Campana Brothers
Recycle strangling vines in London. The pieces on show are all prototypes exploring a new design vocabulary that involves combining traditional woven Apuí fibre with cheap plastic chairs, crude timber constructions and steel structures.

The fibre used, Apuí, suffocates the trees in Brazilian forests and TransPlastic makes an analogy with this, as the woven fibre appears to be smothering the plastic furniture beneath.

Alexis Rockman Painter & Natural Historian

The future isn’t always what it used to be and Mankind and Mother Earth are developing a unique relationship. Alexis Rockman observer of Nature and Natural Histories speaks about our once and future pasts.

Alexis on Artnet
Manifest Destiny at the Brooklyn Museum

Twice as Nice

From Ma Yanhong of the Goeduis Gallery. The kids in China are definitely alright and stripped down. More evidence of the vibrancy and purience of contemporary figurative art in China. A favorite of critics and prosecutors in the U.S.

My Colleague Claudia Dias conversing with the work of Folkert de Jong during setup at this years Art Basel. Her installation was going in next door so she was blowing off some steam with the Dutch Artist’s styrofoam installations.

Rising over lower Manhattan on a Winter’s Night

Some of the most arresting portraits I saw were in Krylon on walls in the Miami Design District. They led me to track down more work by  the 27 year old Argentine Artist Santiago Rubino.  His striking portraits in charcoal and pen of cool, dark haired almost anime inspired females are the result of downsizing so they would fit on paper.  Wall sized and graffitti-ed on the side of a building in the Design District  these portraits struck a note of almost cognitive dissonance in the Miami streetscape.   Though I liked the building sized ones the best and may someday commission one on a wall they come as I later found out in smaller sizes in pen and charcoal.  The seem to have caught other eyes since most were sold out by the time I made it to the the Spinello Gallery booth at Scope.   Priced between $800-$1200.