Email Author Carlos Suarez De Jesus

2005 Stories by Carlos Suarez De Jesus

• Art Capsules

  published December 29, 2005

  A Day and Forever: Ali Prosch makes a jaw-dropping statement with this multimedia exhibition sprinkled with witty doses of flair and drama... More >>

• Ideological Activists

  published December 29, 2005

  Stepping inside Wynwood's new Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (HACS), one is instantly surprised by an image of a visibly aroused Jesus Christ... More >>

• Master of All He Surveys

  published December 22, 2005

  On one of Wynwood's grittier side streets, a towering Fernando Botero sculpture of a nude male torso squats majestically behind a gated sidewalk,... More >>

• Blowing Hot and Cold

  published December 15, 2005

  Baby-faced Anthony Goicolea is best known for creating unnerving digitally altered photographic self-portraits in which he appears as a frolicking... More >>

• All About

  published December 8, 2005

  The best (and cheapest) gift you can give your family this year is time, so call up your mom and bring her to see Pedro Almodvar's Academy... More >>

• Exiles in Never-Never Land

  published December 8, 2005

  After ingesting the weird brew served up at the Bettcher Gallery, one is left wondering whether Toc Fetch and Tricia Cline are savant fugitives... More >>

• Broadcasting Basel Banter

  published December 1, 2005

  It's that white-patent-leather-loafer-wearing Casanova's night out in South Beach after a day of flipping flapjacks at Denny's, and he's... More >>

• Frisbee's Art Asylum

  published December 1, 2005

  When cinema mavericks formed United Artists, studio bigwigs called their efforts a case of the lunatics taking charge of the asylum. Risking... More >>

• Interactive Romper Room

  published December 1, 2005

  One doesn't have to be related to Paulie Walnuts or Big Pussy Bonpensiero or their goombahs to hook up with conceptual crew Friends with You.... More >>

• The Color of Money

  published December 1, 2005

  Touted as the most successful and prestigious event of its kind in the hemisphere, Art Basel Miami Beach will massage the egos of some of the... More >>

• Patrolling Picasso

  published December 1, 2005

  During Art Basel, local art dealers exhibiting works on consignment from domestic and international galleries are stocking inventories that... More >>

• Glamour, Parties, and Oh Yes, Art

  published December 1, 2005

  As Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), considered by many the monster truck of contemporary art fairs, rounds the bend on its varsity season, South... More >>

• Got Art?

  published November 17, 2005

  Relief for frazzled nerves, hypertension, stress, and other ailments might be as close as a Walgreens, but at two Miami Beach stores you don't... More >>

• Saints

  published November 10, 2005

  The terrain of the holy can appear a rough row to hoe in a pair of strangely provocative exhibits fertile with the sacred and profane. "The... More >>

• That Exhibit Really Blew

  published November 3, 2005

  Lenny Tachmes christened his new space near the Design District the Saturday night before Wilma made landfall. After sinking thousands of dollars... More >>

• The Human Condition

  published October 27, 2005

  Gutsy Andrew Reach is an artist with steel in his spine. His show, "Beyond Pain," on exhibit at Tip Freeman's Paintings and Art... More >>

• In Darkness There Is Light

  published October 20, 2005

  The Devil is hidden among the details of Diego Singh's feverishly fresh, knee-bending corpus of work on display at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery.... More >>

• Stargazing

  published October 13, 2005

  A skull-staving double whammy at the Kevin Bruk Gallery has the polished allure of the Bellagio’s high-kicking showgirls and, conceptually, pay... More >>

• Cocaine and Me: A Memoir

  published October 13, 2005

  The summer of 1977 I was seventeen years old and working a pay-by-day gig on a construction site in the Grove, jackhammering concrete slabs at a... More >>

• Visions and Apparitions

  published October 6, 2005

  What first sprang to mind upon encountering Christian Duran's New Growth, 2005, was a landscaper I once saw driving along a... More >>

• Unsettling Sights

  published September 29, 2005

  For decades a seamy varnish of intrigue has crackled over the contemporary art world regarding Ana Mendieta's marriage to Carl Andre. Many... More >>

• MoCA Milestone

  published September 15, 2005

  When the Museum of Contemporary Art launched its rookie campaign with "Defining the Nineties: Consensus Making in New York, Miami, and Los... More >>

• Bobbin and Weavin'

  published September 8, 2005

  Take two firecracker curators with a taste for edgy shenanigans, rub them against Miami's marquee collectors, and -- voila! -- you have an... More >>

• Idols and Effigies

  published August 11, 2005

  For thousands of years portraits have been a favored vehicle for trumpeting the virtues of the rich and famous, lionizing our fearless leaders,... More >>

• Girls on Film

  published August 4, 2005

  Alabao! From bongo-banging bathing beauties to piquant pistoleras in their birthday suits, Leo Carbajal's Cuban women are a... More >>