Enrique Campuzano: During a moment of identity crisis, modern art created “appropriation,” the depiction of a well-known image in a different visual context — as distinguished from outright plagiarism. This is what Enrique Campuzano does with one of the giants of art history: Diego Velazquez. He’s not the first to…
It’s 1970, a year of political turmoil in Cuba, marked by a return of militarism and the consolidation of the totalitarian state. People leave by the thousands. One family splits apart, the mother and her young daughter traveling to Florida while the father stays behind. The understanding is that they…
Enrique Campuzano: During a moment of identity crisis, modern art created “appropriation,” the depiction of a well-known image in a different visual context — as distinguished from outright plagiarism. This is what Enrique Campuzano does with one of the giants of art history: Diego Velazquez. He’s not the first to…
Enrique Campuzano: During a moment of identity crisis, modern art created “appropriation,” the depiction of a well-known image in a different visual context — as distinguished from outright plagiarism. This is what Enrique Campuzano does with one of the giants of art history: Diego Velazquez. He’s not the first to…
Zaha Hadid is arguably the hottest living architect. After graduating from the American University in Beirut in 1971, the Iraqi-born Hadid moved to London to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). She was awarded a Diploma Prize in 1977 and became a member of the Office for…
By the Woods: This show takes us to a humorously dark side of nature. Pepe Mar’s Totem brings taboo to the realm of innocence via stuffed toys, butterflies, trinkets, and Blue Puffy Head. More akin to Strindberg’s gloom, Norwegian painter Frank Brunner’s misty works portray nature, light, and artifice. Chris…
(Making Up) Carolyn: Ever daydreamed of what Jacques Derrida would do with a Home Depot gift certificate? Then survey this site-specific installation by Shane Aslan Selzer. The sculptor poetically invigorates sundry building materials while deconstructing the history of the Carolyn Apartments, now teetering on the brink of extinction before the…
Miami Art Central, known as MAC, is a project shaped and funded by Ella Fontanals Cisneros, the Venezuelan philanthropist who last year purchased a two-story building at 5960 Red Rd. and asked architect Alessandro Fiorentino to remodel it. MAC now stands as a handsome arthouse with two levels of exhibition…
According to a recent New York Times article by Benjamin Genocchio, a young generation is slowly changing the way art (and art business) is done in New York. The driving force behind this is, writes Genocchio, the “precarious economics” of the ventures and few interested sponsors. He evaluates the new…
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is an important player in the shaping of urban Miami. She’s one of the founders of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, Architects and Town Planners (DPZ), a leader in the national movement called New Urbanism. DPZ has received numerous awards, including two State of Florida Governor’s Urban Design Awards…
“Haunted” is a group show installation put together by José-Carlos Diaz at the Worm-Hole Laboratory, a small apartment-turned-exhibition space off Biscayne Boulevard. Diaz’s idea is to bring together lesser-known artists as well as themes that may slide under the radar of more established alternative spaces. Each artist is given a…
Art Basel Miami Beach 2003 is over. But this year’s fair and the events it generated were so multifaceted — and there was so much — that there’s no way to summarize it within this space. We’ve decided to ask a group of art experts to contribute their perspectives as…
Get ready. Year two, round two. Today through Sunday, only in Miami! Okay, so you think you don’t really like art. At some of the Art Basel events you might not even run into it, at least in a traditional sense. Over on Miami Beach, art from the world’s top…
To see Glexis Novoa’s art is to witness a testimony to the destructive essence of humanity. Don’t miss his “New Work” at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Oswald Spengler in his Decline of the West pointed out that all civilizations come and go, leaving bare vestiges of their grandeur. Did we learn…
November, holidays aside, is an ideal month for art viewing. Saturday, November 15, was a breezy night and people seemed eager to check out just about every corner of Miami’s latest art-neighborhood, Wynwood. I perceived a mood of excitement (perhaps because Art Basel is soon to arrive). This review may…
According to the philosophy of liberal nations, war is defensible only as a last, pragmatic resort, after all political means have been exhausted. Of course that’s not why the world fought two wars within the first three decades of the Twentieth Century. With tens of millions slaughtered, plus the legacies…
Craig Robins, a native Miamian and CEO of the development firm Dacra, has been a force in the transformation of South Beach and the Design District. His most ambitious project to date is Aqua, a “neighborhood” built from scratch that may become a model for mixing New Urbanism with contemporary…
Miami is in the news again! We have become one of the top five cities for worst traffic congestion in the nation. A report published by the Texas Transportation Institute, which covers 75 urban areas, also reveals the price Americans pay for their congestion: $69.5 billion in wasted time and…
After a relatively tranquil summer, a plethora of openings tumbled out of the galleries over the last several weeks. In fact all of them can’t be reviewed in this space, but we’ll start with the all-woman show “Fourtell” (through October 4) at Casas Riegner Gallery, documenting the interplay among four…
Barbey d’Aurevilly, a French dandy of the Nineteenth Century, used to say that everything has a minor version. So here there are art galleries and then those other ubiquitous establishments set in every little mall in Miami — the so-called frame galleries. In some you may find almost everything except…
Did you know that over 30 percent of your automobile trips are less than one mile in length? We drive five times more than the average Japanese and three times more than the average European (a total of 11 million barrels of oil a day just to support our transportation…
That indulgence in art has generally been a pastime for the rich is true. But the popular notion that collecting art is prohibitively expensive is false. At one point Van Gogh — arguably the best-sold artist in history — bartered his paintings for food. And so did Modigliani, Soutine, Pascin,…
