Erik DeLuca wants to seduce you into taking a sensory skinny-dip with him. The interdisciplinary artist and composer has spent months off the coast of Miami using scientific mikes called hydrophones to create a reenactment of the azure waters sensuously lapping at our shores. Tonight at 8:00 at the Herbert…

It’s impossible to imagine a better city than ours as a host for the mojo-manic exhibit currently on view at the Miami Art Museum. After all, who hasn’t run across a decapitated chicken offered to the Yoruban gods? Or perhaps stepped into a pile of ground-up blanched bones and cemetery…

Pancho Luna is no stranger to yanking perfection from the jaws of chaos. The artist often tinkers on multiple series of works at the same time, allowing his cranial crankshaft to intuitively fire the connective rods linking disparate elements of his art. “I am very restless,” the 51-year-old Argentine says…

There’s nothing quite like the thunderous boom of a drum the size of a Volkswagen Bug to get the bones in your chest rattlin’. Japan’s legendary Kodo ensemble, master of the rumbling sound of the giant taiko drum, is poised to blow the roof off the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert…

Pancho Luna is no stranger to yanking perfection from the jaws of chaos. The artist often tinkers on multiple series of works at the same time, allowing his cranial crankshaft to intuitively fire the connective rods linking disparate elements of his art. “I am very restless,” the 51-year-old Argentine says…

If bleeding-edge performances quaff your thirst for adventure, the Miami Light Project is poised with a potent brew to scald daring taste buds. The Light’s Here & Now 2009 fest offers some of the 305’s sizzling talent in three distinct commissioned shows delivering the sugar lumps with aplomb. “Sipping Fury…

It might not be what Warhol promised, but North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art is offering a chance for creative types to shine. The museum’s moon-over-Miami “Five Minutes of Fame Artists’ Forum” is an open-mike night for local visual artists invited to present and discuss their work in a PowerPoint…

I Want Typoe So Effin Bad Through March 31. Spinello Gallery, 531 NE 82nd Terr., #3, Miami; 786-271-4223, spinellogallery.com. Wednesday through Saturday noon to 5 p.m. Miami artist and infamous graffiti rat Typoe has refused to sacrifice his street cred for his first solo show, “I Want Typoe So Effin…

Peggy Levison Nolan’s path from the projects to her first solo show at an art gallery went something like this: marriage, seven kids, dreams of becoming a photographer, shoplifting a lot of film. From there, the Miami local taught herself to shoot and print pictures, stole more film, moved out…

Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are not the type to gingerly test the depths of mythology. Instead the Miami-based pair has plunged headfirst into the unknown, seeking to fathom the common lore that binds humanity in an Ariadne’s thread across the globe. At the Carol Jazzar Gallery in…

“Africa,” a new exhibit at Wolfgang Roth & Partners Fine Art, is an engaging, surprising show — a bold mélange of work reflecting African culture from contrasting perspectives. The exhibit is organized in three parts, ranging from Benin bronzes dating back more than 500 years, to modern studio photography by…

Inside the Spinello Gallery on the city’s Upper Eastside, a life-size plastic skeleton stands at the entrance, its arms crossed over its rib cage. The skeleton wears a pair of size 8 1/2 Supra kicks, a heart-shaped medallion, and a black bandanna over the bottom half of its skull. “The…

Will Kate Winslet go zero for six or snag her first Oscar for The Reader? Will “broken piece of meat,” Mickey Rourke, finally be recognized as a Hamlet rather than a ham for his role in The Wrestler? Or will Slumdog Millionaire win Best Picture honors during the 81st annual…

At Miami Art Museum, a new high-wattage exhibit conjures up the magic and mystery of cosmic influences often eschewed by modern artists who have distanced themselves from otherworldly concerns. Instead, “NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith” corrals an intergenerational group of artists that addresses ritual in the artistic process and…

There is a fetid whiff of the Bush/Cheney reign of error emanating from a huge video projection on view at CiFo. Jimmie Durham’s Smashing offers a stinging commentary on bureaucratic arrogance and ineptitude. It’s rife with Kafkaesque undertones that seem ripped from recent headlines bemoaning the crushed American dream. The…

A poignant homecoming of sorts at the new Frost Museum is “Full Circle,” by local artist Andrew Reach, who has played a role in the museum’s rebirth. Reach was an architect working on the new building when a crippling spinal disease ended his career. He fought against the pain by…

“Las Artes de Mexico: From the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum” is a traveling exhibit of pottery, paintings, folk art, and prints that weaves a compelling tale of a nation’s mysterious past and its lurching path to maturity. From the ancient world of the Mayans and Aztecs to the 20th-century…

The Freedom Tower is no stranger to the displaced, destitute, or fearful. During the ’60s and ’70s, the stately Biscayne Boulevard landmark served as a refugee assistance center. Now it stands as a monument to the Cuban immigration that forever altered our city. The federal government used the facility to…

Anri Sala: Purchase Not by Moonlight Through March 1. Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami; 305-893-6211, mocanomi.org. Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Anri Sala hijacks the language of cinema and video to create disorienting dreamscapes that gnaw at…

A new exhibit at the Lowe Art Museum is a journey through 3,500 years of Mexican history — from sun-baked clay Mayan figurines taken from ancient burial tombs, to a peyote-inspired painting, to an earthenware sculpture of brown-skinned apostles feasting on a last supper of tortillas and watermelon. “Las Artes…

Anri Sala hijacks the language of cinema and video to create disorienting dreamscapes that gnaw at the senses like acid eating through cheap cement. Featuring seven films dating from the late Nineties to the present, the impressive exhibition marks the Albanian artist’s first major U.S. museum show. It also includes…

If you duck into a local museum this weekend, chances are you’ll leave wondering where all the spectators went. The answer is the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, which transforms the quirky village on the bay into a winding outdoor gallery boasting the eye-catching works of 336 artists from 36 states…