Mark Bradford’s Mithra. Photo / Frank Rodriguez
On Saturday, we hopped in the car and went for a self-guided tour of Prospect.1 projects in the Lower Ninth Ward. (The biennial offered a shuttle bus for visitors throughout the day, but our experience trying to catch it the day before at 40-minute intervals was something we [...]

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Pecan bread pudding at Antoine’s. Photo / Frank Rodriguez
Don’t ask me how, but we ended up at Antoine’s for lunch in the French Quarter before our tour of the Lower Ninth Ward. Once sticker shock wore off, really delicious pompano and beef tenderloin were the order of the day, followed by the extraordinarily rummy [...]

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Lee Bul’s Untitled (After Bruno Taut series), 2008, pictured in the window of CAC. Photo by Frank Rodriguez
We’ve thrown caution to the wind and a duffle bag in the trunk and ditched Tampa for New Orleans this weekend during the conclusion of Prospect.1– the largest biennial in the United States, according to the event’s organizers. [...]

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Back from vacation, folks. Here’s your moment of zen from Peaks Island, Maine. I do not know how old the tradition of anonymously building rock sculptures in this area along the island’s NE coast is, but dozens of these miniature, Andy Goldsworthy-esque constructions await the casual passerby.

I spent about a week on Peaks to attend [...]

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Looking towards downtown Abu Dhabi from the end of the Corniche (aka, waterfront promenade).
Salaam Aleikum from Abu Dhabi. This may be the only time I post because there is not too much going on in the arts here … yet. The irony is that in about four years, Abu Dhabi hopes to become one of [...]

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