Jorge Perez’s Art Donation to the Miami Art Museum Is Underwhelming

101/Exhibit, one of the premier contemporary art galleries in the Design District, has relocated its headquarters to Los Angeles and will be reducing its presence in Miami in the immediate future says Sloan Schaffer, the owner. The 4,958 square-foot corner building at NE 1st Avenue and 40th Street that housed…

Eve Sussman first stunned the art world with her film 89 Seconds at Alcázar, which earned critical raves at the 2004 Whitney Biennale. Sussman created her opus under the flag of the Rufus Corporation, a collaborative of artists, performers, musicians, writers, and other creative types she founded as part of…

In 2000, Brook Dorsch became the first pioneer to move to Wynwood while it was a wild frontier, and has since witnessed the boom that has transported the area into a thriving cultural district while piloting his program into one of the most relevant in South Florida. Beginning at 6…

Rome’s Fabiano Parisi is a photographic flâneur whose poetic images of abandoned urban locations — haunting landscapes that verge toward the surreal — evoke a mysterious air of anticipation. In 2007, the artist began traveling the globe, snapping photographs in countries such as Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Belgium,…

Life is too short to waste time feeling befuddled with the blurring pace of evolution consuming the contemporary art world. If you have found yourself scratching your head while staring at a minimalist artwork at a local gallery or have confused sfumato for a flavor of Italian ice cream, help…

Houston Artist Robert Pruitt’s Sci-Fi Take on Black Culture Comes to North Miami’s General Audience Presents

Robert Pruitt grew up surrounded by the dead. His bedroom was in the same building as his family’s business — Jimmie Pruitt & Sons Funeral Home — but instead of focusing on the morbid, Pruitt became obsessed with comic books. “We lived in the funeral home until I was about…

South Florida Catholics have plenty to celebrate these days. Avem papa! (Translation for those who failed Latin in finishing school: “We got a new pope.”) His name is Francis, he hails from Argentina, and word has it he is a humble sort who prefers a bus to a limo, does…

After Chavez’s Death, Miami’s Venezuelan Artists Consider the Future

One Sunday in 2005, Oscar Ascanio opened his eponymous 3,500-square-foot gallery in the tony Caracas neighborhood La Castellana for a monthly art gathering that usually drew dozens of families to his outdoor terrace. Ascanio had been part of Venezuela’s scene since he was a teenager, representing big names such as…

When French conceptual artist Bernar Venet wrapped a thin strip of silver around the future Diane Venet’s finger to propose marriage, the stylish curator became hooked on wearable works of art. Now her dress code includes miniature masterpieces by some of art history’s most notable names, from Max Ernst to…

Since its inception in 1995, the Museum of Contemporary Art (770 NE 125th St., North Miami) has risen to the ranks of the top arts institutions in the nation thanks to the vision of its director and chief curator, Bonnie Clearwater. In addition to possessing a keen eye for burgeoning…

You won’t have to wait until this fall to discover why the Miami Art Museum (MAM) is being rechristened with a mega-benefactor’s name. “Frames of Reference,” on view at MAM (101 W. Flagler St., Miami), features 45 works of Latin American art from the Jorge M. Pérez collection and marks…

We can’t think of many artists who can overrun an environment like kudzu. But since 2005, the New York-based conceptual team of Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen has been creating mind-boggling works that swarm over spaces from wall to wall and floor to ceiling, transporting viewers into fantastic visions…

In Locust’s Project Room, don’t miss Hannah Whitaker’s “Limonene.” The New York artist is also displaying a distinctive vision of the 305. Her uncanny vinyl photographs, portraying images created using trash scavenged from our streets, convey a gritty sense of the Magic City. March 16-April 26, 2013…

Cuban Photographer Raul Canibano Captures Real Life on the Island

The first time Raúl Cañibano picked up a camera, he was nearly 30 years old. A welder with a gig at an aviation company, Cañibano was visiting the Fototeca de Cuba art gallery in Havana. He found himself at an exhibit showcasing the work of Cuban photographer Alfredo Sarabia, known…

At Second Saturday Art Walk, Croatian Artist Sinisa Kukec Makes Beauty From Strip-Club Trash

Sinisa Kukec found the building blocks of his new exhibit in the inscrutable nature of the soul, the laws of attraction, chance and chaos — and the heaps of furniture in a dumpster behind a Little Haiti strip joint. The 17 works in the Croatian-born artist’s conceptually brawny solo show,…