In 2006, Oliver Sanchez transformed the implausible into reality. “I tarred and feathered a classic Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible,” the unpretentious and soft-spoken 55-year-old Cuban-American recalls. “The hardest part of the job was finding the right type of feathers, but we finally settled on goose down after going through a bunch…
In 2006, Oliver Sanchez transformed the implausible into reality. “I tarred and feathered a classic Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible,” the unpretentious and soft-spoken 55-year-old Cuban-American recalls. “The hardest part of the job was finding the right type of feathers, but we finally settled on goose down after going through a bunch…
AholSniffsGlue is one of the Magic City’s quintessential street artists who is widely known for his trademark droopy eyes that keep watch over Wynwood at NW 27th Street and for more than a decade have peered down on I-95 traffic outside of the Margulies Collection. So when American Eagle Outfitters…
Much like Aesop, the ancient Greek storyteller, Leonel Matheu is a fabulist of the first order whose vivid imagery combines an everyman figure with animals and nature to caution against materialism, greed, and man’s destructive encroachment on the environment. “Crossroads of the Dystopia,” a new exhibit at the Frost Art…
Visit China and you’ll discover a booming society that’s distinctly contemporary while remaining profoundly traditional. For artist Simon Ma, who has lived through his homeland’s meteoric rise as an economic global power and the swift westernization it has recently experienced, fusing the ancient with the trendy is a force that…
Summer is here and the mercury is oozing up the thermometer like the steam hissing from the asphalt in Wynwood. But don’t let the sticky assault on the senses force you to stay home hugging the air conditioner. Instead, head over to this weekend’s sizzling Second Saturday Art Walk before…
Hialeah has its fair share of weird architecture, but there’s only one building in “La Ciudad del Progreso” that looks like something transported from Star Wars’ eerie planet Tatooine. Chayo Frank’s Amertec Building, completed in 1969, gives you the sense that Luke Skywalker might zoom by in a landspeeder or…
Summer is here, and the mercury is oozing up the thermometer like the hissing steam rising from the asphalt in Wynwood. But don’t let the season’s sticky assault on the senses prevent you from attending this weekend’s sizzling Second Saturday Art Walk. It is, after all, the last one before…
Farley Aguilar answers the door of a modest Edgewater duplex while clutching a frosty gin and tonic and sporting a teardrop-creased fedora that would have made Indiana Jones beam. Clad in a Night of the Vampires T-shirt, plaid socks, and sandals, he heads to the inner sanctum of his rumpled…
Let’s admit it: To most people, appearance is everything. The last thing we often do before leaving home to confront the workday or enjoy a hot night on the town is peek into the mirror to make sure we’re presentable. And artists are no different. They way we look has…
Take a drive through the Magic City’s distinctive ethnic neighborhoods and you’ll be treated to a vivid visual and aural parade that makes this town unique from any other metropolis. Local residents from Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Panama, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago all contribute a notable Caribbean flair…
Farley Aguilar answers the door of a modest Edgewater duplex while clutching a frosty gin and tonic and sporting a teardrop-creased fedora that would have made Indiana Jones beam. Clad in a Night of the Vampires T-shirt, plaid socks, and sandals, he heads to the inner sanctum of his rumpled…
It’s hard to imagine a cultural organization with an historic presence on South Beach letting go of a property that draws untold thousands of local and international visitors each year. But that’s what’s happening with ArtCenter/South Florida which has today listed its 800-810 Lincoln Rd. building for sale to provide…
If you lived in the Magic City during the freewheeling ’80s, you likely have a soft spot for the Miss Budweiser powerboat that was a perennial favorite to take the trophy at the Miami Marine Stadium’s hydroplane races. After all, the cherry-red floating beer wagon was a major attraction that…
It’s no secret that the contemporary art world is marveling at China’s booming market. More often than not, when the hammer comes down at the top-drawer auction houses, the big news is that a previously unknown Chinese talent has just set a staggering sales record with one of his glossy…
Can you imagine what Constantin Brâncusi’s Endless Column might have looked like if he had fashioned his timeless opus out of pancakes instead of metal modules? The folks at the Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC) can. They’ve taken a page from the famed sculptor’s oeuvre for this Sunday’s Pancake Party at…
The heated legal dispute between the board of trustees of North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the City of North Miami over who controls the museum’s collection and whether it will be relocated from its current home to Miami Beach’s Bass Museum may have finally come to an…
There was a time when the June rainy season would put a damper on the 305’s arts programming. But those days are long gone. Most local galleries now welcome the summer dog days as a perfect time to pick up some steam rather than winding down for vacation. That’s the…
There was a time when the June rainy season would put a damper on the 305’s arts programming. But those days are long gone; most local galleries now welcome the summer dog days as a perfect time to pick up some steam rather than winding down for vacation. That’s the…
Mark Twain famously once said that reports of his demise were “greatly exaggerated.” The same could be said of recent reports that Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) is shunning being shoehorned into a smaller space at the Miami Beach Convention Center during its impending 2016-2018 construction. In fact, Art Basel,…
Unless you are an employee of, member, docent or frequent visitor to the University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables it’s likely you’re unaware that it is South Florida’s oldest visual arts institution and boasts a whopping 19,000 objects spanning five millenniums of art history in its collection…
No one better exemplifies the chaos at North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) than local artist Pablo Cano. The conceptual puppeteer, who has for 16 years staged wildly popular marionette shows for the museum, received a call from Alex Gartenfeld, the museum’s current interim director. He told Cano this…
