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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Innovation

Monday, November 17, 2008

The Literarium, a concept condo tower for downtown Miami courtesy of swampstyle.com. Some ideas are best left as such. 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 [...]

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Tenacious Taggers Take Terrible Tumble

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Graffiti on the roof of the Design District studio megaplex Recently, as two of the many artists inhabiting the Design District studio megaplex were working late in preparation for Art Basel Miami Beach they became aware of frantic scrambling on the roof. After scouting the perimeter of the building, shouting, and throwing beer bottles at [...]

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Agustina Woodgate: Letting Down at Spinello Gallery

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Image from the series Rapunzel, 2008. Still from 120 min. performance. Music by Alexander Puentes and Federico Nessi. In the last year Agustina Woodgate has been developing a large body of work using human hair. Previous sculptural gestures using hair have since developed into more precise choices and decisions, for example the use for certain [...]

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Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Open-ended

Monday, November 10, 2008

Unrelated image contributed by swampstyle 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 generate this [...]

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Q: When and where is the exhibition ChaCha opening? A: Tonight at Twenty Twenty Projects

Saturday, November 8, 2008

John Bucklin’s piece at ChaCha, a hat covered with a map of California As most galleries have roll-over shows tonight’s art walk looks set to be somewhat lacking in openings. It seems that the focus tonight will be mainly on Spinello Gallery which opens Agustina Woodgate’s Letting Down (special performance from 8-10pm), Locust Projects which [...]

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IT’S NOT OVER YET at INVISIBLE-EXPORTS

Thursday, November 6, 2008

IT’S NOT OVER YET, 2008. Installation view. IT’S NOT OVER YET, the adamantly titled inaugural exhibition at INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, closed just four days ago (September 26 — November 2, 2008). The gallery’s insistent beginning brings to mind an incongruous confluence of Warhol’s abandoning “Art is dead” statement and the dedication of the beat generation; [...]

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