Courtesy of Neox Image and the artist On Friday, April 27 at 9:31pm, A.G. Viva will broadcast a five minute photo shoot on www.lowlives.net 1) By coupling the photo shoot with the webcam, you fuse two functions of photography that are very different. The webcam is democratic, while the photo shoot, as a being an...
Exposure happens once. You aren’t exposed, then you are. In the most fundamental sense, it’s a bridge that collapses behind you. Given that we begin in a womb, and that a womb is darkness, then birth, the coming of light, is trauma. These photographs were taken in the mid 1980s in Lincoln, Nebraska. Rita Ann...
Jan van de Velde II. Still Life with Tall Beer Glass, 1647. Recently, I had the pleasure to break bread with Prof. Jan Peeters and Hermann Wundrum, the two minds behind the excellent On Familiar Things. Over the course of an afternoon, we discussed the current ramifications of painting from the Dutch Gouden Eeuw. The...
Theodora Allen’s Brand New Heartache, a selection of paintings mourning the death of Gram Parsons, are on display at Michael Jon Gallery until April 14th, 2012. Can you introduce yourself? Where did you grow up? Go to school? My name is Theodora Allen, and I’m a native of Los Angeles, California. I grew up...
Thursday was the opening of Rita Ackermann’s first stateside retrospective at MOCA. In temporary lieu of a proper explication of the truly noteworthy show, here are pictures of people looking at the art. Align yourself with viewer. See what they see. Pictures by the great Gesi Schilling.
Just a quick note to say that Artlurker.com has just announced the 2012 Miami Writer’s Prize, and I’ll be judging it alongside Noah Becker (Whitehot Magazine), Paddy Johnson (Art Fag City), and Hrag Vartanian (Hyperallergic). This is a great opportunity to win $800. Also, you can further a dialogue with art. Both noble pursuits, indeed....
Kevin Arrow lived in South Beach in the 1990s. On Wednesday, there will be a screening of his Gianni Versace Harry Pussy at the Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club. Here, we talk about murder, film and the dissolving cityscape. As a teenager in Virginia, my first introduction to Versace was the media storm surrounding his death,...
Natalya Laskis was raised in Miami and studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Shortness of Breath, an exhibition of her new paintings will open on Saturday, March 10th at the new Locust Projects space. These are much bigger. Yeah, at first it was more intimidating of course, but I decided that it...
What is the difference between a parade and traffic? What causes the two forms of procession to disregard their obvious similarities and retreat to opposite camps. Traffic is blocked so that a parade might run its course. In negative: everyday traffic blocks the potential for a parade. Similarity: people in the street. Difference: a parade...
The following interview was conducted via email in advance of David Joselit’s lecture, “Beyond Repetition: Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades,” which will take place at Miami Art Museum on February 18 at 2pm. René Morales: The current Duchamp display at Miami Art Museum was partly motivated by a desire to highlight the edition of Boîte-en-valise (Box...
Philip Tinari is director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and founding editor of LEAP, the international art magazine of contemporary China. 1) art-ba-ba.com Already slightly retro at this moment, the bulletin board art-ba-ba–the name a cheeky reference to the sourcing site alibaba, which seemed oh so poignant a few years...
You’ve seen these photographs before, even if you haven’t. All of the signs are there: a flash harsh enough to bleach out part of the picture, mirrors multiplying the self, threadbare pantyhose signifying that self wearing thin. Diaristic photography exists to account for and to justify. These roles are interdependent: things unjustifiable soon fall away....
