Miami-Dade Public Library has been an important part of the cultural life of the county and S. Florida in general. Their art collection contains both local and internationally known artists. For this exhibition, artist Gary L. Moore brought together a wide range of works that not only speak to the African American presence, but to [...]
Miami Artist Kiki Valdes and I have known each other for a good number of years now, partly through art and partly through technology we continue to interact and have dialogue. Hearing the artist speak about their own work is always instructive for the viewer because it helps us understand the internal motivations of the [...]
December 26, 2009. In the wake of the New Museum’s announcement of a controversial exhibition drawn solely from the extensive collection of billionaire Dakis Joannou, one of their trustees and founder of the Deste Foundation in Athens, and slated to be curated by artist Jeff Koons, who is heavily represented in that very collection and [...]
Big time NYC art dealer Jeffrey Deitch has been appointed director of LAMoCA. Is this a good or bad thing? Should art dealers be Museum Directors? People point to his “good taste”. He’s a nice guy, I’ve always gotten along with him, and he owns an early piece of mine. But this is a lazy [...]
William Powhida, How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality, cover art, Brooklyn Rail, November 2009 (For a larger, more legible image, click here.) ———————- The Brooklyn Rail, founded in 1998, is a scrappy, independent cultural/political broadsheet that covers issues in Brooklyn’s waterfront neighborhoods (Williamsburg, Greenpoint, DUMBO, Red Hook) from a politically progressive vantage point. [...]
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