“Close-Up: Luis Cruz Azaceta,” Cuban Art News

This fall saw the opening of not one but two solo shows by Luis Cruz Azaceta: Falling Sky, on view through December 15 at Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery in Santo Domingo, and Louisiana Mon Amour, on view through February 8 at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana. Concern for climate change, environmental disasters, and other upheavals (natural, social, and political) is a common thread running through both shows. Falling Sky presents a series of recent works under that title. Louisiana Mon Amour presents works from a thematically related series, Shifting States, as well as an earlier series, Museum Plans. The show’s title work is an installation of more than 20 objects, constructed and reassembled using duct tape—a metaphor for life after Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, and other environmental catastrophes.

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“Sleepwalking on Water,” The Wall Street Journal

The Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has rolled out his “Water” project this fall with the synergistic marketing aggression of a Hollywood blockbuster. Seven galleries in six cities and three countries have been selling gigantic examples of the work, which offers his global perspective on water and civilization. Some prints are 10 feet across. “Watermark,” a feature-length documentary he co-directed with Jennifer Baichwal, has opened in select cities across Canada. The big, handsome and pricey catalog ($128), published by Steidl, even has an interactive iPad app.

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“Miami art show helps spotlight New Orleans artists and galleries,” The Advocate

If you’re an art aficionado, you know that the place to be in early December is Miami, where the international art show “Art Basel — Miami Beach” fills dozens of pavilions with works by artists from nearly every continent. The event and its satellite shows, ending today, attract nearly 60,000 people over six days. It’s the only annual art show that the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans takes part in.

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“Defying Gravity: Talking with Lin Emery,” Art Voices Magazine

In the more than half-a-century span of her career, Lin Emery has come to be recognized as one of America’s foremost kenetic sculpture artists. She has received world-wide commissions for some three dozen architectural-scale polished aluminum sculptures, each inspired by the forms and forces of nature. In 2012, Hudson Hills Press published a coffee-table tome detailing more than sixty years of work. It’s a beautiful book, heavy and dense with glossy photographs, one that attempts to encapsulate a lifetime of dedicated labor.

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Kate Blacklock: Still Life / Nightscape

Still Life / Nightscape is Kate Blacklock’s first exhibition with the gallery. The artist’s medium-scale works on metal present choreographed tableaus reminiscent of Dutch Vanitas paintings in one series and nightscapes, recalling Japanese screen paintings, in the other. The compositions, which are created using a flatbed scanner as a camera, are captured on dye infused aluminum. They are described by the artist as existing in an ambiguous space, not subject to the laws of gravity. Each of the works conjures an enigmatic moment frozen in time.

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Pard Morrison: Chromaccumulations

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Chromaccumulations, an exhibition of new work by contemporary minimalist artist Pard Morrison. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from December 7 – December 28, 2013. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance, Saturday, December 7 from 6-8 pm.

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