{"id":13028,"date":"2018-12-06T06:51:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=13028"},"modified":"2018-12-06T06:51:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:51:46","slug":"hanukkah-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=13028","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Miami Art Week this year runs from December 3 -9. I won’t be there, so I’ll miss out on press releases that try to answer questions along the line of what’s the point?\u00a0\u201cSlowing down and paying attention to the\u00a0art,\u201d <\/em>we are told, which makes me laugh. I guess that is a good thing. Also a good thing: I am not a gallery worker.<\/p>\n

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An even better thing is taking Miami in, prestigious fairs or not, when you manage to escape the crowds of hanger-on’s. I was there some years back during Hanukkah and had a blast; \u00a0the city is a mecca for street photography, the graffiti impressive and the angular nature of much of the architecture augmented by the stark, glazing light.<\/p>\n

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As is typical for me, though, the best parts were the nature experiences, whether at the Fairchild Botanical Gardens, or during a day hike with a guide in the mangrove swamps.<\/p>\n

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Close encounters with the local wildlife, alligators, iguanas and all, made it into the journal titled What to tell my imaginary grand children<\/em>,<\/p>\n

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and a sense of gratitude for all those incredible sights made it into the journal titled Heuer’s life rocks<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Note how much pattern there is in the landscape.<\/p>\n

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Between red tides and rising sea levels those excursions will soon be a thing of the past, so instead of \u201cSlow down and pay attention to the\u00a0art,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>my advice would be: “Hurry up and pay attention to the landscape.” \u00a0<\/em>Photographs today are a placeholder for just that.<\/p>\n

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Below is a guide to the cornucopia of art offerings, for those who are on site.<\/p>\n

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Your Concise Guide to Miami Art Week 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n