About an hour outside of Orlando, past derelict mom-and-pop convenience stores, warehouses, and modest homes wrung out by the hands of time, sits the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. Florida Southern College’s campus in Lakeland is host to the Read More …
At the end of 2015, upon check-in at one of my favorite NYC haunts, The Ludlow Hotel, I spied a pair of Keith Haring works flanking the lobby fireplace. There were several people drinking cocktails, conversing, and reading throughout the warm, intimate space, and I Read More …
I am of the belief that architecture fails to be significant if we don’t address it in the context of its intended use for humans. If we somehow fail to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship between edifice and dweller, we’re doing a great injustice to both. Read More …
Back in February, I was organizing papers at Gary Bolding’s home studio when I came across a typewritten resumé of his as old as I am. The first page of the yellowed papers, still neatly clipped together, included the addresses and telephone numbers of just Read More …
Last December, I took my annual pilgrimage to South Florida to suffer through the crowds and traffic and attend Art Basel Miami Beach. Though the official Art Basel event takes place in the Miami Beach Convention Center, there is a veritable plethora of art-centric events Read More …
I was first exposed to Doris Salcedo’s diverse oeuvre while working toward my art history minor in college. It was during a Latin American art history course, taught by the insightful and passionate Cyriaco Lopes, where I became acquainted and enamored with the talent of Read More …
Tucked away between shops and restaurants in a sleepy town 30 miles north of Orlando, sits the Modernism Museum Mount Dora. Comprised of a relatively small, single-room gallery space which mimics the quaintness of the rest of Mount Dora, the Modernism Museum packs quite a Read More …