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Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Sunday Video: How To Report The News

After reading of artists taking over the airwaves this week, it got me thinking about all of the abandoned UHF and VHF television signals floating around ever since the TV stations gave them up for strictly digital broadcasts. It’s time for artists to adopt these lonely TV signals. Don’t think of it as pirating. Think [...]

Jet Set Saturdays: Tom LaDuke at Angles Gallery

Tom LaDuke’s “You’re like me,” 2010, references David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet.” Oil and acrylic on canvas over panel, 75 x 100 inches. Image courtesy of Angles Gallery. Tom LaDuke’s paintings at Angles Gallery are like a really great New Romantic song from the 80’s. They evoke a sublime experience in populist fashion, with a lowly [...]

The Deauville sessions: An artist run pirate radio show

Inside the studio. Image credit. A rumor was recently broadcast among the Miami arts community via various texts and tweets that an artist run pirate radio station was being operated from an undisclosed location 17 floors above Miami beach. Every evening last week various Miami based artists assumed the role of pirate radio DJ’s and [...]

The Sunday Video: Rudy

I‘ve always been pretty apathetic towards sports generally. I never played any growing up and nearly every game I’ve ever watched made me feel like I was burning valuable time after about ten minutes.  But today being the day where it’s just plain wrong for an American not to watch football and since the big [...]

Jet Set Saturdays: aaron GM at ltd

Close-up capezio index. Image courtesy of the artist and ltd. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson In a perfect world, everything would be white and blue and we would speak with native fluency a previously unlearned language. The blue [...]

SeminArt: LegalArt Writing Workshop at Rubell Collection

The Rubell Family Collection. Image credit. Next Thursday, LegalArt, an organization in Miami that provides artists with affordable legal services, grants and educational opportunities is holding SeminArt, a writers workshop hosted by The Rubell Family Collection. The workshop, which aims to empower would-be writers with the skill set necessary to make it in the professional [...]