by Will Brand on December 8, 2012
There’s not much point in comparing SEVEN, the boothless, 7-gallery satellite fair in Miami’s Wynwood district, to Art Basel Miami Beach. It has no roving carts of champagne, no collectors’ lounge, and no dealers with hungry eyes sitting watch over their wares. When we visited for their party on Thursday, there was a distressing lack of Diddy. The attitude there—and we say this every year—is simply different.
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by Paddy Johnson on June 16, 2011
Tomorrow marks the dawn of a new era in mail art: Presents, Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ an opening that promises booze AND epic results! At least those are my predictions. As many readers will have already caught wind of around the web, Hyperallergic has been collecting mail art for three months. Come tomorrow, the days of tantalizing their readers with posts of their mail art gifts online will close: The mail art show opens!
Selected from over 100 submissions, the show includes artists such as Bo Bartlett, J.D. Hastings, Tim McCool, Austin Thomas, Audra Wolowiec, and many more (a full list of the participating artists can be found at the bottom of this post). Storefront’s Kate Wadkins and Hyperallergic‘s founding editor Hrag Vartanian are responsible for the curation of the show. Yesterday, I drilled Vartanian on the connections of this show with the blog Post Secret. That didn’t go very well, but I got an interview out of it regardless.
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