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Although February ranks as a runt on the calendar, it's a giant in our cultural season and packs a punch. Much of its power is in Wynwood, where the Magic City's robust art...
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Magnus Sigurdarson stands on the corner of Ali Baba and Barack Obama avenues in Opa-locka while holding a cardboard sign that reads, "Occupy My Innocence."
"The 'Other' is in...
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Near the entrance of the Miami Art Museum, a self-portrait depicts artist Dana Schutz wide-eyed and gazing heavenward. Traffic-cone-colored locks frame her gray, wrinkled face....
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The year 2012 seems like it’ll be a bad one for Republicans. When they’re not busy proclaiming that solar flares will crisp the planet if Barack Obama is...
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Want to figure out what's addling the collective unconscious? No need to consult a shrink. Just head to Wynwood this weekend for the first Art Walk of the year.
Beginning at 6...
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Another holiday season has passed, and we still couldn't afford to stuff our loved ones' stockings with museum-quality paintings or sculptures. Fortunately, there are so many...
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Long before the media and the Internet were used by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann to inform public opinion, propagandists relied on old-fangled, Kafkaesque...
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Mark Handforth's colossal sculpture Blue Hanger dangles from the rafters near the entrance of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. It's gigantic enough to accommodate...
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Whether they are conveying notions of humanity’s tyrannical appetites or highest aspirations, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz know how to deliver an unforgettable...
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In the old days, if paint-slinging artists had a beef with their royal patrons, they had to keep their beaks closed or risk losing their heads. “Lowly serfs or artists...
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Erwin Wurm, Austria's inimitable conceptual prankster, has fascinated spectators with works that play at the margins of transformations and boundaries. Wurm once lodged a...
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What a difference a decade makes. During the tenth-anniversary edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, local artists, dealers, and arts organizations gave a rousing account of the...
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Sure, the big-money Warhols get all the headlines, but we all know what really gets your pulse jacked about Art Basel and its satellite fairs: the free booze and the really...
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Part blockbuster, part narrative of the wide-open range of contemporary art over the past few decades, "American Exuberance," opening at the Rubell Family Collection November...
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Ten years ago, organizer Samuel Keller persuaded Miami Beach to welcome a crowd of Swiss art freaks to town, transforming overnight a city derided as a cultural desert into the...
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Some Art Baselites strive for 24/7 consciousness, relying on chemical aids to cram in every possible exhibit. Others limit themselves to the fresh rash of graffiti murals...
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During childhood summers at his grandparents' home in Mobile, Alabama, Clifton Childree became obsessed with the silver-screen antics of slapstick icons Buster Keaton and...
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On a recent weekday morning at the Miami Art Museum, a group of third-graders sits on the floor under a painting commissioned for the Women's House of Detention on Rikers...
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You don't have to visit a tarot card reader to divine what Miami's top dealers are planning for the contemporary art fire sale called Art Basel Miami Beach.
Instead, stop by...
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"There's a whole subculture of people that live with their sex dolls," says Gary Farmer, cultural affairs program manager for the City of Miami Beach. "I couldn't present...
