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 a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Matthew Higgs: ART IS TO ENJOY. Wilkinson Gallery, Vyner Street, London, E2.
04 July - 10 August
“Higgs’ work – which invariably takes the form of framed book pages, framed book covers and photographs of books – might productively be thought of as a form of ‘found conceptual art’. For more than 12 [...]
Disease ‘records’ found at the Miami Dade residence believed by Police to have been the one-time stronghold of Wax Man
Lesser known artist
Goes only by the name of Wax Man
Sightings few
Formal exhibitions none
This nefarious cultural icon raids the trash bags of Miami waxing salons; his aim: to collect the used wax or [...]
Glaucia Mayer, Uma cor é uma cor… e um rosa é um rosa, 2007. Video, 01:40 minutes.
Yesterday “Realidades Imposibles” (Impossible Realities), curated by Pedro Varela, opened in Veracruz, Mexico. Presenting 20 Brazilian contemporary artists working in photography and video, the exhibition which takes the whole second floor of the Fototeca Juan Malpica Mimendi in the historical center [...]
Dialogue Project, 2008. 8.5 x 11 Computer prints
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