Category: Miami

Miami, Florida

National Coalition Against Censorship on censorship of 2022 edition of Illuminate Coral Gables

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In July 2021, […], Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago urged the city’s commissioners to condition city funding for Illuminate Coral Gables, a public art show, on the exclusion of two of the participating artists because of their purported political views. In order to protect the integrity of the work and reject such a blatant act of censorship, the chief curator resigned. As a result, the whole 2022 edition of the show was cancelled, depriving Coral Gables residents and visitors of a much-celebrated art event.

https://ncac.org/news/mayor-coral-gables-florida-art-censorship

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Place marked with an impulse, found to be held within the fold (ii-iv).

… the impasse is a stretch of time in which one moves around with a sense that the world is at once intensely present and enigmatic, such that the activity of living demands both a wandering absorptive awareness and a hypervigilance that collects material that might help to clarify things, maintain one’s sea legs, and coordinate the standard melodramatic crises with those processes that have not yet found their genre of event.

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism.

a return to what is noblest, which means most natural, in us. – Popova

Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night. – Walt Whitman

nature calls to something very deep in us. – Oliver Sacks

Brain Pickings

Natural Transcendence at Oolite Arts

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‘Natural Transcendence’ curated by Rhonda Mitrani, which opens at Oolite Arts-928 gallery space, starting June 16. The group exhibition features video and photography work that reflects an ethereal sensibility toward nature. Exploring the intersection between humanity and nature even prior to the pandemic, not just in vast terrains, but in domesticated landscapes.

The exhibition features works by Adler Guerrier, Megan McLarney, Colleen Plumb, Anastasia Samoylova, Jennifer Steinkamp, Wendy Wischer and Antonia Wright.