Dale Andree, Miana Jun & Lynne Wimmer, “Between Earth and Sea.” Last week Tigertail Productions inaugurated a film festival, ScreenDance Miami, a four-day event. First time attempts like these can be filled with new energy — or not quite ready for prime time. Fortunately, the first was the case. Offered up on screen was an interesting […]

From “Smoke and Mirrors” from Kristen Thiele The movies of the 1930s are particularly evocative. It was an era between two world wars, during the Great Depression, and a time when American culture was truly starting to define itself. There were strong women on screen, gangsters, and a 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald glamour that most […]

Painting from Jérôme Lagarrigue. There’s still time before the end of the month to catch the portraits from two French-born painters at Waltman Ortega. Figurative is really too simple a term to label these large-scale canvases — representational, yes, but with obvious, beautiful strokes from the brush as essential elements to the creations. The works of […]

Michel Paysant’s nanoscopic works – you have to see it to believe it. It is frankly impossible to describe what you will see when looking at the artworks of Michel Paysant at the Lelia Mordoch gallery in Wynwood. It is at once so esoteric and also historically universal that the right words don’t really exist. […]

Image from “Rituales en Haiti.” Four years ago last Sunday, Haiti suffered one of the worst disasters in its already troubled history, the 7.0 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands and upended millions of lives. But the Haitian spirit didn’t die; in fact struggle, and overcoming adversity, has shaped much of Haitian life and has […]

Still from Carola Bravo. You can meet the artist Carola Bravo when you walk into the ground-floor room set aside for her videos at the Zadok Gallery, anytime of day. At least one version of her, as she covers a white room with irregular black lines in a wall-length video. “Legal Graffiti” is an immersive […]

Detail from painting of Lynne Golob Gelfman. Two interesting exhibits at two alternative galleries are opening up to kick off the 2014 season, each one in its own way dealing and working with patterning, textures and a visual outcome that can become beautifully illusionary. At the downtown space of Dimensions Variable (a Knight Arts grantee), […]

Work from Duron Jackson (left) and Deborah Grant. In the back corner of the Carol Jazzar gallery, a large (72” X 72”) sculpture of a cross leans against two walls. It’s made of white birch wood and is inlaid with dominoes – it is the piece that immediately draws your eye in the exhibit “Present […]

Detail from ‘The Watering Hole,’ recently acquired by MOMA The Hot Topics Artist Series at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (a Knight Challenge grantee) brings in four artists or art professionals a year to give a one-evening lecture, maybe mixed with performance, video or installation. In October the strangeness of Wayne White was […]

Christopher Wool, Dan Colen, Mark Bradford on the first floor. Art Basel Miami Beach shows no signs of slowing down or getting stale. There seemed to be more people and the myriad satellite fairs were jam-packed for the entire time. Anyone once again trying to park anywhere close to their art destination can surely attest […]

Still from Yael Bartana’s “Inferno.” Everyone has been gushing about the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Perez Art Museum Miami, or PAMM — and they should be. Although still not finished, with outdoor construction still underway, it would not be an exaggeration to say that this museum is already the most spectacular one in the country, if […]