● For those who didn’t make it to Bear and Bird last month, here’s a funny little video of the It’s Not a Doll, It’s an Action Figure show.
● Art Nouveau Events has a new website, Artnouveauevents.com. Click to read about some of their upcoming shows. Rock N’ Tatts will be held Aug. 18 at The Lounge in West Palm Beach while Inferno, the October show, will be held at Armory Art Center, because they’ll need a patio for the more fiery elements of the show.
● Speaking of Armory Art Center, the center has put out a call to artists for New* Art, a show that will be judged by Fredric Snitzer. The exhibition, designed to showcase cutting-edge visual art, will include works produced after 2008. Deadline for applications, which may be downloaded at Armoryart.org, is noon Sept. 1.
● “Have you ever been privileged to look at a painting that had pain, joy and intensity in each stroke?” That’s how Art-N-Hustle describes the work of Miami artist Michael Vasquez … Here’s their Q&A with Vasquez.
● Miami art and music blog RevMiami posted 5 Questions With Luis Diaz, who discusses among other things the Ron Jeremy caricature on his studio door.
● The Aug. 22 deadline is quickly approaching to submit work for The Myth of Power, which opens Oct. 16 at 1310 Gallery in Fort Lauderdale.
● A video of Miami artist Adriana Carvalho at work in her studio.
● House of Vintage owner Michelle Parparian has officially launched her 5-week road trip to antique stores, boutiques and thrift shops to hunt down vintage finds to bring back to South Florida. You can follow along on her and Amanda Linton’s new blog Vintage Pickers at Vintagepickers.wordpress.com.
● Artists are needed to create table centerpieces for The Muse Awards 2011. The gig pays $4,000 and deadline for submissions is Aug. 16. Check out this video about the call to artists for The Muse Awards.
● Miami Herald recently made a video about Wynwood artists who live in their studios.
● Apothecary Fox interviewed Miami artist Danny Brito.
● It seems from this recently posted video, titled No Locals Allowed, that there’s a documentary in the works about Art Basel.
● Miami Writer’s Prize winner Annie Hollingsworth wrote an insightful review of Optic Nerve XII at MOCA at Artlurker.
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