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Left to right: Edward Winkleman, Elizabeth Dee, Josh Baer,Art Basel 2013 | Salon, Image Courtesy of Art Basel

On Saturday, April 25th, 2015 at 6PM, The Miami Art Dealers Association (MADA) will present the very first MADA Talks lecture with Ed Winkleman hosted by Emerson Dorsch Gallery and sponsored by Art Miami, LLC.

The lecture is free and open to the public to all MADA members and Friends of MADA. Winkleman will give a lecture based on extensive research for an upcoming book tentatively titled– Selling Contemporary Art: How to Navigate the Evolving Market that explores the range of shifts that take place in the contemporary art market.

Noteworthy factors include: the rise of the mega-gallery, the increasing importance of art fairs, online sales, and the growing globalization of the art market.

Edward Winkleman is co-owner of Winkleman Gallery in New York.

He began his art career with a series of guerrilla-style exhibitions called "hit & run" that took place in empty warehouses in New York and London.

In 2001 he co-founded Plus Ultra Gallery in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn with artist Joshua Stern.

Moving into Chelsea in 2006, the space became Winkleman Gallery to reflect a change in ownership, then a year later, Murat Orozobekov became co-owner of the gallery.

Orozobekov and Winkleman co-founded the Moving Image Art Fair in March 2011.

Focused on video and moving-image based sculptures and installation, Moving Image takes place in New York and London each year.

Winkleman is also the author of an eponymous blog that focuses on art–in particular, demystifying the gallery system– and politics.

He has also been a contributing editor to Art World Salon and is the author of the book entitled How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery.

RSVP as space is limited, via email info@miamiartdealers.org Cocktail Reception at 5:00 PM, Lecture starts promptly at 6:00 PM

Emerson Dorsch Gallery, 151 NW 24th Street, Miami, FL 33127.

Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler,RIVER OF FUNDAMENT: KHU, 2014, Production Stills, Images Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, Vimeo Trailer Courtesy of Peter Strietmann

On Saturday, April 25th, 2015 at 5PM, the Royce Hall at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLAwill present the West Coast Premiere of award-winning Gladstone GalleryartistMatthew Barney's spectacular epic film entitled "River of Fundament" made in collaboration with composer & director Jonathan Bepler and co-produced with the Laurenz Foundation.

The premiere of this 6-hour–strictly 18+ contains explicit material– alluring, multidimensional film is [Click here to watch an 8-minute trailer] part of a series of exclusive engagements that are presented in Los Angeles in collaboration with The Hammer Museum next week.

At the Bill Wilder Theater [April 21-23] and screened over the course of three days is Matthew Barney's "The Cremaster Cycle" and also on Friday, April 24th at 7:30PM, the artist will be interviewed at the Theater by Kenneth Reinhard, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA.

The premiere of the River of Fundament in L.A. is an anticipation for Barney's River of Fundament Exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA which will take place from September 2015 to January 2016 featuring large-scale sculptures, drawings, photographs and vitrines that were inspired by or made in conjunction with the film.

For River of Fundament,Barney and Bepler fuse narrative cinema, live performance, sculpture and opera, reconstructing Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings, the hyper sexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of death alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

This vast, authentic and intense experience is interspersed with remarkable live performances that were filmed over six years.

The film’s cast includes Paul Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Aimee Mullins, Milford Graves and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

The film is written and directed by Matthew Barney. Music composed and directed by Jonathan Bepler; Peter Strietmann, Director of Photography; Matthew D. Ryle, Production Design; Edition by Katharine McQuerry and Mike Bellon, Producer.

WUM NEWS MIAMI BEACH–Mark your calendars Miami art lovers because the moment has arrived to say goodbye to Lincoln Road's ArtCenter/ South Florida building 800-810 on Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 from 7 to 11PM celebrating in a Free one night event entitled "Lincoln Road Social Club" organized by Merle Weiss, Reagan Pace, Octavio Campos, Susan Caraballo, Maria del Valle, and Jenni Person.

Taking you back to the 80s and 90s, this underground Closing Partyinvites you to discover a piece of Lincoln Road in every ArtCenter studio featuring Resident Artists' site-specific installations, performances by Adora (Miami New Times Best Drag Queen) Bistoury Dance Theatre, alumnus David Rohn, drinks, appetizers and the beats by DJ Jody McDonald (Miami New Times Best Corporate DJ).

The Lincoln Road Social Club is sponsored by Art2O, Mahou, Societé Perrier, Tito's Handmade Vodka & Zignum Mezcal.

ArtCenter's corner building 924 will remain in place and open for classes, studios and exhibition spaces.

You must RSVP to receive the code to enter the Lincoln Road Social Club.

ArtCenter/South Florida, 800-810 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, 33139.

Pablo Azar Solo Show at MIArt Space Wynwood, Image Courtesy of the Artist

Via Lo Que Pasa en Miami

This coming Saturday, April 25th, 2015 at 8PM, Mexican-born artist and actor Pablo Azar will be inaugurating a solo show at MIArt Space in Wynwood benefiting Autism Speaks.

Azar is a talented cartoonist who happens to be a renowned international TV star with more than a million followers on Facebook and who has been involved in Telemundo and Univision's most important productions.

His artworks are composed by tiny cartoon figures using the pixel art technique shaping drawings that go from the micro to the macro perception.

As a child, Azar was always a shy boy who liked to be in touch with his own thoughts and ideas developing a fascination for the arts and everything that could be expressed through his own hands.

He later transcended his shyness to become a successful actor and artist exhibiting in Asia, Latin America, Europe and the U.S.

“Art is an excellent way of expression for children and adults, it also stimulates creativity, concentration and self-esteem,"Pablo Azar said from his studio in Wynwood.

He encourages his followers to motivate children to participate in the arts.

He offers cartooning workshops on Saturday mornings at his studio located in 151 NW 36 St, Miami FL 33127.

The benefit event will combine a fun night with food, wine tasting, dance, auction and art exhibition. Entrance fee $20.

MIArt Space is located next to Art Center Miami, 151 NW 36 St, Miami, Fl 33127.

Neil Gall, Allegory (Bronzino), 2014, Oil on linen, [Detail], Image Courtesy of David Nolan Gallery New York

On Thursday, April 30th, 2015 from 6 to 8PM, the David Nolan Gallery in Manhattan will present the third solo show by Gallery artist Neil Gall with an exhibition entitled "Cut-Outs, Offcuts and Holes" featuring the artist's recent eleven paintings and four large drawings on paper.

Gall's works typically engage a range of cultural and art historical references, all of which operate within his own unique and precisely determined visual language.

In recent years, he has developed a highly skillful and virtuosic approach to painting and drawing, which involves a precise rendering of loosely constructed maquettes, assembled using colored tape, translucent cellophane, Ping-pong balls and other materials that he finds in his studio.

Gall uses the motif of the Ping-pong ball to suggest a variety of associations: in some cases they are treated like eyes, brazenly staring back at the viewer - in others, they become subtle references to Belgian artistRené Magritte, whose paintings employed similar spherical forms hovering ambiguously in space.

In their coloring, Gall's new paintings collectively reference the histories of Monochrome painting, most notably of American artist Barnett Newman's seminal series "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue".

Neil Gall was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and currently lives and works in London.

He received his BA in Painting at Gray's School of Art and then attended Slade School of Art in London in 1991.

His art has garnered him numerous awards in Great Britain, and his work is featured in prominent international collections including the Denver Art Museum, The Morgan Library, New York and the Zabludowicz Collection, London.

Josh Reames, Face, 2015, acrylic on canvas, Image Courtesy of Foxy Production

On view through May 24th, 2015 is The Hole's collective show entitled "Post-Analog Painting"featuring digitally-minded works including both emerging and established artists working in a post-analog mode: Trudy Benson, Mariah Dekkenga, Robert Otto Epstein, Mark Flood, Jeanette Hayes, Adam Henry, KATSU, Misaki Kawai, Jonathan Lasker, Rachel Lord, Michael Manning, Neil Raitt, Josh Reames, Joe Reihsen, Nathan Ritterspusch, Michael Staniak, Matthew Stone, and Rebecca Ward.

The long and complex shift in culture from analog media to digital media is the most significant transformation of our generation, and it has long-reaching and manifold effects that continue to permeate all modes of visual expression.

In painting the effects have been slow to reverberate.

"Inkjet on canvas" was the center of these discussions for many years; however, after New York Times critic Roberta Smith deemed the Wade Guyton show at the Whitney acceptable, everyone could chill out about whether paintings were composed in a computer and printed out or whether an actual paintbrush was wielded.

But the more interesting shift in painting has nothing to do with the media used but instead the forms, composition and content in painting.

Digital tools have affected our imaginary, the logic of Photoshop or pixelation shapes a painter's approach to color, form, depth, shade, tone, volume; all the parameters that guide the application of paint to canvas.

When Trudy Benson paints a circle, it's the specific kind of sloppy shape a hand and mouse draws, not the shape a hand holding a brush would make.

"Post-Analog" is meant so suggest that the paintings in this show were not even conceivable before digital imaging changed the structure of our images.

The topic of how digital imaging has changed the way young artists approach painting is too broad to tackle but in this exhibition, some of the most interesting changes are the most subtle.

Discover Miami Through Music Concert at The Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables

Via Lo Que Pasa en Miami

On Sunday, April 26th, 2015 at 4PM, The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables will serve as the stage for Orchestra Miami's 2015 season of concerts "Discover Miami Through Music" celebrating the Jazz Age Icon of the 20's and 30's at the time when the Hotel–built in 1926–was the tallest building in Florida.

Following Orchestra Miami last season’s sold-out “Discover Miami Through Music” the Orchestra continues the tradition of performing music which is appropriate to the history and surroundings of the landmark.

"It will be such a privilege to perform in the same ballroom of such iconic landmark with a fantastic history where Paul Whiteman and his orchestra and many others performed," said Elaine Rinaldi, Orchestra Miami Founder & Artistic Director.

The Biltmore concert will begin with a rarity- the Jazz Symphony by George Antheil, which had its debut in Carnegie Hall in 1927 to rapturous reviews, followed by one of the most exquisite pieces ever commissioned for clarinet, Aaron Copland’s Concerto for Clarinet, which was commissioned by jazz legend Benny Goodman and premiered in 1950 by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner.

Orchestra Miami’s principal clarinetist, Richard Hancock, will be the featured soloist in the concerto.

After intermission, the audience will be treated to Darius Milhaud’s Le Creation du Monde (1923), which, along with the Jazz Symphony, is considered one of the first classical works with successful and overt jazz influences, followed by Dmitri Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite N. 1, and a danceable suite of tunes from Kurt Weill’s Dreigroschenoper (Three Penny Opera).

The concert is presented in association with the Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables, and sponsored in part by the City of Coral Gables and the Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.

In addition to the concert, a pre-performance talk about the history of the hotel will be presented at 3:30 PM in the Granada Ballroom, and historic hotel tours of the Biltmore Hotel property are available at 1:30 and 2:30 PM (meet in the lobby next to the concierge desk).

Tickets for the concert are $30, $40 & $50 reserved seating, and a VIP ticket which includes an exclusive intermission Bacardi rum tasting and post-concert reception with the artists on the Granada Ballroom Terrace is available for $150.

Tickets can be purchased through Orchestra Miami’s website or by calling Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006.

Free parking is available, as well as valet service. The Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables, 33134.

Based on the bestselling novel by Patricia McCormick and produced by Emma Thompson, SOLD tells the story of a young Nepali girl's struggle after being sold into prostitution, and how her faith, bhakti practice and memories of her mother give her the courage to fight against all odds. Directed by oscar-winner Jeffrey D. Brown and featuring Gillian Anderson (X-Files) and David Arquette in supporting roles, SOLD recently won the audience award at the Sonoma Film Festival. Images Courtesy of Illuminate Film Festival and Circle 3 Media

Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra, a Paraguayan musical group that plays with instruments made entirely out of garbage. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight. With the guidance of their music director, they must navigate this new world of arenas and sold out concerts. However, when the largest flood in over two decades devastates their community, the orchestra provides a source of hope for the town.

Via The Spiritual Journalist

As spirituality–the realm that affects the human soul– continues to expand and evolve all across the U.S. with many of its practices becoming increasingly popular such as yoga, healing, meditation, self-growth, positive thinking, a group of thirty spiritual-minded people in the conscious business are coming together this year to announce the second edition of the Illuminate Film Festivalthat will take place at the Mary D. Fisher Theater, Sedona Performing Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona from May 27th-31st.

Illuminate 2015 will bring 22 inspirational and thought-provoking films in the emerging genre of conscious cinema.

Among the most notable are "SOLD" produced by Hollywood actress Emma Thompson featuring Gillian Anderson and David Arquette, a film based on real-life events revealed in Patricia McCormick’s best-selling novel in which a young Nepali girl struggles for survival after being sold into prostitution in Kolkata.

Her faith in Bhakti practice gave her the courage to endure this human trafficking drama.

"The Pilgrim: Paulo Coehlo's Best Story," is a dramatic biopic depicting the rise of renowned Brazilian NYT bestselling author Paulo Coelho.

An animated film written and directed by Roger Allers featuring Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet" will have its Southwest premiere at Illuminate with voices by Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina, Quvenzhané Wallis and John Rhys-Davies.

"Dying to Know," narrated by Robert Redford, about two conventional Harvard professors – Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass)– who began probing the edges of consciousness in the 1960s, one ending up in jail and the other [Ram Dass] becoming a notable spiritual teacher.

The landmark film "Landfill Harmonic" is a heartfelt, moving story of how instruments made from recycled trash bring hope to children whose futures are otherwise spiritless.

"iGod," a probing exploration of a higher power featuring spiritual trailblazers Neale Donald Walsh, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Alan Cohen, Gregg Braden and Barbara Marx Hubbard.

A live Skype workshop with Williamson, Hubbard and Cohen follows the film. [Click here for complete 2015 lineup]

lluminate Early Bird All-Access Passes are $349 (regularly$444). Early Bird Convergence Panel Packages with access to daily panels are $99. Early Bird Convergence Passes to all panels, conversations, three film screenings and admission to parties and receptions Friday through Sunday are $219. Individual tickets ranging from $11-$40 will be sold based on availability beginning May 1.

As President Obama pays a visit today to the Everglades National Park in Florida to honor Earth Day 2015 he will be guided by Florida International University ecologist Evelyn Gaiser who will talk about the threat of climate change in an area greatly affected by it.

Twenty years ago in June 1995, Michael Jackson released one of his greatest compositions, the emotionally-charged "Earth Song"which he wrote at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, Austria.

The track was called a "socially conscious song" where Jackson issues a plea to God about saving our planet Earth.

According to songfacts.com, when Jackson sang this at the 1996 Brit Awards"he struck a Christ-like pose that did not go over too well with Pulp lead singer Jarvis Cocker,who jumped on stage in protest of Jackson's 'Messiah Complex' lifting his shirt and making a gesture with his butt."

Cocker said, "Rock stars have got big enough egos without trying to be Jesus."

"I remember writing this song, I was feeling so much pain and so much suffering of the plight of Planet Earth. And for me, this is Earth's Song, because I think nature is trying so hard to compensate for man's mismanagement of the Earth. And with the ecological unbalance going on, and a lot of the problems in the environment, I think Earth feels the pain, and she has wounds, and it's about some of the joys of the planet as well. But this is my chance to pretty much let people hear the voice of the planet," said Michael Jackson in 1995.

The song remains Jackson's best-selling single in the United Kingdom, where it sold 1.16 million copies as of November 2012.

The spectacular video was filmed in four geographic areas, the Amazon Rainforest, where Natives of the region appeared in the video and were not actors.

The second scene was a war zone in Karlovac, Croatia, and the third location was Tanzania, which incorporated scenes of illegal poaching and hunting into the video.

During this 2015 Earth Day Celebration organizers of Earth Day Network's A Billion Acts of Green® have announced that one billion actions to date have been taken and pledged around the planet and is currently the largest environmental service campaign in the world which continues to grow.

Some of the actions in which you can act and pledge include: East Less Meat , Create Art to Raise Awareness, Reduce Energy Consumption, Start Composting, Adjust Your Water Heater, Stop Using Disposable Plastic, Buy Local Produce, End Junk Mail, Go Solar, Support Obama's Climate Plan, Support Renewable Energy, among others.

Earth Song

What about sunrise?
What about rain?
What about all the things that you said
We were to gain?
What about killing fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the things
That you said were yours and mine?

Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth, these weeping shores?

Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh

What have we done to the world?
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son?

What about flowering fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine?

Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth, these weeping shores?

Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh

I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far

Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh
Ah, ooh

Hey, what about yesterday
(What about us)
What about the seas
(What about us)
The heavens are falling down
(What about us)
I can't even breathe
(What about us)

What about apathy
(What about us)
Burnt despite our pleas
(What about us)
What about the holy land
(What about it)
Torn apart by creed
(What about us)

Where did we go wrong
(ooo, ooo)
Someone tell me why
(What about us)

What about babies
(What about it)
What about the days
(What about us)
What about all their joy
Do we give a damn

Lyrics Courtesy of metrolyrics.com
Click here to read Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" on The Spiritual Journalist

Kathryn Andrews,Long Island, 2015, Stainless steel, ink, and paint, Images Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery

This coming Friday, April 24th, 2015 another edition of Art Brussels will be inaugurated in its Preview & Vernissage event at the Brussels Expo (Heysel)– a great location to present a very creative and different art fair known as "The Discovery Fair" in words of Art Brussels Artist Director Katerina Gregos, "a place where you can discover artists at the beginning of their careers."

More than 29,000 people visit this 4-day fair where the emphasis of showcase is young talent but also presented with the quality of coherence of the various sections that possess a strong curatorial and artistic content.

"We bring the unusual suspects to Brussels," said Katerina Gregos who leads the Art Brussels curatorial team.

Gregos said that the Fair supports experimental and not for profit spaces in the Special Section, "We are actually the only Fair that does that."

The Art Brussels Special Exhibition is singular in its focus and approach, "We ask the Belgium collectors who are worldly renowned for their expertise to choose one single work within their art collection in order to present themselves," said Anne Vierstraete, Art Brussels Director.

Roe Ethridge, Orange Grove #4, 2004, C-print, 40 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (102.9 x 82.6 x 3.8 cm) framed

The prestigious Gladstone Gallery will be showcasing 13 artists at [Booth 1B-16] presenting works by Richard Aldrich, Kathryn Andrews, Alighiero Boetti, Claudia Comte, Roe Ethridge, Jim Hodges, Anish Kapoor, Damián Ortega, Elizabeth Peyton, R. H. Quaytman, Ugo Rondinone, Paloma Varga Weisz, and Andro Wekua.

Tonight, from 6 to 9PM, thirty five Brussels galleries, from Downtown and Uptown will be open its doors for the traditional "Gallery Night in the City" showcasing exhibitions celebrating in anticipation the city's biggest art fair.

For this event, Gladstone's location at the City Centre in Uptown Brussels will present a show entitled "Love for Three Oranges," a group exhibition organized by Karma, New York.

The exhibition will feature new works by Nathaniel Axel, Darren Bader, Will Boone, Joe Bradley, Matt Connors, Roe Ethridge, Paul Lee, Nate Lowman, Sarah Lucas, Elizabeth Peyton, Torey Thornton, and Michael Williams.

The exhibition borrows its title from a line in Bukowski’s 1992 poem, Three Oranges.

The multi layered exchange of textual and pictorial reference at play transforms a simple homonym into a proposition that color not only serves mimetic representation, but is also weighted with associative qualities, innuendo, cliché, and metaphor.

The works in this exhibition demonstrate across a broad range of media the interdependence of color and meaning, and the many manifestations of this exchange.

First time my father overheard me listening to
this bit of music he asked me,
what is it?
it's called Love For Three Oranges,
I informed him.
boy, he said, that's getting it
cheap.
he meant sex.
listening to it
I always imagined three oranges
sitting there,
you know how orange they can
get,
so mightily orange.
–from Charles Bukowski, Three Oranges

Hans Op de Beeck, Unmade Bed, 2014, watercolour on paper, 110 x 285 cm, Images Courtesy of Galerie Krinzinger

Jannis Varelas,A Quarter with a Smile, 2015, oil and different media on canvas, 200 x 210 cm

During Art Brussels 2015, the Vienna-based Galerie Krinzinger will be participating this week [Booth 1C-26] presenting a group show by thirty three artists: Marina Abramović, Atelier Van Lieshout, Kader Attia, Günter Brus, Andy Coolquitt, Angela De la Cruz, Christian Eisenberger, Abdulnasser Gharem, Franz Graf, Secundino Hernández, Martha Jungwirth, Waqas Khan, Erik van Lieshout, Angelika Krinzinger, Maha Malluh, Jonathan Meese, Bjarne Melgaard, Shintaro Miyake, Hans Op de Beeck, Meret Oppenheim, Bernd Oppl, Goran Petercol, Eva Schlegel, Erik Schmidt, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Sudarshan Shetty, Daniel Spoerri, Alfred Tarazi, Frank Thiel, Gavin Turk, Jannis Varelas, Martin Walde, and Thomas Zipp.

In addition, the Gallery will have a special presentation showcasing works by the Athens & Vienna-based artist Jannis Varelas.

Debo Eilers, Untitled, 2015. Colored pencil, enamel, charcoal and epoxy on paper, 17 by 14 inches (43.2 by 35.6 cm). Photo Credit: Adam Reich, Image Courtesy of On Stella Rays

During Art Brussels 2015, the New York-based gallery On Stellar Rays will be showcasing [Booth 1D-26] an exclusive group of four Gallery artists including the London /Athens-based artist Athanasios Argianas (B.A. Aristoletion University '97, B.A. Byam Shaw School of Art, London '03, M.F.A. Goldsmiths College, London '05) whose solo exhibition entitled "Swimmer's Arms Are Oars" is currently on view at the Gallery in Manhattan presenting works from his series belonging to "Song Machine" sculptures in steel and brass, photographs and related work on paper.

American, NY-based artist Debo Eilers (B.F.A University of Texas, Austin '04, M.F.A. Columbia University New York '07); Israeli, NY-based artistZipora Fried (Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria '90); and American, L.A.-based artistJohn Houck (B.A Architecture CU Boulder, CO '00, M.F.A. UCLA Los Angeles '07, Skowhegan Schoolof Painting & Sculpture '08, Whitney Independent Study Program NY '10).

Image Courtesy of Ballet Memphis

This coming Saturday, April 25th, 2015 at 8PM, Culture Shock Miami and the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center will present the Tennessee-based company Ballet Memphis in a three-part program featuring new works by North American choreographers Trey McIntyre, Julia Adam and Matthew Neenan.

Founded in 1986 by Dorothy Gunther Pugh, a leader in the field of ballet and dance education in Memphis, the Company has been called a “national treasure” by the Ford Foundation.

The Company will be offering three very different choreographic themes, "Devil’s Fruit" by Canadian-born Julia Adam is choreographed for the River Project series focusing on dance based on movement echoing the Mississippi River.

In this new work, Adam explores the flora and fauna along the river, specifically the vast and intricate underground network of mushrooms.

"Party of the Year" (Victoria Avenue, CA 12/25/70) by American Matthew Neenan is inspired by the New York Times-best-selling book, "The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson in which she chronicles three different lives filled with struggle, defeat and triumph during the heart of the "Great Migration," an era between 1910 and 1970 when more than 6 million African Americans moved out of the rural South to other parts of the U.S.

"In Dreams" by Trey McIntyre is a small but powerfully poignant work created for Ballet Memphis in 2007 and set to the music of Roy Orbison.

Dorothy Gunther Pugh, Ballet Memphis Artistic Director has said that Orbison is "the Placido Domingo of country music" and likened his singing to "the sound of the human heart breaking."

On Friday, April 24th, the Company will hold a free performance of its evening program for students. A free masterclass open to advance ballet dancers will be held on April 25th at 10:00 AM.

$5 tickets are available to 13-22 year old and one accompanying guest each, exclusively through CultureShockMiami.com.

Full price tickets are $45 to $25 and $15 for Youth Tickets for 12 years old and under. These tickets are available online at SMDCAC.org or through the SMDCAC box office by calling 786-573-5300.

Hannah Perry at Steve Turner[Booth 1D-30] Art Brussels '15, Images Courtesy of the Gallery

Installation view

The VIP Preview and Vernissage for Art Brussels '15 is taking place today Friday, April 24th, 2015 at the Brussels Expo (Heysel) in Europe's most upcoming and exciting art city.

The Los Angeles-based gallery Steve Turner is presenting a SOLO exhibition [Booth 1D-30] by the London-based artist Hannah Perry (B.A. Goldsmiths College, London, M.A. Royal Academy London) at the Fair's SOLO section, in a special presentation supported by Van Den Weghe– a leading Belgian natural stone company.

Participants in this special SOLO presentations which are spread throughout the two halls of the Fair, are pre-selected by Katerina Gregos, Art Brussels Artistic Director and are part of the €10K SOLO Prize.

Gallerists at SOLO have the opportunity to make a statement by showcasing a single site-specific project.

Perry's first exhibition in the U.S. entitled "Always" was at Steve Turner in February 2015

Perry will show a group of works that combine screen-printing, painting, and collage on aluminum, plexiglass and mirror.

The works address personal relationships that allude to social media with titles such as Snapchat (you know what am saying); Emotions from Situations; and Cheered Up.

Taken as a whole, the works and their titles convey a loose narrative of youth, love and power.

Her practice incorporates a variety of media including sound and video installation.


American Artist Jackie Saccoccio SOLO at Eleven Rivington Art Brussels '15, Image Courtesy of the Gallery

The VIP Preview and Vernissage for Art Brussels '15 is taking place today Friday, April 24th, 2015 at the Brussels Expo (Heysel) in Europe's most upcoming and exciting art city.

The New York City-based gallery Eleven Rivington is presenting a SOLO exhibition [Booth 3A-22] by Gallery artist Jackie Saccoccio (B.F.A. Rhode School of Design '85, M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago '88) at the Fair's SOLO section, in a special presentation supported by Van Den Weghe– a leading Belgian natural stone company.

Gallerists at SOLO have the opportunity to make a statement by showcasing a single site-specific project.

Last year on April, the NY & Connecticut-based artist Jackie Saccoccio presented her 15th solo exhibition at Eleven Rivington's both locations in Manhattan featuring large scale paintings at the time when she was having recent museum shows at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas and at the Museo d"Arte Contemporanea in Genoa Italy.

Saccoccio is a recipient of the Rome Prize at The American Academy in Rome, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant, and a Fulbright Foundation Grant.

Images Courtesy of B-ILD

WUM NEWS BRUSSELS–B-ILD is a cutting-edge architectural firm based in Brussels formed by four talented wordly-educated creatives [Kelly Hendricks, Bruno Despierre, Brenda De Neve and Stephanie Vander Goten] working with 8 collaborators in a variety of projects that include flawless penthouse interiors to apartments at sea on the Belgian coast, to the recently created underneath scenography, a large main staircase– located in Hall 3– built and designed for THE CINEMA at the uber creative Art Brussels '15 at Heysel.

Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Director of the Appel Arts Centre Amsterdam and running in a continuous loop of forty seven minutes, "Geographic Paradigms" explore the work of 8 filmmakers featuring different situations from various oblique perspectives: [Stefanos Tsivopoulos (GR, b. 1973), Pravdoliub Ivanov (BG, b. 1964), Rob Johannesma (NL, b. 1970), Nedko Solakov (BG, b. 1957), Michael E. Smith (US, b.1977), Elise Florenty (FR, b. 1978) & Marcel Türkowsky (DE, b.1978), Margaret Salmon (US, b.1975)] showcasing short films spanning as little as 38 seconds such as Michael E. Smith's "Dope Dog, 2008" to the longest, a 15-minute film by Florenti& Türkowsky "A Short Organon For the Hero, 2012."

The complex definition of time and identity are seen in an historic perspective, in which myth and nostalgia are a filter for a modern image.

It can be seen in the void in the Greek parliament, or in the black balloons in an anti-government protest in Sofia, creating moments of surrealism, or in the metaphysical architecture of Rome, showing the times of a desolated past.

A confrontation with the past is also visible in the poetic or ironic personal or collective perspectives of the detectors of change.

1. Stefanos Tsivopoulos (GR, b. 1973)Geometry of Fear, 2012
6'
Courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens/Thessaloniki

2. Pravdoliub Ivanov (BG, b. 1964)Black Balloons, 2013
1'10''
Courtesy SARIEV contemporary, Plovdiv

3. Rob Johannesma (NL, b. 1970)Sparkles of Day and Dusk, 2005
9'27''
Courtesy Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Rotterdam

4. Nedko Solakov (BG, b. 1957)Nostalgia, 2010
1'22''
Courtesy of the artist, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv and Galleria Continua, Beijing, Paris, San Gimignano

5. Michael E. Smith (US, b.1977)Dope dog, 2008
0’38’’
Courtesy KOW, Berlin

6. Elise Florenty (FR, b. 1978) & Marcel Türkowsky (DE, b.1978)A Short Organon For The Hero, 2012
15'
Courtesy Grimmuseum, Berlin

7. Margaret Salmon

Oyster, 2014

14'25''

Courtesy Office Baroque, Brussels

Thomas Lerooy"Beauty in the Shadow of the Stars", 2015, Petit Palais, Musée de Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Images Courtesy of Galerie Rodolphe Janssen

Thomas Lerooy, Seduction of Destruction, 2014, exhibition view at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen

WUM NEWS PARIS- Through July 5th, 2015, the Brussels-based Galerie Rodolphe Janssen artist Thomas Lerooy is presenting his solo exhibition entitled "Beauty in the Shadow of the Stars" at the Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.

Living and working from Brussels, Lerooy, 33, is an artist that creates a universe with endless possibilities, in words of art critic and curator Tanguy Eeckhout.

"In his drawings and sculptures transitoriness and death are omnipresent. Simultaneously there is an unbelievable liveliness full of bristle like in a better Danse Macabre," writes Eeckhout in an essay entitled "Modern memento mori" making a reference to Lerooy's work and whose fourth solo exhibition entitled "Seduction of Destruction" was presented last autumn at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels.

At the Petit Palais, Lerooy's solo exhibition serves as a reminder that such iconic Palace continues with its tradition of presenting at the Salon works from living artists echoing its own origins– when the at the dawn of the twentieth century– artists helped build its young collection.

Now in a 21st century dialogue, the Petit Palais welcomes a young contemporary artist featuring twenty sculptures and large format drawings.

For some visitors, it may surprise to see Lerooy's work exhibited in a classic setting mixed with ancient Roman art and with pieces from the Renaissance.

The exhibition organized by the Petit Palais and Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents Lerooy's dreams and fantasies materialized in sculptural skeletons and other hybrid creatures and monsters, a fantastical universe located at the crossroads of Symbolism and Surrealism.

Roberto Gómez, What Happens When Nothing Happens, 2015, Locust Projects Main Gallery, May 2-June13, 2015, Images Courtesy of Locust Projects

Mia Feuer,Mesh, 2015, Locust Project's Room May 2-June 13th, 2015

This coming Saturday, May 2nd 2015 at 6:30PM, Locust Projects will present a conversation with artists Roberto Gómez (B.F.A. Painting and Art History, New World School of the Arts and University of Florida'07) and Mia Feuer (B.F.A. University of Manitoba'04, M.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University'09) whose exhibitions entitled "What Happens When Nothing Happens" and "Mesh" will be on view at Locust's main Gallery and Project Room through June 13th.

Miami-based, Costa Rican-born Roberto Gómez, 31, is having his first public solo exhibition presenting new site-specific work featuring a series of objects that resemble shabby clothing items hung on a clothesline which are made from layers of latex paint.

Blurring the line between painting and sculpture, Gómez emphasizes the physicality and materiality of paint by utilizing it as a three-dimensional element.

This exhibition builds upon Gómez’s works on canvas, created through the repeated application of layers of found paint sourced from local chemical waste management sites but this time however, the artist created the clothe-like objects by pouring paint directly onto plastic sheets that he placed on the ground.

Once the paint has started to dry, he peels it away from the plastic and manipulates it into the desired shape.

Clotheslines intersect the landscape of many countries across the world, while washing and drying clothes is a repeated action that punctuates our lives.

In some places, it is rare to see laundry hanging outside.

The presence — or lack — of clotheslines in a landscape can be an indicator of culture, class and socio-economic status. It's very common to see outdoor clotheslines throughout rural areas and slums.

At Locust's Project Room, Canadian-born, California-based artist Mia Feuer is presenting "Mesh", an exhibition spanning three geographical areas that are currently in the nation's spotlight when it comes to political and environmental decisions: Miami and the Gulf Coast, Calgary, and the Arctic Circle.

Through sculptural and sound installation, Feuer, 33, explores the interconnections between these places.

Working with a 3D scanner for the first time, she has scanned areas of land that will soon be washed away into the Gulf of Mexico.

Rendered in salt, these 3D scans are presented below hanging objects made from Styrofoam and concrete, and accompanied by live underwater sound recordings of glaciers melting and calving in the Arctic Circle.

Feuer links this occurrence to Calgary, the economic epicenter of the Canadian oil industry and the origin of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, and then to Miami, one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to rising sea levels and climate change.

The sound recording from the Arctic Circle is an important component of Feuer’s concurrent sculptural installations in Miami and Calgary, as it acts as an external trigger that activates a physical change, resulting in the dripping of an indigo blue aniline dye onto the salt and the gallery floor.

This particular dye was one of the first substances to be synthetically produced through an industrial process.

Feuer is interested in sites where humans’ actions have visibly impacted upon the landscape.

Her work makes connections between our dependency upon the hydrocarbon industry and petroleum derivatives, and the rapid and often catastrophic changes that this can cause.

Mesh is part of an interrelated solo exhibition entitled "Synthetic Seasons," opening at the Esker Foundation in Calgary, Canada, on May 22nd and on view through September 6th.

Her upcoming exhibitions include Champagne Life at the Saatchi Gallery in London, UK.

Riitta Klint, Medusa, 2014, acrylic and pencil on canvas, [Art Vitam Booth 225]Images Courtesy of the Galleries

Thurle Wright,Indian Mapping, 2010, extracts from various texts and prints, sequins, beads, mirrors, glue on paper, [Art Vitam Booth 225]

This week, from April 29th-May 3rd,2015Art Market Productions will launch the fifth edition of Art Market San Francisco returning to the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion.

Following record breaking sales, city-wide partnerships, and attendance of over 20,000 visitors in 2014, this 2015 will present a significant selection of contemporary and modern artworks from returning Art Market exhibitors and exciting newcomers.

Art Market SF '15 has partnered with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprised of the de Young and the Legion of Honor, as the 2015 beneficiary of the Benefit Preview Reception.

This year, for the first time, the Benefit Preview Reception will have its own dedicated evening on Wednesday, April 29th, open exclusively for beneficiary ticket buyers.

Jadikan, 130 secondes, 2013, printed on ultra smooth paper on aluminum [Art Vitam Booth 225]

Gilles Soudry, Volute #1, printed on ultra smooth fine art archival paper, [Art Vitam Booth 225]

Roberto Gomez,Untitled, 2014, ink on latex paint on canvas [Mindy Solomon Gallery Booth 119]

Julian Lorber, Line Aphasia Curtain, 2015, acrylic paint, resin on aluminum panel [Mindy Solomon Gallery Booth 119]

Proceeds from the evening will support the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s New Art Acquisitions Fund.

Further integrating Art Market into the Bay Area’s creative community, San Francisco’s renowned social club The Battery will return for a second year to curate the 2015 VIP Lounge and lead a series of collector tours during the fair.

There are only two Miami-based galleries represented at this 2015 edition, Art Vitam and Mindy Solomon Gallery.

"Before heading to Singapore for an art fair, we will be doing Art Market San Francisco showcasing the works by Jadikan, Thurle Wright, Riitta Klint and Alberto Vejarano aka Chanoir," said Sophie Blachet of Art Vitamto WUM.

Gallery director, Mindy Solomon of his eponymous gallery will be showcasing works by Roberto Gomez, Julian Lorber, Sungyee Kim, Marc Lambrechts and Dominique Labauvie.

Alberto Vejarano (Chanoir),Bande de cats blacks and whites, 2014, spray and acrylic on canvas, [Art Vitam Booth 225]

Dominique Labauvie, Fractal Series #1, 2014, pastel and charcoal on Stonehenge paper [Mindy Solomon Gallery Booth 119]

Marc Lambrechts,Karma XII, 2007, oil on banana leaves on wood [Mindy Solomon Gallery Booth 119]

Sungyee Kim, Meditation 35, 2014, acrylic paint, Sumi ink and mixed media on panel [Mindy Solomon Gallery Booth 119]

Rona Yefman, video still from Reading Room, 2015, Image Courtesy of The Screening Room

On Thursday, May 7th, 2015 at 7PM, The Screening Room in Wynwood will present "Poem: Videos," a multi-channel poetry video installation by Spinello Projects Artist Antonia Wright in collaboration with artists Robert Chambers, Daniel Joseph, Justin Long, Matthu Placek, and Rona Yefman.

The genre of visual poetry, which combines the moving image with verse, is an expansive medium that is still defining itself in the context of video art and performance works.

Poem: Videos not only attempts to challenge poetry videos but experiments with the audial experience of listening to poems, traditionally known as the poetry reading.

For this project, Wright collaborates with five artists selected for their dual interests in bridging the divide between disciplines of sculpture, photography, painting, performance, and new forms of film making with the written word.

The viewer encounters a series of five videos using the same soundtrack of Wright’s own voice reading a single poem she composed entitled "Advice From A Modern Artist."

The culminating works, five original videos, question how the visual experience can alter the interpretation of the text.

The Screening Room, 2626 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33127.

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Belgian Artist [Galerie Rodolphe Janssen] Thomas Lerooy at Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-Arts

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WUM NEWS WYNWOOD: "Poem: Videos," a Multi-channel Poetry Installation by Miami-based Artist Antonia Wright