Everything is there: the well-known desk lamps, the original metal tube chairs and models of boxy white buildings. Ninety years after the founding of the Bauhaus, a new exhibition brings together the collections of three museums for the largest celebration ever of the most famous and influential school of avant-garde art and design in the 20th century.
Champions of Little Havana as a cultural destination want art lovers to know that the district is staging exhibits beyond the famed Viernes Culturales, the popular revelry of art, food and music on the last Friday of the month. Opening at 8 p.m. Saturday is Oikos: Photographs by Juan Carlos Agüero, lush Everglades landscapes and wildlife portraits by a photographer who was an archaeology student in late-1980s Cuba and is now published in the calendar and the yearbook of the Florida Wildlife Federation and in a collaborative project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Celebrate Urban Birds.
Three blocks off the beach, the story of the bathing suit unfolds. Here at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum, an exhibit chronicles the suit's storied march through history, its rising star power and its profile -- literally shrinking from modest bloomeresque two-pieces with hems dangling at the knee to daring, barely-there bikinis.
Through the Lens, now showing at the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum, not only makes a case for the breadth and depth of the museum's holdings in photography but also offers a concise history of the camera's art. The 100-piece exhibition was culled from more than 1,000 photographic works the Lowe has collected over five decades; a recent three-year push has added examples of early photographic processes such as calotypes and salt and albumen prints.
Noted New York architect Charles Gwathmey, who died Monday in Manhattan at 71 from esophageal cancer, designed (in conjunction with the Miami firm Gelabert-Navia) the Museum of Contemporary Art at 770 NE 125th St., North Miami. That building went up in 1996.
Irreversible is a made-in-Miami art project but international in scope with contributors from as far away as Shanghai, Tokyo and Tenerife, Canary Islands. Like the city of its birth and the woman who conceived the project, Norelkys (Noor) Blazekovic, a former Venezuelan telenovela producer, Irreversible is tough to peg.
Invited by Fredric Snitzer Gallery, a group of artists has created specially themed works to benefit the Child Foundation Charity that funds quality-of-life surgeries for children with birth defects. The gallery will donate to the charity all its commission from sales of works such as Michael Vasquez's mixed media on canvas Obstacle Course. The exhibition's preview and opening, from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday during the Wynwood Art Walk, features artist and ``DJ Whisperer'' Bert Rodríguez. Other participants include Zack Balber, Hernan Bas, Loriel Beltran, Timothy Buwalda, COOPER, Naomi Fisher, Jacin Giordan, Jiae Hwang, Natalya Laskis, Beatriz Monteavaro, José Félix Pérez, Gavin Perry, Cristina Lei Rodríguez, Jordan Service, Jen Stark, Alex Sweet and Tatiana Vahan.
The first thing visitors see in a new exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art is a striking red oil painting by Miami artist Donna Torres. I have the time. So look up at the Flowers and Sky is one of only 60 works selected from 1,260 submissions for the 58th annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition.
Around 1500, in Italy, a bunch of talented artists set things up so that when people heard the word ``art,'' they automatically thought ``painting.'' We're barely out of that mind-set today. That gets me thinking back to the moment just before painting's PR victory and to the poor sap who decided sculpture was the way to go. He must have imagined he could put a brake on painting's rise or, at least, pull even with it.
Diaspora Vibe Gallery is hosting artists Jorge Rojas and Wura-Natasha Ogunji as artists in residence in the National Performance Network Visual Artist program.
Add another ``art walk'' to South Florida's calendar of cultural events: The Lincoln Road & Miami Beach Gallery Walk. The first stroll takes place from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, and returns on first Saturdays thereafter. Some 40 local artists, museums and galleries in South Beach will open their doors to showcase a variety of photography, painting, installation, mixed-media and video work.
The Endless Renaissance at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach pairs the evocative and eclectic work of contemporary artists with the museum's classic Renaissance era collection.
When a Los Angeles gallery mounted a retrospective of Kent Twitchell's work earlier this year, the acclaimed painter figured the one thing everyone would want to see was his ``lost'' Michael Jackson mural.
Robert Capa's photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events surrounding the picture believe it may have been staged.
Fifteen-year-old Haley Moss has overcome autism to become an accomplished self-taught artist who has exhibited her work in Coral Gables, and now, in Wynwood. She is one of five artists featured in the show Artism, opening from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the University of Miami's Project Space, 2200-A NW Second Ave. Also exhibiting are Cristian Early, Rachel Olin-Levy and David Pedemonte-Forte. More information at 305-284-5901.
Graffiti artists are the bad boys of the art world. When they get ''the itch'' to paint, the city becomes their canvas.
Loraine de la Fe was looking for the perfect scholarly fit. She found it in the archives of the Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach's famously eccentric design museum dedicated to 20th century objects, graphic art, books and propaganda.
Cuban artist Leandro Soto, a member of the ground-breaking 1980s generation on the island, has spent the last seven years as an artist in residence at Arizona State University. On Saturday, Soto brings his latest work -- including the abstract Yemaya installation -- to the Farside Gallery in West Miami-Dade. Opening reception starts at 7 p.m., followed by the performance art piece OLORUM:DURGA.ISIS.YEMAYA. Soto's new multimedia and performance installations are influenced by his exchanges...
Black clouds charge across Indian Creek Island on the morning that Miami architect Rene Gonzalez visits the construction site of his latest project -- a sleek, eye-poppingly expensive house that is so vast it could almost double as a resort.
If a hurricane were to hit St. Petersburg, one of Florida's most valuable cultural treasures -- the Salvador Dalí Museum, showcase of the largest collection of the surrealist artist's work outside Spain -- would most likely be destroyed by rising waters and boating debris strewn by winds from the marina across the street.
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