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Category: Miami

Miami, Florida

  • 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

    coup

    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.

  • Miami in the news

    The guardian has an article on Miami and some post-ArtBasel reflections. It, of course, refers to Miami has ‘the city that coke built’–a Miami New times reference. The article focuses on Miami as a host city for culture. At CIFO, Manny Diaz said that was one of his goals. Well, here some international press confirming it.

    This is a similar article; the noteworthy parts being, Robert Rauschenberg and Alain Robbe-Grillet was in town, Raleigh Hotel parties and a quote:

    There were many events outside the Convention Centre. The most moving work I saw was at Miami Art Central, a museum set among Spanish-style bungalows in the suburbs. Here they were showing William Kentridge, a South African artist who does brilliant charcoal drawings that he works into disturbing films. I thought that these genuinely caught some of the horror and pain of the late 20th century.

  • From last week,

    snitzer

    Fredric Snitzer Gallery.

    decompress room

    The (decom)press room at the new Miami Beach Library.

    miami beach library

    What is left from the old library. It has serve as the Art Basel Video Lounge.

    miami beach library

  • We’re back.

    Thanks FP&L. Anyone else who doesn’t have power, drop us a word and we’ll try to help. We probably will not climb electric poles to connect your house or block back on the grid. But we will give you some support otherwise–shower, water, internet, etc…
    Only about 10% of Miami-Dade is left without power. Same thing happened to us after Katrina; we got our power back as part of the last 10%. Anyway, it won’t be long until the two or three of you left get your power.
    I haven’t been on top of all things currently going on in the world. Though, we have been abreast on some past events, like Carl Andre & Ana Mendiata and the ever heroic, Richard Feigen.

  • sitting and waiting

    …in the dark. We still don’t have power. FPL is not my friend!

    in the dark, post-Wilma

  • a stage for one

    I was really moved when I first saw Gean Moreno‘s Black Zodiac, currently at The Moore Space ,as part as, of Hanging by a Thread. I did not noticed the piece during the night of the opening. It must have been because the place was packed and many gallery-goers used the piece as an impromptu bench. I will talk more about hanging by Thread in my next post.

    Black Zodiac struck me as an stage/altar piece dedicated to punk. The installation could function as a stage for one to play a very dark, gritty, and underground–that is un-pop, brand of music. And simultaneously, it exists as a quiet (aurally) altar, installed in a basement or garage, inexhibiting the renmants and fetishes of an era.

    Black Zodiac by Gean Moreno at The Moore Space

    Black Zodiac by Gean Moreno at The Moore Space

    Black Zodiac by Gean Moreno at The Moore Space

    I can’t resist to say that I want this installation to be a less clean and be lit diffirently and to smell of beer and sweat.