Sometimes, the most impressive work on display in Miami during the the first week of December isn’t found in one of the Miami Art Fairs. This was certainly the case for the exhibition, Heavy Manner, by Luis Gispert. The exhibition, which opened last night at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, included several large format photographs, sound sculptures, and a 26-minute film, titled Smother. The exhibition stood[…..]
Over the next 5 days, DailyServing.com will be reporting from Miami Beach, covering the myriad of art events surrounding the 2008 Art Basel Miami Beach. Opening today at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Art Basel is often called the most important art event in the United States. Art Basel Miami Beach pulls the US art world into southern Florida for four days every year over[…..]
“Are you angry or are you boring?” Gilbert and George facetiously asked in 1977, the words scrawled across the top of a fiery, 16-panel image. Their point is unmistakable: you should be angry. If you’re not, you’re probably being negligently complacent. The same question could be posed to the work in California’s 2008 Biennial, but with a strikingly different effect. Is the art angry or[…..]
The Los Angeles Museum of Art has delved into the literate glamour of Vanity Fair, hosting the magazine’s traveling exhibition of historic photographs. Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 is a collaboration between the magazine and London’s National Portrait Gallery. LACMA will be its only US showing. Sponsored by Burberry and curated by Terence Pepper and David Friend, the exhibition includes photographs by a staggering collection[…..]
The cryptic sounds of hidden nature, wild animals, and native cultures are not only found in the numerous stacks at the Library of Congress or between the grooves of an exotica record. Artist Walter Kitundu utilizes these very sounds and ideas in his acute musical compositions. Sound artist, instrument maker, and composer, Kitundu finds a harmony between traditional musical forms, nature and sculpture. He has[…..]
Multiverse at the Claremont Museum of Art broaches cosmic mysteries in a surprisingly accessible, relevant manner. The exhibition, which opened September 21st, includes a multi-media array of thoughtful, visually arresting explorations of what is unknown and what is observable. Kerry Tribe re-imagines the Northern Lights; Jedediah Caesar deals with material density; Sebastiaan Bremer uses photography to explore memory’s intangibility. In an email dialogue available on[…..]
The all new Cerasoli:LeBasse Gallery in Culver City, California is celebrating the newly formed partnership with their first gallery opening together, Blender, new works from Vincent Hui, Melissa Haslam, Ryuichi Ogino, Deth P Sun, and Mari Inukai in Gallery 1 and Jennifer Davis and Suzanne Sattler in Gallery 2. The selection of emerging international artists coming from Japan, China and Australia are all influenced by[…..]
