the work won't be. This varies of course. The art on display, I would guess varies in date from the early 20th century up to the present. So you had Picasso all the way up to Bottero, encompassing not only painting and sculpture, but video, installation, and performance as well. Anyone could find some kind of art that they liked there. Of course with so much art, you had to sift through things you absolutely loathed as well, which is not so enjoyable. Some artists of (my) note were

Ivan Navarro



Oda Jaune



Derrick Guilde




Daniel Ludwig



Derrick Guilde



Guillermo Munoz Vera





Horace Pippin



I walked around for about three hours. One of the things that happens to you inevitably during an event like this is that you experience visual overload, especially if you want to see as much as you can. I mean this quite literally, your eyes begin to revolt against you, it takes effort to focus. You cannot help but look, you are there to look and observe after all.