Just when you thought the art fairways were emptying, out for another swing comes the Miami International Art Fair (MIA), with its second annual international event held Jan. 14-17. Can Miami handle another major fair? If it is in the proper hands it should be able to, and MIA is the child of Art Miami […]

When was the last time you heard Miami’s museum curators get together and talk about the future? Um, maybe never. So here’s a chance, in a one-off panel discussion with many of those that make art happen in our museums, on Thursday night at the Bakehouse Art Complex. For “The Role of Miami’s Museums in […]

Since civilization began, when humans started living together in large numbers and setting up social systems in order to keep that grouping going and thriving, the city has come to represent human progress. And as industrialization and the modern age arrived, the city took on even greater significance—as the place where technology and utopian ideas […]

Retna leaves tell-tale signs behind him. Anyone familiar with murals in Wynwood (or for that matter, Los Angeles) will recognize his signature—symbols that look like hieroglyphics, which are really a language all his own. That’s Retna’s work on the side of the Margulies Collection building, or the blue-winged angel on North Miami Avenue and 27th […]

What’s it like to walk through your dreams; or maybe your childhood memories, or fleeting moments of your past? It might be like walking in and around Teresa Diehl’s fabulous, contemplative installation in the project room of Praxis International Art in Wynwood. “Maneem” is a maze made—really, painstakingly, achingly hand-crocheted—from fishing lines to form screens […]

Sunlight penetrates the deep rosy-red curtains, so that the musical equipment inside this storefront are bathed in a special color this afternoon. Except this isn’t really a store, and the equipment is an installation, of black and chrome musical stands — for sheet music, microphones, instruments — and some disembodied drums, that reflect the single […]

There is a very special world awaiting in the Dorsch Gallery. Fans of artist/performer/magician Clifton Childree will recognize this world immediately, although they might still be blown away by the depth and creativity of his latest installation, “Orchestrated Gestures.” There are actually three worlds here, each a moment from the tortured lives of three composers […]

Art Basel has moved off shore, but many remnants — and good ones — have been left behind, those created and put up by locals. Fortunately for us, we can have a closer look at this in the next weeks and months, and we will. But it’s also worthwhile to gather up the remarkable impressions […]