On Sunday, Dominican-born artist named Maximo Caminero walked into the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and smashed a million-dollar vase. Caminero’s complaint? That local galleries put all their time and effort into international artists of high esteem, and forsake the locals. But here’s the thing: iconoclasm is itself an iconic act.
S. Brent Rodriguez Plate
S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, is a writer, public speaker, editor, and part-time college professor whose books include A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects, Blasphemy: Art that Offends, and Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World. His essays have been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Christian Century, The Islamic Monthly, Huffington Post, Killing the Buddha, and elsewhere. He is a board member of the Interfaith Coalition of Greater Utica, NY, President of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life/CrossCurrents, and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief. He holds a visiting appointment at Hamilton College, NY. Twitter: @splate1
