For her solo debut at Kevin Bruk Gallery, Su-en Wong parodies and pulverizes preconceptions of Asian women in a show that’s both brazen and brainy. Mining the muck of porn fantasy, Wong clones herself in paintings and drawings in which she often appears nude or draped in suggestive schoolgirl regalia,…
It’s not every day mere mortals get to rub elbows with a creative genius who snagged an Oscar at the onset of his career. But tonight at 5:00 at Miami International University of Art & Design, you can share some rarefied air with Will Vinton, best known for catapulting a…
Oscar Bony, Leon Ferrari, and Tracey Snelling: Perfumed by the scent of fresh paint and sparkling floors, Pan American’s newly hatched Wynwood digs open with the muscular work of Argentine conceptualists Leon Ferrari and Oscar Bony in the capacious main space, and multimedia pieces by California’s Tracey Snelling in the…
In May 2000, when Little Havana’s monthly schlock street festival Viernes Culturales (Cultural Fridays) began, the area already boasted an edgy arts scene that attracted multiculti crowds from throughout the city. There was a late Friday-night rumba every week at Adalberto Delgado’s gritty pioneer space, 6G. Black-box performances (including Surreal…
Wynwood’s first art crawl of 2007 busts out tonight with a squall at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, featuring Vicenta Casañ’s “miami:tropicaldepression” and Erica Magrey’s “Troubadour.” Casañ continues her manipulation of the Magic City’s skyline, obliterating familiar landmarks to create a sense of melancholy and unease. Her new series of photographs…
Harry Potter is out of the closet and on view at Spinello Gallery in “Thank You Come Again,” Hackworth Ashley’s solo debut. Opening tonight at 7:00, the Tennessee native’s exhibit features a controversial series of paintings that landed him in hot water at the Savannah College of Art and Design…
Oscar Bony, Leon Ferrari, and Tracey Snelling: Perfumed by the scent of fresh paint and sparkling floors, Pan American’s newly hatched Wynwood digs open with the muscular work of Argentine conceptualists Leon Ferrari and Oscar Bony in the capacious main space and multimedia pieces by California’s Tracey Snelling in the…
In an age when thousands of sickly young women gush over stick-figure starlets like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie for “thinspiration,” Daniela Edburg knocks the teeth out with a headlong plunge into the evils of obsessive dieting. “Bittersweet,” her solo exhibit at Kunsthaus Miami, is a walloping commentary on the…
“Art in Bloom,” now in its fifth incarnation, offers the concrete-weary a return to Eden by transforming Miami Beach Botanical Garden into a sculptural paradise. “This time we wanted to focus on sculpture displayed outdoors, to encourage visitors to enjoy the beauty of the grounds,” explains curator Carol Jazzar. Presented…
Those bemoaning Art Miami’s relevance in the long shadow of Basel, take heed. The Swiss might have recently jerked the city upside down, but Art Miami’s organizers promise to turn heads with the seventeenth edition of the South Florida cultural staple, which has stormed back with pizzazz. “Many discoveries will…
Teeth-chattering Northerners might be shopping in a 30-degree chill, but ArtCenter/South Florida is decked out for a summer bazaar. Today from 2:00 to 9:00 outside ArtCenter’s 800 Lincoln Rd. gallery, “ArtShop: Pop In, Pop Up, Pop Buy!” offers art lovers and fashionistas an alfresco shopping experience celebrating the seventeenth-annual Art…
Those eager to catch a whiff of the cinematic funk and experimental video developing in Cuba can thank Centro Cultural Español for organizing a series of programs beginning tonight at 7:00 and featuring the quirky work of more than 30 artist/auteurs. Curated by Mailyn Machado, “Play: Video Cubano” spools six…
Oscar Bony, Leon Ferrari, and Tracey Snelling: Perfumed by the scent of fresh paint and sparkling floors, Pan American’s newly hatched Wynwood digs open with the muscular work of Argentine conceptualists Leon Ferrari and Oscar Bony in the capacious main space and multimedia pieces by California’s Tracey Snelling in the…
A monumental four-panel C-print by Frank Thiel at the Bass Museum of Art captures the rebirth of an uber-hip, anything-goes Berlin following the collapse of the Wall in 1989. The German photographer’s Stadt 7/12, 1999 documents the sprawling construction zone of Potsdamer Platz, a major architectural program master-planned by Italian…
For jaded hipsters looking to tear into 2007 with some avant flair, the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts’ bold salute to the new year looks improbably good. Tonight the Big Orange’s miracle near the bay is featuring Mikel Rouse’s The End of Cinematics, cosponsored by Miami New Times and…
Craving hot wax at a tender age, Lisa M. cut her first album, Trampa, at fourteen. The record went gold, making the fiery Puerto Rican performer the highest-paid female Latin rapper at the time. Since her sophomore followup No Lo Derrumbes in 1990 went platinum, the self-described barrio homegirl went…
Unlike the swarm of carpetbaggers that swooped into town for the Basel piñata and fled after clogging local gutters with tawdry flyers, crumpled wine cups, and broken beer bottles, Pan American Art Projects is here to stay. The Dallas-based venture recently opened its fresh-hatched Wynwood digs with the muscular work…
I’m So Much Better than You: Magnus Sigurdarson’s installation features four tons of Miami New Times papers interlocked like bricks to form a curving hip-high wall. It houses a DVD player and monitor where the artist is seen performing a puppet show in Xiamen, China. Sigurdarson, who was born in…
Tackling “Toffee Armistice: British Art Now” at Lemon Sky Projects’ new space can be vexing. Without a guide, one might be mystified by the intricate labyrinth of cross-references informing this brawny yet intelligent show. Curated by artist/writer Martin Sexton, the exhibit brings together 26 UK artists whose work collectively delivers…
When Chicago industrialist James Deering had his palatial retreat built on Biscayne Bay, the Magic City was still a sleepy hamlet with less than 10,000 residents. The cosmopolitan bachelor, who crashed at his swank tropical crib only during the winter months between 1916 and 1925, had traveled to Italy with…
Asian Art from the Bass Museum Collection and Treasures from the Bass Museum of Art: With a bushel of blue-ribbon shows, the Bass has embarked on perhaps its busiest programming season. Deciding on which shows to see among the museum’s expansive menu might be as slippery as handling a hog…
During Art Basel Miami Beach last year, Lilian Fernandez was crestfallen that none of her abstract paintings was on display at any of the fairs’ events or exhibits. To cope with her depression, she ritualistically ripped one of her canvases, The Flowers That My Mother Painted, into 38 envelope-size sections,…
