We've been touring New York's Art Fairs and Galleries for a bit and here's the roundup of what caught our eye.
Coming into the Armory Show, one of the first things that caught our attention was the UK artist Greyson Perry's cast iron sculpture titled «Our Father», displayed alongside his fantastic vases at Victoria Miro's stand. Wicked, witty, naughty and beautiful work, hard to top.

A brilliant large-scale boat painting by Thoralf Knobloch (Wilkinson Gallery), a great smaller painting by Neil Tait (Acme) for a reasonable $ 4'500 and great work by Sam Windett (The Approach).

Galerie Schöttle had an impressive little stand with the great UK artist Andrew Palmer and another favourite of ours, Slawomir Elsner.
Rumanian gallery Plan B has some really good work by Adrian Ghenie, very good work was to be seen by Tony Swain (at the Herald St booth) and a rather strange but impressive fantasy/sci-fi drawing by Duncan Marquiss at Dicksmith Gallery. An "elderly" beauty we found in a excellent painting by Pieter Doig, a version of the Ooty Boathouse Study (depicted below).

At the Volta Show we stopped by our friends at Hamish Morrison Gallery with the solo booth by Ronald de Bloeme, and on to the Cosar booth with another favourite: Martin Klimas.

In Chelsea we went to see the great Katy Moran at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Her small oil paintings are still very, very good. It will be interesting to see, where Moran's work will go, as it is a very painterly position without apparent overall concept.

Also really beautiful, is Michael Schmidt's photography at Mitchell-Innes, Nash. Some deep work there.

All in all, a very rewarding tour.

Investors could soon bet on which direction the art market will go with the development of an art market index. But can we really predict which artist's stock will rise and whose will plummet?

Some good points by Jessica Lack in her post on the Guardian Arts Blog.