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I’m always reading articles published on online newspaper editions, art blogs and magazines. So why not compile a weekly list of ‘best of the web’? So for your reading and viewing pleasure, here is my weekly wrap-up of the top three articles/posts that I found this week.

The first article is from our pals over at ArtLurker about artist Bob Snead’s most recent project: Is Not Broke and the recession proof wallet. Handmade wallets (by Snead himself) with a twenty dollar bill printed inside for each holders peace of mind. Read the rest of this post »

Image via Whitney Museum

Lately I’ve been lusting about the exhibitions I want to see while in New York. I’m only going for a few days, a New York minute so to speak, but I intend to make the best of what might become a hectic show hopping trip. One of the privileges of visiting New York is the opportunity to see long awaited retrospectives and the possibility of discovering emerging talent. All seems to indicate that it will be a good season.  Read the rest of this post »

Christopher Cozier‘s work focuses mostly on Caribbean narratives or small quotidien gestures that can also present political and social questionings. His installation at the 2009 San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial Available at All Leading Stores is not your typical Caribbean inspired work. Instead, it displays a sentiment that carries the weight of politics and globalization. The installation is comprised of assembled cardboard boxes labeled with the word ‘fear’ and placed on a pallet seemingly ready for immediate transportation. Read the rest of this post »

Summer is almost over and so are the dreary summer group shows. Finally! Starting off the season, I can’t help but taking a look at Team Gallery‘s website (one of my faves) to check their program and kick-start the upcoming fall season. This month, gallery Director José Freire is presenting a film by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra. I saw the film last year at Art Basel and it’s quite the porno flick. Anyway, I’m excited Team is taking in Spanish artists (NYC galleries take note). I’m heading to NYC next week, so the show’s opening is definitely on my to do list. Read the rest of this post »

At first glance, K8 Hardy‘s work might look like a Cindy Sherman knock-off. But a closer look reveals a more complex aesthetic rooted in gender role playing and fashion. To construct her images, Hardy rummages through thrift shops to find the most disparate clothes to piece together. The ways clothing acts as a definer and shaper of identity is one of the main subjects of her work. Read the rest of this post »

Gunilla Klingberg has gained international attention for her installations dealing with the viral aspects of visual language and our collective unconscious in the realm of contemporary consumer culture. With one foot in a critique of consumerism and the other anchored in a strong interest in spiritualism she distorts the familiar in such a way that a supermarket logo becomes a mantric chant. Read the rest of this post »

Following the success of Santurce es Ley, an independent union of art galleries that created quite a buzz for the area of Santurce to become (once again) the hub of the contemporary art scene in Puerto Rico, MIA Projects will be taking over an abandoned gas station in Santurce in Total Intervention; a one night only art happening that is meant to revitalize this once sought after art district. According to MIA (Missing in Action) founder and Creative Director, Margarita Alvarez, this will be the first of a series of pop-up galleries created by MIA Projects. Read the rest of this post »

Pablo Guardiola searches and achieves in finding the poetic in everyday objects; a paper bag with a grease stain becomes a world map, and a simple globe toy a paradox that points to geographical uncertainties and an increasing globalized economy. The use of different mediums of representation, such as photography, installation, found objects and sculptures, is clearly just a vehicle to mediate the relationship between perception and visual representation, which in his work coincide but still remain at odds with each other. Read the rest of this post »

Brazilian artist and writer Fabio Morais works with the deconstruction of language and the mapping of text and image to construct a visually engaging system of signs that relate to memory, language and identity. Frequently using writers, poets and critics as the basis of his works, Morais appropriates text, language and image and uses it as a place of negotiation between artist and spectator. Read the rest of this post »