Sample of zine pages at the Freedom Tower. Like everything today in the cultural arts, interdisciplinary, multi-genre connections are what it’s all about. Isolated communities just don’t cut it anymore – but nor should they ever have. After all, music and dance always found each other good partners, so why not other combinations? Increasingly that’s […]

Paintings and sculpture from Jacin Giordano opening at Farside Gallery. It will be exciting to see the work of Jacin Giordano return to the walls of Miami. It’s been too long since he moved away and took with him those paintings that never ceased to surprise and amaze. Giordano still is based in Massachusetts, but […]

Charley Friedman’s ‘Looking at the Sun’ at Gallery Diet. Tonight will be as good night as any to kickstart the new year with art, and two of our more interesting galleries will help out. Gallery Diet starts off 2015 with a solo exhibit from Charley Friedman, “Western Code.” The multimedia artist, based mostly in Brooklyn, has […]

Front: Lynda Benglis; left: Nancy Rubins; back: Yinka Shonibare. One of the most popular venues – and rightly so – during Art Basel has become the outdoor sculpture park in front of the Bass Museum: a local and free spot with internationally acclaimed works. But up until this year, it only lasted for the week […]

ArtCenter is participating in a residency in Alcobendas. ArtCenter/South Florida, as promised, is continuing to expand its scope. In its 30th year anniversary, the center has already announced that it has sold its flagship building at 800 Lincoln Road on Miami Beach, which is giving it a massive infusion of funds to re-open another space […]

Detail from Manolo Yllera, Peter Marino’s “Double Portrait.” While the highlights of Art Basel week usually include some of the top-quality artworks at the various fairs, this year two locally presented exhibits competed with the best of them. Unfortunately, “Auto Body,” a temporary exhibit in a former auto mechanic shop on Bay Road in South […]

Man praying in Sahara desert, Algeria. The photographs from Sebastião Salgado almost look too surreal to be real. But the images of nature and mammals that he captures are spectacularly real, now on display at the Dina Mitrani gallery. Iceberg in waters off of Antarctica. From Africa to Alaska, Salgado has snapped some unbelievably beautiful […]

Author/artist Dave Eggers at Electric Works from San Francisco, Miami Project. All the hype surrounding Art Basel, all the emphasis on big ticket items and yachts and celebrity sightings (which are annoying, but this is a commercial fair week after all), does obscure what can be a great opportunity about this time in December. Miami […]

Robert Chambers at Ping Pong. Photo by Wendy Wischer Art Basel Miami Beach hasn’t officially begun yet, but some art peeked through early, maybe so as not to get lost in the shuffle. And sometimes, even in the biggest, most cramped fairs, just a few good pieces are enough to satisfy, maybe even letting you […]

A glimpse of all the artwork inside the Diana Lowenstein galleries. Diana Lowenstein opened up a gallery 25 years ago in Buenos Aires, originally called Der Brücke (named after the early 20th-century German Expressionist movement); it opened up in Miami 15 years ago, first in Coral Gables and now in Wynwood. She has featured many […]