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IN THE NAVY….

Friday, November 4, 2011

. Two weeks ago Hugo Montoya, Meatball, Justin Long, and others including Alvaro Ilizarbe and Gavin Perry opened a very fun show called ‘Bros B4 HOES’ at the Little River Yacht Club. It’s closing is tomorrow, Saturday, November 4th from 1-6 and there’s still a lot of ‘boy butter’ (sex lubricant), ball-headed dildos, a big [...]

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Updated Baroque seduces at Primary Projects’ His Wife, Her Lover

Sunday, October 2, 2011

His Wife, Her Lover installation view. Photo by Peter Vahan. There are two villains in movie history that have haunted my nightmares since I was a little girl: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen from David Lynch’s Dune (1984) and Albert Spica from Peter Greenaway’s x-rated cult classic The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989). [...]

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Too Much Information… Ryan Trecartin’s ‘Any Ever’

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Any Ever (2011) installation view, courtesy MOCA, North Miami. Any Ever has now been exhibited at MoMA PS1 (2011), MOCA, North Miami (2011), MOCA, Los Angeles (2010), and internationally at The Power Plant, Toronto (2010), and The Istanbul Modern (2011). Subsequently Any Ever is scheduled to be shown at Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville [...]

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A Hybrid Trifecta: Pope, Russell & Saà at Dorsch Gallery

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Image courtesy of the author and Dorsch Gallery, Miami. For the first time, a light feeling issues from the multi-artist framework of the Dorsch Gallery. It goes without saying that most of the shows from the Wynwood trailblazer leave viewers with an eerie, almost foreboding chill once outside the lime green door. Past shows such [...]

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First Loves

Monday, August 22, 2011

Sketch from Rivane Neuenschwander’s First Love. Courtesy Miami Art Museum. Do you remember your first love? Could you think about that person for nearly two hours, concentrating on every detail of their face while describing them to completely detached stranger? Sounds awkward, but this is the premise of First Love, one of the participatory works [...]

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Welcome Home

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Louis Sullivan’s modern design principle “form follows function,” suggests that an object’s form should be dictated by its functional purpose. The oft-used slogan has been contested, debunked, exalted and misused within debates on contemporary art and architecture, and is currently being explored by artists in Home: Dream Home, at Praxis International in Wynwood.

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