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Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: February 16, 2006
Advent: No matter how much you flog a nag, it will never run like a racehorse. Curated by New York-based artist Lou Laurita, this show seeks to explore themes of coming into...
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Snitzer Takes Manhattan
Columbia grads rocket into town
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 allowing him to catch his...
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PBJ and Diamonds
Vik Muniz gets creative with condiments
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 provocative nature. Muniz has garnered...
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Off to the Races
Triple contenders tangle at the finish line
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: February 9, 2006
ArtCenter/South Florida's latest exhibition, "Advent," evokes a thought: No matter how much you flog a nag, it will never run like a racehorse. Curated by New York-based...
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Ding-Dong! The Dictator Is Dead
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 Parkinson’s addled brother has just kicked the bucket. Fidel...
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Royal Paint in the Arse
Artful scallywag ends up a great Briton
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: February 2, 2006
The Malcolm Morley exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) dishes out a meaty chunk of the painter's career and hints at a knockabout journey that smacks of a Louis...
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Rich Fertilizer
An exhibition of organic art
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery....
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Party Crashers
Malcolm Morley and jazz greats collide at MoCA
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 into a consistent launch pad for homegrown...
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Pulling No Punches
Kentridge's big MAC attack delivers a KO
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: January 26, 2006
William Kentridge's heavyweight exhibit at Miami Art Central ranks best of the season and is a can't-miss ticket for art aficionados craving a knockout. The display showcases...
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Build ’Em High
Reading is fundamental for this exhibit
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 wickedly formulated plot snaring the...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
Flatlining fare mixes trash with treasure
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: January 19, 2006
Scrapping for a share of the market in the lingering shadow of Art Basel, Art Miami's sixteenth installment left some exhibitors complaining the fair is against a wall and...
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We’re Only Human
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: January 12, 2006
During the past few years, Arte del Barrio, a collaborative troupe of painters, photographers, sculptors, auteurs, musicians, and actors, has been on a whirlwind tear,...
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Trash Talk
“Advent” features recycling resolutions
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 the road, where the junk awaits...
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Selective Perception
The Bass Museum's exhibit offers the challenge of reactivity
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: January 12, 2006
With its unfurled red carpet, jutting boom microphones, flashing lights, and the sound of screeching reporters jockeying for an interview, Malachi Farrell's Interview...
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By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: January 12, 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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Riding the Earth's Curl
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 projection installation by multimedia...
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The Other Art Fair
Art Miami is kickin’ it with international flair
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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 broaden its appeal, featuring 50 new...
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The Price of Passion
Poetically arresting imagery takes the strangest forms
By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Published: January 5, 2006
Tijuana-based Tania Candiani teases rather than ignites fires with her solo show at Kunsthaus Miami, but her work might provoke if one's perceptual libido responds to erotic...
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Current Art Shows
Art Capsules
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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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...
