There is a delicious scene in the Hispanic Theater Guild’s production of La Curva de la Felicidad (The Curve of Happiness), in which the hangdog protagonist, Quino, informs his ex’s mover that he’s a television writer who pens suicide notes. Quino, you see, has been dumped because he’s “too fat,…
South Florida boasts a cornucopia of architectural delights, but until we landlubbers have gorged upon them from a waterway, it’s kind of like settling for the parsley garnishing a plate of filet mignon. So swear the organizers of the Regatta 2 Miami Beach Architecture Boat Cruise. “If people think Miami…
In his childlike yet profoundly freighted pieces, Eduardo Michaelsen conjures through the fog of memory a world where Afro-Cuban myths, Cuban folklore, the intoxicating rhythms of his homeland’s music, Cuba’s architectural and tropical splendor, and kaleidoscopic hallucinations richly combine to buffet the viewer in a wildly inventive storm. In a…
Like Gauguin’s lush odes to Tahiti, Laura Kina explores dreams of paradise using Hawaii as her tropical muse in provocative mixed-media paintings. “Aloha Dreams,” opening tonight at 7:30 at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts (2043 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-576-1804, www.dlfinearts.com), draws on images of popular culture and offers loaded commentaries…
The genesis for “I Do, I Do” came when one of Yovani Bauta’s frustrated art students blurted, “I want to torch my wedding dress!” in his portrait painting class. Bauta had been teaching the tight-knit group of mostly middle-age Latin American women during community education classes at Miami Dade College’s…
There’s art aplenty in the Gables tonight @cal body 1 no indent:Call the City Beautiful’s first Friday of the month gallery night an “arts crawl,” and organizers will likely respond as if suffering from an attack of cramped bowels. It’s the Great Gables Gallery Stroll for the much more Rotarian…
Sol LeWitt x 2: Sol LeWitt earned himself a place in history books as one of the Johnny Appleseeds of the minimal and conceptual art movements during the Sixties. He’s also among the most prolific artists of the mid-Twentieth Century. “Sol LeWitt x 2,” a two-part exhibition at Miami Art…
Visit Little Havana on the last Friday of the month and the pungent aroma of cafecito, cigar smoke, and roast pork perfumes the air in anticipation of Viernes Culturales and the collective rump-shaking it brings to the historic Latin nabe. The festive barrio blowout will unfold on Calle Ocho between…
Imagine a group of CIA geeks focusing their high-tech toys on Cuba’s architecture, and you capture a sense of the striking photographs on display in Havana Today in Images. Presented by Miami Dade College’s InterAmerican Campus, the eye-popping exhibit showcases the stark juxtaposition of Havana’s crumbling colonial gems next to…
“Sol LeWitt x 2”: Sol LeWitt earned himself a place in history books as one of the Johnny Appleseeds of the minimal and conceptual art movements during the Sixties. He’s also among the most prolific artists of the mid-Twentieth Century. “Sol LeWitt x 2,” a two-part exhibition at the Miami…
Allete Simmons-Jimenez sounds a bit like Aretha Franklin when discussing her reasons for opening Artformz Alternative, her artist-run space in the Design District, four years ago. “My idea for starting this whole thing was to get a little respect,” the 55-year-old dynamo explains. Not that the artist felt she wasn’t…
A whole lot of action always seems to be bubbling under the surface of Anna Gaskell’s photographs and films, yet it can be dumbfounding to pinpoint exactly just what that is. The New York-based artist is known for her theatrically staged works that cull references from literary and cinematic sources…
“Delivered”: In his photos on exhibit in “Delivered,” a group show curated by Orestes Diaz of the nomadic ISM Gallery and on view at the Fire Haus Project in West Miami-Dade County, Nestor Arenas uses road kill, action figures, and toy soldiers to depict a world where violence is the…
Downtown Miami will come alive with art openings of all varieties this evening. Wear your walking shoes and come prepared to be amazed. At Abba Fine Art (233 NW 36th St.), multimedia artist and experimental composer David McConnell wants to burrow into your head with Polysymphonic Sun, an exhibit opening…
School’s out for Kari Snyder and Lamia Endara, who answer the bell tonight at 7:00 during the opening of the University of Miami’s new Project Space in Wynwood. The freshly minted MFAs will be among students and faculty exhibiting their work at the 3500-square-foot space during rotating monthly shows intended…
“Sweet Bird of Youth”: This photo-based exhibit, curated by Claire Breukel, features selections from the Debra and Dennis Scholl collection that focus on an evolution of time and place based on the mundane. Breukel has combined imagery of banal, barren landscapes with the loaded rituals of female adolescence to convey…
Imagine Dubya slamming shots of Wild Turkey and playing war games on his Crawford, Texas ranch, and you begin to get a picture of Nestor Arenas’s bone-crunching work. The artist uses road kill, action figures, and toy soldiers to cook up photographs depicting a world where violence is the supreme…
Reverence for the elderly and a celebration of youth line up in a harmonic convergence today during a pair of exhibits spiritedly reflecting the arc of life. The Art of Aging, at the Jewish Museum of Florida (301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach), features the work of 40 artists from the…
Carlos Gallardo would be in hog heaven if he had the keys to Fred Sanford’s junkyard. The Argentine artist’s found object assemblages — currently on display at Pan American Art Projects — are cooked up from bra straps, metal springs, shredded handkerchiefs, lead wire, rusty hinges, music stands, aging photographs,…
Been lured by a buffet of funk-fueled entertainment, only to discover the hype you swallowed delivered a load of gas? Ditch those Rolaids; these artsy events promise the whole enchilada and more. Beginning at noon the Museum of Contemporary Art (770 NE 125th St., North Miami) celebrates Magic City youth…
“Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I”: MoCA’s institutional toast to the legendary choreographer’s career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists, and features costumes and decor actually used in his company’s productions. The exhibit includes works by Sandra…
Andrew Guenther’s radioactive solo show at the David Castillo Gallery could well have been called “Invasion of the DayGlo Saucer Men.” His trippy suite of paintings, saturated in bleeding psychedelic hues suggesting a jumbo box of fluorescent Crayola crayons nuked in a microwave, taps into the central nervous system of…
