Remember that subaquatic ‘eye of fire’ boiling like a cauldron in the Gulf of Mexico a few weeks ago? Another chapter in our woeful history of blowouts, releasing millions of gallons of crude oil into the open sea, presenting us with mortifying images of dead and near-dead oil-slicked marine creatures gasping for air. Continue reading
As the art fair parties on Miami Beach raged on ad nauseum last week, I found myself experiencing a much more subtle level of repulsion at the new Seventeen Gallery space on the Bowery in New York, watching artist Marianna Simnett having her voice box injected with Botox in her modern parable titled The Needle … Continue reading