Theodora Allen: Brand New Heartache
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...
Gianni Versace Harry Pussy
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: Interview
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...
René Morales and David Joselit Talk About Duchamp
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...
Multitaskers: Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain
This is the third part of a series of interviews with Miami-based arts professionals whose multifaceted practices were once seen as contradictory and now are quite necessary. Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain are both artists and in charge of the Bas Fisher Invitational. In High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture, Isabelle Graw...
Michael Radziewicz Talks About His New Gallery
Michael Radziewicz opened Michael Jon Gallery earlier this month. The gallery is located at 20 NE 41st St., across from the de la Cruz Collection. You’re from Chicago, right? How does that place feel now that you’ve spent a few months down here? I feel like the two cities represent very different Americas, but I...
Multitaskers: Michelle Weinberg
This is the second part of a series of interviews with Miami-based arts professionals whose multifaceted practices were once seen as contradictory and now are quite necessary. Among other things, Michelle Weinberg is the creative director of the Girls Club in Fort Lauderdale. In High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture, Isabelle Graw...
Multitaskers: Clay Deutsch
In High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture, Isabelle Graw has an interesting passage about the expanding roles of those in the art world. She says: …Every art boom is accompanied by a restructuring of the art system, reflected in expanded demands made on artists and in hybrid identities such as the...
Interview: Richard Höglund
Richard Höglund is an American artist. Here, we talk about his new exhibition at Gallery Diet, Hysterical. Sublime., which engages cognitive mapping and pursuing the sublime through repetitive labor. He will have a performance at Dimensions Variable tonight (Thursday, January 5th). Hysterical. Sublime. opens tomorrow. So where were these photos taken? The photos were...
Reviewed Elsewhere: Blake Rayne At Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club
As if there wasn’t enough art to buy at Art Basel Miami Beach, this year’s edition marked an unprecedented move into retail. While several artists teamed up with luxury brands for limited edition purses (Anselm Reyle with Dior, Liam Gillick with Pringle of Scotland), Blake Rayne’s understocked exhibition at this gallery, with its three variations...
Kevin Arrow: Tropical Depression So Be 96
Thanks to Kevin Arrow, who just sent me a copy of his new zine. Miami decadence reproduced in its entirety below. Also, thanks to Ruba Katrib for writing the essay.
Candid Camera
I found this photograph stuffed into a fuel pump outside of Daytona Beach in August 2011.-Hunter Somewhere along the line, photographs of others moved from empathetic to pathetic. [Name] Publication’s fascinating new archive of found images, Artist Unknown – The Free World, illustrates the shift from analog to digital photography, and with that, a sneaking...
