Miami Art Week 2014: Splatters, Drips and Drops

Well-designed, colorful chaos across painting and sculpture at multiple fairs

There’s most likely thought behind every minute detail within an artist’s work—even if that stray droplet or bleeding line feels more like the product of chance. At this year’s Miami Art Week many pieces embraced—even celebrated—the chaos of fluidity and fluid impact. Whether that’s a drizzled glaze and the impact of gravity, a color that’s been spritzed, or an entire installation of rain-like pieces. Although …

Baby Alpaca: Roller Coaster

In advance of next year’s forthcoming EP, Brooklyn duo Baby Alpaca has released a beautiful new (and sexually charged) track, “Roller Coaster.” It’s been almost a year since the band dropped a new track, and this is well worth the wait, as melody meets soul beneath lead singer Chris Kittrell’s rich, alluring vocals and flirtatious lyrics. It’s music for lovemaking, or at least inspiration.

Studio Visit: Sculptor Matt Kinney

From his live/work space in Beacon, NY, the carpenter and artist creates wooden pieces that brilliantly trick the eye

by Janine M. Stankus In the sun-splayed parlor of his partially renovated 1850s home, Matt Kinney’s artwork mingles with tools of his craft. Paint buckets, sliced and with wood medallions at their mouths, lean beneath a bench strewn with chisels, rasps and mallets. In the corner, a burled axe gleams, nearly swallowed against the swirling camouflage of a matching maple stump. Kinney, a carpenter, creates …