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Aqua Returns to Miami Beach
Nothing says "aqua" like mermaids.After a stint in what felt like rather cramped quarters in Wynwood last year, the Aqua art fair returned to Miami Beach in a more relaxed setting — that even had a...
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Mud, Blood and Lightning Bolts (The Golem Next Door, Part 1)
Matt Freedman, “The Golem of Ridgewood,” publicity still (2012). (Image via valentinegallery.blogspot.com)In The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), a German silent...
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The Hand in the Garden, the Head in the Attic (The Golem Next Door, Part 2)
Clockwise from left, A view of the Golem film, the Golem helmet and the Golem sculpture. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)Unhampered by false modesty, the timeline for...
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The Pursuit of Art, 2012
Patti Smith at MoMA (image via @museummodernart) (click to enlarge)Tomorrow, Patti Smith will turn 66. The day before yesterday, on the 27th, her longtime guitarist Lenny Kaye reached the same age....
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Born Under a Bad Sign: Hard Luck, Art, and Tumors
Matt Freedman, “Hats and Broom on Bed with Drinking glass Reflecting Full Moon” (2013), epoxy plastic, found objects, 36 x 72 x 18 in (all images courtesy Studio 10)“This cartoon-y format creates a...
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The Pursuit of Art, 2013
Matt Freedman, “Hats and Broom on Bed with Drinking Glass Reflecting Full Moon” (2013), epoxy plastic, found objects, 36 x 72 x 18 in (image courtesy Studio 10)Memories fade. That’s the one good...
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One Hell at a Time: Matt Freedman’s Cancer Chronicles
Cover of Matt Freedman’s ‘Relatively Indolent but Relentless’ (Seven Stories Press, 2014) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) To be honest, Relatively Indolent but Relentless, Matt Freedman’s...
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The Pursuit of Art, 2014
Hans Haacke, “Gift Horse, Model for Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London” (2013). Bronze and electroluminescent film; sculpture: 18 1/8 x 16 x 6 1/4 inches; plinth: 13 x 8 1/2 x 18 in.; overall: 30...
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Tripping Through an Artist’s Fabrications, from a Faux Art Movement to a...
Installation view of Matt Freedman: SLAP-STICK at Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia (all images by courtesy Fjord Gallery) PHILADELPHIA — Matt Freedman’s SLAP-STICK at Fjord Gallery is a sort of ersatz...
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The Year Without Art, 2020
Every individual loss carries the resonance of collective loss, the ripple of disappearance.
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