Email Author Carlos Suarez De Jesus

2006 Stories by Carlos Suarez De Jesus

• The Other Art Fair

  published January 5, 2006

  Once considered the Carmen Miranda of local art expos for its predominantly Latin flavor, Art Miami has undergone a radical makeover to... More >>

• Riding the Earth's Curl

  published January 5, 2006

  The Miami Beach Cinematheque plans to send Art Miami off with a sensory jarring splash tonight when it presents "Waves," a site specific... More >>

• Trash Talk

  published January 12, 2006

  It is difficult to deny we live in a throwaway society. We all visit the curb twice a week, unceremoniously dumping a chunk of our lives next to... More >>

• We’re Only Human

  published January 12, 2006

  During the past few years, Arte del Barrio, a collaborative troupe of painters, photographers, sculptors, auteurs, musicians, and actors,... More >>

• Build ’Em High

  published January 19, 2006

  For his first solo museum show here in a decade, Ruben Torres Llorca has chewed up the script of a head scratching whodunit and spit out a... More >>

• Party Crashers

  published January 26, 2006

  When the Museum of Contemporary Art raised its inaugural champagne toast during Miami’s leaner art years, few dreamed it would evolve... More >>

• Rich Fertilizer

  published January 26, 2006

  You won’t need to know the difference between mulch and manure to get your green thumb on and cultivate a conceptually blooming patch of Eden... More >>

• Ding-Dong! The Dictator Is Dead

  published February 2, 2006

  It’s the wee hours of Valentine’s Day 2008 and Raul Castro rouses members of Cuba’s Communist party, announcing his... More >>

• PBJ and Diamonds

  published February 9, 2006

  Brazilian artist Vik Muniz is a heck of a prankster whose works are as apt to tickle the ribs as they are to zap the noggin with their... More >>

• Snitzer Takes Manhattan

  published February 9, 2006

  It can be a royal mishap to jimmy a word in edgewise while flapping gums with a bigwig collector waxing thunderstruck over a young painter. After... More >>

• Underwater Treasures

  published February 16, 2006

  Raqib Shaw’s paintings smack you in the face with their intoxicating imagery. His shimmering coral reefs burst with psychedelic flora,... More >>

• Mob Scene

  published February 16, 2006

  Mixing art, performance, music, and booze is a high-octane formula that has undergone more face lifts than Joan Rivers. But talking to the lads at... More >>

• Domino Jones

  published March 2, 2006

  Colorfully clad in traditional guayaberas, and chomping on their cheroots as if the cigar were their last meal, the veteran players tossing bones... More >>

• Scrapping Old Ideals

  published March 9, 2006

  Looking at Jean Villamizar’s paintings, one senses a riff on a popular theme: the rejection of chauvinist imposed notions of feminine... More >>

• Big Deal

  published March 9, 2006

  The Miami Art Museum is exhibiting seven large scale paintings by American master James Rosenquist, in what the curator hails as an... More >>

• Take It Outside

  published March 16, 2006

  At what is arguably South Florida’s balmiest waterfront setting -- the atoll at Matheson Hammock Park -- fifteen artists are exhibiting... More >>

• Potatoes and Eggs

  published March 23, 2006

  One of Latin America’s most innovative contemporary artists, Victor Grippo, was a bit of an alchemist. He succeeded in harnessing... More >>

• Latino Arts Afire

  published March 23, 2006

  Those who think a Latin is a Latin is a Latin and are still barking, “Yo quiero Taco Bell,” are rubbing up against the wrong fire... More >>

• Masters of Their Domain

  published March 30, 2006

  The Frost Art Museum is tapping into a heady brew of emerging talent and serving up works by a trio of students set to graduate from Florida... More >>

• Back in the Day

  published April 6, 2006

  Those who think Art Basel injected big-time art into Miami’s anemic cultural artery need to visit the Bakehouse Art Complex. Its... More >>

• Facing His Fears

  published April 6, 2006

  Artist Leonel Matheu seems to have a skull full of anxiety regarding the human condition. Consequently his is a provocative world where a... More >>

• Cut It Out

  published April 6, 2006

  Carlos Estévez has taken sacrifice in the name of art to an extreme. For the past several months, the artist has risked carpal... More >>

• Cut It Out

  published April 13, 2006

  Carlos Estévez has taken sacrifice in the name of art to an extreme. For the past several months, the artist has risked carpal... More >>

• Cut It Out

  published April 13, 2006

  Carlos Estévez has taken sacrifice in the name of art to an extreme. For the past several months, the artist has risked carpal tunnel... More >>

• Architecture Digested

  published April 13, 2006

  If future generations attempt to reconstruct a sense of Miami today, Glexis Novoa’s drawings and installations — rendered in graphite on... More >>