2012 MasterMind Award winners

View a photo slide show of the MasterMind Awards at Artopia.

Mikhail Baryshnikov owns a home at the Punta Cana Resort and Club in the Dominican Republic, where he’s added some mean merengue moves to his repertoire. But not as a dancer. The greatest ballet dancer of the 20th Century, rather, spent his time in the D.R. building the island’s favorite…

Although the way we listen to music has changed, there’s no arguing that the invention of the record player had one of the most enduring influences on pop culture. There was a time when vinyl was king, and music royalty hummed into our living rooms from discs that have since…

Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk sizzles with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s photos

Much like Goya observing the sleep of reason, Juan Manuel Echavarría remains committed to exploring the tortured history of social injustice in his own country. In 2006, the Colombian artist established the Fundación Puntos de Encuentro (FPDE) a non-profit organization devoted to exhibiting art-related projects that preserve the historical memory…

The white picket fence needs a paint job. Gas prices are soaring through the roof. The cheeseball squalor of your living room is in dire need of some cheering up. No worries. Get a fresh take on a better way of life beginning at 6 p.m. during the free Second…

Latin American art is sizzling. The creative nerve centers of art production in the Southern Hemisphere are hotter than a mouthful of wasabi right now. Last year, Puerto Rico-based conceptual duo Allora & Calzadilla represented the United States at the Venice Biennale; a blockbuster exhibit of Diego Rivera’s murals is…

They make lamps from tin cans and roll naked down filthy South Beach alleyways. They record Miami’s best bands in surreal video diaries and release the Magic City’s most underground punk acts in hand-crafted record packages. They sew poetry into clothes, film avant-garde movies starring Uncle Luke, tag Wynwood’s walls…

Many people are familiar with Clyde Butcher’s sweeping panoramic vistas of the Everglades or our nation’s geographic splendor ranging from Oxbow Bend to the Grand Tetons. But the award-winning landscape photographer also traveled to Cuba a few years ago where he snapped some breathtaking pictures of the island’s rarely visited…

Latin American art is sizzling. The creative nerve centers of art production in the Southern half of the hemisphere are hotter than a mouthful of wasabi right now. With the art world’s peepers focused on Latin America of late it should come as little wonder that Miami is at the…

From primitive man’s efforts to chart the heavens on the walls of the Lascaux caves more than 15,000 years ago, to 19th-century phrenologists’ attempts to diagram the functions of the brain, maps have been perceptual touchstones for understanding our place in the universe. That is the focus of “Mapping: Time…

From primitive man’s efforts to chart the heavens over 15,000 years ago on the walls of the Lascaux caves, to 19th century phrenologist’s attempts to diagram the functions of the brain, maps have served as perceptual touchstones for understanding our place in the universe. The advent of GPS technology has…

View more photos from the grand opening of Art Wynwood here.The inaugural edition of Art Wynwood opened last night and featured some arresting work to celebrate President’s Day weekend. In the newbie fair’s Art Video New Media Lounge, housing 11 works in eight screening rooms, Lindsay Scoggins ranked in at…

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 when he and his husband,…

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 bearing…

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 market for blue-chip contemporary…

Art Wynwood brings Basel in February

Is the Magic City ready to challenge well-established art capitals around the globe as a cultural destination? Can we convince the world’s 1% that there’s a sustainable, year-round market here for contemporary art? Nick Korniloff thinks so. That’s why he’s debuting the inaugural version of Art Wynwood this weekend. “We…