Hope has many faces. You can see it in Dynella’s almond-shape eyes or in Martin’s apple-cheek smile. In his portrait, Marco wears a brightly colored shirt as he leans against a tree with a quiet confidence that belies his tender age. Their pictures do not come from a family album…
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…
Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have littered the Miami Art Museum with enough banana peels to send visitors sliding into some disorienting realities. Their slippery installations fuse fiction with haunting sound effects, hijacking spectators and taking them on a surreal journey. Part sound sculpture, part theatrical experience,…
When the Shops at Midtown Miami opened in Wynwood, few would have thought the eyesore would have inspired neighbors to an aesthetic overhaul. But tonight at 7:00, as part of this month’s Wynwood arts crawl, Nina Dotti draws a bead on the rubbish heap blighting the horizon. At Hardcore Contemporary…
Between 1976 and 1983, Argentina’s military dictatorship systematically tortured, killed, and “disappeared” 30,000 people suspected of opposing the government. During the so-called Dirty War, many citizens were dragged from their homes in the middle of the night and never seen again. The military junta deployed terror tactics, torturing victims at…
Goya: The Engravings of the Caixanova Collection: The Spanish master’s skull-staving series of etchings created during the later stages of his career is on view for the first time in the United States in this must-see exhibit. The four series include Los Caprichos (The Caprices), 1799; Los Desastres de la…
If you’re dreaming of building an impressive art collection but you’re living the same paycheck-to-paycheck life the rest of us are, listen up. Tonight at Locust Projects, starting an art collection on a Green Stamp budget is a guaranteed deal – so say organizers of the gallery’s annual fundraiser. At…
Sugar skulls, marigolds, mariachis, and tequila are part of the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations with which most gringos associate the ancient Aztec holiday. At dinner tonight at Rosa Mexicano Restaurant, Executive Chef Omar Covarrubias aims to change that during his Día de los Muertos weekend fiesta, by serving…
Goya: The Engravings of the Caixanova Collection: The Spanish master’s skull-staving series of etchings created during the later stages of his career is on view for the first time in the United States in this must-see exhibit. The four series include Los Caprichos (The Caprices), 1799; Los Desastres de la…
In her beautiful new show, Wendy Wischer has harnessed light to conjure an enchanting atmosphere where visitors might feel as if they’re floating within the canopy of the night sky. Her luminous mirrored sculptures become the scaffolding for the constant interplay between light, spectators, and space in a darkened room…
Can you dream of a better place for a chemical vacation or a marathon masquerade than the Conch Republic during Fantasy Fest? Tonight at 8:00 throngs of ribald revelers will converge on the Pier House Resort and Caribbean Spa (One Duval St., Key West) for Pretenders in Paradise, Fantasy Fest’s…
Vote for Nudity! Filed under: Politics Times are tough, Miami. We’re talking World War III tough. We’ve got our hand so far up Iraq’s ass we can feel around and tell what it had for breakfast. The president of Iran has taken off his coat and rolled up his sleeves…
Wake Me Up When the Present Arrives: Over a 10-day period, Argentine artist Diego Bianchi trashed Locust Projects, filling the space with a battered boat hull, heaps of garbage, and a slick sheen of mud. Bianchi puts rock stars — and their lifetime hotel bans for taking wrecking balls to…
At the Lowe Art Museum, a coffin-shape stainless-steel box topped with a dainty pillow fumigates the space with the cloying scent of dying flowers. Valeska Soares’s sculpture, Fainting Couch, is pregnant with stargazer lilies, which remain unseen yet powerfully perfume the air from within the perforated sterile structure, suggestive of…
For those who grew up in a Cuban home, childhood stories of José Martí described the legendary poet and revolutionary charging the Spanish lines astride a white steed, waving his sword overhead. Parents spoke in reverent tones of the “Apostle of Cuban Independence” and his heroic death, making it impossible…
Wake Me Up When the Present Arrives: Over a 10-day period, Argentine artist Diego Bianchi trashed Locust Projects, filling the space with a battered boat hull, heaps of garbage, and a slick sheen of mud. Bianchi puts rock stars — and their lifetime hotel bans for taking wrecking balls to…
It would be easy to mistake Renata Lucas’s green carpet installation in CiFo’s lobby for part of a major remodeling project at the downtown space. After all, CiFo’s signature emerald jungle mosaic, made of glass Bisazza tiles, has been stripped from its façade, leaving the building’s exterior looking as ratty…
Santiago Porter mixes classic beauty with morbid history to demand scrutiny by peering eyes. His elegant façades are deceptive, belying the horrors that once took place inside. The artist shoots buildings not out of a love of architecture but as a testimony to places where Argentine society was submitted to…
Wake Me Up When the Present Arrives: Over a 10-day period, Argentine artist Diego Bianchi trashed Locust Projects, filling the space with a battered boat hull, heaps of garbage, and a slick sheen of mud. Bianchi puts rock stars — and their lifetime hotel bans for taking wrecking balls to…
In an arresting series of six photographs at the Bass Museum of Art, María Magdalena Campos-Pons confronts us with her eyes closed and her face and chest encased in wax. The phrase “Identity Could Be a Tragedy” is carved into the opaque coating that mottles her dark skin. At first…
At the Freedom Tower, Goya’s caustic vision has lost none of its power to unnerve. In fact, for some, Goya’s brush with state-sponsored terror, rabid religious fundamentalism, brutal conquests, and antagonism between social classes will seem woefully relevant for our age. Therein may lie the brilliance of the Spanish master’s…
When two worlds collide, mayhem or genius can ensue. Consider the freestyle fellowship that has developed between painter John Bailly and poet Richard Blanco, and the latter rings true. “Place of Mind,” an exhibit opening tonight at the downtown branch of the Miami-Dade County Library System (101 W. Flagler St.,…
