Stuart Sheldon
The Simple Math of Ecstasy
Seems we all need a minute right now. Utterly worn out by headlines and big picture thinking. Overwhelm demands radical reduction. A...
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 137 min read
The Bare Maximum
Last year, my son got straight A’s on his 10th grade report card. But, let’s be clear, this is not one of those insufferable “My child...
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Stuart Sheldon
Mar 256 min read
Living In a Magic Box
We all endeavor to pad our nests with the feathers of our desires ... then fall backward after long days into these sumptuous...
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 5, 20236 min read
Keep Looking Up
Step outside, tilt your head back and raise your arms straight into the air. Silently gaze up at your hands, your fingers, the sunlight...
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Stuart Sheldon
Apr 20, 20235 min read
5 Years in the Faraway
Five years is a hefty chunk in a life. Moving to Costa Rica with our kids in 2018 was the luckiest thing I’ve ever done.
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 4, 20226 min read
Calm and Kind
It’s been well over a year since my last blog post … and what a year. Make that 4 years! That’s how long we’ve lived in Costa Rica. We...
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Stuart Sheldon
Mar 24, 20214 min read
Follow The Bubbles
Follow the Bubbles 3, Acrylic on our Costa Rica architectural plans, 31.5x23.5" 2000 “On the third day, my room became a cell, which...
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Stuart Sheldon
May 27, 20204 min read
Time to Swan Dive!
Our dads laughed in college together and later, Ron Rothberg and I giggled side-by-side in diapers. We haven't stopped laughing since....
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Stuart Sheldon
May 8, 20201 min read
Meet Your Makers: Robert Lee with Speak Fridays on PBS
The New Tropic's host, Stuart Sheldon, meets with Robert Lee, MC for Speakfridays, to learn about the origins of this gathering and how...
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Stuart Sheldon
May 8, 20201 min read
Meet Your Makers: Typoe on PBS
The New Tropic's host, Stuart Sheldon, goes behind the scenes with fellow Miami artist, Typoe, to get a glimpse into his creative process...
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Stuart Sheldon
Apr 4, 20201 min read
What Makes For Successful Activist Art? Cultured Magazine
Artists Stuart Sheldon and Zoë Buckman both created billboards for last year’s For Freedoms 50 State Initiative. As the largest creative...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 11, 20194 min read
It’s Such a Perfect Day*
Behold the Perfect Moment / Perfect Family / Perfect Life* In this recent photo, a gorgeous family camps on a faraway beach in paradise,...
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Stuart Sheldon
Sep 25, 20191 min read
Meet Stuart Sheldon, Voyage MIA Magazine
Today we’d like to introduce you to Stuart Sheldon. Stuart, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how...
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Stuart Sheldon
Jun 11, 20194 min read
What I Learned in My Bucket List Year in Costa Rica … by Leo Tolstoy
“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there...
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Stuart Sheldon
Mar 12, 20194 min read
Where You From? Where You Been? Where You Going?
Standing shoulder to shoulder as our kids sprinted down field last year, I casually mentioned to a fellow Miami soccer/surfer dad that we...
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Stuart Sheldon
Feb 5, 20194 min read
Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn’t do you any good whatsoever. In fact, it does you bad. Casts static between your ears,...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 19, 20181 min read
The People Who Defined Visual Culture in 2018, Artsy
If we were to bury a time capsule filled with vestiges of visual culture in 2018, we would include the work of the following...
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Stuart Sheldon
Nov 27, 20182 min read
King of The Jungle
“Dust everywhere… and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my...
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Stuart Sheldon
Nov 1, 20183 min read
A Hole Is To Dig
We’ve been in the faraway jungle nearly three months, and one enormous benefit I’ve noticed is how much less decision-making I face each...
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 25, 20181 min read
ARTCENTER/SOUTH FLORIDA AWARDS NEARLY $500,000 TO MIAMI-BASED ARTISTS, ARTFORUM
ArtCenter/South Florida in Miami Beach announced the inaugural recipients of the Ellies. Established earlier this year, the visual art...
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 18, 20181 min read
Miami Artist Crowdfunds Gun Reform Billboard Along I-95, Miami New Times
Stuart Sheldon’s oldest son was in elementary school the day 20 children were gunned down in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary....
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 12, 20181 min read
NOT YOUR AVERAGE BILLBOARD, The New Tropic
Local artist Stuart Sheldon has always produced art that pushed the envelope, even if that meant partying in a dilapidated gold house....
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 11, 20183 min read
Two Months in the Jungle
Moments after the car honked and we kissed the kids goodbye for another school day, backpacks on their shoulders, I heard excited voices...
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Stuart Sheldon
Sep 12, 20182 min read
We Left America
More precisely, as reminded by our local friends, we left the United States. We still live in America, Central America. Playa Grande,...
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Stuart Sheldon
May 29, 20182 min read
I Love Libraries – Museum of Contemporary Art Miami Exhibition Opens THIS THUR, May 31
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library." - Albert Einstein I just spent a year as a ProjectArt...
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Stuart Sheldon
Mar 7, 20183 min read
Like, Really Smart
A friend called me excitedly last year out of the blue. “I have an idea for one of your spiral paintings. What if you did all of Trump’s...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 6, 20172 min read
We’re All Pink Inside
A few months into dating my wife-to-be, we hit a rough patch and I thought I’d blown it. Utterly devastated, I wrote her a poem titled,...
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 25, 20173 min read
The American Dream in Postage Stamps
To know my immigrant story, watch Fiddler On The Roof. My ancestors, peasants in Poland, died in Auschwitz and arrived thru Ellis Island...
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Stuart Sheldon
Sep 20, 20172 min read
Dystopia the Beautiful – My 1st London Exhibition Opens Sep 28 – Oct 13
Burnt, Acrylic, American flag and inkjet book cover on canvas, 35″ x 19″ 2017. AVAILABLE. “I’m jus’ pain covered with skin.” John...
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Stuart Sheldon
May 31, 20173 min read
Artist March June 14th
We each have a song inside. We just need a bit of courage to sing it. I co-founded the Worldwide Artist March because, in our so-called...
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Stuart Sheldon
Mar 8, 20172 min read
Go Find Yourself, Go Fund Yourself
My father before the Best Books Ever Written piece he inspired – Thank You Dad, acrylic, book covers, paper, oil crayon on canvas,...
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Stuart Sheldon
Feb 21, 20173 min read
Friday Night Lights
In the Emmy-winning series, Friday Night Lights, actress Connie Britton slays as a smart woman in a dumb town. In Dillon, TX, where high...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 14, 20163 min read
Anger Issues?
“What are anger issues, Daddy?” My ever-perceptive 6-yr-old asked me this on the ride to school a few days ago, having somehow heard the...
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Stuart Sheldon
Nov 24, 20162 min read
SCOPE, Art Miami & Superfine – New Paintings and more!
“Stuart Sheldon created one of the billboards, an American flag posing spiralized questions about freedom. To him, it’s about urging...
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Stuart Sheldon
Nov 6, 20163 min read
The Silent Power of Art in Politics
Yesterday a reporter asked me why I thought art was important in politics. “Politics is people talking to us and at us. It’s words. The...
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Stuart Sheldon
Jun 9, 20164 min read
I Am The Greatest!
“I Ain’t Got No Quarrel With The VietCong… No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger” — Muhammad Ali, 1966. Political courage blazed in Ali at...
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Stuart Sheldon
May 25, 20163 min read
The Other F Word
Late one morning, long before children, I sat on the edge of a New Orleans hotel bed and exhaled audibly. Inside my skull, a spicy Jazz...
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Stuart Sheldon
Apr 27, 20162 min read
The Little Prince and the Big Boss
“Prince was no taller than me, yet he was larger than life. He had his own style,” my 5’2″ wife told our boys on the drive to school last...
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Stuart Sheldon
Mar 30, 20163 min read
Do We Ruin Our Kids By Giving Them a Better Life?
“I’m bored,” my seven-year-old barked at me, as I flipped eggs one sunny Saturday. I stomped in from the kitchen and pointed the spatula....
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Stuart Sheldon
Feb 23, 20162 min read
How to Face Yourself
My cheeky 6yr-old made goofy expressions in the mirror, raising his eyebrows and, finally, grimacing slightly. “Daddy, you know what I...
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Stuart Sheldon
Jan 21, 20162 min read
Fancy Nasty Forever!
If you made it to the epic Fancy Nasty finale bonfire last Saturday night, hosted by The New Tropic, lucky YOU. If not … next time (we’re...
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Stuart Sheldon
Jan 12, 20163 min read
Let’s Dance!
“So, what do you do,” an attractive woman asked me at a party in Colorado years ago. “I’m a filmmaker,” I said, taking a swig of Fat...
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Stuart Sheldon
Dec 17, 20154 min read
Follow the Turkey Vultures To Paradise
World-renownded street artist, t_w_o_o_n_e (Hiroyasu Tsuri) didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life as high school ended in 2003....
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Stuart Sheldon
Nov 4, 20151 min read
Fancy Nasty – Art Basel 2015
Are You More Fancy Or More Nasty? You’re not fooling anybody. We all know you’re BOTH! Let’s celebrate the light and the dark in each of...
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Stuart Sheldon
Oct 7, 20153 min read
Buzzing From the Stoke
At a religious service last month, invited to pray silently, I shut my eyes, inhaled deeply and began my routine gamut of wishes:...
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Stuart Sheldon
Sep 24, 20152 min read
Share Everything
Since I was a boy, I’ve dreamt all my friends would buy houses in cool places, and we’d ultimately just share one big,...
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Stuart Sheldon
Sep 2, 20152 min read
I’m ON FIRE!
BEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN – The Sea Always Wins, acrylic, book covers, paper on canvas, 66×56″ 2015, Stuart Sheldon When I was a young...
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Stuart Sheldon
Jul 22, 20153 min read
My 5-yr-old Just Watched Hard-Core Porn. Now What?
THE HORROR! Last month, poolside at the home of good friends, our host gave his sons, same age as ours, permission to have some screen...
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Stuart Sheldon
Jun 18, 20154 min read
My Kid’s NOT a Winner So Stop with the Trophies
My little brother strode the stage in his cap and gown, gave his med school dean an emphatic handshake and transitioned from Mister to...
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Stuart Sheldon
Apr 16, 20154 min read
A Hungry Man is an Angry Man
image by mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl THIS IS MY BRAIN ON POVERTY. Day 1 My 7-yo buried his face in a couch cushion, frustrated he could not...
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