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    Be sure not miss Abracadabra this Friday at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, an exhibition and raffle/fundraiser featuring over 100 works of art. The show has been up since January 23, and come Friday night you have the opportunity to enter a raffle contest for pieces from the exhibition. Names of ticket holders […]

    Article · January 22, 2010 by

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    Formerly Max Fish during Art Basel weekend, and formerly PS-14 before that, BAR on 28 NE 14 Street opened (or should I say, re-opened) its doors last night with an art installation by Miami-based artist Alvaro Ilizarbe. This is part an ongoing project at this hip downtown watering hole in which every two months the […]

    Article · January 19, 2010 by

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    Okay, so last Second Saturday was a bit of a bust. The cold and dismally drizzling weather managed to keep most of the crowds away, but fear not. It seems like this Saturday, January 16, the Design District area at least will be brimming with art activity anew. At Locust Projects is an ambitious solo […]

    Article · January 15, 2010 by

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    One of the most striking works up right now at the MOCA’s The Reach of Realism exhibition is Norwegian artist Lars Laumann‘s video piece, Shut up Child, This Ain’t Bingo. Though the 58 minute long video is currently on display on constant loop as part of the show, this Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. there will […]

    Article · January 12, 2010 by

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    Here’s a great show to look to look forward to this Saturday: new at Fredric Snitzer Gallery is a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Jacin Giordano. The show is titled “…Years Later” and is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Giordano’s vibrant, colorful (but often discordantly so) works arise from an unusually laborious […]

    Article · January 8, 2010 by

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    There’s a lot to look forward to this month at the Bas Fisher Invitational alternative art space. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., Barron Sherer, Clifton Childree, and Kevin Arrow host a film festival of sorts, with a simultaneous showing of “abridged” versions of disaster classics Earthquake and Airport on outmoded Super 8 format. January 9 will […]

    Article · January 5, 2010 by

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    Biscayne Boulevard is lined with countless sleazy motels, where cheap rooms go for hourly rates and bringing a black-light is probably a good precaution. These places are notorious for prostitution and other seedy underworld transpiring, but it’s the last place in the world you’d expect to see an art show. Well…..what if? That’s what a […]

    Article · December 29, 2009 by

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    Something to look forward to for 2010: Theory Night, Miami’s own series of salon-like gatherings and discussions, which has been on hiatus for some months now, will soon make a return this coming January  with a discussion of the late- David Foster Wallace’s E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction, from his A Supposedly Fun […]

    Article · December 22, 2009 by

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    If you haven’t checked out the newly opened de la Cruz Collection in Miami’s Design District, do yourself a favor and give them a visit. Today’s post deals with only a small fragment of the work you’ll find in the 30,000 square foot space. On a third floor, situated in an unassuming section of the […]

    Article · December 18, 2009 by

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    Cuddle Fish vol. 1 is out, a zine “created, compiled, and completed” by local artist Bhakti Baxter, and served up in a small edition of 160 copies. The contributors list for this issue reads like a veritable who’s who of mostly Miami talent such as, Addison Walz, Aja Albertson, Alvaro Ilizarbe, Robert Chambers, Charles Dube, […]

    Article · December 15, 2009 by

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    Now that Art Basel has come and gone, you’ve probably seen all the art you can stomach for just one month. And Second Saturday seemed to have come a week earlier this December with countless strings of opening receptions from Wynwood across to the Design District. Doubtlessly, every gallery put its best foot forward in […]

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