There’s no arguing that our robust art scene is growing to year-round proportions. Consider the new Art Wynwood, opening President’s Day weekend (Feb. 16 through 20) and boasting more than 50 galleries representing 13 countries from around the globe. Its organizers have packed the fair’s roster with a dozen Miami…
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 driving this city’s cultural evolution,…
Wynwood Second Saturday Art Walk February 11: Try Dorsch, Panamerican, Primary
Magnus Sigurdarson at the Dorsch: Rotating camels and a blond Bedouin in Opa-locka
Magnus Sigurdarson stands on the corner of Ali Baba and Barack Obama Avenues in Opa-locka while holding a cardboard sign that reads, “Occupy My Innocence.” “The ‘Other’ is in the White House,” cracks the Icelandic artist, who has appropriated the Moorish-themed municipality as the conceptual stomping grounds for his show…
Art Wynwood hasn’t raised the curtain yet on its inaugural edition, but it has already surpassed Art Basel Miami Beach in at least one category. The spin-off of Art Miami, taking place President’s Day Weekend, February 16-20, has announced its exhibitor list of more than 50 galleries and nearly a…
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 of the Amazon as…
Dana Schutz’s MAM show: Politics turned upside down
Near the entrance of the Miami Art Museum, a self-portrait depicts artist Dana Schutz wide-eyed and gazing heavenward. Traffic-cone-colored locks frame her gray, wrinkled face. Her nose, rendered in slashing brush strokes, looks like an elephant’s trunk. It juts out from the canvas in a bubbled welt. Across the way…
These days, anyone who owns an iPhone is packing a studio in their pocket. In fact there is a growing group of artists and creative types who call themselves “iPhoneagraphers” and strictly produce artworks using only their cell phones. Tonight from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., South Florida artists and partners…
In concept, staging an art fair on a snazzy, $40 million dollar yacht that only Google’s Larry Page or Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud can afford seems like a grand idea. After all, who doesn’t want to rub shoulders with the rich and snooty while checking out artworks in…
Want to figure out what’s addling the collective unconscious? No need to consult a shrink. Just head to Wynwood this weekend for the first Art Walk of the year. Beginning at 6 p.m. this Saturday, several psychologically freighted new exhibits will riff on unnerving themes. Offerings will explore everything from…
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 neurosis, deftly combining…
The year 2012 seems like it’ll be a bad one for Republicans. When they’re not busy proclaiming that solar flares will crisp the planet if Barack Obama is re-elected, conservative presidential hopefuls keep reminding us we might have to abandon our homes and move to a deserted island if we…
Wynwood Art Walk 2012: Crumpled bills and shaky sculptures
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 by…
From Marcel Duchamp to the Negro League: Notable Miami art shows in January 2012
From the wildly successful inaugural Wynwood Art Fair to an unforgettable multi-culti bender transforming Miami Beach into a marathon 13-hour art festival during Sleepless Night, South Florida had plenty to crow about during the past twelve months. We were just about to breathe in the rarefied air of a year…
Long before the media and the Internet were used by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann to inform public opinion, propagandists relied on old-fangled, Kafkaesque data-slinging to stack the cards in favor of their arguments. Surreptitious name-calling might still be fashionable for, say, Michele Bachmann, but back when…
North Miami’s Mark Handforth makes a “Rolling Stop” at MOCA
Whether they are conveying notions of humanity’s tyrannical appetites or highest aspirations, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz know how to deliver an unforgettable show. The conceptual collaborators are two of the Big Mango’s most successful talents, whose room-engulfing installations, created from discarded clothing, evoke hot-button topics affecting contemporary…
In the old days, if paint-slinging artists had a beef with their royal patrons, they had to keep their beaks closed or risk losing their heads. “Lowly serfs or artists like Brueghel, Bosch, and Goya couldn’t complain about social ills to the king,” says Barry Fellman, director of Wynwood’s Center…
