Arguably the most important artist of the past century, Marcel Duchamp and his readymades changed art forever. By calling mundane objects such as bottle racks, typewriter dust covers, and hat racks art, the French genius destroyed the barricades separating art from everyday life. He also expanded notions of what an…

The peripatetic Spinello just returned from Berlin where he and Agustina Woodgate having been working on an arts project at an abandoned amusement park. Issues of abandonment also loom large in a trio of solo shows Spinello is raising the curtain on in his return to the local art scene…

Wynwood Second Saturday November 12: Sex, drugs, and profanity

​Anthony Spinello is talking about gentrification and displacement at his new Design District digs when water unexpectedly starts rushing out of several open faucets in the building. “Shit, I guess they turned on the service,” Spinello yells as he drops the phone and starts running from room-to-room to twist taps…

Sure there is the “Carlos Santana Arts Academy” in California’s San Fernando Valley and an elementary school in the same area that named its auditorium after comedian George Lopez. But we’re pretty sure there aren’t many schools named after visual artists. Then again, Faith Ringgold isn’t the average talent.Best known…

There are several European galleries that maintain a second outpost in Wynwood. Usually, the dealers visit their spaces here once or twice a year, primarily during Art Basel. It’s a cheap way to gain a foothold in our art scene and save on renting a booth during the fair. Many…

It’s bad enough we constantly have to deal with the addled jabbering of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez without Pete Kirill dragging Kim Jong-il into the picture. But don’t confuse Kirill’s vision of North Korea’s “Dear Leader” with that of that nation’s brain-douched citizens who believe the Dr. Evil wannabe…

“There’s a whole subculture of people that live with their sex dolls,” says Gary Farmer, cultural affairs program manager for the City of Miami Beach. “(But) I couldn’t present pictures of these sex dolls on public property because that would be too controversial.” With names like Britney and Gabrielle, he…

Sleepless Night Miami Beach November 5

​”There’s a whole subculture of people that live with their sex dolls,” says Gary Farmer, cultural affairs program manager for the City of Miami Beach. “(But) I couldn’t present pictures of these sex dolls on public property because that would be too controversial.”With names like Britney and Gabrielle, he explains,…

In honor of our People Issue, which will hit newsstands and computer screens November 24, Cultist presents “Miami Backstage,” where we feature the city’s behind-the-scenes culture makers. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys. Ruba KatribMany art world observers believe it takes a great curator…

The Frost Art Museum salutes 2012 with a duet of solos by women artists, one of whom explores the feminine universe while the other creates vivid canvases that till the furrows of life in the Amazon. Annette Turillo focuses on the theme of women in “Women and the Eternal Feminine,”…

Prepare to get bowled over at the Light Box at Goldman Warehouse when Miami Dade College’s Cultura del Lobo series unleashes Nora Chipaumire’s scalding presence on the intimate stage. The fiery Zimbabwean artist’s dance work is a visual, aural, and kinesthetic equivalent of Africa’s urban experience through a female lens…

Theatergoers will squirm in their seats and itch to swap notes after the curtain falls during Next to Normal, a gripping musical production that has snagged three Tony Awards and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It portrays a dysfunctional clan trying to stem off a looming implosion, with music…

No longer a sleeping giant in the art-world arena, China has become one of the hottest markets for contemporary works on the global stage. “China: Insights” boasts a strong argument for the reasons why. It features 150 photographs by seven Chinese shutterbugs exploring the relationship between contemporary photography and visual…

California has the Carlos Santana Arts Academy and a school auditorium named for comedian George Lopez. But we’re pretty sure there aren’t many schools named after visual artists. But then again, Faith Ringgold isn’t the average talent. At a new Miami Art Museum exhibit, discover why the Harlem native boasts…

All eyes will turn to the Big Mango in December, when Art Basel transforms the 305 and adjacent latitudes into the planet’s largest city-wide arts confab with the likes of Picasso, Warhol, Beuys, Hirst, and Emin shopped out at the Miami Beach Convention Center and close to a dozen satellite…

The 27th edition of the nation’s largest literary hoedown, Miami Book Fair International, will draw hundreds of authors and thousands of bibliophiles to the streets of downtown. With more than 200 exhibitors from across the country selling books in a family-friendly atmosphere, this edition celebrates the culture of China. This…

Coinciding with the book fair this year is “We Are the Ship,” on view at the Freedom Tower. The exhibit features paintings, sketches, and educational materials from award-winning artist and illustrator Kadir Nelson’s tome We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, which will be available for sale…

Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a master of the Dutch Golden Age, not a master of golden showers. Or was he? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t create works that were considered risque for the 1600s. A collection of 20 of Rembrandt’s etchings, which historians, curators,…

There are several European galleries that maintain a second outpost in Wynwood. Usually, the dealers visit their spaces here once or twice a year, primarily during Art Basel. It’s a cheap way to gain a foothold in our art scene and save on renting a booth during the fair.Many of…