We have hit the peak cultural season in South Florida. There is so much going on, most people will only be able to catch a fraction, from theater, dance, music and visual arts. Another round of Second Saturdays art openings is around the corner, as is the inaugural Art Wynwood, taking place at the Art [...]
Mexican gallerist, curator and dealer Nina Torres has a new home on Biscayne Bay, a stunning waterfront art center on North Bayshore Drive opened up during Art Basel. Torres, for the most part, globetrots the world putting on shows and exhibiting at top fairs, focusing mostly on Latin American and especially Mexican contemporary art and [...]
Miami native and now New York-based artist Daniel Arsham is having a pretty good week nationally, as works that reveal his broad reach into artistic exploration will be on show from coast to coast. Arsham’s first Los Angeles solo show just opened up at OHWOW, “the fall, the ball, and the wall.” As has become [...]
ArtCenter/South Florida (a Knight Arts grantee) made it official that it is embarking on a new journey with the appointment of Maria del Valle as executive director, starting off the Year of the Dragon with a roar. Del Valle is being brought back from Madrid (her hometown), where she had gone to work after [...]
The Frost Art Museum at FIU (a Knight Arts grantee) put together an interesting exhibit in its “Tour de France/Florida.” In collaboration with the Consulate General of France and the France Florida Foundation for the Arts, it gathered up artworks from French artists that normally reside in private collections. That allows for a broad and [...]
Much has and will be made about the pure, raw imagery of Dana Schutz, who just had a mid-career survey open up at the Miami Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee . The show came originally from the Neuberger Museum in New York. There is the painting with the head eating its own face (and [...]
French-born artist Alice Raymond is up to some clever tricks over at the Dimensions Variable (a 2011 Knight Arts Challenge Miami winner) alternative art space. She has built a unique wooden structure, raw and unfinished on the outside, smoothed over on the inside, which can fit comfortably two people. As one of the two visitors at [...]
How can an art fair make a splash in Miami these days? By actually showcasing art on the water, it seems. That’s what the third installment of the Miami International Art Fair is doing, from Jan. 12 (preview) through 16, when galleries set up their booths aboard the SeaFair yacht, docked in front of the [...]
The idea that a certain kind of chaos, a madness, afflicts us due to the vagaries of the modern world could be the starting point to the themes underlining two solo shows opening up. That madness is not always bad, but it can be extreme and incomprehensible, like the world we live in. At the [...]
As we enter 2012, some aspects of the local art scene will look and feel a little different. On the institutional level, some new names have appeared and disappeared: Miami Art Museum brought in a new chief curator, Tobias Ostrander (and we have to wait and see what new name we will eventually call that [...]
