Inside the 6th Street Container — a Knight Art Challenge finalist — in Little Havana is a little room. In fact, the Container, while elongated and appearing like a shipping container, is really a funky gallery with an alleyway entry. The exhibit currently up is an installation that looks like a cramped living room somewhere in Central […]

Five local artists will be chosen to live and work in subsidized studios in downtown Miami, in the second year of the LegalArt Residency program, a Knight Arts grantee. The only thing is, the deadline to get in on this unique opportunity is Sept. 2. This type of residency is something Miami has been wanting […]

It’s hot. It’s raining. Even the ocean offers little relief this time of year. So, it’s best to stick with the indoor. What many people don’t realize is that August delivers artistic relief — contrary to popular belief, there have been a number of interesting things going on a all month. Last week, as reviewed […]

Last March, the “New York Times” lamented in a commentary from David Pogue the demise of the sounds of the analog age. That scratching of a record as the needle leaves the vinyl, signaling the end of an album; the fast forward/rewind screeching zip-zip of a tape; the busy tone of a telephone; the “ka-ching” […]

There is an unmistakable quality that often emerges from exhibitions of Cuban artists; serious, intellectual, with a mastery of craft that can be missing from those educated in looser educational systems. Such is the case with the excellent solo show that just opened at Dot FiftyOne Gallery from Sandra Ramos. Based mostly in Havana, Ramos had […]

The Bakehouse Art Complex has been doing a good job lately of staying on the art map, with new shows and lectures and events — appropriate timing as it is the nonprofit Bakehouse Art Complex’s 25th anniversary. The complex now incorporates two galleries, along with the artists’ studio spaces, a classroom, a print room, photo […]

Artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez is surrounded by her work on a light, open second-floor studio space in Wynwood this Thursday afternoon; of particular interest is a series of collage paintings, partially crafted from flower petals coated in resin. Several involve images of cages, with the flowers either trapped inside or spilling out. These are very feminine […]

In the middle of Primary Projects irregularly angled space, a giant mastodon-like creature arises from its pre-historic muck, so heavy that the platform underneath it is starting to buckle and collapse. The statue — structure, really — is menacing, but made of colorful found cloth, spray foam and, in one case on its leg, an […]

The sluggish days of August are here, a good time to go hang at the public library. And better yet, at the main branch of the Miami-Dade Public Library System downtown is a super summer art show, one that can keep you lingering, and cool, for hours. In fact, for the 40th anniversary of the […]

The “DCG Open” at the David Castillo Gallery is a summer group show that aims to illuminate works from Miami area artists who are not represented in galleries and may be off the radar screen of the exhibition circuit. It’s a great idea and a community builder, as long as the shows themselves don’t get […]