I probably don’t share the extent of Bruce High Quality Foundation’s optimism for art, but their dedication is so fierce I am frequently moved by it. Happy Endings at The W Hotel in Miami provides the most recent example of this, their videos in photocopy machines, giant globes, and pools filling what appears to be [...]

Art Review - Art Basel Miami Beach - Smaller Prices and Relief at Miami Art Basel - NYTimes.com This write up has the feel of someone who hasn’t been to the fairs each year and is trying to catch. Contrary to the rather flimsy claim that Basel survived because it adapted to a new environment by [...]

Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, 2005-2009, pencil on paper dipped on wax. Galerie Rupert Pfab Thanks to tipster Danielle Mysliviec for sussing out NADA fair’s nomination for Best Tit in Show.��� Since we’re technically looking at two breasts I figured this little ditty might more appropriately fall...

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Nada Hotel and pool. NADA’s free pool and spa is luring art lookers of all kinds up to North Beach. I like to think the art isn’t hurting either.��� I haven’t yet seen Pulse, but based on what I’ve seen so far, I tend to think this fair will be the one to [...]

POST BY:���PADDY JOHNSON The island of fifteen-dollar Velveeta grilled cheese sandwiches known as South Beach can suck it. It only took four consecutive years of art fair attendance, but I finally found some inexpensive food I don’t hate in Miami. I have the NADA art fair to thank for that, which...

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Artist Kimsooja reflects on her series of videotaped performances — A Beggar Woman and A Homeless Woman (both 2000-01) — realized in cities around the world: Cairo, Delhi, Lagos, and Mexico City. Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, [...]

We invited artist Noah Fischer to write about his current project, Electrical Forest: Made in Troy, a site-specific installation in Troy, New York.��� — Ed. During my initial research missions to Troy, New York I met a colorful bunch of historians, painters, potters, professors and arborists, and...

This is the fifth and final entry in this week’s Disquiet.com Downstream section — all five recommendations this week of freely downloadable listening, along with the subject of the week’s “MP3 Discussion Group,” have been culled from the great resource soundcloud.com. I’m at soundcloud.com/disquiet. Vuzh is C. Reider, a musician who’s admirable for his interest in [...]

In conjunction with Ubuweb 01 Pod King – A (3:35) 02 Pod King – B (4:50) 03 Pod King – C (2:58) 04 Pod King – D (7:45) 05 Pod King – E (3:50) 06 Pod King – F (1:45) 07 Pod King – G (3:30) 08 Uttered Thought Climatology (29:40) John M. Bennett: voice, saxophone Tom Furgas: Yamaha SY 55 keyboard Dave Clark: [...]