View a slideshow of some of Pinzon’s Immigrant Superhero photos. For Dulce Pinzón, the true superheroes inhabiting Gotham are the undocumented immigrants who work as waiters, delivery boys, laundromat attendants, taxi drivers, and nannies, yet remain invisible in the din of the bustling city. The Mexican photographer’s provocative solo show,…

Navigating the traffic jam of diversity at Wynwood’s Edge Zones can be a touch-and-go affair. Without enough time to take it all in, it’s easy to bounce from artist to artist like a bumper car in the intricate maze of “23 Florida Zones” housed in the 22,000-square-foot space. Therein lies…

Tonight the University of Miami brews a potent coffee and drum medley for a Celebration of Afro-Cuban Culture, a pair of events honoring the island’s rich cultural history. At 6:30, the Lowe Art Museum serves up steamy shots of Pilon cafecito during a coffee reception for “Afro-Cuba: Works on Paper,…

“I’m not good with words — that’s why I make silent films,” says Clifton Childree, winner of LegalArt’s Native Seeds II grant. One of his submissions for the $3,000 award was Something Awful, an edgy tale of a turn-of-the-century fisherman who snares a Victorian woman’s derrière in his trap. After…

At Little Havana’s Contemporánea Fine Art, Esteban Blanco focuses the crosshairs on American pop culture with a sniper’s skills. The 60-year-old Cuban-born artist was on hand at the gallery to talk about “Violent Toys,” a message-freighted series of mixed media and sculptures delving into America’s obsession with military might. The…

Aramis Gutierrez lights the fuse on the year’s first Wynwood arts crawl with an arsenal of combustible works that revel in the uncanny and grotesque. “Even Now, in the Final Hour of My Life, I’m Falling in Love Again,” opening tonight at 7 at the David Castillo Gallery (2234 NW…

Harold Golen felt like a prizefighter dropped by a dirty shot to the kidney when he arrived at his eponymous Wynwood gallery the morning of December 11 and found it ablaze. The fire gutted the place and destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of artworks, collectibles, and furniture. “I…

In exchange for a booming economy, China has paid a steep price to carve a spot on the global financial stage. It’s been a bitter pill for many Chinese to swallow since pictures of Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders began to outnumber those of Chairman Mao on Beijing streets. A…

Barry Fellman has ushered in the new year with an embarrassment of riches at his Center for Visual Communications in Wynwood, where he is exhibiting 120 prints from the archives of Long Island’s storied Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE). “I’m really excited by the exhibit. It’s a major coup,” Fellman…

“Be forewarned, there will be naked men!” director Joseph Adler cracks about the edgy production ringing in the new year at GableStage. Tonight at 8, the curtain lifts on the Southeast premiere of The Little Dog Laughed, a play by Douglas Carter Beane that was a smash hit on Broadway…

Slumped on a barren Wynwood sidewalk in the wee hours of a recent Saturday morning, a group of Big Apple bohos in town for Art Basel wondered whether the local scene could maintain an elevated profile the rest of the year. “It seems like everyone we know is here for…

Pop Art’s power and nature’s outlandish palette collide during Lichtenstein at Fairchild, which features 10 of the iconic artist’s monumental sculptures in a lush tropical setting. Today at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, it’s Poppin’ Tropical Nights, where Roy Lichtenstein’s works, blazing with shocking primary colors, combine with vibrant succulents,…

The Lowe Art Museum lowers the boom on the frantic citywide December art flurry with a pair of roundhouse combinations delivering stunning Afro-Cuban art and a knockout selection of works from one of America’s oldest art schools. “AfroCuba: Works on Paper, 1968-2003” features more than 60 prints and drawings by…

As I made my way through Wynwood with artist Sergio Garcia this past weekend, it seemed clear that Basel fatigue had set in. While trying to get into the Moore Space early Friday to catch the “French Kissin’ in the USA” show, we were stopped by a bunch of brutes…

While high-power collectors were fingering six-figure price tags inside the Miami Beach Convention Center during Art Basel last year, I hit the jackpot for less than the cost of entering the prestigious fair. While slumming in Wynwood, checking out the hundreds of visiting dealers who’d transformed the area into an…

When George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique made its Paris debut in 1926, his brazen composition literally blew toupees and hats off the public and stirred fistfights in the audience. The performance earned him notoriety as the “Bad Boy of Music.” The composer’s magnum opus featured 16 player pianos, electric bells, a…

Asked what would motivate a Miami-Dade County schoolteacher to open an art gallery in Wynwood, Orestes Diaz responds, “$22,000.” That’s how much his artist father unexpectedly snagged during Art Basel two years ago for the first painting he ever sold. “My dad had a painting up at Edge Zones, and…

Artist Manolo Millares was known for dark paintings on torn sackcloth that captured the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War and the postwar years. His ripped and resewn works reflected an existential anguish that spoke of a need to destroy so that, through “a radiant wound of health,” something better…

Ziggurat: If every generation must build its own city, then Glexis Novoa lays out the blueprints for a utopian rebirth via his graphite-on-marble works in which the archaic cohabits with the futuristic. His cities seem to be in a state of perpetual animation: Statues raised to failed ideologies stand cheek…

The smack fiends and hood rats no longer hold sway in the tall weeds of the empty lot next to the Spinello Gallery in Wynwood. The sketchy tract that until recently looked like a scene from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video has been sanitized in advance of Art Miami, and a…