On a recent Wednesday morning at the Frost Art Museum, a gaggle of giddy fifth-graders suddenly stopped in amazement and began roaring in glee. The kids, from Homestead’s Peskoe Elementary, were collectively juked out of their shoes by Kori Newkirk’s untitled sculpture, which is fashioned from a pair of basketball…
Local museums are palpitating with spring fever while art pollinates the Big Orange. The Bass, MoCA, MAM, the Lowe, and others are joining forces for a Museum Month celebration that’s nothing to sneeze at. During the month of May, membership to any of the nine participating institutions will serve as…
In Your Own Image: The Best of Bert Rodriguez Through June 14 Bass Museum of Art , 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach 305-673-7530; bassmuseum.org Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Early last year, Bert Rodriguez found himself atop the art world…
The Scholl exhibit at FIU’s art museum is something even kids love
If your inner van Gogh is in revolt with your stick-figure talents, ArtCenter/South Florida is offering a series of creative workshops designed to unleash the dormant master. “It’s very challenging for people to find time for themselves, so we at ArtCenter do our best to present affordable education programs that…
The series of works comprise 134 postcards bearing the same headshot of the artist, Bert Rodriguez, whose entire head has been shaved. Last year, Rodriguez printed 1,000 postcards with instructions inviting the public to work his image over by adding hair, clothing, accessories, or makeup using the media of their…
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith Through May 24. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-3000; miamiartmuseum.org. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. It’s impossible to imagine a better city than ours as a host for the mojo-manic exhibit…
Miami Artist Bert Rodriguez Is Back from the Dead
Step into the Harold Golen Gallery and you can almost smell the stinging scent of cordite perfuming the air. Peeking out from behind flower-patterned curtains, a heartless blonde in a sheer black negligee levels her gun at your head. It’s a scene that could have been lifted from a Dashiell…
“Reverón’s Dolls,” a new photography exhibit at the Leonard Tachmes Gallery in the Design District, pays homage to the late artist and transports the spectator to the surreal realm of a forgotten world. The exhibit features 37 works by Venezuelan photographer Luis Brito, who documented the rotting remnants of Reverón’s…
The impressionists were known for harnessing the sunlit atmosphere of gardens and parks, capturing a world momentarily perceived by the senses in striking bursts of shimmering color. Monet and Renoir often depicted sumptuous outdoor scenes where children, women, and men surrendered to an air of carefree relaxation, frolicking among flowers…
Richie Fahey’s new photography exhibit at Harold Golen Gallery
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith Through May 24. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-3000; miamiartmuseum.org. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. It’s impossible to imagine a better city than ours as a host for the mojo-manic exhibit…
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith Through May 24. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-3000; miamiartmuseum.org. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. It’s impossible to imagine a better city than ours as a host for the mojo-manic exhibit…
As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, Ralph Provisero bombed the streets of Miami with his inventive graffiti art. His natural-born talent took him to the prestigious Parsons School of Design in New York and later to galleries in places as diverse as Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Mexico…
As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, Ralph Provisero bombed the streets of Miami with his inventive graffiti art. His natural-born talent took him to the prestigious Parsons School of Design in New York and later to galleries in places as diverse as Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Mexico…
The Wynwood arts crawl has gotten smarter, but not because Mensa members have invaded the hood. Instead, the New Times’ own Scott Cunningham has established the University of Wynwood, an unpretentious seat of higher learning where creative types can discuss cultural projects over complimentary wine. Cunningham has enlisted curators, filmmakers,…
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith Through May 24. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-3000; miamiartmuseum.org. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. It’s impossible to imagine a better city than ours as a host for the mojo-manic exhibit…
In his later years, as he descended into madness, Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón took to wearing a loincloth and wandering around a bizarre ramshackle compound where he created life-size dolls out of burlap sacks. The dolls were his family; some say he made love to them. They were also among…
As a child, artist Carol Prusa used to lie in bed at night contemplating her place in the universe. “I would close my eyes and try to get rid of the planets and everything else until all that was left was me,” she says. “And then I would be left…
Sergio Garcia has hamburger and pussy on his brain, and Mariano Costa Peuser is putting his wooden artist dummies through the hoop for the ArteAmericas Fair. Today through Monday, the talented locals will display their works during the seventh edition of the Latin and Caribbean arts confab in a specially…
NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith Through May 24. Miami Art Museum, 101 W Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-3000; miamiartmuseum.org. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. It’s impossible to imagine a better city than ours as a host for the mojo-manic exhibit…
