SATURDAY GALLERIES: VIENNA 4

Fernand Léger
Mechanical Elements
1926 

I walked out of the nice newly renovated and re-named Galerie Emanuel Layr (formerly Layr + Wuestenhagen) thinking about Fernand Leger and Francis Picabia. Not because the artist Julien Bismuth whose exhibition is currently up happens to be French or that the work has any visual affinity to these machine-mad men but because of the gleaming trophy of an espresso machine in the back office that churned out a 25 second ristretto in half the time and tasted great.

TOP 10 NYC: ARMORY WEEK

Ok. So it is around 10 and may fluctuate as the days progress. NYC is all about flexibility and distinguishing smoke from the fire this week as many of you will be here for The Armory Show et al. With that in mind I have assembled a wee slice of the Big Apple into a hits list in no particular order (except the first one!):