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Monthly Archives: October 2008

David Castillo artists in OPEN SPACE

Friday, October 31, 2008

Frances Trombly, Caution, 2008 Miami artists Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova and Frances Trombly returned to Miami recently having completed their unique sculptural contributions to OPEN SPACE, a forum for individual artists and collaborative projects at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island that run concurrently with the parks group exhibitions. Socrates Sculpture Park was an abandoned riverside landfill [...]

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Paintings by Francesco Longenecker

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Francesco Longenecker’s studio, Brooklyn.   The month of October has been nothing short of remarkable for Brooklyn based painter Francesco Longenecker. With a host of events including a large group exhibition in New Jersey and a solo exhibition in NYC, the emerging artist is happily among the more prolific of his piers so far this season. This [...]

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A Bold New Trajectory for Dorsch Gallery by Thomas Hollingworth

Monday, October 27, 2008

Installation view of Mark Koven’s A Stone’s Throw at Dorsch Gallery Oct. 11- Nov. 8, 2008. The evening of October 11th was markedly rejuvenating. Of course it was Wynwood’s Second Saturday Gallery Walk which always gets the blood flowing but what made this night different, apart from the afore mentioned SCHADENFREUDE and the lack of [...]

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A brief treatise on The Art of Fucking About by Victor Barrenechea

Friday, October 24, 2008

Lucas Cranach (the elder), Der Jungbrunnen (The fountain of youth), 1526. A wise man once said to me: “All I’ve ever wanted to do with my life is just ‘fuck about.’ You really should try to ‘fuck about’ for as long as you can possibly get away with it.” Inspiring words indeed and they came [...]

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SCHADENFREUDE a wunderkammer of voyeurism curated by Daniel Newman

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Brock Enright, Red White and Blue Basket Ball, 2008 & Pink Backpack, 2008. Photograph by Markus Haugg. This month’s second Saturday gallery walk saw the attention drawn from the hubbub of the Wynwood Art District to the Design District, where artists Aiden Dillard and Daniel Newman combined forces to present a symbiotic gesture of excess [...]

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Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Insiders/Outsiders

Monday, October 20, 2008

Unrelated digital photo courtesy of Rover, 2008 This weeks Mot du Jour is again 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 Amir Bar-Lev, award winning Director/Producer who worked with Michael to [...]

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