Month: December 2003

I know many of you are orchid lovers. Check this out coming on PBS this week. Sorry for non-US residents.

“For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian rain forest. Now Hart Dyke is at it again in the most orchid-rich and politically unstable part of Papua New Guinea. NOVA investigates an all-consuming passion that for some people is more precious than life itself. Ranging from the scientific to the sociological, Orchid Hunter covers research at the forefront of plant biology. Long of interest to scientists because of their remarkable evolutionary history, orchids are equally exciting to collectors, who have made them a multibillion-dollar industry.”

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/programs/2915_orchid.html

Antoni Miralda’s sculpture in the Dacra office area.

Art Basel Miami Beach is just its second year has become THE most important art fair on the U.S. east coast. Also here is -Scope fair, a 4 story hotel filled with galleries, and NADA=New Art Dealers Alliance Fair in a vacant commercial bldg. Over in Miami debuting for the event was a new art space, Miami Art Central. And, as shown in the above picture the Miami Design District office of Dacra, the main developer of the area into the hottest gallery district in Miami. Craig Robbins is the principal of Dacra and a great supporter of art and artists.

I spent the entire day and into the evening trekking thru each of the above venues, with the exception of Miami Art Central which is some distant south. I’m working up a report of some kind on the events, art, and activities for Miamiartexchange.com. However, I have a final critique and exam to give this morning. I got a phone call yesterday telling me what “right on time” our Nayland Blake’s recent commentary is as edited on Miamiartexchange.com. Thank you Nayland!

I deleted an entry I didn’t like and am replacing it with an image of two birds of prey that are being rehabilitated and then released into the wild. The red shouldered hawk is named Carolina. I spent too much time talking with the guy that had the birds I forgot to get the owl’s name or gender. This was taken at the beginning of Oct. at Fairchild Tropical Garden. (This is a layered image.)

World AIDS Day = Day Without Art