Finishing up the last of the images taken during the evening. Unfortunately for me, I don’t eat pork and didn’t try Jason’s cooking. I know his grappa is good though. Inside, Childree’s installation-in-progress is coming together.

Locust Projects - Jason Hedges - pig roast:

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Locust Projects - Jason Hedges

Snitzer Gallery - group exhibition

MAP Magazine Lounge at Snitzer Gallery

Praxis International - Ruben Torres LLorca

Wynwood Art Walk

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Okay, so art is difficult to explain but, if artists are asked to say something they shouldn’t sound stupid! I’ve heard plenty of that and, it’s not becoming to you artists. Not one little bit. Learn something to say by wrote. Practice it until it becomes a memory. Athletes do it all the time. They have learned what to say in front of the mic and cameras so that they don’t look stupid. Do it!

Why Artists Shouldn’t Explain:

“‘No serious art is easy to interpret. Nor is there ever a single valid interpretation of art. If art is good, there are many things to be said about it and much that will remain unsayable.’”

It is a vice of second-rate art to come with its own eloquent explanation attached. If an artist can translate the meaning and purpose of a work into easily understandable words, it means one of two things. Either the artist is lying, in order to ease the way with patrons and funders; or the artist is a fool. And if dishonesty is the reason, that too is something that vitiates art. No serious art is easy to interpret. Nor is there ever a single valid interpretation of art. If art is good, there are many things to be said about it and much that will remain unsayable.

Unexplainable? Jackson Pollock’s painting, Number 17, 1949 … ‘The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state’, he said. Photograph: Reuters

(Via guardian.co.uk Art & architecture.)

“Prescience,” a group exhibition of New York Artists featuring; Martin Basher, Thomas Beale, Katherine, Behar, Catherine Czacki, Michelle Hailey, Kristine Moran, Martin Murphy and Allison Read Smith.

Dorsch Gallery - “Prescience”:

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“Shelf Life,” a group exhibition organized by Twenty Twenty projects opened at 3852 North Miami Avenue, the old Placemaker Gallery in the Design District. One of the best exhibitions currently on view, Twenty Twenty says, “[The work] affirms the importance of an expiration date. Art attempts to defy its end while an art exhibition is created with the understanding that it will only last for a short period of time. This exhibition has a shelf life whereas the art in it addresses the idea while still attempting to defy it.”

While I’m not certain that premise is solid enough for me but, the works there were certainly solid, even if some were of an emphemeral nature. This can definitely be said about works-on-paper. While the give-away posters were a wonderful treat, they are still valued as more than that by many. I hope that you can make this exhibition before closing.

Dacra Art Space N. Miami & 39th St. - “Shelf Life” group exhibition:

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Artformz Alternative Gallery has moved to a new location and had a packed opening. I spent too much time attempting to get my live video working but, for some reason I couldn’t get it working. Once I got home at the end of the evening I realized I had made the wrong selections on output. Live and learn. It was only my firt real live broadcast. We’ll be back to interview gallery owner, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, within the next month so, don’t fret.

Artformz Gallery - “Diverse Works”:

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We’ll also be rescheduling other interviews from the past. Technology has finally caught up with what a poor man can do. Vernissage.tv works with great equiptment but, it’s costly for me to purchase that since it’s not my primary business. Live broadcasting is HOT!