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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