Their booths feature good examples of exactly what collectors want right now.
It adds to the show's clarity that nearly a quarter of the booths feature just one artist.
Many display booths feature smaller publishers, literary magazines and used-book dealers, and not many gadgets or corporate brands are in sight.
Authors, illustrators and actors will make appearances at 190 booths featuring displays from major publishers and small presses, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting.
On the Armory floor, booths featuring the work of designers as varied as Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, Isaac Mizrahi, Todd Oldham, Anna Sui, and Bill Blass mixed with the celebrity throng.
Not all of the booths feature guilty pleasures: on a recent afternoon, one offering foods from around the United Kingdom served fresh raspberries and strawberries from a farm in Perth, Scotland, that were so juicy they needed no cream.
And volunteers organized an annual food festival downtown, where, along with cotton candy, funnel cakes and hot dogs, the booths featured falafel, tacos and Ukrainian blinchiki, while the entertainer Uncle Moishy — flown in from Brooklyn — performed Yiddish songs.
Authors, illustrators and actors are scheduled to appear at more than 220 booths featuring displays from major publishers and small presses, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., weather permitting.
THE dealmakers at the Licensing 2001 International trade show in Manhattan last week scurried around the gaudy booths featuring giant images of Spider-Man, Harry Potter and the Rock, looking for the next great marriage between household product and well-known brands.
The event draws twenty-five thousixd people; six football-field-size white tents housed hundreds of booths, featuring birding equipment and clothing, bird-watching vacations, books, and representatives from conservation organizations.
