February’s group of gallery shows are set to open, and there are a number of attractive offerings from local artists out there, for instance at Snitzer, Dorsch, Diana Lowenstein and Castillo galleries. Non-local intriguing options will be hanging at Diet and Kelley Roy As an example: Painter and professor Kyle Trowbridge returns for his fourth […]
Article · February 10, 2012 by Anne Tschida
A couple of museums have shows that tell a little off-the-beaten path tale about the histories of the people who make up Miami today. Rather than huge exhibits trying to cover broad topics, the Jewish Museum of Florida and the University of Miami have bitten off a few interesting pieces that nonetheless let us in […]
Article · February 8, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 […]
Article · February 3, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 […]
Article · February 1, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 […]
Article · January 27, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 departing […]
Article · January 24, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 […]
Article · January 20, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 […]
Article · January 17, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 […]
Article · January 13, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 […]
Article · January 10, 2012 by Anne Tschida
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 […]
Article · January 6, 2012 by Anne Tschida