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
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 […]
Article · January 3, 2012 by Anne Tschida
The very young FIU College of Architecture & the Arts was only born in 2006, but already it has spread its wings wide, including with much-needed graduate programs and now, a new arts home in the eastern side of the county on Lincoln Road. In a 1940 Art Deco building that incorporates studio and gallery space for […]
Article · December 23, 2011 by Anne Tschida
Sometimes a painting is just beautiful. It can have deeper meaning or a complex make up, but some works just hang there and say, look at me, I am so good-looking. That’s the case with the nature-inspired pieces of Greg Lindquist in the group show of New York artists, “you are here forever….” curated by […]
Article · December 21, 2011 by Anne Tschida
Two artists who have work up in Miami — one with a museum show, the other a single installation — have nonetheless an interesting common thread that reveals something about the current arts landscape of this complicated, diverse terrain. Both Mark Handforth, who has a large, mid-career survey filled with large sculpture at the Museum […]
Article · December 16, 2011 by Anne Tschida
Miami City Ballet (a Knight Arts grantee) had a banner year. After yet another remarkable and well-received season, MCB, as it is known, traveled for the first time ever to Paris and made an outstanding foreign debut. Then, it made its premiere appearance under a national spotlight when it were featured in PBS’s “Great Performances.” […]
Article · December 13, 2011 by Anne Tschida
Just one week after Art Basel officially left town, Wynwood and the Design District’s Second Saturday is taking place. An overdose and overload, even for art lovers? Actually, it is good timing. With so much happening on that first week of December, most likely a lot of local art got overlooked, with people assuming they […]
Article · December 9, 2011 by Anne Tschida
Art Basel left a broad and significant mark on the cultural landscape since it first arrived 10 years ago, one that lasts beyond the one week in December. For artists and those interested in the arts, maybe the best part is that we get one gigantic, city-wide museum filled with everything under the sun to do […]
Article · December 6, 2011 by Anne Tschida
What is up in town for the next days, and then some, is tons and tons of art. In a random selection, here is a mixture of local and imported artwork that is worth stumbling upon. In the main Art Basel convention center itself, a gallery from Bangalore, India, SKE, has a floor-bound sculpture of […]
Article · December 3, 2011 by Anne Tschida
As anyone even slightly familiar with the art world knows, Art Basel week has arrived. Starting on Thursday at the Miami Beach Convention Center, the massive main fair opens, and all over town on both sides of the causeways, art will take center stage, in satellite fairs, in pop-up galleries, out in the streets. Included […]
Article · November 29, 2011 by Anne Tschida
One of the most intriguing exhibits opening up this peak art month involves five works from 10 women, paired in twos, called “Woman to Woman” at the Bakehouse Art Complex. A curatorial committee chose five artists, who were then asked to pick a collaborator. Elizabeth Cerejido joined Mia Leonin, Julie Davidow worked with Carol Prusa, […]
Article · November 22, 2011 by Anne Tschida