The Armory Show and its surrounding satellite art fairs open in New York next week.  With an enthusiasm for emerging and mid-career artists, we find smaller fairs are often the most interesting. Below is a short-list of galleries on the TAC radar that are exhibiting at the SCOPE, PULSE, Bridge and Fountain fairs.

SCOPE
David B Smith – Josh Keyes, Gregory Euclide
hpgrp Tokyo - Kanako Ohya, Kazuhiro Ito, Miki Kubota, Tadaomi Shibuya, Yasuyoshi Botan
Jonathan Levine - Camille Rose Garcia
Krampf Gallery - Willem Kerseboom Gallery - Ren Zhenyu, Wang Zhijie, Yin Kun, Yoshitomo Nara, Zhang Haiying
Ok Mountain - Anna Krachey, Colin Leipelt, Jesse Greenberg, Okay Mountain Collective
Shooting Gallery - Erik Foss, Greg Gossel, Ron English

PULSE
Mixed Greens – Alessandra Exposito, Kimberley Hart
Morgan Lehman – Alix Smith, Eric Beltz
Richard Heller (also exhibiting at The Armory Show)

BRIDGE
Cinders Gallery
Gallery LJ Beaubourg
McCaig-Welles Gallery

Fountain
Ad-Hoc Art
Glowlab
McCaig-Welles Gallery

A safe and joyous season to you from us at TAC.

To celebrate its one year anniversary, The Art Collectors is offering up membership submissions to TAC::Forum, our private collector’s forum. Email submissions will take place for one week only, ending Tuesday, Dec. 30. If you are interested in joining TAC::Forum, please send us an email message (info@theartcollectors.com) including the following: a brief summary about your collection, the last piece of original art purchased, one artist you would love to have but don’t, and most importantly, at least one image including an original work of art from your collection.  All emails will be personally read and new members emailed with guidelines for activating their new forum account with us.

On a side note, we’ve had several requests from our blog readers asking about joining our forum. To date, all our members have come to us via invite or referral. Our reasoning behind keeping TAC::Forum private has been to enable a small and committed community who provide insightful commentary and conversation to flourish, while reducing our need to moderate. Over the next week we hope to see many new members come aboard.

21 December, 2008 – Wooster Collective published the 10 Blogs You Should Know. We are very honored and greateful to be on the list. Our sincere thanks to Wooster Collective for their meaningful nod. Since the start of this ‘experiment’ in June this year, we have enjoyed making a contribution to our community. Happy holidays!!