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Category: art

  • Video of Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds

    Documentary of how the seeds were made.

  • [MDPLS] Assembling an Era

    An exhibition at the library.

    Assembling an Era

    The Miami-Dade Public Library System, 1971-1989

    January 20 – March 27, 2011

    Main Library, 1st and 2nd floor exhibition space, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami, 305-375-2665

    Reception and 40th anniversary kick-off event: January 20, 6:30 – 8:30pm

    The 1970s and 80s represented a period of great progress, upheaval, and change in Miami-Dade County. Miami hosted both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The Mariel Boatlift and McDuffie Riots happened simultaneously. 1983 saw both Surrounded Islands and Scarface. In 1971, at the very beginning of this important and volatile period, city and county libraries joined forces and formed the Miami-Dade Public Library System. In 1972, the Decade of Progress Bond expanded it with thirteen new branches.

    Assembling an Era celebrates MDPLS’s 40th anniversary, bringing together materials from the Library’s special and reference collections to document this fascinating time and build associations between its popular culture, Miami history, and library stories. The show tells these stories through works on paper by Miami artists, Purvis Young canvas banner pieces, books, newspaper articles, a snapshot timeline, a special installation of every 1971 reference volume in the Library’s collection, a slide installation by Kevin Arrow, a sound station, and more.

    I am included in the “and more”.

  • Not the Usual Suspects: [new] Art in [new] Public [new] Places

    Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, in collaboration with the ArtCenter South Florida, is hosting an exhibition of “new” public art in Miami-Dade County.

    Gallery
    800 Lincoln Road

    Opening Reception
    January 8, 2011 7-10 pm

  • Vivian Maier

    Vivian Maier – Her Discovered Work.  The Kickstater project is raising funds for a film.

    I purchased a giant lot of negatives from a small auction house here in Chicago. It is the work of Vivian Maier, a French born photographer who recently past away in April of 2009 in Chicago, where she resided. I opened a blogspot blog with her work here; www.vivianmaier.com.

    I have a ton of her work (about 30-40,000 negatives) which ranges in dates from the 1950’s-1970’s.

    via kottke.

  • [NAME] PUBLICATIONS – Nicolas Lobo

    nb album graphics

    Nicolas Lobo
    Album graphics
    2010
    Hard cover
    9in. x 6in.
    100 pag.
    $15.00
    [NAME] PUBLICATIONS.

  • Jean-Luc fonts

    Atelier Carvalho Bernau pays homage to Jean-Luc Godard, via a typeface.  They designed JeanLuc based on Plaque Découpée Universelle, a set of stencil letters from the 1870s.
    Godard’s 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle is a/probably my favorite.

  • The Island

    I highly recommend rvsp to the island. The press release is here.

    the island
    flagler memorial island
    friday, december 3, 4-8pm
    art basel miami 2010

    bozidar brazda, stefan brüggemann, scott campbell, brody condon, naomi fisher,
    michael genovese, luis gispert, adler guerrier, terence koh, kate levant & michael e. smith,
    hanna liden, justin lowe, kori newkirk, jack pierson, marina rosenfeld, and rona yefman

    organized by shamim m. momin (land) and aaron bondaroff/al moran (ohwow)

    rsvp to rsvp-theisland@nomadicdivision.org
    your departure location will be revealed upon confirmation of rsvp

    support for this project provided by havainas

    MORE INFORMATION

  • Visual | Dance

    Heather Maloney and Glexis Novoa will present Visual | Dance.

    Visual | Dance is conceived as an “after-after Art Basel’s parties” late evening sessions consist of a program of contemporary dance performances, including works in progress, developed through ‘Inkub8’s open-studio series‘ and repertoire pieces.

    via knightarts.

    Inkub8
    2021 NW 1st Place, Miami, FL, 33127.
    Tel. 305 482 1621