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The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science: Public Art Commissions

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Image Credit: Miami Science Museum Collection In 1949, a group of women decided that kids in Dade County needed to have an enriching museum experience since none was really available. So the Junior League of Miami, a local chapter of the national women’s civic organization, set up in a member’s house off Biscayne and 26th [...]

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UNNATURAL at Bass Museum

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Hilja Keading, The Bonkers Devotional, 2007-2009. Four-channel HD video installation, sound 13:20 minutes. Cameraman: James Zucal. Courtesy of the artist. UNNATURAL, the current exhibition at the Bass Museum is a richly visual examination of art and the natural environment through a variety of contrived or artificial devices meant to mirror the complex relationship human beings [...]

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This Might Take Some Time To Process: “Spatial Recognition,” A Show of 3-Dimensional Photography by Mark Diamond

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Mark Diamond. Image Courtesy: Mark Diamond. The brain inside your skull is a complicated mess composed of smaller messes, each of them equipped with separate, yet cross-functional functions. It routes blood, electricity, and chemicals through a molecularly expansive network that you and the rest of the inquiring human race will never fully comprehend, but which [...]

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“Luscious didn’t get me” – Nick Klein and the Search for Sincerity Amidst Unbearable Heartache

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Image courtesy of Nick Klein. We sat at a table outside a bar whose walls on the inside were layered with crappy, faux-punk ephemera. A tall, hatted man in grey mounted his motorcycle and kick started it, letting out a squall that turned all patrons’ swimming heads. He sat there solemnly, his eyes fixed on [...]

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Soto’s Beach Towel and the Stuff of Miami Mythos

Monday, June 18, 2012

Image courtesy the author. The sun was resplendent on Miami Beach this past Memorial Day as Domingo Castillo and Patricia Hernandez – of the nomadic gallery project the end/SPRING BREAK – descended from the boardwalk with a generator. They proceeded across the sand toward a baby blue and very soft 56 x 29 ft. terry [...]

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Downtown Pop Up Drop Off On!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Image copyright Artlurker.com Late last night we received an email from an anonymous source containing documentation of a project that was realized just hours before. Shortly after dusk a small black pickup truck carrying a large, re-purposed shipping crate zigzagged through the downtown area of Miami. As hoards of homeless set up their beds the [...]

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