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Loose Threads

Handmade crafts find their place in contemporary art

By Alfredo Triff
Sep 22, 2005

Last week's art gallery openings in Wynwood and the Design District officially marked the beginning of Miami's fall season, a period that crescendos and culminates in December with Art Basel. What's special about "Hanging by a Thread," curated by José Diaz and Nina Arias at the Moore Space, is the...
Virtual Vision

Navigating the cyber-sea of museums and galleries

By Alfredo Triff
Sep 1, 2005

"I always dreamt of traveling to far away lands," recounts sixteenth-century sailor Bernal Díaz del Castillo in his Chronicles of the New Spain. That, of course, was long, long before the virtual world of the Internet, a place in which you simply stroll, or rather float, if you want to...
A Family Affair

Four decades on and the Rubells are still at it

By Alfredo Triff
Aug 25, 2005

Did you know that ARTnews magazine ranks Don and Mera Rubell among the world's top 200 art collectors? The Rubell Family Collection is located in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, inside a two-story, 40,000-square-foot warehouse that once served as a Drug Enforcement Administration storage facility for cocaine and cash seized from drug...
Viva Video

It's alive and well and exciting, and it's on view now

By Alfredo Triff
Aug 4, 2005

Within a year, Miami Art Central (MAC) has presented two interesting shows dealing with media art. The first was "The Last Picture Show: 1960-1982," and now "Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video." This exhibition, curated by Ralph Rugoff, takes us back to the beginning of video art, not chronologically but stylistically...
Copycats

In this age of artistic appropriation, everything is fair game

By Alfredo Triff
Jul 21, 2005

After Duchamp's infamous 1917 urinal, in which the French artist simply added his signature to a bathroom fixture and placed it on display, is authorship still a relevant matter? Sure it's still relevant, except that ever since artists began experimenting with photography, film, Xerox, video, and music sampling, the notion...

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