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Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Marketing is the Message

Monday, September 21, 2009

Luis Gispert, History shall absolve me (2008). C-print. Courtesy of the artist and Fredric Snitzer Gallery. MOCA North Miami recently announced the closure of its Wynwood satellite exhibition space, MOCA at the Goldman Warehouse.  In memorandum we thought it fitting to compose a piece around the importance of marketing to Miami arts, taking as our [...]

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The Sunday Video: Clifton Childree

Sunday, September 20, 2009

This weeks Sunday Video comes courtesy of Miami based filmmaker/artist Clifton Childree. In the first of what will hopefully be a long lived if not sporadic theme of Sunday Videos curated by Miami’s most likely individuals, Childree, famous for his monochromatic Vaudeville-esq films (The Flew, 1996 – 2003) and ramshackle installations (DREAM-CUM-TRU at Locust Projects [...]

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My Ad There

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Cut and Paste; free art from Skip Van Cel. Please print the image below and mount it somewhere far away from where you are, or if you will, there. This free art was paid for and created as a site specific work for ARTLURKER by the artist Skip Van Cel. . . [Editors note: This [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Andy Warhol Collection Stolen, Adolf Hitler Paintings Sold, Damien Hirst Wants Twins

Friday, September 18, 2009

Image credit. Woven amongst the usual Soma of sour puss this-and-that this week is a definite theme of naughtiness. As worldwide financial troubles manifest in a broad range of desperate crimes from petty theft and forgery to million dollar heists, the art world’s manic leg gnawing goes public and those in a position to profit [...]

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Hump Day Cool Finger: New line of Jeff Koons art watches by Ikepod sparks discussion on the subject of market necessity

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Jeff Koons presents his exhibition ‘Popeye Series’ at the Serpentine Gallery on June 30, 2009 in London, England. The exhibition, Koons’ first in a UK public gallery, closed this week. Image via Getty Images. Today the Hump Day Cool Finger, by way of Newsweek magazine, looks again at the phenomenon of art-luxury commercial tie-ins. This [...]

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W.A.D.Pocalypse?

Monday, September 14, 2009

Via Amputee-coalition.org Is Wynwood Arts District’s Second Saturday Art Walk heading for a drastic rapturous end? Can we imagine a time in the near future when the surviving galleries will open their doors on any night of the month dictated by factors other than warm bodies?  Given the recent vacuous vagaries of crowd fueled cultural [...]

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