The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley’s exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. The twists and turns of the artist’s formative years pepper his paintings. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age of fifteen and later served a…

Ruben Torres Llorca has staged what he terms a thriller in the guise of a fairy tale at the Frost Art Museum. And no shit, Sherlock, he wants us to solve the crime. His bilingual exhibit “Modelo para Armar/Easy-to-Build” is structured in a nonlinear fashion that invites multiple readings and…

Colorfully clad in traditional guayaberas, and chomping on their cheroots as if the cigar were their last meal, the veteran players tossing bones at Little Havana’s Domino Park represent the flavor of Miami as much as a café con leche. Given the peppery language and folksy pageantry, one shouldn’t be…

The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley’s exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. The twists and turns of the artist’s formative years pepper his paintings. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age of fifteen and later served a…

When speaking with the boyish yet erudite David Castillo, one senses the art dealer is poised to gain traction on some of his gray-beard competitors. “Paris, Barcelona & Miami,” on exhibit at his recently opened, eponymously named gallery, features a handful of works by the Cuban vanguard generation and is…

On a recent Friday afternoon, squadrons of turkey buzzards circled the Claude Pepper Federal Building while a skywriting plane created childlike pictures of clouds in the pristine blue sky. Some of the faux clouds were shaped like bear claws, and others bore an uncanny resemblance to billowy buttocks, as if…

Raqib Shaw’s paintings smack you in the face with their intoxicating imagery. His shimmering coral reefs burst with psychedelic flora, swarm with glittering mutant fish, and are lorded over by exotic, half man, half beast figures draped in clouds of jewel tone butterflies. The exhibit culls its title from a…

Mixing art, performance, music, and booze is a high-octane formula that has undergone more face lifts than Joan Rivers. But talking to the lads at ARTmob, one would think they’d invented it. “We basically thought it would be cool to organize an event where people could experience different genres in…

Advent: No matter how much you flog a nag, it will never run like a racehorse. Curated by New York-based artist Lou Laurita, this show seeks to explore themes of coming into being yet stalls at the gate, for much of the work seems a furlong from posting his premise…

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz is a heck of a prankster whose works are as apt to tickle the ribs as they are to zap the noggin with their provocative nature. Muniz has garnered international kudos with his astounding photographs, images he creates with bizarre materials, including dirt, plastic toys, junk,…

It can be a royal mishap to jimmy a word in edgewise while flapping gums with a bigwig collector waxing thunderstruck over a young painter. After allowing him to catch his breath, we convinced Miami art maverick Dennis Scholl to fill us in on The Manhattan Project — opening tonight…

ArtCenter/South Florida’s latest exhibition, “Advent,” evokes a thought: No matter how much you flog a nag, it will never run like a racehorse. Curated by New York-based artist Lou Laurita, the show seeks to explore themes of “coming into being or use,” yet stalls at the gate, for much of…

It’s the wee hours of Valentine’s Day 2008 and Raul Castro rouses members of Cuba’s Communist party, announcing his Parkinson’s addled brother has just kicked the bucket. Fidel is dead — what’s the regime going to do? The spastic commandant had not been seen publicly since the previous July 26…

The Malcolm Morley exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) dishes out a meaty chunk of the painter’s career and hints at a knockabout journey that smacks of a Louis L’Amour yarn. Featuring more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties, “Malcolm Morley: The Art of Painting” marks…

When the Museum of Contemporary Art raised its inaugural champagne toast during Miami’s leaner art years, few dreamed it would evolve into a consistent launch pad for homegrown talent or that it would come to bask in such far flung cultural impact. Locals Teresita Fernandez (who recently won a MacArthur…

You won’t need to know the difference between mulch and manure to get your green thumb on and cultivate a conceptually blooming patch of Eden at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. “Nature Matters,” opening tonight at 7:00, features the work of a quartet of artists — Elsoca, Fabian, Karen Rifas, and Joe…

William Kentridge’s heavyweight exhibit at Miami Art Central ranks best of the season and is a can’t-miss ticket for art aficionados craving a knockout. The display showcases a broad range of the South African’s work dating from 1979, including drawings, animated films, sculptures, and a spectacular series of recent live-action…

For his first solo museum show here in a decade, Ruben Torres Llorca has chewed up the script of a head scratching whodunit and spit out a wickedly formulated plot snaring the spectator. His “Modelo para Armar/Easy to Build,” opening tonight at 8:00 at the Frost Art Museum at FIU,…

Scrapping for a share of the market in the lingering shadow of Art Basel, Art Miami’s sixteenth installment left some exhibitors complaining the fair is against a wall and ready for a blindfold and a cigarette. Opening January 6 through 9, barely a month after the Swiss Godzilla Basel swallowed…

It is difficult to deny we live in a throwaway society. We all visit the curb twice a week, unceremoniously dumping a chunk of our lives next to the road, where the junk awaits the garbage collector. At a time when we often seek the extraordinary in the disposable, garbage…

During the past few years, Arte del Barrio, a collaborative troupe of painters, photographers, sculptors, auteurs, musicians, and actors, has been on a whirlwind tear, organizing exhibits, initiating community-oriented projects with an emphasis on education, and basically showing the public a rip-snorting time. Tonight the tight-knit collective raises the curtain…

A Day and Forever: Ali Prosch makes a jaw-dropping statement with this multimedia exhibition sprinkled with witty doses of flair and drama that portray the lifestyles of the young and fabulously dissolute. Trafficking in hyperbeautiful imagery, at times evocatively laced with autobiographical commentary, Prosch blithely chops Miami’s decadent run-amok egos…