Piotr Uklanski’s solo at the Bass showcases works from his wide-ranging practice, which includes sculpture, painting, photography, performance, and film. The show’s title, “ESL,” speaks to a South Florida audience, says museum executive director and chief curator Silvia Karman Cubiñá; it references “the sociopolitical relevance of an exhibition [called] ‘ESL’…

The plight of Ai Weiwei raised an international stink after he was detained in a Chinese jail for his politically freighted artwork and criticism of his government in 2011. Now he’s headlining the new Pérez Art Museum Miami’s opening exhibits. (See page 18.) But he’s not the only controversial name…

When Pérez Art Museum Miami debuts this week, director Thom Collins says, it’ll be an arts facility unlike anything else in the world. The building, which will open with more than 500 pieces on display, including paintings, sculptures, and other mediums, is itself a work of art, Collins says —…

What might the late Rocky Pomerance have made of Swiss artist Olaf Breuning? Pomerance was the Miami Beach Police chief in 1972 when Vietnam protesters on the streets surrounding the Miami Beach Convention Center were tear-gassed by cops during the Republican National Convention. Now, 40 years later, Breuning is set…

For those of us who call the Magic City home, too much of a good thing is never a problem. That’s unless we’re talking about the first week of December, when Art Basel in Miami Beach challenges our tolerance for excess and forces difficult decisions about what to see and…

When the Magic City’s cultural Shangri-la opens on the downtown waterfront this Wednesday, the 305’s art scene will be forever changed. After almost three years since the shovel first hit the dirt on construction, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is unveiling its Herzog & de Meuron-designed building modeled after Stiltsville…

In ancient Creation myths, water represented everything from fertility to the unconscious to a powerful force for healing. It was also considered an enduring symbol for change. For Cuban artist Manuel Mendive Hoyo, known for incorporating his Yoruban roots from the west coast of Africa and the clandestine language of…

With the tents rising in Wynwood and Basel just a few weeks away, you can already sense the excitement over Miami Art Week as the international art set gears up to invade the tropics. This weekend’s Second Saturday is shaping up to be the busiest of the year with some…

Andy Warhol isn’t that different from Yoda from Star Wars. Think about it: Like Yoda, the white-wigged Warhol was inscrutable, his force was far-reaching, and he was the lord of his universe. For London-based artist RYCA, who pays tribute to his Pop Jedi master through a filter of Star Wars…

Manny Prieres isn’t a big literary guy. The 40-year-old graphic designer and artist was born in Spain after his parents relocated there from Cuba. As a teenager, he attended Southwest Miami High School, where he often painted album covers on jean jackets for friends and developed his drawing skills. But…

Grasping a concept without a start or finish might puzzle some people. But that’s precisely the point behind a new show at the Bass Museum of Art, where a group of artists is tackling the ephemeral nature of time. “TIME” presents a cross section of international and local talent exploring,…

In 1984, when Humberto Castro was a young Cuban artist just getting started, he snagged first prize for drawing at the Triennial Intergraphic in East Germany. So he headed to Berlin to collect his award money, and there authorities asked him to paint a block-long mural on the Berlin Wall…

For a surefire sign that Art Basel is set to invade the 305, all you have to do is visit the Frost Art Museum (10975 SW 17th St., Miami), which has unloaded the first epic exhibits of the season instead of saving the big guns for December. The Frost has…

Is there a tectonic shift underway in the Wynwood gallery scene? This past Thursday nearly 30 local spaces banded together for the new preview art walk organized to attract collectors wary of the rowdy crowds they say have turned Second Saturdays into a circus. It’s a story we have covered…

We can think of plenty of reasons why the smash Broadway musical Mamma Mia has captivated more than 45 million people all over the world. The story is set in a Greek island paradise. It tugs at the heartstrings with a young bride-to-be whose sole wish is to have her…

As the story goes, a teenager visiting a Florida tourist trap bought a baby alligator and flushed it down the toilet. Months later, it emerged from the sewers, as big as a school bus, to stalk unsuspecting humans. Well, Lloyd Goradesky’s gargantuan Gator in the Bay was never dropped into…

TwinHaus, a Miami-based “experiential engineering agency,” was founded two months ago by Miamians Tara Long, 28, and Yamil Rodriguez, 30. The firm is curating the visual and performance components of III Points — a South by Southwest-style, multivenue music, art, and technology festival set to rattle the senses October 3…

Scientists constantly strive to design technology to make navigating life seem simpler. But for many artists, newly developed devices and computer systems provide the fodder for novel ways to interpret the resulting conflicts between humans and machines in a rapidly changing world. In short, they’re complicating the world in a…

This long-anticipated solo exhibition by the TM Sisters boasts sensory-jarring video installations, sculpture, collage and performance work. Monica and Tasha Lopez De Victoria are harnessing light and sound waves to fuel their conceptual legerdemain with prisms, muscle-testing, and psychological frameworks. The results on display are a rainbow-bright spectacle of refracted…