Last Day Art Fairs!! (God I needed two weeks to take this whole thing in, not just four days?)

Framing Art in the 21st Century In the dual wakes of digitization and economic shifts, the music and publishing industries have been grappling with issues of production and distribution. Faced with the same questions, how might visual art will be disseminated, sold, and exhibited in the coming decades? How will arts organizations be challenged to find alternative, less conventional ways to reach new publics? With Holly Block (Director, Bronx Museum for the Arts), Amy Cappellazzo (Int'l Co-Head of Postwar and Contemporary Art, Christie's), Shamim Momin (founder, LAND), Sara Reisman (Director, Percent for Art), Dan Cameron (Curator, Prospect New Orleans), Nato Thompson (Chief Curator, Creative Time), and Manon Slome (founder and curator, No Longer Empty). Moderated by Lindsay Pollock at VOLTA NY, Club 7W Talks Lounge, 7 West 34th Street, 7th Floor, 3:00 - 4:00

The World is Not Enough: The Future of Biennials Curators of major biennial events discuss the future role of expansive, international surveys of contemporary art in today's fluctuating political and economic landscape. With Dan Cameron (Curator, Prospect New Orleans), Gary Carrion-Murayari (Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art; Co-curator, 2010 Whitney Biennial), Elizabeth Sussman (Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Co-curator, 1993 Whitney Biennial), Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Artistic Director, Third Quadrilateral Biennial 2009, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka), and Trevor Smith (Curator of Contemporary Art, Peabody Essex Museum; Co-curator, Singapore Biennale 2011). Moderated by Katy Siegel (Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism, Hunter College; contributing editor, Artforum)   at Armory Show - Pier 92) free with Fair admission, 2-3pm

From Outside In: The Socioeconomics of Contemporary Art Critics, journalists and art market analysts discuss their individual approaches to decoding the exceptional social and economic landscape of the art world. WWhat are the challenges involved in reporting on an unregulated market? What kinds of economic indices work - and which don't - in analyzing this market? What forms of study or reporting - anthropology? Sociology? The "New New" journalism? - are most effective in covering the art world and making sense of its byways? With Marion Maneker (Art Market Monitor), Sergey Skaterschikov (Skate's Art Market Research), Sarah Thornton (author, Seven Days in the Art World, (W.W. Norton, 2008), Judd Tully (Editor at Large, Art + Auction), and Edward Winkleman (Winkleman Gallery, NY). Moderated by Sarah Douglas (Senior Correspondent, Art+Auction and Modern Painters magazines) at The Armory Show, Open Forum Lounge, Pier 92, 12th Avenue at 52nd Street Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM 

Fountain & Long Island City the first of two Fountain Art Fair parties at its location at the Frying Pan (26th St / Pier 66) 7pm to midnight. 

Online, Offline, Flatline: Art Publishing Now Art writers and publishers discuss producing their work in a fluctuating economic and digital landscape, confronting the unsettling question as to whether paper is indeed a dying medium. With Paul Laster (Editor, Artkrush), Peter Nesbett and Shelly Bancroft (former co-publishers, Art on Paper), Mark Rappolt (Editor, ArtReview) Moderated by David Shapiro (Editor-in-Chief, Museo Magazine) at VOLTA NY, Club 7W Talks Lounge, 7 West 34th Street, 7th Floor, 3- 4PM 

1. Those five wild and crazy (anonymous) guys who are the Bruce High Quality Foundation ( Represented by: Susan Inglett Gallery NY.) are on fire, what with their recent "intervention" in the "1969" exhibition at P.S.1 and their free-wheeling "university" at Recess at 41 Grand Street and at 225 West Broadway in Tribeca. Now, Bruce is kicking things up a notch with the Brucennial2010, Feb. 25-Apr. 4, 2010, a parody version of the Whitney Biennial -- or maybe it’s more serious than it lets on -- being presented in a 5,000-square-foot space at 350 West Broadway in SoHo donated by the real-estate mogul and megacollector Aby Rosen. Titled "Miseducation," the Brucennial supposedly "brings together 420 artists from 911 countries working in 666 discrete disciplines." In a press release, the globetrotting curator Francesco Bonami is quoted at nonsensical length, presumably a pastiche as well, though the announced participation of the young curator Vito Schnabel seems to be on the level. An email asks prospective participants to "either dredge something up or create something new. . . . As fast and loose as you like." The event also promises performances on Feb. 25, 2010, and a literary supplement launching the same day at www.brucennial.com