Aqua Wynwood 2007: Rusted wheelbarrows cut with lace-like patterns by Cal Lane at New York’s Foley Gallery. Photo by Megan Voeller.
Since reports (like this one) surfaced that collectors were actually buying earlier this summer at Art Basel in Switzerland, the international art fair circuit has managed at least partially to shake its recent image [...]

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Denis Gaston. Little Boxes. Mixed media on masonite, 20″ x 16”. Pictured below: Denis Gaston. Ground Control To Major Tom (Grab ‘n Go Art Collection). Ink on paper, 7″ x 5″. Images courtesy of the artist.
If it’s summer, it must be time for the Cool Art Show. Any other time of year, the region would [...]

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From the press release:
Selecting from a field of more than 300 acclaimed artists displaying their works, juror Martha Connell, owner and director of Connell Gallery/Great American Gallery in Atlanta, has named the recipients of 39th annual Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts cash awards. This year, the Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts [...]

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Installation by Laurina Paperina at Perugi Artecontemporanea at Pulse. Inside the brain “house,” an animated film plays on a tiny LCD monitor. (To see more of the work from this project, click through to the artist’s website and go to the Braindead project.)  
After hitting a couple of the fairs, art fatigue starts to set [...]

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A sculpture-drawing by Elliott Hundley at the New Museum.
Art Squeeze is on a vacation of sorts this week in New York, where the goal is to see as much art stuff– fairs including the Armory Show, Pulse, Scope, Volta, Bridge and Diva; and exhibits including the Whitney Biennial, Courbet at the Met, Design [...]

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I always come back from Gasparilla Festival of the Arts with more questions than I had going in:
Could there actually be a market for as many black-and-white photographs of Europe’s cobblestone streets as I saw on Saturday? Or soft-focus pictures of [...]

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At the 2007 Gasparilla Festival of the Arts. Image via Aesthetic Grounds.
This weekend marks the 38th annual Gasparilla Festival of the Arts. A couple of years ago, I thought Carrie Mackin had managed to get the City of Tampa to support a contemporary art component of Gasparilla. As you may remember, in 2006 she [...]

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