Email Author Alfredo Triff

2004 Stories by Alfredo Triff

• A Fine Sense of Place

  published December 23, 2004

  In recent years, a lot of what passes for site-specific art seems like a recapitulation of average moments drawn from the land and environmental... More >>

• Art and Harmony

  published November 18, 2004

  Dominican Charo Oquet is a well-known Miami artist with a gift -- she is a master facilitator. Since 2003, as Edge Zones director, Oquet... More >>

• Life Is a Comic Strip

  published November 11, 2004

  Miami artist Victor Muñiz is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and an alumnus of Miami's New World School of the Arts.... More >>

• Physical Graffiti

  published October 28, 2004

  As our late-capitalist society grows in complexity and sophistication, so does the competition for our attention. One obvious symptom is today's... More >>

• Cubans New and Old

  published October 14, 2004

  The Spanish Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Español, or CCE) for years has been a unique place for interesting cultural exchanges... More >>

• Two Postmodern Nightmares

  published October 7, 2004

  Miami's art venues have experienced many changes recently, but OBJEX Artspace remains steadfast and safely in place. Now on exhibit there... More >>

• The Unseen Haiti

  published September 30, 2004

  Lespri Endepandan: Discovering Haitian Sculpture," now on display at FIU's Frost Art Museum, is a great show. This is the first time that... More >>

• Public Spaces, Private Lives

  published September 2, 2004

  Today's upscale airport lounge may seem the embodiment of international chic (MIA excluded, of course), but there was a time, from the Twenties... More >>

• She Loves Bugs

  published August 12, 2004

  According to artist Jack Bowman, performance art entails the following: It must be brief, unprecedented, and relevant. It involves an audience... More >>

• The Case for Critics

  published August 5, 2004

  Though critics have been the witnesses, commentators, and archivists of modern art's important achievements, they remain dubious figures who can... More >>

• The Master Comes to Town

  published July 15, 2004

  Louis Laloy, a critic, musicologist, and drug-addict célèbre, once told Jean Cocteau: "Some things should be tried only once." Laloy was r... More >>

• Out with the Old

  published July 8, 2004

  Recent artists' exhibitions such as "Making Up Carolyn" at Worm-Hole Laboratory, "The Last Show" at The House, and a flurry of articles in the... More >>

• Making It Happen

  published June 24, 2004

  Thanks to a group of individuals with vision, our arts scene keeps developing. Usually the vision is unfunded, and they start from scratch. So... More >>

• Through a Glass, Extravagantly

  published June 17, 2004

  In glass blowing, the gaffer shapes a molten mass of glass by blowing air into it through a tube. Around the first millennium B.C., Syrians... More >>

• Current Art Shows

  published June 17, 2004

  Cakewalk: Aesthetic experience and erogenous pleasure have always been close relatives, to be sure. But rather than any genuine... More >>

• Current Art Shows

  published June 10, 2004

  i am the resurrection: Works by Daniel Arsham, Ian Cooper, Jay Heikes, and Rachel Howe circle cautiously around Goth culture and the spate... More >>

• Current Art Shows

  published June 3, 2004

  i am the resurrection: Works by Daniel Arsham, Ian Cooper, Jay Heikes, and Rachel Howe circle cautiously around Goth culture and the spate... More >>

• Today's Students, Tomorrow's Artists

  published May 27, 2004

  As much as Miami has grown as an arts capital, there still is much to be done. The art explosion fostered by the migration of Art Basel has been... More >>

• Current Art Shows

  published May 27, 2004

  i am the resurrection: Works by Daniel Arsham, Ian Cooper, Jay Heikes, and Rachel Howe circle cautiously around Goth culture and the... More >>

• Miami, Crime, and Urban Design

  published May 20, 2004

  Did you know that Miami has the highest rate of violent crime in America? We are also the second most stressful city in the nation (after Tacoma,... More >>

• Current Art Shows

  published May 20, 2004

  All My Lies Are Wishes: Rubén Torres-Llorca is a conceptualist with superb craftsmanship. His photo series features blurred images,... More >>

• Current Art Shows

  published May 13, 2004

  All My Lies Are Wishes: Rubén Torres-Llorca is a conceptualist with superb craftsmanship. His photo series features blurred images,... More >>

• Current Art Shows

  published May 6, 2004

  All My Lies Are Wishes: Rubén Torres-Llorca is a conceptualist with superb craftsmanship. His photo series features blurred images,... More >>

• The View from Here

  published April 22, 2004

  For years Gustavo Acosta has untiringly pursued an imaginary space of architecture between the future and the past, nostalgia and satire,... More >>

• Current Art Shows

  published April 22, 2004

  Love & Slavery in Miami: Willie Keddell is an artist who tills the fields of perception. The urban furrows of marginality are his seedbed... More >>