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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Remembering… Miami before Art Basel

Saturday, August 30, 2008

David Rohn as Teddy Behr, 1994. As we prepare for the impending chaos (and brilliance) of Miami’s Fall 2008 season it feels pertinent to remember how this city’s current fortuitous circumstance came to pass and why we are all still here. From meager, somewhat desperate beginnings as a drug run backwater, Miami is flourishing as [...]

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Horror of Marc Quinn Solid Gold Kate Moss Statue

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Apparently British sculptor Marc Quinn is ready to unveil his latest creation, a nearly $2.8 million, 110-pound solid gold statue of the supermodel Kate Moss. In addition to following the recent trend set by Damien Hirst’s vile diamond skull in which the concept of value is stretched out of all proportions by the mechanisms of [...]

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Summer, what was it good for?

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I , 1907. Generally summer is sweaty, slow, full of culturally retarded tourists, and in the art world it has long been nothing more than a chance for institutions to re-group in preparation for the Fall. The shows that we get out of season are often long-running generalized museum exhibitions or [...]

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Martijn Hendriks: Interview by committee.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Untitled (12 Glowing Men), 2008. Still from a single channel video DVD, projection and website. Color and black and white, sound. 4 min 10 sec loop. Martijn Hendriks is a Dutch contemporary artist who works with found images and video. Selecting from an abundance of defaced and marginalized media he wages a low-key struggle to dissolve [...]

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New Form for Miami Heavy Hitters Fredric Snitzer and Emmanuel Perrotin.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Robert Chambers, In sit U, 2003. Birch Wood, plywood, steel, electrical components, LED Flood light, hydraulic cylinder and pump, timer, 72″ x 84″ x 34″. Image sequence reversed for near-comedic effect. ARTLURKER APOLOGY: DEAR READERSHIP, IT HAS COME TO LIGHT THAT ROBERT CHAMBERS AND JIAE HWANG HAVE NOT BEEN DROPPED BY FREDRIC SNITZER GALLERY. DESPITE [...]

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Mot du Jour: Diverse

Friday, August 15, 2008

Can you feel the next crop? – D.A.S.H. kids celebrate end of school ‘08 at the studio of artist Oliver Sanchez. Miami’s art scene is comparatively new and being new it is still very much asserting itself just as those within it are still very much finding their voices and the niches for those voices. [...]

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