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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Open Call for Photo Submissions

Image credit. Beginning today we will be running a few days of intense photo blogging in an effort to archive the many transient spectacles of Art Basel Miami Beach and we want you to get involved. Whatever the cause for documentation send over your pictures. Photo submissions would ideally be jpegs or links accompanied by [...]

The Sunday Video: Art Basel Miami Beach 2009

This weeks Sunday Video features a selection of videos on Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. Illustrating the often puerile urgency of the trolling masses, this sift is positioned to affect a sense of pointlessness in the reader as regards Art Basel Miami Beach. These three animatronic heads are part of an art piece on sale [...]

Annie Wharton’s “Magellan Hollywood”

Annie Wharton, Video Still from “Magellan Hollywood,” 2009. RT: 3:02 minutes. Artlurker’s own West Coast editor, Annie Wharton’s new video “Magellan Hollywood” is included in the GEO-graphic show currently on view at Diana Lowenstein Fine Art. In addition, at the gallery’s booth at Pulse Miami, Wharton is showing paintings. Gallery says: “Magellan Hollywood is the [...]

ART BLOGGERS PANELIZE at ART MIAMI 2009

Image credit. Art Bloggers @, an organization founded by Sharon Butler and Joanne Mattera in 2007, is hosting a panel discussion at Art Miami tomorrow (Saturday, December 5th from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm) entitled, “Beyond Basic Blogging: Carving Our Niche in the Blogosphere.” “With conventional print media in decline, art blogging has filled an [...]

DIY Basel: Miami artists go back to basics

RENT ELECTRICITY GAS as it looked for Felix Larreta’s Spherescent opening. Last year around early fall the phones of various Miami businesses started ringing. We had all expected the slam since before summer, and sure enough by September (at the latest) the glut of clients seeking Basel related services had fully descend via satellite and [...]

Miami MediaMesh at the American Airlines Arena

Image credit. Earlier this year, the American Airlines Arena installed on the western facade of the building a 3200 square foot flexible Times Square-esq video screen wall branded the Miami MediaMesh. Coinciding with this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, Gary Ressler, a property owner in Downtown, Richard Massey, a collector, and George Sanchez-Calderon, a Miami [...]