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Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Collabo Show

Monday, July 27, 2009

Organized by Miami artists Bhakti Baxter and Jason Hedges, The Collabo Show, the third in a series of biannual collaboration themed group shows that began in 2005 – the first being Co Operate at Bas Fisher Invitational, the last being Confluence at Fredric Snitzer Gallery – is divergent from its predecessors in the respect that [...]

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The Sunday Video: Transit Antenna on Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida

Sunday, July 26, 2009

This week’s Sunday Video is courtesy of Seth Gadsen, a member of the mobile artistic living experiment Transit Antenna that we interviewed for Monday’s feature ‘Transit Antenna: Giving Convention A Wide Berth.’ As this voluminous interview was prematurely eclipsed by coverage of developments in Romero Britto’s DUI case we thought we would hark back to [...]

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Romero Britto reaches plea deal in DUI case

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Romero Britto’s March 2009 mugshot.
In the early hours of Thursday March 26th as most of Miami’s arts community slept sound in their beds a black 2001 Bentley careered erratically down Washington avenue, swerving in and out of lanes. At the wheel, Brazilian pseudo-artist Romero Britto, an incomprehensibly popular figure head of South Florida’s artistic veneer [...]

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Transit Antenna: Giving Convention A Wide Berth

Monday, July 20, 2009

Bob at the wheel of Big Walter. Image courtesy of Transit Antenna
Transit Antenna is the name given to a project that has defined the existence of its architects for the last two years. Traveling the country in a retired city transit bus that they converted into an RV using recycled materials, modified to run on [...]

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The Sunday Video: The Way Things Go

Sunday, July 19, 2009

This weeks Sunday Video is another blast from the past, or more accurately from Swiss art stars Peter Fischli (8 June 1952 in Zurich) and David Weiss (21 June 1946 in Zurich). Although the pair continue to produce experimental work in a wide variety of media this 1987 film, “Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way [...]

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Bravo Casting Call for Untitled Art Project

Monday, July 13, 2009

February 28, 2005. Hopefuls line up for ARTSTAR, the world’s first art reality television show presented by Deitch Projects and Gallery HD. Photo credit: Seth Sherman.
In 2005 auditions were held for ARTSTAR, an eight-episode art world reality television show produced by Jeffrey Deitch, a SoHo art dealer, and Voom, a high-definition [...]

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