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Maximo Caminero, Artist Who Smashed Ai Weiwei Vase, Returns to the Miami Art Scene

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Oct 27, 2016

Maximo Caminero sits in his North Miami studio under a wall-engulfing abstract canvas titled Everything Vibrates. On the stereo next to him, the devotional music of the Sufis and the plaintive lament of reed flutes raise the room’s energy to a hypnotic pitch. Leaning forward in his battered leather recliner...
Miami's Best Cultural Events of the 2016-17 Season

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Oct 6, 2016

OCTOBER "Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism" October 9 through January 8, 2017, at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, FIU, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami; 305-348-2890; thefrost.fiu.edu. From creating Michelle Obama's 2008 election-night victory duds to conquering the runway with his signature style, Cuban-American fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez...
Miami Artist Asif Farooq Builds a Full-Size Russian Fighter Jet From Paper and Glue

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
Jun 7, 2016

Asif Farooq leans over the after-burning turbine engine inside the Cold War-era combat jet he's building in his Doral studio and gives the roller-bearing assemblage a spin. "There's roughly about a hundred synchronized moving parts," Farooq says as the assembly spools up in a whispering whir. "The parts include hubs,...
Pan American Art Projects Offers Trips to Cuba, Including Artist Studio Tours

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
May 24, 2016

Less than three years ago the Cuban artistic husband-and-wife team of José Toirac and Meira Marrero marked their first ever solo exhibition in a U.S. gallery. The event took place at Pan American Art Projects during a time when the risk of censorship back home was still very real. Their...
Old Cuba, From Celia Cruz to Coca-Cola, on View at the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach

By Carlos Suarez De Jesus
May 3, 2016

When Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, died in 2003, a 200,000-strong crowd converged on Miami's Freedom Tower to send her off. That's nearly three times more than the 75,000 who gathered in Memphis to bid farewell to Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, in 1977. Way before...

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