art in and around South Florida
Whew! Aren’t you glad you didn’t curate this exhibition? There was so much good work how can we say, “Leave out this, or leave out that?” That was the problem
Continue readingTIME + TEMP at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
What museum in S. Florida is not a collecting institution at today’s date? Each and every one of them is seeking to amass a significant and memorable collection. I can
The current edition of the Performa biennial, just a few days out of the starting gate, has already produced two winners: a video by Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner (of Moby
Continue readingEarly Performa 09 Wins: Guy Ben-Ner and Ragnar Kjartansson
Set to Manual at the Girls’ Club Only the Girls’ Club third exhibition, Set to Manual, focuses on artists who are investigating the handmade. Yeah, that sounds like what artists
Controversial public art often becomes the lightning rod of all public art, unfairly so. Artists can justify what they do, and what they create with highly intellectual rhetoric and collection/
Nancy Spero on Art:21 Nancy Spero, artist, feminist, activist, wife, mother, and a great presence in the art world, passed away yesterday. She was 83 years old. The above video
Wynwood Gallery Roundup by Onajide Shabaka In attendance at the recent NADA preview at the Deauville Resort Hotel were a few local gallerists and curators who all expressed enthusiasm for
Matthew Lusk’s Untitled Hobo at the NADA County Affair I read an article in the NY Times on Monday, October 12, 2009, entitled “Luring Artists to Lend Life to Empty
Continue readingArtists Exhibiting in Vacant Commercial Spaces, New York 2009
Art Review magazine unveiled their Power 100 list at the Frieze Art Fair in London. Damien Hirst, voted number one last year and the cover boy of Art Review’s October
Continue readingArt Review Power 100 for 2009: Year of the Curator
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood’s catalog essay accurately describes Kevin Arrow’s “Things are good, but can always be better.” “Arrow’s work fuses his interest in obsolete media, archival tendencies,
Continue readingKevin Arrow: Things are good, but can always be better