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• ART EVENTS

  Graffiti encouraged at London festival

  Graffiti impresario Banksy and airbrush-wielding guerrilla artists blanketed the walls of an abandoned London tunnel with offbeat murals as part of a three-day stencil-art street party this past weekend.

• VISUAL ARTS

  What you see is seldom what you get

  For the opening of her exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, Quisqueya Henríquez produced at a Wynwood factory bucketfuls of ice cream -- seawater ice cream -- that was served to guests in thimble-sized cups.

• The art of evolution: 'Unbroken Ties' explores a Cuban identity that endures despite politics and exile

  In the mid-1990s, while Miami's art establishment was fighting bitterly over the political sensibilities of exhibiting works made in Cuba, a Cuban-American curator quietly began amassing a formidable collection of Cuban art for the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale.

• Critic's Pick | Quisqueya Henríquez

  Cuban artist Quisqueya Henríquez, who lived in Miami from 1993 to 1997, has earned international accolades for a wide range of work that seeks to bridge Caribbean culture and 'the world outside.' Now living in Santo Domingo, Henríquez's work of the last two decades is the subject of Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside, A Survey Exhibition 1991-2007, which opens Friday at the Miami Art Museum.

• On the Lam: Revisiting MAM's tribute to the Cuban master

  With his engrossing Flor luna (Moonflower), artist Wifredo Lam delivers the portrait of a woman with generous breasts, thorns in her hair (or is it a mane?), a Bogeyman face and a horse-like mouth rendered the more grotesque by what appears to be an engorged fang.

• Striking metal: Alexander Calder's bold jewelry speaks of love and longing

  Before and after he made his famous mobiles -- those dangling, twirling, contraptions that marked a turning point in the history of sculpture -- Alexander Calder hammered and chiseled away at jewelry.

• Photographer Joe Zammit-Lucia enlists animals

  Driving back to Miami from Homestead, Joe Zammit-Lucia saw a sign for Monkey Jungle. 'I said, 'I wonder what's there.' I thought, 'This is a peculiar facility to have here; it seems so out of the way.'''

• ART VIDEO

  Poet, architect come together in `14 Views'

  It was one of those moments of uncanny serendipity. Listening to public radio while driving on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami one day, architect and video artist John Stuart heard well-known poet and fellow Florida International University teacher Campbell McGrath read two of his steeped-in-Miami poems.

• Three Miamians at the Whitney: A look at the artists' work in New York

  Three Miamians at the Whitney: At look at the artists' work in New York eing tapped for New York's Whitney Museum Biennial -- a sweeping survey of ''where American art stands today'' -- isn't an instant ticket to art-world fame and fortune. But it is the next best thing. Just ask Miamians Hernan Bas, Dara Friedman, Luis Gispert and Mark Handforth, all of whom saw their international profiles, as well as their artwork's price tags, soar in the wake of their inclusion in Biennials over the past decade...

• Spotlight on Latin artists: arteaméricas

  Some 80 galleries from the Americas and Spain will showcase the work of scores of Latin American artists at Merrill Lynch arteaméricas, which opens Friday at Miami Beach Convention Center.

• Artist's 'babies' are silent, haunting

  From the outside, the Little Havana house of the quirky woman known for decades only as Demi is simply a well-groomed one-story on a quiet residential street.

• BOOKS

  Art you can afford: These books bring beauty to your coffee table

  Few gifts can match the magic of a work of art, but let's face it: how many of us can afford such extravagance? For the visual-arts lover on your list, an art book is the next best thing. Art books educate, illuminate and transport one through time and geography. Most are simply beautiful to peruse or display in an art-conscious house.

• ART BASEL

  If the bubble has burst, no one's told art buyers

  The Basel bubble hasn't burst -- yet. That's the consensus from galleries midway through Art Basel Miami Beach, who say the fair has maintained its signature sky-high prices despite the weak dollar and recession worries roiling Wall Street.

• LISA TISHMAN

  Collages reconstruct rooms

  Lisa Tishman is a suburban homemaker and an artist, though not necessarily in that order. Growing up in a nice Jewish home in Miami Beach, says Tishman, who now lives in Davie, ``marriage and a family was really important for me.''

• ART BASEL | SATELLITE ART FAIRS

  Fed by Basel, independent fairs gain fresh fans

  More than two dozen art fairs independent of the behemoth Art Basel are churning out an alternative art experience through this weekend.

• ART BASEL | HIGH SCHOOLS

  Galleries shine spotlight on student artists

  The artist in Laura Sanchez stirs. She retreats to her room and reaches for her tools of expression: charcoal pencils, specialty paper -- and her mirror.

• DANIEL ARSHAM

  Arsham hopes newsprint piece brings Basel to you

  A lot has happened in the career of Miami artist Daniel Arsham since he was selected to collaborate with legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham in February.

• ART BASEL

  Some complain of Art Basel's high prices

  Patrons raved about the museum quality of the art at Art Basel's kick-off Wednesday at the Convention Center in Miami Beach, but red dots indicating sold works seemed fewer than the first day last year.