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I’m no Paddy Johnson when it comes to covering the art fairs in nearly real time in Miami, so here are some quick recommendations without links based on what we’ve seen so far:

Go see James for info on ArtHaus.

Aqua (hotel version)

  • Heskin Contemporary – large beautiful Jenny Laden painting on mylar, Julie Peppito sculptures and collages / drawings, Matt Fisher paintings
  • Platform – William Powhida’s paintings and video, Carl Ferrero’s foot fetish watercolors, and Melissa Pokorny’s sculptures
  • Road Agent – Ludwig Schwart’z video “Untitled (Zombies)” and Ryan Humphrey’s painted BMW hood
  • Morgan Lehman – David Allee’s asylum photos
  • Eyewash – large sculpture and drawings by Linda Ganjian
  • Howard House – Cat Clifford’s videos and drawings
  • CTRL – Laura Braciale’s paintings
  • Ingalls – works on paper by Lucky de Bellevue, perverse drawings by Gustavo Roman

Art Now

  • Tonkonow – Julia Oschatz paintings and video
  • China Blue – Wang Qinsong videos and photography

Pulse

  • Bank – Bari Ziperstein
  • Winkleman – Sarah Peters’s “The Dreamer” is still available!; new Joy Garnett paintings
  • Nathan Larramendy – fort photographs by Amir Fallah
  • Schroeder Romero – more William Powhida, new color gouaches by Eric Heist
  • Keith Talent – Adam Gillam sculpture

A couple of highlights from Art Basel Miami Beach

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Charles Goldman, Dreamcatcher
(I don’t know what other artist’s piece appears below)

The vernissage of ABMB was a bit overwhelming, but here are a couple of things that stood out for me:

New Museum stairs

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We attended the press preview today, and were very impressed with the building. The work visible is

Matière Brute
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Found wood and sandpaper
27.5 × 56 × 4.125 inches

We were able to take photos as press, but their website says that visitor photography will not be allowed in the galleries. I hope that changes.

Performance recommendation

Culture

James and I just bought tickets to see David Gordon’s “Uncivil Wars: Collaborating with Brecht & Eisler” at The Kitchen. We try to see everything David Gordon does, and when a work includes his wife/partner Valda Setterfield, John Kelly, and Estelle Parsons as performers, how could you miss it? It’s also a great chance to hear some of the music of Hanns Eisler, one of the best and sadly underknown leftist composers of the 20th Century. If you like the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht collaborations, you’ll like the Eisler even more I suspect.

Speaking of Weill/Brecht, we recently watched the new Criterion DVD of “The Threepenny Opera” (1931). Highly recommended!

Joan Linder in "Newsday"

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Joan Linder, grill, detail, from The Pink

Today’s Newsday has an article on the artist Joan Linder by Ariella Budick and it’s one of the best things I’ve read about her work. There is a short video too. Here is an excerpt:

Turning the tables on generations of male artists who offered up the anatomies of women as fruits for delectation, Linder painted a series of “Men” who don’t seem aware that they’re hardly wearing any clothes. Corporate executives literally throw their weight around at the office, opening a file drawer or searching for a contact lens while bulbous bellies overhang their briefs and wobble over their stick-like legs.

“Nobody wants to look at this work,” Linder admits. “People don’t want to see naked men.”

The drawings were a response to Linder’s contemporaries Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin, who merge the classic nude with the Playboy kind. “I thought, ‘Screw that. I’m going to do these pictures of fat men and what power really looks like.’”</blockquote>

We first met Joan in 2001 after buying a photo from her “Man About Town” series at the inaugural show of Plus Ultra Gallery, titled “Skank.” We also have a small drawing of an electrical outlet from more recent times.

The image above is a detail from her recent show at Mixed Greens, via her website.

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