I had a whole load of titles for this post... "Stick to Architecture", "A Show of Sunday Painters", "Architects Only Love Naked Women and Buildings", "Please, Outsource Your Artists", "Die Wyn Is Beter As Gewoonlik", all of which were overheard snippets of conversation. Obviously, there must have been some good commentary going on... considering how packed the AVA was (there were lots of expensive leather jackets, clearly the crowd were not your usual collection of down&out artists). I just don't hang in the right crowds, but we were generally not impressed... actually I can't remember a single work from the show. Can anyone? I must admit though I was really dissapointed, it seemed like it could be interesting. I had awesome visions of drawings of urban utopias, some Andrea Zittel style sculptures or maybe even some old modernist abstraction, like some De Stijl rip-offs. I wasn't really expecting that schlock. I shouldn't be surprised really, I wander if we had a building called Artists as Architects would it stand? On the other hand, and if I pull my cynicism back a little, I guess these cross-over things are really healthy... anything that broadens our horizons. Like a Serpentine Pavilion type thing. I also got to pick up a collection of wood vinyl free samples called Vinyl Concepts, which was the most conceptual piece on the show, a great work about the advertising industry worming its way into every occasion. Or maybe it was just the advertising industry worming its way into every occasion. Fuckers.