The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, located at Florida International University campus, sometimes seems overlooked in a city like Miami where it must compete with fine institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art and Miami Art Museum and where heavyweight collectors constantly flex the muscles of their extensive collections. We all remember at one […]
Article · March 2, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
This Sunday the Miami Art Museum opens Between Here and There, an exhibition of the museum’s permanent collection. Gearing up for the move to Museum Park, this marks the first ever long-term display of the MAM’s growing permanent collection, which should stay up with periodic changes well into the year 2013. The exhibition contains works […]
Article · February 26, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
Earlier this month Friends With You, the internationally known Miami-based multidisciplinary art collaborative known for their toys and installations that serve to blur the line between fine arts and commerce, launched a new revamp of their www.friendswithyou.com website. The new site includes up to the minute blog updates as well as an internet store with […]
Article · February 23, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
Friday night opens a new exhibition at the Carol Jazzar Gallery in Miami Shores. The show is titled between and features work by Miami-based artist Lynne Golob Gelfman. Gelfman’s paintings for this show take on chain link fences for subject matter, with the artist endlessly layering the canvas with image after image of chain link […]
Article · February 19, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
Three new major works were added and unveiled last Saturday to the de la Cruz Collection in the Design District. The works were by Carlos Alfonzo, the Cuban-born artist who came to the United States on the Mariel boatlift in 1980. Alfonzo started out as a state-sanctioned artist in Cuba, but when he came to […]
Article · February 16, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
I’ll Cross that Bridge When I Get to It is the latest exhibition by Miami artist Bert Rodriquez, opening tonight at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery. No works will have been created by the time the show opens. Instead, Rodriguez plans to fill the space over the next 25 consecutive days of the exhibition with a […]
Article · February 12, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
Oh, The Tangled Webs We Weave… opens this Saturday at the David Castillo Gallery. It is a solo exhibition by Karelle Levy Parisian-born and Miami-based founder and operator of local fashion line, KRELwear. You may remember Levy pitched in to help with the costume design on the TM Sister’s ambitious performance at Locust Projects Space, […]
Article · February 9, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
There’s a lot going on in the art world this weekend….. Friday: The Coral Gables Cultural Center of Spain presents a new exhibition titled, Art Encounters: Interstices between Literature, Cinema and Graphic Design. It deals with the way film and literature is interpreted by graphic design and the different ways in which this kind of art negotiates […]
Article · February 5, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
Here’s a show you may have missed last month. Yet Nightly Pitch My Moving Tent is an exhibition by Miami-based artist Gustavo Roman currently on view at the David Castillo Gallery, but only until this Saturday. The show consists of a series of black and white drawings, each depicting some variation of a shadowy and […]
Article · February 2, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
The Bas Fisher Invitational’s Super 8 movie night from earlier this month was such a resounding success that the artist-run alternative space is having a repeat of the event tonight at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by local artists, Barron Shearer and Kevin Arrow, it’s the only movie night in town that screens their films on […]
Article · January 29, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea
Last month a handful of Design District galleries and art spaces such as Locust Projects, Spinello Gallery, and Dimensions Variable, opted out of the Second Saturday celebration, opting instead to have their openings on the third Saturday with successful results. Earlier this month, inclement weather drove down traffic in the Wynwood area, where receding crowds […]
Article · January 26, 2010 by Victor Barrenechea