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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Jeff Koons at the MCA in Chicago

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 [...]

Industry of Luxury: Nicolas Lobo on Miami Art

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 [...]

‘Fuellhorn’, 2007 and ‘Calypso’, 2008. Two installations for Jerxheim Bahnhof re-visited by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith

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, [...]

The Last Tuesday Society

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, [...]

Karat and stick: The double edged career of John Bucklin

“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 [...]

From the outside in: Ruba Katrib on Miami Art

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 [...]