Jeff Koons, Woman in Tub, 1988. The Art Institute of Chicago, Stefan T. Edlis Collection, partial Gift to the Art Institute of Chicago 2005.472 © Jeff Koons.
The current exhibition Jeff Koons at the MCA in Chicago is apparently Koons’ first major US museum survey in fifteen years. If you were wondering what Koons had [...]
Cold war missile base BMX bike race, starting gun. Jan, 2006
Nicolas Lobo in interview with Thomas Hollingworth for Whitehot Magazine:
Nicolas Lobo is a Miami based artist. Like many artists in Miami today he mediates between high profile exhibitions and small group projects. In the past five years he has been included in shows at [...]
Installation view of Fuellhorn, 2007
The pre-requisite for the two installations ’Fuellhorn 2007’ and ‘Calypso 2008’ is the memory image of the mountain in my room. In my childhood-memory-room, the mountain consisted of all objects, which I owned at the time, neatly heaped-up and amazingly stacked. I had to find a view of the whole, [...]
Feast of the Dead A Halloween Ball, Photo credit: Parker McMillan
The Last Tuesday Society is a pataphysical organization founded by William James at Harvard in the 1870s and presently run by The Chancellor, Mr.Viktor Wynd with the aid of The Fellows of The Society. It is devoted to exploring and furthering the esoteric, [...]
“Beer Sluice #2″ (2008) Beer cans, rivets, rope. 4″x20″x12″ with a penny and a penny weight in gold.
John Bucklin was born in 1979 in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2003. He now lives and works in San Francisco where he innately marries the juxtaposition of [...]
Installation view of Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Photo credit: Steven Brooke.
Thomas Hollingworth in interview with Ruba Katrib for Whitehot Magazine.
Ruba Katrib is the Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. She holds an MA [...]
Locust Projects: Jason Hedges’ Aesthetic Experience #13 (Lamb) and Clifton Childree’s installation in progress.
Despite being well advanced into a month that would ordinarily be characterized by cultural desolation, there were some openings of note. Once again, the beauty is that the attention was doted not on the gallery shows, but rather the project spaces.
At [...]
Marie Lorenz with the Henry Hudson Bridge in the background, in one of the boats she makes herself.
“The last bit of Earth unclaimed by any nation-state was eaten up in 1899. Ours is the first century without terra incognita, without a frontier…We are looking for spaces (geographic, social, cultural, imaginary) with potential to flower [...]
2008 Whitney Installation
A native to Miami, Bert Rodriguez is one of the few artists who have successfully penetrated the international art market. Pointedly subverting the concept of the artist, Rodriguez’s conceptual practice relies heavily on process and performance. Operating largely outside traditional commercial art practices, and with shrewd yet playful wit, Rodriguez’s multifarious practice educates, [...]
Hog roast dry run for “Lamb” (2008)
Last night the quiet patience of a privileged few was rewarded by Jason Hedges, a Miami based artist whose work centers primarily around food. In preparation for his exhibition at Locust Projects this coming Saturday, Hedges, much to the satisfaction of those who lasted through the rains, de-bugged the [...]
