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Monthly Archives: August 2010

The Sunday Video: Binaural Beats

Sunday, August 15, 2010

I began working on this week’s Sunday Video a few days ago following recent news reports of Ivory Wave, a new legal high in the North of England for which two men have been charged with supplying a class B drug. Police are now warning that the content of legal highs available on the internet [...]

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2010 Biennial of the Americas

Friday, August 13, 2010

As part of our ongoing effort to offer increased coverage of the visual arts by expanding Artlurker’s network of contributing writers and partner websites, we are proud to bring you the first in a series of posts from our new friends over at DaWire, an online global platform for contemporary art based in San Juan, [...]

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Optic Nerve XII at MOCA

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Jillian Mayer, Scenic Jogging. Last Friday night, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami packed the house twice for Optic Nerve XII, an annual festival of film and video by South Florida artists and filmmakers. Both the 7pm and 9pm screenings were so full that a satellite room was set up for the overflow and [...]

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The Sunday Video: Powers of Ten

Sunday, August 8, 2010

While in London this week my wife, our two children, and I visited the Science Museum in South Kensington and filed in amongst the droves to the popular IMAX® theater to see Hubble, the seventh awe-inspiring film from the award-winning IMAX® Space Team. Apart from the impressive illusion of 3D afforded by the technological elves [...]

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New Work Miami 2010 at Miami Art Museum

Monday, August 2, 2010

Installation view: (clockwise from foreground) Bert Rodriguez, Untitled (Bench), Jacin Giordano, Attempted Painting in the Rain (Day 4), Don Lambert, Flatland. On my recent trip to New York, I was frequently asked to describe Miami’s art scene. There is curiosity, and along with it, the expectation of a Miami style. Considering the unique mix of [...]

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The Sunday Video: Shake Weight

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Sunday Video columnist Bob Snead and I first saw the Shake Weight infomercial whilst collecting my bus from Arkansas in January of this year. As I don’t own a television I had been unaware of its taking America by storm some four months previous. At the time we both thought this would make a good [...]

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