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The Very Unofficial Miami Art Fair Awards
When you endlessly wander art fairs for days on end you start dreaming up awards and when you write for a blogazine you publish them ... here they are for your amusement.
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Hyperdocumentation: Better Than the Real Thing?
This summer, I tried to go see a free David Byrne concert in Brooklyn's Prospect Park but to no avail. The next morning I looked up the concert online and immediately found masses of documentation ... the concert had been reconstructed online so thoroughly that I didn't really feel like I'd missed i
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Brooklyn's Answer to Performa Begins Friday
Move over Performa, there's a new kid in town and it's called Maximum Perception. This upcoming weekend, Peter Dobill and Phoenix Light have curated over 20 performances by national and international artists which will take place over the course of two nights.
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Art or Home Decor? Art Basel Miami Is Your One-Stop Shop
In an attempt to answer the age-old question -- Is it art or home decor? -- I perused the halls of Art Basel Miami to see how galleries are serving the lifestyle needs of the rich and famous.
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Last Night at Wynwood Walls: Fairey, Stelios Faitakis, Los Gêmeos, Swoon & Sissy Bounce
Outside of the major art fairs there's dozens of other art things to see and do in Miami, including Wynwood Walls, which featured a bootilicious Sissy Bounce performance, art by Fairey, Swoon, Stelios Faitakis, Los Gêmeos, and more.
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Art Burn Report
If looking at art is fun, watching it burn is great. There's something cathartic about attending an event dedicated to the destruction of art in the middle of the world's largest art fair bacchanalia.
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Attack of the Miami Art Fairs: Art Basel Miami 2009
In the belly of the art market beast, Hrag is wandering Miami in search of the ultimate art fair experience. First up is the landmark Art Basel fair in South Beach.
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Look & Destroy: Art Burn Miami
While the players in the global art market descend on Miami to scoop up artistic baubles and all the prestige associated with it, some people have arrived at this international art orgy for less consumer driven motives. Enter Celso and his Art Burn event.
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We're Off to Miami!
Why haven't we been posting much recently? Well, the short answer is MIAMI! Yes, we're off to the fairs and we're bringing you along with us. Expect many musings from the front lines of the art world's greatest clusterfuck.
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Just Say No: Santiago Sierra Takes Manhattan
What happens when in the name of art you ride through Manhattan in a truck hauling ginormous letters that spell the word NO? Lyra finds out.
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Recently on Hyperallergic, An Xiao's “Cover Art, or Vito Acconci Gets a Follow Back,” made the case for artists who choose to directly reference or re-stage existing artworks. She draws a comparison between derivative works and cover songs. This may be an apt comparison, but she glosses over an impo
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China Establishes Contemporary Art Academy, Tyler Revitalizes N. Philly, Brooklyn Girl Faces Fine for Chalk Drawings
... an art exhibit for the blind ... do the recent art auctions point to a possible surprise at the Miami art fairs ... North Carolina Museum of Art is gearing up for its new building ... Toronto is hosting a King Tut blockbuster ... the Taubman Museum of Art realizes that a splashy new building doe