If you didn’t know that FIU just recently opened its Miami Beach Urban Studios on Lincoln Road, this week is a good time to discover it. Hoof it up to the fourth floor for both an art show and the first in a series of art talks that will in a sense inaugurate this new […]

An interesting trend has emerged (again) in the art-exhibiting world. Maybe as a result of one of the deepest recessions and maybe responding to a need for more and less structured venues, one-off art shows have become common place. Nomads really. For instance, as of now, Spinello Gallery has no set home — it has […]

The movie “Bully” created a lot of talk and controversy since its recent release — which is a good thing. The difficult topic of childhood bullying got an amazingly moving hearing in this documentary, and coincidentally, another powerful project was being released in Miami aimed at addressing violence and bullying in the schools. Posters were created […]

A truly amazing exhibit is currently tucked away on the fourth floor of the Wynwood Lofts that is not for the faint of smell. Open the door to the Charest-Weinberg Gallery and you will be overwhelmed, some even overcome, by the intense stench that emanates from the decaying remnants of the sea that are crusted […]

How can brown, monotone sculptures made from burlap talk to you in such a vivid way? The answer lies in visiting Christy Gast’s exhibit “Out of Place” at Gallery Diet. Her first solo show at this gallery, called “Batty Cave,” was a melancholy video exploration of a desolate world in Utah, based around a cave […]

“Art criticism doesn’t pay anything. And in all likelihood in the future it will pay even less so. So what that means is that you have total freedom in what you write about. There is no writing for money. You’re writing for the reader, and reading about art can be as exciting as looking and […]

The annual “Aesthetics & Values 2012” exhibit, organized by the Honors College at FIU, has matured with age, until this year, when it has reached prime time. The show combines students — many of whom have no connection to an arts program — with established artists, who together come up with a survey of local […]

The jazz radio station WDNA is an institution that should make Miamians proud. The oldest public radio station in town (it was licensed in 1977), WDNA continues to bring serious and seriously good jazz, Latin jazz and world music (it has Indian and Afro-pop hours) to our airwaves. Now, currently in the studio space on […]

Glexis Novoa, one of Miami’s more prominent artists, has a studio in a just out of the way location north of Wynwood, where he will also start exhibiting art in the front rooms. The purpose, he says, is to give a voice to art that otherwise might not be heard in the commercial gallery world. […]

Expect to be floored, and ceiling-ed, when visiting the Farside Gallery and the accompanying art space in the lobby of Mosquera Orthodontics. But don’t expect to be overwhelmed with color and dramatics. The two architecturally based interventions are subtle and simple in their presentations, but not uncomplicated. In the Farside space, which is a casita, […]

If you haven’t seen the new Locust Projects space (a multiple Knight Arts Challenge finalist), and, in particular, the paintings from Natalya Laskis, Wednesday, March 28 will be a good opportunity to pay a visit. You’ll like what you see. Starting with the new gallery — it must be said it is an improvement on […]