Books
Coldness, Concept, & Convention: On Aaron Kunin’s 'Cold Genius'
One current, and especially heated, debate animating the contemporary poetry scene revolves around conceptual poetry’s polemic against Romantic expressivity.
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Martin Puryear Bears Witness
According to the wall text in the not-to-be-missed exhibition Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions at the Morgan Library & Museum, the artist was in “the Peace Corp in Sierra Leone, West Africa” from 1964 to '66.
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Slipping from Grasp: The Photographs of John Brill
Memories, in John Brill’s work, are things — photographs, often grainy and myopic, enshrined in everyday reliquaries: vintage frames, candy dishes, glass bowls, teacups and saucers.
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12 Years in, NADA Miami Beach Still Feels the Same: Different
MIAMI BEACH — Though its space has been downsized by roughly 20% this year, NADA Miami Beach 2015 still manages to cut through the swarms of largely uninspired and secondary market Miami Art Week fairs with its distinctive presentation of less polished, more experimental work — which sometimes seems
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Two Artists Give Shape to Our Outer and Inner Selves
In addition to Martha Friedman’s Pore, Locust Projects is featuring Beatriz Monteavaro’s Nochebuena, another exploration of the human form, albeit on a level far more personal and metaphorical.
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From the Virtual to the Satanic, a Former Pharmacy Hosts Alternatives to Miami's Mega-Fairs
MIAMI BEACH — Escape the overwhelming and crowded main art fairs this year — without forgoing the art experience — in an unexpected place: the derelict shell of a pharmacy in North Beach.
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A Battle Between Body, Blood, and Bile Through Dance and Sculpture
MIAMI — The idea that a balance of four humors — blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile — determines the health of our bodies was once prevalent in Western medicine, and is reinterpreted in a visceral collaboration between sculptor Martha Friedman and dancer Silas Riener.
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A Homeless Artist Who Staged Glamor Shots in Bus Station Photobooths
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Lee Godie's self-portraits generate warmth, humor, and the stubborn confidence of a woman shaping her own frail destiny.
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Saturnine Portraits Somewhere Between Damascus and Berlin
LONDON — Pictures by the Damascus-born, Berlin-based artist Marwan Kassab-Bachi are neither Arab nor European, Syrian nor German, but occupy the liminal space that diasporic people find themselves in.
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Confronting Mainstays and Existential Questions at Art Miami and Context
MIAMI — Since Art Basel’s Miami Beach fair set down its roots over a decade ago, Miami Art Week has become a cacophony of satellite fairs and events jam-packing the international art circuit's calendar for the first week of December.
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Rosalyn Drexler's Knockout Pop Paintings Shine at Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH — Artist Rosalyn Drexler was once immortalized in silkscreen by Andy Warhol as her wrestling persona "Rosa Carlo, the Mexican Spitfire," yet Drexler's own powerful Pop Art has never received as much acclaim as Warhol's work and others of her generation.
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Sole Surviving Jean Prouvé Prefab Military Shelter Surfaces at Design Miami
MIAMI BEACH — With prefabricated housing now essential in addressing housing shortages, emergency relief, and even architecture in Antarctica, the mid-20th century pop-up designs of the late Jean Prouvé are receiving renewed attention.