Marilyn Minter and Alicia Renee Thacker. Photograph by Dustin Thacker
AS: Marilyn, you are credited with subverting the glamor aesthetic that has evolved from fashion and beauty media- As such, does your choice of subject work toward this end?
mm: I’m not sure… but I’ve never been interested in models that are the cultures idea [...]
Adolfo Sanchez, Mona, 1985. Unrelated image contributed by Oliver Sanchez.
This weeks Mot du Jour is courtesy of Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, who generously sanctioned the use of his erudite verbalisms for the purposes of our deified feature. Thanks also to award winning Director/Producer, Amir Bar-Lev who worked [...]
The creative process can only take place with the presence of a relationship between the body, the object and the mind. The body is the medium through which a creative flow transpires into the world. The act of drawing seen through the momentary manifestation of traces and marks are imprints and become visual layers [...]
KAWS (on canvas), 2007. Image courtesy of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris/Miami
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It’s all there if you look for it and behind each ‘it’ that you find there’s a whole new world that makes ‘it’ possible. These days the trends and fads that once gripped playgrounds have evolved into huge multi-million dollar money makers that [...]
Baths, Sharon Springs, NY– Sharon Springs, NY. I travelled north to stay with a friend and co-worker in her abandoned church in upstate New York. The town had a variety of deserted buildings including the revered healing sulfur baths that have been closed for a number of years. You can see a full collection [...]
Entrance to the J.M.W. Turner exhibition at the MET
Sadly, the much heralded J.M.W. Turner retrospective at the MET closes tomorrow. For anyone who is not going to get to see it there is a brief walk through below. The exhibition was the first time I had seen many of Turner’s works up close and [...]
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A few years ago a close friend made me a mix cd titled “I Am A Shit-faced Bitch. Feed Me Drugs”. The cd consisted of what I later came to realize was a who’s who of the post-punk and no wave music scenes of the late seventies. For the first time I [...]
Clifton Childree, DREAM-CUM-TRU opening. Image courtesy of Locust Projects.
I think most in attendance will agree that this Second Saturday art walk, which opened the fall season here in Miami, was one of the best yet. With a veritable smörgåsbord of exhibitions and a volume of human traffic more synonymous with early December, there [...]
For those of you who live outside of Miami and/or haven’t already heard, Sweat Records, arguably Miami’s best independent indie music store, was broken into and unsurreptitiously vandalized yesterday.
The bastards who breached the alternative Miami hang-out stole computers, music equipment and artwork amounting to over 15,000 dollars. Food, magazines and music stocks were [...]
La Isla Del Arte. KMAN’s profile image on www.artkman.blogspot.com
Here follows a tribute of sorts by Miami based artist David Rohn to KMAN, a Miami based artist who died this summer. Expanding on the exceptional and timely piece by Victor Barrenechea of the Biscayne Times, Rohn draws focus on social elements within the tragedy that [...]