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Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Innovation

The Literarium, a concept condo tower for downtown Miami courtesy of swampstyle.com. Some ideas are best left as such.
This weeks Mot du Jour is again courtesy of Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, who generously sanctioned the use of his erudite verbalisms for the purposes of our deified feature. Thanks also [...]

Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Open-ended

Unrelated image contributed by swampstyle
This weeks Mot du Jour is again courtesy of Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, who generously sanctioned the use of his erudite verbalisms for the purposes of our deified feature. Thanks also to Amir Bar-Lev, award winning Director/Producer who worked with Michael to generate this [...]

A Bold New Trajectory for Dorsch Gallery

Installation view of Mark Koven’s A Stone’s Throw at Dorsch Gallery Oct. 11- Nov. 8, 2008.
The evening of October 11th was markedly rejuvenating. Of course it was Wynwood’s Second Saturday Gallery Walk which always gets the blood flowing but what made this night different, apart from the afore mentioned [...]

A brief treatise on The Art of Fucking About by Victor Barrenechea

Lucas Cranach (the elder), Der Jungbrunnen (The fountain of youth), 1526.

A wise man once said to me:

“All I’ve ever wanted to do with my life is just ‘fuck about.’ You really should try to ‘fuck about’ for as long as you can possibly get away with [...]

Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Insiders/Outsiders

Unrelated digital photo courtesy of Rover, 2008
This weeks Mot du Jour is again courtesy of Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, who generously sanctioned the use of his erudite verbalisms for the purposes of our deified feature. Thanks also to Amir Bar-Lev, award winning Director/Producer who worked with Michael [...]

Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Standards

Unrelated exhibition view of Yazmany Arboleda’s controversial art exhibit across the street from the NYT building earlier this June. Image courtesy of gawker.com
This weeks Mot du Jour is again courtesy of Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, who generously sanctioned the use of his erudite verbalisms for the purposes of [...]

ALICIA RENEE THACKER THE MUSE- by Aimée Sinclair

Marilyn Minter, Clown, 2002. Enamel on metal, 40 x 40 inches. Courtesy of Fredericks & Freiser, New York.

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AS: Was this your first time posing for an artist?

ART: Yes, and I was terrified. I didn’t know what to expect and I was honored that Marilyn had even asked me. [...]

MARILYN MINTER & HER MUSE- By Aimée Sinclair

Marilyn Minter and Alicia Renee Thacker. Photograph by Dustin Thacker

AS:  Marilyn, you are credited with subverting the glamor aesthetic that has evolved from fashion and beauty media- As such, does your choice of subject work toward this end?

mm: I’m not sure… but I’ve never been interested in models that are the cultures idea [...]

Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Skill

Adolfo Sanchez, Mona, 1985. Unrelated image contributed by Oliver Sanchez.
This weeks Mot du Jour is courtesy of Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, who generously sanctioned the use of his erudite verbalisms for the purposes of our deified feature. Thanks also to award winning Director/Producer, Amir Bar-Lev  who worked [...]

NY Photographer Rachel Been in Les Salon des Beaux Bains

Baths, Sharon Springs, NY– Sharon Springs, NY. I travelled north to stay with a friend and co-worker in her abandoned church in upstate New York. The town had a variety of deserted buildings including the revered healing sulfur baths that have been closed for a number of years. You can see a full collection [...]