Though Blum & Poe's booth was a more
typical art fair mishmash of gallery inventory, it included my favorite work of the
day: Henry Taylor's Deana Lawson
in the Lionel Hamptons (2016), a portrait of his Whitney Biennial neighbor kneeling
casually in a sundress, the title suggesting a covert dig at the fair's collector class denizens.
They aren't checking whether you're logging onto Facebook or
casually browsing the Internet — after all, a lot of employees get most of their work done
in very little time, though they still spend their
typical eight hours or so a
day at work, Arkcoll said.