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"We love a good collaboration \u2013 who doesn&amp;#039;t these days? \u2013 but we&amp;#039;re especially impressed by the second annual METRO Show teaming up with the estimable Edition/Artists&amp;#039; Book Fair. The E/AB Fair, now in its 15th year was originally scheduled to take place in early November in its usual location, Center548 on West 22nd Street. But the effects of Hurricane Sandy of Manhattan forced the show to cancel. When the organizers of METRO heard this, they extended a lifeline, offering surplus rented space in the Altman Building, adjacent to their main location in the Metropolitan Pavilion, to E/AB. As a result, the two shows will run concurrently Jan. 24\u201327, with an invitation-only preview on Jan. 23. The METRO Show, successor to the American Antiques Show, will be even more diverse this year, with 34 exhibitors of contemporary, ethnographic, and folk art, Americana, textiles, ceramics, and photography. Among the highlights are the Macnider Ledger Book, drawn in the 1880s by Sioux warriors, from Santa Fe-based H. Malcolm Grimmer; outsider art from Brooklyn&amp;#039;s Stephen Romano; and antique industrial objects from Italy&amp;#039;s Segno del Tempo. &amp;quot;This show has an amazing cross section,&amp;quot; says designer committee co-chair Mario Buatta. &amp;quot;And it&amp;#039;s not elitist\u2014you can actually walk home with something.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s also an emphasis on learning. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve really focused on the educational aspect this year through our series of lectures called METRO Dialogues,&amp;quot; says fair director Caroline Kerrigan Lerch. The E/AB Fair has become the preeminent showcase for contemporary publishers and dealers of prints and artists books. Nearly 60 international exhibitors will participate, and the presentations will hardly be static. Creating your own Viking shield, making an artist&amp;#039;s book, watching porcelain pieces being cast, and even getting a Mohawk haircut (if you dare) are just a few of the options on tap. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re very interested in giving visitors a hands-on experience and having them see what it takes to make a print or an artist&amp;#039;s book,&amp;quot; says Susan Inglett, the Fair&amp;#039;s founder. Every year, the E/AB Fair commissions a special limited-edition print to help cover the costs of the event. In a prescient nod to Sandy&amp;#039;s floodwaters, this year it is woodblock print by artist Dana Schutz, is titled &amp;quot;Backstroke,&amp;quot; and costs $1,600.  The METRO Show at Metropolitan Pavilion,125 West 18th Street, New York City; Editions/Artists&amp;#039; Book Fair at The Altman Building, 155 West 18th St, New York City; January 24-27 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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