Although controversy has stuck to “Bodies … The Exhibition” like a blood tick on a hound dog’s tail, more than 10,000 spectators had flocked to see the corpse show at a local mall within days of its debut. Scheduled to run through March of next year at the Shops at…
During the Nineties, a visit to one of South Florida’s strip clubs made for a rip-snorting time. From seedier dives such as the Bottoms Up on SW Eighth Street to the wildly popular Porky’s in Hialeah, freewheeling floozies ratcheted up their repertoires with raunchy antics that engaged the audience in…
You might say Juan Carlos Zaldivar is a master of reality. When you enter one of the alchemist’s art installations, the outside world suddenly seems very far away. He conjures stuff that makes you stop, rewind, and try to unravel what is exactly different and why. Tonight Zaldivar is unveiling…
They are no Manny, Moe, and Jack, but these three dudes do put the pep in making a little Cuban food go a long way. If you don’t know a chicharrón from a mariquita, Glenn Lindgren, Raul Musibay, and Jorge Castillo will be at Sentir Cubano from 2:00 to 5:00…
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…
When local homicide cops find themselves stymied by a case and wishing the dead could tell tales, they seek Samantha Steinberg or Jorge Molina to communicate the secrets concealed in the victims’ bones. The talented pair composes the Forensic Art Unit of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Crime Scene Investigations Bureau,…
Nam June Paik, who first introduced artwork featuring a television set into a museum space in 1963, once referred to the moon as the “oldest TV.” A couple of years later, the art maverick reproduced the lunar cycle using seventeen TV sets atop pedestals in a blacked-out room. A different…
Ever-changing Spectrums: For $1650 a year, artists clinch fifteen feet of wall space during one of the three-month group exhibits Art Fusion switches out four times a year. The artistic criterion for inclusion in the gallery’s stable seems to be a penchant for cranking out wildly colorful stuff in the…
On most nights, one could fire a cannon in the Wynwood Art District and not hit a soul. But when the starter pistol cracked on the season September 9, thousands of art patrons swelled the area’s streets during a gallery crawl that began and ended with a bang. Genaro Ambrosino,…
Some men might believe that the closer to the bone, the sweeter the meat, but most Cuban males will swear differently — as will Laura Luna. The Cuban artist creates sculptures and paintings of bald and nude Amazon women who appear as invulnerable as they do voluptuous. “Tierra Firme,” her…
Picture a bacchanalia, and the image of well-healed art aficionados sipping cheap Chablis from plastic cups won’t likely flow to mind. That’s about to change at ArtCenter/South Florida, where organizers of a new Art & Wine Series have called down Dionysus himself to bestow divine intoxication and assist with a…
Don’t expect tidy scenes of domestic order in this exhibit by four Cuban-American women artists. “A Room of One’s Own” features the work of Teresita Fernández, Maria Elena González, Quisqueya Henríquez, and María Martínez-Cañas and examines how architecture and the physicality of space shape our daily realities and our perception…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
To get the drop on John Gotti, the “Teflon Don,” Marilyn Church had to move like a mongoose. The New Yorker is among an exclusive cadre of talent hired as quick-draw artists by the national media to capture the drama of high-profile trials. Because cameras are banned from federal trials,…
Amazingly au courant on their take on identity politics, members of Tracy + the Plastics appear to be comfortable in their own skins and with each other as band mates. They are also happy sharing stage space with the public. Perhaps it is because Tracy, on vocal and keyboards, Nikki…
Anthony Spinello cut his teeth as the barely legal curator of Liquid Blue Gallery, learning how hard it can be to survive in the dog-eat-dog art world. Although his stint with the flash-in-the-pan space might have soured another greenhorn on the nature of the business, Spinello dove ahead unfazed to…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
The fifth anniversary of 9/11 is upon us, and to commemorate the event, television networks are rifling through their vaults for footage of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Some prime-time specials will ponder whether Americans are any safer, others why Osama Bin Laden hasn’t been nabbed. Some will…
Like Brangelina’s new baby, footvolley fuses the appeal of its parents and razzle-dazzles a crowd. The sport is catching on like wildfire. Spawned on Brazilian beaches from the mating of soccer and volleyball, footvolley combines the fancy footwork of soccer with the flyaway-hair, sand-in-the-crack excitement of beach volleyball. The red-hot…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
New England is home to the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), which is dedicated to collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and celebrating bad art. Miami boasts Art Fusion Galleries, which seems dedicated to selling it. MOBA is housed in the basement of the Dedham Community Theatre outside a men’s bathroom, where at…
The Mystery of Irma Vep: Crisply directed by David Arisco, its costumes magically engineered by the sensational Mary Lynne Izzo, and gleefully performed by the comically gifted John Felix and Tom Wahl, The Mystery of Irma Vep is a delirious descent into madness that sticks to the ribs and never…
