Julian Schnabel “Untitled (Self Portrait),” 2004. Although Art Basel Miami Beach is still two months in the future, museums are starting to pull out their big guns and unveil the exhibits they will feature during that frenetic, international art week. The NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale is one of them. Now under the direction […]

Installation in second gallery at MOCA. Courtesy William Cordova It’s been a long hot summer for those who loved the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA). The ugly break-up of the institution that really started last winter left the museum bare for the summer, with a splinter group of board of directors decamping and […]

“The Last Tiger” happening from Franky Cruz at Emerson Dorsch. There are some home-spun closings this week that have some personal attachments to them, that you might not even have known about. Last week, Emerson Dorsch gallery started a project series called “thisishappening,” a multi-disciplinary exploration of art practice and art experience, which will change […]

Beatriz Milhazes: Santo Antonio Albuqueque. Several of the main galleries upstairs at PAMM have been transformed into a semi-abstract botanical garden, thanks to more than 40 works created over the last 25 years from Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes. Her exhibit is, in fact, titled that, Jardim Botânico, although it also is a nod to her […]

Domingo Castillo piece for the Fringe Projects. The third annual DWNTWN Arts Days fair in downtown Miami starts today, running through the weekend, with almost 170 events (mostly free) taking place around Downtown in art galleries and cultural institutions, including bike and walking tours and family-centric programming. But running through Sept. 28 will be the […]

Detail from Nellie Appleby. The artist-run downtown space Dimensions Variable has decided to throw a show across the causeway in collaboration with ArtCenter South Florida in the main Lincoln Road gallery, cleverly called “On Location.” The three featured female artists, Nellie Appleby, Allison Matherly and Cristina Lei Rodriguez, all work with nature, or how we […]

From the solo outing “The Doors of Perception.” By now, the distinctive markings of Santiago Rubino, the very figurative drawings often devoid of much color, often featuring a raven-haired, voluptuous woman, should be familiar to many. His works, large and small, have been exhibited on walls of establishments and galleries all over, although generally here […]

Jude Broughan’s “Cam II.” You would not be off base if you got the feeling that the works of New Zealand-born Jude Broughan, now showing at Dimensions Variable, had a kinship with another exhibition up right now, that of Adler Guerrier’s solo outing at PAMM. In fact, Broughan’s exhibit is called “Plot,” and Guerrier’s exhibit […]

What chickens will come home to roost at Snitzer’s new gallery? Well, it’s finally happened. After several years of planning to leave Wynwood, the Fredric Snitzer Gallery has finally decamped for a new space further south, in downtown Miami. Snitzer will be joining the neighborhood that now includes Dimensions Variable, Bas Fisher Invitational, Primary Projects […]

Robert Huff exhibit at Carol Jazzar Gallery. It’s with great sadness to report here the death last Friday of Robert Huff, a remarkable artist, teacher, mentor and human being, whose passing will leave a void in the art world. Those who came into his orbit learned to appreciate art, and more importantly, life, with greater […]