Back At It

My favorite photo from Scope Hamptons, taken by our featured artist, Amy Ross. (My predilection for gold shoes - not limited to clogs.)

I am back from Scope Hamptons, which was a smashing success. A report is forthcoming, once I’m either less sleep-deprived or more caffeinated. I am betting on caffeinated - sleep doesn’t seem to be part of the near term plan with A New American Portrait closing this week (so soon? so sad!), Nina Berman’s Purple Hearts opening next week, the Summer Hey, Hot Shot! deadline approaching, 20×200 launching soon (soon! I promise!) and Scope follow-up to do. Dog days of August? Never heard of them.

In related news, the gallery was in the Sunday Times, which ran a round-up of galleries with August hours:

A brief zig and zag down the Bowery onto Spring lands you at Jen Bekman Gallery, which is scheduled to take down its cool group exhibition “A New American Portrait” on Thursday, and reopen on Aug. 8 with “Purple Hearts.” This solo show, by the photographer Nina Berman, looks at wounded soldiers back from Iraq. Ms. Berman won a World Press Photo Award for her wedding portrait of Ty Ziegel, a disfigured Marine sergeant, and his wife, Renée.