The first ever Wynwood Art Fair this past weekend reminded me of one of the early incarnations of the Coconut Grove Art Festival. But rather than stalls filled with ceramics, macramé, and watercolor landscapes, this eye-popping affair boasted bleeding-edge art everywhere. The weather was postcard-perfect and on Sunday, young families…
Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte Celia and AlexisAlexis Rodriguez-Duarte still chokes up when he talks about his fifteen year friendship with La Reina de la Salsa, Celia Cruz. “Celia was an inspiration for me, she was the light. Watching Celia perform live was a gift,” the New York-based photographer whispers after pausing to…
If you’ve ever played the game Telephone, in which a person whispers a message to another and then it passes on down the line successively until the last player announces the message out loud to the entire group, you know it makes for a great metaphor for cumulative error, the…
Why wait till December for an imported artsy party when we have the Wynwood Art Fair boasting a brand of creative muscle all our own? This three-day urban “happening” — a term Allan Kaprow invented to describe the inspired shenanigans at George Segal’s farm — celebrates every conceivable form of…
Wynwood Art Fair’s down-home hoedown October 21-23
Don’t confuse the inaugural version of the Wynwood Art Fair with the snootier version for which Basel is famous. It doesn’t even look like any of the other satellite tent fairs in Wynwood that sprout up like toadstools from cow patties after a flash summer rain.No, sir. Instead, the three-day…
When the Swiss first parachuted into the 305 ten years ago, Miami didn’t know the difference between Helen Keller and Samuel Keller. But like that other Helen’s mug that launched a thousand ships, the bald-pated Baselite from the tiny Canton on the Rhine, unleashed an invasion that changed our cultural…
If you’ve ever played the game Telephone, in which a person whispers a message to another and then it passes on down the line successively until the last player announces the message out loud to the entire group, you know it makes for a great metaphor for cumulative error, the…
in “(RAD) Running à Dérive,” Richard Haden’s hyper-realist, painted-wood sculptures of imploded fire extinguishers or crumpled truck fenders and milk jugs are instantly recognizable. He’s also an avid long-distance runner. So for his new show, Haden has moved beyond carving wood to create a collaborative video with Bill Bilowit titled…
Bhakti Baxter’s highly anticipated exhibit, “Rompelotas,” is the locally based artist’s first Miami solo show in four years and includes sculpture, painting, collage, and installation-based work. The exhibit’s name is a play on the Spanish term rompe pelotas, which translates to “ball breaker.” Look for some ball-busting legerdemain from Baxter,…
In “It Takes All This to Be Me,” his first solo project since 2007, Kenton Parker transports viewers to the City of Angels’ hardscrabble streets with work that swallows then vomits mainstream cultural imagery, subverted with aggressive visual and textual commentary. With his wacky installations, films, sculpture, and wall-based works,…
Colby Katz’s discomfiting solo show, “Forever Babies,” on view at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, has to rank right up there with the ghoul’s petrified paw paintings in terms of the creep factor. Katz, who for about a decade was New Times main photog in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, typically documents…
Jew and Muslim photographers exhibit their work in Wynwood
Two new shows at the Frost Art Museum, opening tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., combine the elements of water and fire to transport the viewer to contrasting sensory experiences. Magdalena Fernández’s video installation, 2iPM009, recreates a kinetic rainstorm that engulfs unsuspecting spectators with the movement of light and…
I’ve seen some really strange things covering the arts in Miami. One of the oddest was the Norwegian artist who dressed like a Catholic priest and finger-painted abstract compositions using a desiccated hand he had stolen from a graveyard.But Colby Katz’s discomfiting solo show, “Forever Babies,” on view at Carol Jazzar…
During the past year, Second Saturday has exploded into a sensory-scorching spectacle that is part visual kaleidoscope and part street festival stretching between Wynwood and the Design District. In fact, some observers wonder if the artsy party is growing out of control.What began as a low-key crawl hosted by a…
Creative types and seasoned art collectors once thumbed their noses at Cafeina Lounge, deeming it unsuitable to hang shows. Tray-toting waiters and blaring DJs can make it hard to contemplate the work on exhibit.Enter Wynwood pioneer Dustin Orlando, who has been invited to add gravitas to the hipster dive with…
Taco vendors, divorcees, and Bear Jews, oh my! Toss into the mix, a ball buster, a sprint through the Big Mango’s uncharted killing grounds, and a seasonally spooky fright fest and you have the makings of one of the more memorable culture creeps we can recollect since…well last month’s edition of Second…
We recently caught up with Jaie Laplante, director of the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), which screened some 140 features and short films at its festival earlier this year. He just returned from Spain, the final leg of his tour of the international indie-film circuit, in the hunt for films…
Two shows at the Frost Art Museum combine water and fire to transport the viewer to contrasting sensory experiences. Magdalena Fernández’s video installation, 2iPM009, re-creates a kinetic rainstorm that engulfs unsuspecting spectators in a simulated torrential downpour. Perpetuum Jazzile, a Slovenian choir, provides 2iPM009’s haunting aural component. To mimic the…
In “The Fire Next Time,” Humberto Calzada tackles the destructive and regenerative properties of fire. The artist is best known for nostalgic, architectural paintings of Cuba that are freighted with the psychological drama of exile. Carol Damien, the Frost’s executive director and chief curator, says the exhibit is a departure…
Confronting a messy divorce is a horror. But for Lamia Khorshid, a local artist who teaches photography at the University of Miami, her breakup served as the inspiration for a photo series, “Hotel St. Michel,” which opens this Friday at Curator’s Voice Art Projects. Egypt-born Khorshid shot these self-portraits at…
