January
Essays and event information will be available in December for the METRO Show 2013 fair. Below are some essays from the METRO Show 2012.
 

Yugen: The Aesthetic of Mystery in Art

By Randall Morris
The Japanese word yugen means “aesthetically mysterious.” We don’t have a word like this to describe art in the Western art world. Sometimes we look to the Japanese language, which has a finer tuning to the nuances of aesthetics with words like shibui and wabi-sabi. But these are words that describe tangible states of being. Shibui has to do with a simple perfection and wabi-sabi has to do with a rustic sort of imperfection showing impermanence.

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The Art of Layered Inspirations:
Was Tramp Art an Art Movement?

By Clifford A. Wallach
According to the definition of an art movement on Wikipedia:     
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within usually a number of years.

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Collecting Work by Self-Taught Artists:
Past, Present & Future

By Jane Kallir
Work by self-taught artists first began to be collected seriously in the early decades of the twentieth century. Although a broad array of nonacademic art—folk craft, amateur painting, and art by the mentally ill—existed in prior eras, the arbiters of high culture paid such lowly creations no mind. Art was the unchallenged purview of the European aristocracy and, in democratic America, of the educated moneyed classes.

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METRO News December 2012
The METRO Show 2013 Opens Wednesday Evening, January 23! Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W 18th Street, New York Tickets available here (http://www.metroshownyc.com/2013_tickets-info). (http://www.eabfair.com) ..
METRO MIXES IT UP WITH ETHNOGRAPHIC, TRIBAL, NATIVE AMERICAN AND FINE ART/WORKS ON PAPER
When doors open at the Metropolitan Pavilion, visitors to the second edition of the METRO Show will have a diverse array of fine and decorative arts from which to choose. A veritable one-stop mecca for both seasoned and novice collectors and desi..
THE METRO SHOW'S UNEXPECTED MIX INCLUDES TOP DEALERS IN FOLK ART, AMERICANA AND HISTORIC DESIGN
Included in the METRO Show’s unexpected mix of material will be Americana, Folk Art and historic design offered by the country’s foremost dealers in each category. In addition, the show will feature ethnographic material, contemporary and moder..
STRONG GALLERY LINE-UP FOR 2ND EDITION OF THE METRO SHOW
January 24-27, 2013 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, 125 West 18th Street Donna Sharrett Fire and Rain Pavel Zoubok Gallery NEW YORK – When the second edition of The ..