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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Jet Set Saturdays: Scott Hug at John Connelly Presents

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Scott Hug, U.S. Job Market (Honda), 2009. Its been a kind of quiet day here in New York. Possibly owing to dedications of significant vitals to engorged European art fairs the city feels light-headed, almost woozy. Swerving through this weird, half fainting marshmallow town we made our way to John Connelly Presents where we caught [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Susan Anderson at Kopeikin Gallery

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Susan Anderson, Mary Ashton (2009) After getting our hair done at Cush Salon by the pixie-like Karina (who employs punk rock styling with a 90210 sensibility), we meandered over to West Hollywood’s Kopeikin Gallery for the first US solo exhibition by Susan Anderson. “High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants” is a glitzy [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Hans Ulrich Obrist art world’s most powerful figure, Shepard Fairey admits to more lies, Takashi Murakami ditches Miami for Taiwan

Friday, October 23, 2009

Image credit. The news this week, as represented by Friday’s Hairy Eyeball, describes to an art world that is observing and redefining itself. Such critical eyes by artists, curators and journalists alike point to a shake up of values and a reassessment of priorities. Radical seeds of dissension are beginning to germinate and axes, which [...]

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Hump Day Cool Finger: Custom Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe Nike Air Max 90’s

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Custom Kicks – Air Max 90 Andy Warhol/Marilyn Monroe. Image credit. Our trawling of various ‘cool’ blogs this week dredged up these, a recent ode to art this time piggy backing off of the unavoidably vacuous Nike corporation. Conceived as a collectible extension of kicks (a proclaimed classic style of trainer from the 90′s) these [...]

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Monday, October 19, 2009

Critical Voice of Frankie America (2009) by Harry Crofton. Performance with framed works. Coming across contemporary art exhibitions in unlikely places is getting to be somewhat of a common occurrence in Miami’s Design District. As the struggling economy continues to suck the life out of institutions, emerging talent is banding together independently to create work, [...]

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The Sunday Video: Aiden Dillard on Mores McWreath

Sunday, October 18, 2009

This week’s Sunday Video comes courtesy of Miami based Director, Aiden Dillard. Dillard’s recent feature film, Death Print, which premiered on October 8th at Colony Theater on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, enjoyed a follow up screening yesterday, accompanied by a concert, at Cinema Paradisio in Fort Lauderdale. With so much to do yesterday (Justin long [...]

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