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The Man with a Thousand Eyes, a Thousand Ears, a Thousand Noses: The Life and Art of Michael Scott Addis

Saturday, March 23, 2013

The artist touching up his work. Photographs by Ricky Vazquez.   “O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space.” – Hamlet, II, 2   “… seems we all have a tendency to slip. Doesn’t it seem only the righteous can get a grip? I wonder who [...]

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THE RISING TIDES OF MIAMI

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

PAMM being built at Museum Park. Dead reckoning algorithm. This article is divided into two parts. Here is part one. The second part will follow, soon. While both installments are concerned with Miami’s cultural currents, the first installment takes issue with the change in name that the former Miami Art Museum, MAM, has adopted on [...]

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Founding Fictions: George Sánchez-Calderón’s “Pax Americana”

Saturday, January 19, 2013

George Sánchez-Calderón, “Pax Americana,” 2012. Courtesy of the artist. T his grand experiment of a country is always churning out results, one way or another. On November 6, 2012 Mrs. Palermo’s 5th grade classroom at Shadowlawn Elementary – an elementary school in Little Haiti – was filled with adults sitting cramped at tiny tables and [...]

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Basel Salts

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Blue posturing. A prelude to ART Basel Miami 2012: I ’ve just run about seven and a half miles, to a bar named “Times Square Inn” were I often take a break before heading back home. But today I’ve been rerouted to another place in the Opa Locka Triangle where I’m sitting in a small [...]

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Thoughts on FOMO and Q-Rage

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Credit NyTimes. Art Basel Miami Beach is over. Before we Miami residents inevitably begin preparing for the next one – in some cases almost immediately – we thought it might be useful to reflect. Aside from the declining quality and increasing quantity of samey fairs, artwork, and a general increase in human traffic, malcontent, and [...]

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ART in Miami

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

ART preview. The yearly Art Basel Miami Beach VIP vernissage party is over (it was OK) and tomorrow the fair opens to the public for a subsequent four days of sensory overload; an obscenely condensed amalgam of modern and contemporary art exposed and peddled in a complex, but ultimately commercial matrix by which our cultural legacy [...]

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