Irish-born New York City artist Nuala Clarke scored the caboose at Fountain and a shiny hotel room at Verge (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Dylan Hotel
52 East 41st St. between Madison & Fifth Aves.
March 5-7, $10 (March 4 VIP preview $20)
www.vergeartfair.com
Verge concentrates on emerging international artists, displaying cutting-edge work from approximately two dozen galleries from France, Japan, Canada, and the U.S.—mainly from Brooklyn—during Armory Arts Week. Verge, whose mission is “to establish boundaries of the extraordinary as a counter to the natural compulsion towards stagnation in the way art is evaluated and delivered to the public,” will be held in the Dylan Hotel, with installations in various rooms, lobbies, and other locations throughout the hotel, including site-specific pieces by Zachary Fabri, Sculpture Space, NURTUREart, and Artists Meeting Art Machine. In addition, the American Society of Media Photographers has teamed up with Doctors Without Borders to raise money for Haitian relief by selling prints for $100, curated by Elizabeth Avedon. And if you bring another twenty bucks, you can buy an object from the Artist Meeting Art Machine, which its creators describe as an anarchist automat. If the selection committee is any barometer, Verge should have some cool art on view; among the committee members are Richard Feigen, Carrie Springer, Dan Cameron, and Edouard Steinhauer.