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Beyond the Fairs: Must-See Exhibitions in Miami During ABMB | Artinfo

There are plenty of gallery and museum exhibitions on view this week, as well as eclectic one-off shows.

Last we checked there are upwards of 1,918 satellite fairs orbiting around the main event of Art Basel Miami Beach. (Don’t quote us on that figure.) But if you’d rather your art experience n

- https://www.facebook.com/snowpoet - https://twitter.com/snow_poet - recorded on 6/11/13 at giant wafer studios - additional piano played by kit downes (www.kitdownes.com) - recorded & mixed by alex killpartrick - produced by chris hyson & alex killpartrick

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmkrIm0hfo)

Where is my echo? from Barbara Philipp on Vimeo.

Starting with Boyle Heights, we are going to visit different neighborhoods of Los Angeles every other week. We believe looking into the history of these neighborhoods is as transformative as making projections to its future. Boyle Heights is a neighborhood east of Downtown Los Angeles with one of the youngest populations in the city. Today, many of our initiatives are located or working in this area, including our Health grantee, Public Matters and our Income & Employment grantees ELACC and LURN.

(all images via the Los Angeles Public Library)

Found from various places online:

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Angela Y. Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis - Race, Women, and Class

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (link updated 1/14)

The Grossmalerman Show Episode 4 from Guy Richards Smit on Vimeo.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP2f8y9k65A)

Uni and Chloe Zola Volcano spoke with author and artist Tom McCarthy about Salvador Dalí, anthropology, and zombie porn.

Ryan Van Winkle discusses art and citizenship with Igor Štiks, who is investigating the art of the Occupy movement and exploring the relationship between political movements and aesthetics. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle @rvwable and produced by Colin Fraser @kailworm of Culture Laser Productions http://www.culturelaser.com @culturelaser. We acknowledge the financial assistance of Creative Scotland.