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Karen Finley Wants to Paint Your Psychic Energy

By John Hood
Dec 5, 2014

Once upon time, in another world, Karen Finley gave the people what they did not yet know they wanted. She got a lot of flack for it, and a lot of praise, too. Yet neither could stop her from doing whatever it was she decided to do. Had Finley come...
Vice Gallery Showcases Argentine Artists for Art Basel Miami Beach

By John Hood
Nov 26, 2014

Every gallery in the game makes their best play for Miami Art Week. Some solo with a singular sensation, some group up to highlight a roster, and some book a booth at one of the many fairs which occupy our town during the annual onslaught. Very few galleries, however, have...
Part-Time Miamian Irvine Welsh Sneak Peeks The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

By John Hood
Nov 26, 2014

Movies have been made outta his words, lots and lots of movies, each of which is mad, bad and dangerous not to know about, including The Acid House, Ecstasy, Filth, and, of course, a little torrent of beautiful depravity entitled Trainspotting. But it's the words themselves which spurred the cinema...
Peter Kappa Opens His Wynwood Studio to the Art World for Miami Art Week

By John Hood
Nov 26, 2014

Wynwood's long been synonymous with art, but unless you've happened to be on hand during the commission of a mural, the opportunities to actually see how the art comes to be are few and far between. This Miami Art Week, Peter Kappa is vowing to change that. Not only will...
Kit Kat Divas: Chicago's Favorite Female Impersonators Bring Their Sass to South Beach

By John Hood
Oct 29, 2014

Once upon a time, on a very different South Beach, boys could be girls and girls could be boys and the only time anybody blinked an eye was when it had gone wide from all the fabulousness. Better yet, everybody got in on all that fabulousness, no matter what their...

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