The South Miami Rotary Art Festival returns for its 31st year this weekend, and it continues to be one of the most popular and best-attended events in the area, so won’t you join? The festival features 150 exhibits of fine arts and high-end crafts from around the country, multinational food,…
The exhibit “Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs,” which opened last week at the Frost Art Museum, was two decades in the making. The idea began with Cyma Rubin, a Tony Award-winning producer, writer, and director. Rubin came up with the idea when she was working in Japan as…
The art world was shocked yesterday to learn someone had deliberately destroyed an Ai Weiwei piece at the Perez Art Museum Miami. Shock turned to incredulity when they learned the vandal wasn’t a political protester, but rather veteran Miami painter Maximo Caminero, who shattered a Weiwei vase to draw attention…
On a recent weekday, Douglas Hoekzema stands atop a ladder after sunset, painting a mural outside his Little Haiti studio. The 34-year-old artist, who goes by the street moniker “Hoxxoh,” is working by the light of a bonfire fueled with broken wooden palettes and rotting Christmas trees. Just behind him,…
Most people find themselves attracted like moths to Charlotte Squire’s illuminating installations — and so will you. The British artist has an uncanny knack for creating atmospheric groupings. Specifically, she evokes social settings by employing reconfigured lamp shades and other lighting fixtures she salvages from London’s garbage heaps and thrift…
Celebrate Valentine’s Day early when one of the decade’s most emotionally captivating musicals soars above a moonlit Biscayne Bay to cast a spell of unforgettable romance. Based on the 2006 Oscar-winning movie of the same name, Once weaves a tender, old-fashioned love story with bittersweet pangs. Winner of eight 2012…
In just a few days, more than 670 million roses and other buds will enter the Port of Miami for Valentine’s Day. They will make their way to florists and other retailers across the country in one of the busiest weeks for the international flower trade. It takes about two…
In just a few days, more than 670 million roses and other buds will enter the Port of Miami for Valentine’s Day. They will make their way to florists and other retailers across the country in one of the busiest weeks for the international flower trade. It takes about two…
For some collectors, hoarding works by their favorite artists can become a compulsive habit. “It’s an addiction,” observes Emilio Callejo, co-founder and vice president of ArteAmericas, the local Latin American art fair that recently folded its tent after a decade on the South Florida calendar. Calleja is launching the pop-up…
Anthony Quinn won an Oscar for his portrayal of Paul Gauguin in the 1956 movie Lust for Life, in which he played Vincent van Gogh’s friend and rival. But it is his son Lorenzo Quinn who went on to make a name for himself as a real-life darling of the…
Beatriz Monteavaro’s enigmatic work is not exactly primitive stuff. These aren’t works you’d expect to find on a caveman’s wall. Instead, the Miami artist’s early inspirations stemmed from sources as disparate as horror movies, 1980s British subcultures, and America’s fading theme parks. Her haunting creations are on view in Monteavaro’s…
Beatriz Monteavaro’s enigmatic work isn’t exactly primitive. The Miami artist’s early inspirations stemmed from modern sources such as horror movies, 1980s British subcultures, and America’s fading theme parks. But the results were often nightmarish and appeared as if spawned by the aftermath of a civilization-ending event that transported humanity back…
For more than a decade, Art Basel Miami Beach has dominated South Florida’s cultural landscape. But in 2013, that dominance was challenged. Why? Not only did the long-awaited Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) come gift-wrapped for the holidays courtesy of award-winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, but also a…
Asif Farooq stooped over a metal sink in a Jackson, Mississippi Huddle House restaurant. Feverishly scrubbing away at the mountain of pots and dishes in front of him, he tried to wash away his doubts about whether he’d finally found a way to kill his 20-year heroin addiction. It was…
Asif Farooq stooped over a metal sink in a Jackson, Mississippi, Huddle House restaurant. Feverishly scrubbing away at the mountain of pots and dishes in front of him, he tried to wash away his doubts about whether he’d finally found a way to kill his 20-year heroin addiction. It was…
Voodoo: It’s one of the Caribbean’s most secretive and misunderstood religions. But photographer Cristina García Rodero is out to change that with a stunning solo show that lifts the veil on the occult rituals of Haitian voodoo. On view at Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design, “Rituales en…
If you missed the grand opening of the glittering Pérez Art Museum Miami (1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) during the madness of Art Basel, don’t fret for a minute. You can take in the dazzling architectural gem this Thursday, when the museum unfurls the inaugural edition of PAMM Presents, a dynamic…
Developer Jorge Pérez was engulfed in scandal last week when it was disclosed that a Carlos Alfonzo oil-on-paper work that Pérez had donated to Florida International University might be forged. Authorities found the claim credible enough that they removed it from an exhibition, saying that proving its authenticity would take…
Developer Jorge Pérez was engulfed in scandal last week when it was disclosed that a Carlos Alfonzo oil-on-paper work that Pérez had donated to Florida International University might be forged. Authorities found the claim credible enough that they removed it from an exhibition, saying that proving its authenticity would take…
Unless you crawled under a large rock to escape the visual bombardment of Miami Art Week, chances are you’re still reeling from the orgy of multi-media works that festooned our shores from South Beach to Biscayne Bay and far beyond during the recent Basel lunacy. But there is a show…
Unless you crawled under a large rock to escape the visual bombardment of Art Basel last week, chances are you’re still reeling from the orgy of multimedia works that festooned our tropical shores from South Beach to Biscayne Bay. But a show at Wynwood’s Curator’s Voice Art Projects (299 NW…
Don’t tell Kenton Parker that love means never having to say you’re sorry. On the contrary. For the 45-year-old West Coast artist, apologies, when sincere, are the weft and weave of romantic purity. In fact, he’s built a glass greenhouse filled with orchids, tulips, roses, and plenty of spiny succulents…
