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Weekly update – Cheer up! Winter’s over in New American Voices II at the FWM

Crazy-happy collage paintings, mournful costumes, wizardly sculptures, and candy-colored sweaters with pleats — “New American Voices” at the Fabric Workshop and Museum is a four-course feast.  The works — by four featured artists who were in residence at the FWM recently — don’t really go together, but each artist is given so much space it’s like four solo shows.  I can’t say this often but you will find something to love here.

Weekly Update – New American Voices sing

This week’s Weekly has my review of New American Voices at the Fabric Workshop and Museum.  Below is the copy with some pictures. The Fabric Workshop and Museum often collaborates with big-name artists like Cai Quo-Qiang, the fireworks and gunpowder ace whose show opens next month, but what the FWM does even better—as you can see in their current show, “New American Voices”—is work with lesser-known artists. Often, these collaborations produce the freshest and most unexpected results and help raise the profile of deserving, under-the-radar artists.

First Friday layer cake–pix galore

What a delicious First Friday–a layer cake of delights. I’m putting up a bunch of pictures, hoping they might entice you to take a taste.

Art in Miami; four more fairs

I know that in the last post I said I’d seen Art Basel Miami Beach and 6 other fairs, but it turns out that one was a double bill, so to speak, so there are still 4 to cover. The fairs in Miami Beach hotel rooms have an entirely different flavor from those in convention centers, warehouses and the like. They are calmer, since each gallery has a discrete space and you can’t see one from or through another; the open-plan fairs make me feel attention deficit. Some hotel fair exhibitors also make imaginative use of bathrooms, closets and the ... More » »