Carlos Suarez De Jesus
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4 years ago | Art
Maximo Caminero sits in his North Miami studio under a wall-engulfing abstract canvas titled Everything Vibrates. On the stereo next to him, the devotional music of the Sufis and the plaintive lament of reed flutes raise the room’s energy to a hyp...
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4 years ago | Art
OCTOBER "Narciso Rodriguez: An Exercise in Minimalism" October 9 through January 8, 2017, at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, FIU, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami; 305-348-2890; thefrost.fiu.edu. From creating Michelle Obama's 2008 election-nig...
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5 years ago | Art
Asif Farooq leans over the after-burning turbine engine inside the Cold War-era combat jet he's building in his Doral studio and gives the roller-bearing assemblage a spin. "There's roughly about a hundred synchronized moving parts," Farooq says a...
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5 years ago | Art
Less than three years ago the Cuban artistic husband-and-wife team of José Toirac and Meira Marrero marked their first ever solo exhibition in a U.S. gallery. The event took place at Pan American Art Projects during a time when the risk of censors...
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5 years ago | Art
When Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, died in 2003, a 200,000-strong crowd converged on Miami's Freedom Tower to send her off. That's nearly three times more than the 75,000 who gathered in Memphis to bid farewell to Elvis Presley, the King of Rock...
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5 years ago | Art
How does one mourn a loved one who has been disappeared? How can you express the wounds of a nation scarred by civil strife, war, torture and mass graves? For a gut-wrenching glimpse into the horror, visit Colombian artist Doris Salcedo's exhibit ...