Michelle Weinberg

The Captivating "Art of Video Games" Comes to Boca Raton Museum of Art

The collage drawings of female figures by Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu on view at Miami Art Museum are harsh and seductive, violent yet beautiful. Collectively titled "Amazing Grace," their mottled surfaces glitter like distant planets, like microscopic organisms or rare fungi. They are ephemeral but also monumental in size (many...

Fashion and its built-in seasonal obsolescence has long been the engine that drives aesthetic innovation in contemporary art. As soon as a new style bubbles up from an original source, scribbled by an early adopter of a disenfranchised subculture like grunge or skateboarding, an alarm sounds. Soon thereafter legions of...

Directing attention toward art displayed in a public place always presents a challenge because the audience is busy, focused on the daily grind -- meetings, studies, exams, deadlines, lunch. Everyday folk are not prepared art aficionados arriving at a gallery for the sole purpose of playing spectator. The optimum way...

What happens when you assemble teams of artists in alien surroundings and then simply leave them alone to make art? Placemaker Gallery and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation conducted such an experiment, the fruit of which is now on display. New York native John Bianchi lived at the Placemaker Gallery...