With its unfurled red carpet, jutting boom microphones, flashing lights, and the sound of screeching reporters jockeying for an interview, Malachi Farrell’s Interview (Paparazzi), makes a raucous declaration that France’s National Foundation for Contemporary Art (FNAC) has arrived in highfalutin style. “Shortcuts Between Reality and Fiction: Video, Installations, and Paintings…
Once considered the Carmen Miranda of local art expos for its predominantly Latin flavor, Art Miami has undergone a radical makeover to broaden its appeal, featuring 50 new galleries on its overhauled roster. “We have made a concerted effort to attract more American, European, and Asian galleries because it’s a…
The Miami Beach Cinematheque plans to send Art Miami off with a sensory jarring splash tonight when it presents “Waves,” a site specific projection installation by multimedia minx Rosalind Schneider. The artist is transforming the cinematheque into a “temporal awareness environment,” projecting Atlantic Ocean inspired imagery onto a huge sphere…
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…
Tijuana-based Tania Candiani teases rather than ignites fires with her solo show at Kunsthaus Miami, but her work might provoke if one’s perceptual libido responds to erotic irony laced with the soft and subtle instead of the hot and sweaty. “Mattresses” distills what she refers to as “the cruel game…
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…
Stepping inside Wynwood’s new Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (HACS), one is instantly surprised by an image of a visibly aroused Jesus Christ lounging atop a tattered red upholstered Rococo settee. The piece, titled Ying & Yang, superimposes a lurid thorn-crowned mug shot of Christ, culled from a Cuban grocery store…
On one of Wynwood’s grittier side streets, a towering Fernando Botero sculpture of a nude male torso squats majestically behind a gated sidewalk, its crotch covered by a fig leaf the width of a hubcap. Considered a masterpiece by many, the blubbery bronze Adonis, trumpeting the arrival of kingpin dealer…
Baby-faced Anthony Goicolea is best known for creating unnerving digitally altered photographic self-portraits in which he appears as a frolicking troupe of incestuous adolescent clones engaged in sordid homoerotic shenanigans. The New York-based Cuban-American’s flawlessly staged narcissistic fantasies smack of a genetic engineering experiment at an elite boarding academy gone…
The best (and cheapest) gift you can give your family this year is time, so call up your mom and bring her to see Pedro Almodvar’s Academy Award-winning movie All About My Mother. Presented by the Classic/Foreign Film Discussion Group, the film traces a mother’s journey to Barcelona to work…
After ingesting the weird brew served up at the Bettcher Gallery, one is left wondering whether Toc Fetch and Tricia Cline are savant fugitives from Bellvue’s Peter Pan ward or just plain old-fangled eccentrics living off the fat of imagination in their Woodstock Xanadu. “Exiles in Lower Utopia” narrates the…
When cinema mavericks formed United Artists, studio bigwigs called their efforts a case of the lunatics taking charge of the asylum. Risking similar criticism, indie curator Anat Ebgi and artist Jen DeNike hatched Frisbee — the fun-poking anti-fair set to take control of South Beach’s Cavalier Hotel during Art Basel…
One doesn’t have to be related to Paulie Walnuts or Big Pussy Bonpensiero or their goombahs to hook up with conceptual crew Friends with You. Made-in-Miami Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, who together form the Friends with You gang, are opening up the books at MoCA at the Goldman…
Touted as the most successful and prestigious event of its kind in the hemisphere, Art Basel Miami Beach will massage the egos of some of the wealthiest people on the planet. “This is definitely the most significant contemporary art fair in the country, and we’ll be seeing what one could…
During Art Basel, local art dealers exhibiting works on consignment from domestic and international galleries are stocking inventories that include some staggeringly priced pieces and, with art crime statistics on the rise, are leaving nothing to chance by eagerly embracing a host of precautionary measures to safeguard artworks. Interpol ranks…
As Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), considered by many the monster truck of contemporary art fairs, rounds the bend on its varsity season, South Florida finds itself frozen in the international art community’s headlights and quivering over the dynamic transformation the event has effected on the local scene since blazing…
It’s that white-patent-leather-loafer-wearing Casanova’s night out in South Beach after a day of flipping flapjacks at Denny’s, and he’s wondering, Who are all of those gaudy socialites near the convention center? Rein in the horses, you hip-swiveling caballero. These blue bloods are in town gushing over contemporary art, amigo, and…
Relief for frazzled nerves, hypertension, stress, and other ailments might be as close as a Walgreens, but at two Miami Beach stores you don’t have to comb the shelves to find it. The Windows at Walgreens public art project, organized by ArtCenter/South Florida, is playing an unheralded role in helping…
The terrain of the holy can appear a rough row to hoe in a pair of strangely provocative exhibits fertile with the sacred and profane. “The Saint Makers: A Living Tradition in American Folk Art” features more than 75 works of outsider religious iconography largely drawn from the collection of…
Lenny Tachmes christened his new space near the Design District the Saturday night before Wilma made landfall. After sinking thousands of dollars into an old Floridian home and retrofitting it into a funky gallery, he was poised to make his art season run. On Monday he might have felt as…
Gutsy Andrew Reach is an artist with steel in his spine. His show, “Beyond Pain,” on exhibit at Tip Freeman’s Paintings and Art Gallery, features nearly 40 riotously color-saturated digital works that chronicle his gritty comeback from two life-saving surgeries. His large archival Epson pigment prints on Somerset velvet paper…
The Devil is hidden among the details of Diego Singh’s feverishly fresh, knee-bending corpus of work on display at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery. His exhibit, “Rid of Me or The Exorcist,” skulks through a pop cultural purgatory to examine identity-related issues the artist sees brewing in highbrow notions of self-portraiture…
