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It takes laser focus to distill a vision to its unadorned essence. In 2007, Julie Davidow channeled her inner alchemist to strike gold when she co-authored a coffee-table tome with photographer Paul Clemence. Their book, Miami Contemporary Artists, showcasing more than 100 South Florida artists...
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Midtown/Wynwood/Design District
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More than 35 years after Steven Spielberg's Jaws positioned the shark as our most feared domestic terrorist, marine biologists are still assessing the damage the film caused in the public psyche. But documentaries like Sharkwater and exhibitions like "Shark!" — organized by, and premiering...
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Fort Lauderdale
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De La Cruz Collection :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10:00am
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Most major cities have publicly funded museums — giant freaking buildings full of art. We do things differently in Miami, where private citizens with great art collections step up, open them to the public, and offer tours for school kids. That's culture, baby. For instance, the De La Cruz...
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Midtown/Wynwood/Design District
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HistoryMiami :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., June 30 until Sun., July 22, 10:00am
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When ABC aired Pan Am, its new series about the glory days of air travel in the '60s, we wondered if it would include Miami. After all, the airline began and ended in our city despite living out its heyday at its NYC headquarters. It was established on Miami's Dinner Key in 1927 to carry mail...
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Downtown/Overtown
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Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., January 10 until Sat., March 31, 9:00am-6:00pm
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Both timely and haunting, "Global Caribbean III: Haiti Kingdom of This World" is a resonant survey of a group of nearly 20 contemporary artists whose work explores the chaotic state of nature and upheaval reigning in the turbulent island nation.
The exhibit, which borrows its name from a novel...
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Midtown/Wynwood/Design District
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Frost Art Museum :
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 29 until Sun., April 1, 12:00pm-5:00pm
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A disturbing vision of nature profoundly shaped by man is the subject of María Thereza Negreiros's new exhibit, ushering in an early spring at the Frost Art Museum. In her solo show, "Offerings"the Brazilian native presents a suite of compelling canvases that isolate the intricate beauty...
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Sweetwater/Westchester/West Miami
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Art Miami Pavilion :
Daily from Thu., February 16 until Mon., February 20, 11:00am-7:00pm
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If auction house sales can gauge the fortune of art fairs, the newbie Art Wynwood, this Thursday through Monday, seems poised to reap a windfall.
Bigwig auctioneers like Christie’s and Sotheby’s saw the hammer drop on stellar sales last year and are optimistic the recent bull...
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Midtown/Wynwood/Design District
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Coconut Grove Convention Center :
Daily from Sat., February 18 until Mon., February 20, 10:00am-6:00pm
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Fans of fine television have rooted for Miami psychopath Dexter for the past six seasons. Who can resist the show’s twisted yet intriguing plot? But true Dexter obsessives know that the characters are based on Miami novelist Jeff Lindsay’s series. His dark humor was translated into...
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Coconut Grove
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Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., November 29 until Sun., February 19, 1:00pm
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Years before Mark Handforth rocketed to international fame, in 1996 he was the first local artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art. As MOCA celebrates its 15th anniversary, the artist returns to the museum with a vengeance. And this time MOCA isn't big enough to contain all...
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Upper Eastside/Miami Shores/Biscayne Park
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Miami Art Museum :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Tue., February 21 until Sun., May 13, 10:00am-5:00pm
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For Miami Art Museum honchos, the dream of a gilded Xanadu on the bay can be daunting. Imagine having to go around hat-in-hand after potential donors in this imploded economy. Then imagine having to swallow your pride and sell the museum’s naming rights to a real estate developer, and...
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Central Dade
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World Erotic Art Museum :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Wed., February 1 until Wed., February 29, 11:00am-10:00pm
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It seems like lately we’re all feeling nostalgic for an earlier time. We can’t miss an episode of Mad Men or Boardwalk Empire, we’re reveling in vintage fashion like flapper dresses, and some of the most popular music on the radio references the Jazz Age and classic Motown....
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Out of Town
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The Wolfsonian-FIU :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Mon., October 3 until Mon., August 13, 12:00pm
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The late author John Updike once wrote that his goal was to “give the mundane its beautiful due.” That spirit is alive and
well in “Manifest and Mundane: Scenes of Modern America,” a new exhibit at the Wolfsonian on display Monday and running through August 2012. Those who...
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South Beach
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Frost Art Museum :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., January 25 until Sun., April 1, 10:00am-5:00pm
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Annette Turrillo is darn proud of her gender. The Caracas-born, Paris-based artist is all about womanhood and the feminine mystique. Though she began her formal training in urban design, Turrillo branched into fine arts in the early ’90s and began showing seriously around the end of that...
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Sweetwater/Westchester/West Miami
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Lowe Art Musuem :
Every week Sunday from Sun., January 29 until Sun., March 25, 12:00pm-4:00pm
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In the '50s, we worried about the Cold War; today we're mostly concerned with wars staged in deserts. The '50s marked the beginning of the Mad Men era; today we just watch Mad Men on television. A lot of things have changed in the past six decades. But through it all — from Duane Eddy to...
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Coral Gables/South Miami
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On most days, office drones, students, and thousands of other commuters who take the Metrorail downtown are too busy rushing to work, school, or shopping to stop and notice their surroundings.
But at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, Ivan Toth Depeña’s new, public,...
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Downtown/Overtown
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Remember Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? It's the movie that made every child of the '80s fantasize about being an unwitting science experiment — even if it meant having a father like zany scientist Wayne Szalinski — so they could camp out in discarded Lego blocks and battle vicious...
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Coral Gables/South Miami
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In the '80s, Miguel Paredes came of age as a New York City tagger, and he has used his graffiti background as the launching pad for a successful career in the world of high art. Though clearly grounded in the concepts of street art, Paredes is a versatile stylist with the ability to paint both...
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Midtown/Wynwood/Design District
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Bass Museum of Art :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., December 1 until Sun., March 4, 11:00am
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Erwin Wurm, Austria's inimitable conceptual prankster, has fascinated us with work that plays at the margins of transformations and boundaries. He once wedged a single-family home into the façade of a Vienna museum, and last summer he presented his version of an anorexic house at the...
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South Beach
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HISPANIC BRANCH library :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Mon., October 31 until Thu., March 1, 10:00am
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Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte chokes up when he talks about his 15-year friendship with La Reina de la Salsa, Celia Cruz. “Celia was an inspiration for me; she was the light,” the New York-based photographer whispers after catching his breath. Rodriguez-Duarte met the doyenne of Cuban music...
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Little Havana
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Miami Art Museum :
Every week Saturday, Sunday from Sun., January 15 until Sun., February 26, 12:00pm-5:00pm
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Dana Schutz's absurdist narratives traffic in the weird and whimsical, roping the spectator into a world that's at once vaguely familiar yet oddly peculiar. One of the most imaginative artists of her generation, Schutz creates bold paintings and drawings that pick at the scab of our cultural...
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Central Dade
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Frost Art Museum :
Daily from Wed., January 18 until Sun., April 1
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The Frost Art Museum salutes 2012 with a duet of solos by women artists, one of whom explores the feminine universe while the other creates vivid canvases that till the furrows of life in the Amazon. Annette Turillo focuses on the theme of women in “Women and the Eternal Feminine,”...
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Sweetwater/Westchester/West Miami
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World Erotic Art Museum :
Daily from Tue., November 29 until Sat., March 31, 11:00am
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Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a master of the Dutch Golden Age, not a master of golden showers. Or was he? Probably not. But that doesn't mean he didn't create works that were considered risque for the 1600s. A collection of 20 of Rembrandt's etchings, which historians,...
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Out of Town
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Dezer Schauhalle :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Wed., December 14 until Wed., February 29, 12:00pm-5:00pm
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How do you attract the peepers to your spanking-new 250,000-square-foot art and automobile museum during a whirlwind December when the eyes of the international art scene have been left glazed over by Basel?
If you are mogul collector and developer Michael Dezer, the answer is simple. You fill...
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West Palm Beach
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Bass Museum of Art :
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., April 30 until Sun., March 3, 10:00am
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When the ancient working stiff was preparing for his journey into the afterlife, little did he know he would spend decades gathering dust in a musty Wynwood warehouse. But that's exactly where the Egyptian craftsman dating back to the 25th or 26th Dynasty (808-518 B.C.) was found inside a...
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South Beach
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Miami Art Museum :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 19 until Sun., March 18, 10:00am
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Arguably the most important artist of the past century, Marcel Duchamp and his readymades changed art forever. By calling mundane objects such as bottle racks, typewriter dust covers, and hat racks art, the French genius destroyed the barricades separating art from everyday life. He also...
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Central Dade
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