Between Little River and Little Haiti, close to Liberty City, Johnny Robles is one of ten artists within a few blocks of each other in raw warehouse studios creating work. Gustavo Oviedo, who works in paint, scultpure, video, and more, works next door to Robles and is pitching a PBS…

Rivulets of sweat slide down the back of her caramel neck and trace the gleaming curve of her arched back. Her rocking hips send droplets flying skyward as her body is possessed and convulsing with the wildly percussive force of the rhythm in the streets. She’s wearing a swath of…

Way back in December 2012, rappers Fabolous, Pusha T, and a whole flock of models stormed the streets of Miami alongside Jon J and David Cabrera, to film the “Life Is So Exciting” music video.In four lightning fast minutes of flashing cuts, the work of over 25 artists appeared. It’s…

Purvis Young sits back in a plush, overstuffed, second-hand chair, cracks open a tall can of beer, turns on a television nature show, and spears a pink chunk of spam with a plastic fork. Five minutes later, the TV is muted, he’s pumping oldies through a radio, and painting his…

If you’ve ever spent $500 per sole on custom Air Jordans, you might be a sneakerhead. If your blood type is Reebok, you can assemble 30 or more outfits by the colors of your kicks, or your phone’s Google alerts ring every time a new shoe drops, then you are…

The sound of a thousand needle stabs a second rang out through the Hyatt, sounding like a nest of angry bees attacking flesh with images of monsters, pinups, anchors, and stars for Tattoolapalooza 2013. When convention organizer Mickey Steinberg told us he was bringing down great artists in a professional…

If you think all ink conventions are a drunken excuse for you and your friends to get matching butthole tattoos, then Mickey Steinberg, head organizer of Tattoolapalooza, has a message for you. “That’s not cool,” he says. “We’re about art, not just the partying lifestyle.” Steinberg, who owns Eternal Ink…

Your eyes are swollen shut, their broken vessels leaking fluid, turning black and blue from the beating your opponent just gave you. But your nostrils are pumping victory, a pungent mix of hard-fought blood and sweat that’s rising off the mat like steam into your pounding champion’s heart and back…

Every year from Helsinki to Hell’s Kitchen, the Christian world celebrates Three Kings Day, the “epiphany” holiday that honors three magic wise men seeking and finding a holy baby in a haystack. Taking place every year in early January, it signals the official end of the Christmas season. But here…

Theresa Caputo licks her lips, clicks her French-manicured acrylic nails, and takes a deep breath of the afterlife. In a flash, your dead grandma, holding a bouquet of roses, appears to her. Your other dead grandma is there with a white dove. These, Caputo insists, are symbols she receives and…

Miami Graffiti: Top 10 New Wynwood Murals

See also: Wynwood Street Art Slide Show

Spanish Harlem, 1930. Seven-year-old Tito Puente smacks a pot with a wooden spoon, slaps the windowsill, and makes a crude yet funky beat. A neighbor lady screams, “Ay, niña, shut that kid up!” But his mom knows better, that one day he will be the king of the timbales —…

The first Monday after Basel some shop owners woke up feeling grateful that they let great street artists use their walls as canvases. The rest kicked the curb and cursed their graffiti tag-bombed storefronts.There’s no shortage of new paint on the walls around Wynwood, but many old standbys remain. From…

Allison Kotzig’s shocking vagina art took us by surprise at the Hangar Gallery in Wynwood during Art Basel week.Then New Times art critic Carlos Suarez De Jesus named it one of Basel’s weirdest pieces.So we caught up with Kotzig by phone and found out what inspired it, how she made…