ABOVE: Detail from the poster for the famous 1913 Armory Show; the latest version opens today at piers 90 and 92 in New York.

Go today to the totally-not-owned-by-Dubai-and-damn-proud-of-it New York waterfront to see the legendary Armory Show, the international art fair for contemporary art held on the piers overlooking the Hudson River. The exotic locale (if pier 90 overlooking the verdant shores of New Jersey can be considered so) has led to some logistical difficulties in the past, the New York Times reports.

A 4.5 tonne Anish Kapoor sculpture, for example, had to be placed on a large and aesthetically disastrous steel plate to distribute its weight and keep it from plunging through the floor into the river below. And the whole thing is pretty much a temporary construction, housing spaces for 154 galleries spread over 100,000 square feet. Then, during last week’s frenzy of construction, a cruise ship carrying 4,000 passengers had to dock there because there were no other piers available. Light a candle for the put-upon Chuck Newman, who as executive vice president of Port Parties, the company that handles events on the piers; the Times interviewed him right after a stress test at his doctor’s.

LINK: New York Times > Move That Ship. It’s Time for an Art Fair.