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Current Art Shows
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Current art shows
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: January 5, 2006
A Day and Forever: Ali Prosch makes a jaw-dropping statement with this multimedia exhibition sprinkled with witty doses of flair and drama that portray the lifestyles of the...
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Art
Ideological Activists
Take a tour through Hardcore's sewer of softcore dementia
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 lounging atop a tattered red...
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Art
Art Capsules
Current shows
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 that portray the lifestyles of the...
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Art
Master of All He Surveys
Kingpin dealer stakes grand claim on the hood
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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, its crotch covered by a fig...
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Blowing Hot and Cold
These exhibits will freeze and sear the cockles of your heart
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 troupe of incestuous...
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Exiles in Never-Never Land
Tales of displacement when there's no place like home
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 from Bellvue's Peter Pan ward or...
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See/Be Seen
All About
Your mama
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus, Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik and Lyssa Oberkreser
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 Award-winning movie All About My...
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Feature
Glamour, Parties, and Oh Yes, Art
Miami plays host to one of the world's most illustrious art fairs
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 Florida finds itself frozen in the...
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Patrolling Picasso
Safeguarding your stock against sticky-fingered crooks
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: December 1, 2005
During Art Basel, local art dealers exhibiting works on consignment from domestic and international galleries are stocking inventories that include some staggeringly priced...
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The Color of Money
Basel high rollers are jetting into town ready to blow big bucks
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 wealthiest people on the planet....
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Interactive Romper Room
Art is as good a reason as any to act infantile
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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. Made-in-Miami Sam Borkson and...
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Frisbee's Art Asylum
Cavalier artists are getting crazy in South Beach
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 similar criticism, indie curator...
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Broadcasting Basel Banter
A pair of Miami artists is spicing up the airwaves
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 wondering, Who are all of those gaudy...
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Art
Got Art?
It might be visually stimulating, but can it improve your health?
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 have to comb the shelves to find...
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Saints
The two very different sides
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 Saint Makers: A Living Tradition in...
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Metro
That Exhibit Really Blew
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 into an old Floridian home and...
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The Human Condition
From banal and bizarre to strange and sad
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 Gallery, features nearly 40 riotously...
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In Darkness There Is Light
An artist exorcises his creative demons
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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. His exhibit, "Rid of Me or The...
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Stargazing
The sky is just the beginning
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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, pays out like a juicy row of...
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Cocaine and Me: A Memoir
It all began when I got that job at the Mutiny Hotel
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 shoddily laid duplex. The pay...
