Writing about the visual arts can be a suspect exercise — how can you convey in words what is being said with image? When trying to describe abstract painting, the ground gets even shakier. But here’s an attempt, about the exhibit up at the Center for Visual Communication, “Abstract Miami.” Abstract art is the opposite […]

Here’s the premise: Little Red Riding Hood takes a trip through the ages, stepping into the lush and lusty worlds of Caravaggio, Botticelli, Velazquez. How does she do this? Ukrainian-born photographer Anton Solomoukha poses photos of her and other models, clothed and naked, and places them collage style in a Renaissance setting, or something initially […]

A small, almost quiet landscape oil painting summarizes most beautifully the power of the group show now hanging on the walls of the garage and house of the Carol Jazzar Gallery, called “a sense of place.” At first glance it’s a seemingly straightforward view of an empty road in a flat expanse, heading off to […]

When a flat painting, which includes no extra light source or raised surfaces, appears to blink and move like a hyper neon sign, that’s a mesmerizing experience. One that can literally be dizzying. That describes some of Carlos Cruz-Diez’s paintings in “Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction” at FIU’s Frost Museum. Maybe Venezuela’s most influential artist […]

Living in the most heavily Cuban place on earth outside of Cuba, we naturally are exposed to work from Cuban and Cuban-American artists constantly — add that with such a rich artistic tradition, how could we not? But even with this type of exposure, the amount, quality, and context of the art workat the sprawling […]

It’s a cliche, but also true: art, when its done well, can tell more elaborate tales than words, often because it allows your own imagination to be part of the yarn. You can read in a photograph your own view of a particular situation; the emotions provoked by a sculpture can mesh with your own […]

In what has become a notorious underground act in the art world, a group called the Guerilla Girls surveyed the Met museum in New York and found that less than 5% of the artists were women, while 85% of the nudes were female — most all presumably painted or sculpted by men. Called the Weenie […]

Art outlets have been getting increasingly creative and talkative about highlighting their offerings. Every week there has been a lecture somewhere in town, and slightly off-beat openings. This weekend is no exception. The Bass is unveiling a truly intriguing way to highlight parts of its collection with “The Nudist Museum.” English-born artist Ellen Harvey copied […]

“And Yet Another Wayward Landscape,” a solo outing from Sinisa Kukec, feels more like another-worldly, all-engulfing landscape when you walk into the large exhibition space filled to the brim — literally — with his work at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. His biomorphic forms, resembling either molecular structures or inter-planetary debris, bubble up […]

Walk into the Locust Projects space and it looks like something has smashed through the walls of a South Beach hotel — okay, not something, but what we all know and fear, a hurricane. The installation from New Yorker Valerie Hegarty, “Break-Through Miami,” is at first glance as literal as the title. And the destruction […]

It’s become a bit of a parlor game to size up Miami’s art scene — where it is at in relation to the rest of the world, where it is going. Is there a Miami look or zeitgeist? After numerous visits to shows as the high season kicked in, it seems an increasingly silly exercise […]