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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Throbbing Gristle by Federico Nessi

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Throbbing Gristle Logo . 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 [...]

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Video, photography, installation AND performance. By Thomas Hollingworth

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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 was [...]

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Break-in at Sweat Records

Monday, September 15, 2008

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 thankfully [...]

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KMAN by David Rohn

Friday, September 12, 2008

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 [...]

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Gordon Dring, The Godfather of Gladstone Street

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Untitled, 2003. Emulsion paint, colored crayon, charcoal, collage and aerosol on board. At nearly 75 years of age and working in almost complete isolation in what is essentially a cultural vacuum, Gordon Dring (aka Tagman D) is a pretty unique English painter. At first glace his work appears to be an inelegant amalgam of Jean-Michel [...]

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Mot du Jour: NEW

Saturday, September 6, 2008

CHANGE RULES, circa 1984. Unrelated image donated by Oliver Sanchez. ‘New’ as a notion in art is perhaps inapplicable today. Artists who strive to be original often find themselves locked into an unending quest for that which either simply isn’t possible anymore or was never there in the first place– The Holy Grail of inspiration. [...]

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