Please join us for the fourth annual Chelsea Art Walk this Thursday, July 25th, from 5-8pm. Our current exhibition is The Decline and Fall of the Art World, PartI: The One-Percenters. Please feel free to leave a complaint in Karen Finley's interactive Complaint Booth where you can record and reveal your concerns with the art world or confess to art transgressions committed. You may also contribute a drawn complaint to The Art World and Its Discontents, a growing community board mandala where the public is invited to make a mandala using text, words, images, and drawings exploring the challenges they face in creating culture.

The Art Walk is a community-wide collaborative event spanning venues from 19th to 29th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue, and has attracted thousands of visitors over the last few years. More than 75 galleries will be participating this Thursday with events, receptions, and more. For a complete listing of participating galleries and events for the Art Walk, click here.

See you soon!
The F+V Team

If this were a typical press release, for a typical summer group show in NYC, we might pontificate about how the Art World is steadily failing, and give examples of its slow and embarrassing demise due to ruthless marketeering, commodity art trading, and corrupt price-fixing by the major auction houses. We would make clever references to The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization, in film and book form, and liberally sprinkle in heavy quotes of apocalypse and doom from Nietzsche, Kazantzakis, and Homer's Iliad. We would further demonstrate how each artist in this exhibition portrays his or her own singular take on the Art Industry's Ruin with very personal, autobiographical references - battling substance abuse in a former life; shocking the public with certain kinds of chocolate-covered root vegetables penetrating certain orifices from another; wild professional jealousy, anger, passion, greed, avarice, and other assorted vices, and a host of other bad behaviors for others - and then long and painful rehabilitations into the public eye.
 

William Powhida & Jade Townsend: Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes, 2013, digital print, 44 x 86 inches
 

But this is no ordinary Summer show, and hence there will be no typical, CliffsNotes-style press release.
 

Alex Gingrow: What she crying about? 2012, graphite and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30 inches

 
Instead, the work speaks for itself - so please join us at 530 West 24th St on Thursday, July 11th from 6-9 pm, grab a lobster roll off one of the food trucks rented for the 24th st block party, relax and take in the show. You can already smell the acrid fumes of the Art World's gradual self-immolation, so breathe in deeply. The show will deliver as promised, with highlights including Karen Finley's Interactive Complaint Booth; Alex Gingrow's faux-gallery provenance stickers; Loren Munk's large-scale art world conspiracy map paintings; Michael Scoggins' acerbic art world one-liner jabs; and last but not least, William Powhida & Jade Townsend's chalk vine animation. So enjoy the ride on the grand HMS Artworld, sinking swiftly into the shadowy depths of Oblivion. Women and children first, if there are any lifeboats still available. And The Band Played On.....!
 

Michael Scoggins: The Gold Standard, 2013, paint marker, Prismacolor on paper, 33 x 51 inches

 
For further information, please contact Nick Lawrence at 212-691-7700, or nick@freightandvolume.com.