Miami might be facing its first hurricane in a decade, but that’s not stoping Locust Projects from opening up two new shows this weekend. Jedediah Caesar and Michael Namkung are both California natives fascinated with Miami’s physical and cultural landscapes. Each exhibition tackles a different aspect of the South Florida…
“South Beach? Is that like Palm Beach?” -Diane Wiest as Louise Keeley, in The Birdcage (1996) If you’re from Miami, and you go to college out of state, there’s probably no question you dread more than, “Were are you from?” Florida doesn’t exactly have the best national reputation—especially among ivory…
This weekend a group of creatively minded locals made the trek out to Locust Project gallery, under the cacophony of bristling thunder and lightening, to Feast 4. Inspired by the similarly titled culinary art events in Brooklyn, Feast Miami awards a small quarterly grant to one of four finalists picked during…
AMC’s Mad Men drew to a close this year, putting an end to the 1960s-themed nostalgia-induced advertising craze. Set during Madison Avenue’s reputed heyday, the show captured a particularly American moment when mass advertising was new and its landscape was untamed. Americans bought what Madison Avenue sold without questioning the…
As China aims to surpass the US as the world’s leading economic force, many of the nation’s most distinguished artists have also made significant in-roads into the contemporary art world. These game changing creative talents have shaken-up the market, driving up prices of work previously overlooked by the art establishment…
Unlike most of its competition, Locust Projects was a trendsetter on the Miami art scene. In the late 90s, the art collective got the jump on the incredibly cheap rents available in Downtown adjacent neighborhoods. Almost twenty years later, and Locust Projects keeps opening up new shows and exhibits that…
Photography is an inherently duplicitous medium. While drawn from real life, the captured images are single frozen instances that prove to be highly manipulatable by the person behind the lens. Yet unlike painting or sculpture, where artistic intervention and manipulation is the source of the work itself, photographs carry a…
As beach crowds swell, Miami’s galleries keep opening new exhibitions proving that the off-season shows pack as much of a punch as their winter counterparts. Recently Diana Lowenstein Gallery in Wynwood opened shows by two of Miami’s favorites: Chu Teppa, and Alejandra Padilla. Titled “My Parallel Universe” and “Collages &…
There’s no space more infuriating for the local South Floridian than the driver’s seat of a car, on a hot summer day, while stuck in traffic on I-95, the Palmetto, or MacArthur. Sealed off in separate air conditioned vehicles, transportation in car-centered cities has a detached feeling. Unlike pedestrian friendly…
In the late 1970s, New York critic Harold Rosenberg saw art at a tipping point. The avant-garde had already exacerbated the limits of conceptual and other forms of non-art, so Rosenberg predicted a shift where decorative, utilitarian and even furniture objects would be gobbled up by mainstream artist. Fast forward…
Thanks to SCOTUS all marriages are now created equal, but not all months. July is the time when even locals need to a quick sojourn out of the zip code, but that doesn’t make it any less gayer. Independence day bashes, fundraisers, and more are packed-in so you’ll have plenty…
Local artist Addonis Parker has built a reputation providing much needed art-based services to the local community. The Ohio native quickly realized the need for arts education in South Florida, especially among the children of Miami’s Liberty City. Since the late 90s, Parker, in close collaboration with the YMCA, has…
All our actions, whether meaningful or banal, have consequences on the surrounding space. Artist, entrepreneur, and Upper East Side socialite Paula Crown is interested in the physical manifestations of those actions. This time she’s injected a sense of childhood whimsy into her work, with Have A Ball, a subtle nod…
Miami Beach usually host its Gay Pride celebration earlier in the year, when it’s actually hospitable to spend long stretches of time outdoors. This weekend, the town’s gay moguls and their straight allies mixed, mingles, and cavorted under the temperature controlled auspices of 1 Hotel and Homes for the Miami…
One of Wynwood’s oldest galleries is closing two of its show-stopping exhibits this weekend. When Locust Projects opened its doors, it was the first artistic outpost in a neighborhood mostly marked by warehouses, junkyards, and tire fires. Yet this Saturday they celebrate the close of Robert Gomez’s What Happens When Nothing…
Caitlyn Jenner is just one of the reasons this June is gonna be hotter than ever. New Drag Brunches, Transact exhibits, and upscale galas are just some of many amazing LGBT events in Miami this month. Wynwood Is Burning Drag Brunch at R House- June 7, 11:30 a.m. R House…
Photographers have taken an anachronistic turn these days. For long, most tended to shy away from the spotlight, but today photographic juggernauts like Mario Testino and Annie Leibovitz often eclipse the lauded stars they shoot. Steven Meisel is of the older ilk. Meisel, whose work has been featured in the…
The off-season is a time to reconnect with Miami’s homegrown creative talents. Among the many colorful communities that make up South Florida’s diverse cultural landscape, Haitian art is often overlooked. This weekend the Opa-locka Community Development Center (OLDCDC) is hosting the fourth phase of their Meta series, located at the…
Street art has become as synonymous with Miami as Cuban coffee, Tony Montana, and pastel shirts. During the high season, young muralists flood into the city to adorn facades in the hopes that they’ll be spotted by gallerists and collectors. Yet, as the water’s warm, one French street artist has…
Painters and writers have a lot in common. Writers often sketch out a scene, articulating the fine details of a tableau of their readers. Painters frequently employ elements of storytelling, weaving narratives between brushstrokes. Vanessa Garcia is a local painter and writer whose debut novel, White Light, incorporates elements of…
Growing up in South Florida’s harsh suburban landscape can be suffocating. The tract homes, insular ethnic communities, and lack of a distinct regional art scene can crush a young creative teen. Nicolas Lobo is a an artist born and raised in West Kendall, looking to point out Miami’s decayed core…
Lincoln Road in known for many things these days– $15 lobster tails, parking lots out of Architectural Digest, and sunburned European tourists. As the strip quickly morphs into a cosmopolitan shopping mall, one of the places responsible for the area’s boom closes its doors. This Saturday, The ArtCenter South Florida…
