On my way home, post-Moore Space and post-studio, I stop downtown for a little while. I had not taken any pictures of the new arena. I am not totally happy with these. I’ll have to go back.
Category: Miami
Miami, Florida
Monday
There was a fight on the street out my house. It involved students of Coral Gables Senior High and the police. At one point, it looked like it could have escaladed to something more. The students on the street objected to the treatment and arrest of another student. And they voiced their opinioned; and some even engaged the cops. The kids didn’t show any fear for the authorities. There wasn’t any news organization on the scene. They arrived after the dust settled; a police officer stated what happen and Oscar was interviewed. I beleive Oscar.
When I finally got to the studio. I did some work and went for a walk. I found nice things.
A nice collection of objects that started me thinking about installation works which contain drawing, photographs and found objects.
my work
I am going to be in a show next week at The Moore Space. The exhibition is called Metro Pictures. Here is a preview:
.jpg "detail from untitled(here and there) 2006, exhibited at The Moore Space.")
I have added a new page to this blog called studio. It should reflect experimentations and endeavours from my studio practice.
Nam June Paik
atelier
finally.
MAM’s directorship and Miami
Yesterday’s NYT reported that Terence Riley, currently curator of architecture and design at MoMA, has accepted the position of director at the Miami Art Museum. Elisa Turner and Daniel Chang contributed to a Herald article announcing the matter. And many are blogging about it.
I don’t find it of much interest that MAM’s board hired a curator/architect/director to ensure that the Museum Park project will be done right, thus, assuring that Miami will have a very good public building. I could digress into the functionality of the the current MAM/Library/Historical Museum building and Cesar Pelli’s mistakes in the making(MPAC), but I’ll talk about it some other time. I don’t think Terence Riley will be Miami’s art/architectural savior, unless the position of MAM’s directorship and MAM grow to encompass the role of being the city’s steward on all things art and architecture. I would like to see like some aspect of that come true and everyone’s wish of Miami being on the international art agenda for more than one week per year. But the other Miami institutions will have something to say about that stewardship position; MoCa in North Miami and Miami Art Central in South Miami are doing great job culturally.
There might be a lot of PR that comes with the presence of Terence Riley in Miami; and MAM’s shows will probably get more inter/national coverage, much like MoCA. And the design and architecture ‘community’ might come to relevance and even prominence.
Par–ty
Party at Churchill’s to benefit ISAW.
MPAC and Alesh
The idea of bloggers loosing their jobs because of their blogs is old now. And institutions guilty of such act are not progressive and in many ways are disserving the community. I agree with KH, “Fire the staff who thought it woud be a smooth move to unhire Alesh”
Alesh tells his account.