These paintings in the ground-floor entrance area of the Bass Museum (a Knight Arts Challenge winner) are figurative, seemingly bucolic, most of them small. They are punctuated by a triptych in the middle, facing the ramp that leads to the Bass’s main galleries upstairs. The works are from Madrid-based Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra, part of “At the Same […]

Sometimes, works of art are so attractive, so compelling, that you just have to move closer and hope they are as complex as they are good looking. Throughout the last year, Dimensions Variable, a Knight Arts Challenge finalist for 2011, has delivered on both accounts in its site-specific exhibitions. The latest show from Magnus Sigurdarson, […]

From a distance, the sculptured busts look as though they are made from marble or stone. Maybe they are pre-Columbian or ancient Chinese. Walk up behind these heads on pedestals and see they are in fact crafted from books — phone books, literary books, academic books. These works from the Taiwanese-born Long-Bin Chen are truly […]

“Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other” is the big summer show opening at the Miami Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, this week (following the big summer show at Museum of Contemporary Art of Ryan Trecartin, posted previously). It is coming direct from the New Museum in New York and is the first mid-career survey […]

What if, instead of schlepping off to Home Depot, you could furnish your house with art you fell in love with while visiting galleries? Hand-painted sofas, light-box beds, glittering lamps. For most of us, that’s pretty much a dream — but one you can fantasize about at Praxis International Art. At the exhibit “Home: Dream […]

Soon, you can hear art as well as see it at the ArtCenter. Listen up: coming soon to Lincoln Road in South Beach will be the first outdoor sound art gallery, thanks to Gustavo Matamoros and his South Florida Composers Alliance, a Knight Arts Challenge winner. All the pieces are (almost) in place to experience […]

“Animals Are Outside Today,” the photography exhibit at Dina Mitrani Gallery, has been extended through Aug. 20. Keeping shows up, especially in the slower summer season, for several months is a good idea and one that a number of galleries are grasping. The one-month cycle — with so much out there to see — can […]

There is special show up at Fredric Snitzer‘s gallery, a quietly intriguing, group show with an equally intriguing origin. The 13 works from local and international artists are inspired by Kurt Schwitters, the German painter, sculptor and designer associated with Expressionism and Dadaism, who worked during the war-torn years in the Europe of the 20th century. He […]

Likely the visitor leaving the sensory overload currently taking place at Museum of Contemporary Art will have strong reactions to what they’ve just seen and heard. That’s good, though, those reactions might not all be positive. On opening night, the video extravaganza from Ryan Trecartin elicited a wide range of reviews, ranging from “awesome” to […]

Most people know Tigertail Productions because of the cutting-edge performance, dance and spoken word the organization both nurtures and delivers to South Florida. And rightly so. Since 1979, Tigertail has introduced local audiences to an eclectic mix of dance and performance from across the globe that never would have rolled up on shore without the […]