From Venus de Milo to Takashi Murakami's Hirospan, human breasts have long inspired art. Mary Ellen Scherl, a breast-cancer survivor's daughter, takes the classic sculpting tradition of the bust and turns it into a 21st century public health statement with her Mamorial project.
Carole Feuerman's Survival of Serena is a haunting, vivid sculpture of a woman clinging for dear life to an inner tube. But the artwork, which has been exhibited in China and Venice, did not survive a trip to Miami.
Internationally esteemed conceptual artist William Cordova has come home to exhibit his work at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Despite living just outside Wynwood, the Miami neighborhood where sidewalks bustle with the clatter of art enthusiasts during Gallery Walk on second Saturdays, Olga Ramos had until recently never seen an art gallery. But this week, Ramos -- an amateur photographer -- will be in the middle of the action.
Art Basel and its satellite fairs have accelerated the rebirth of whole neighborhoods and affirmed the role that art plays in our lives.
The padded envelopes arrived monthly in Miami from Peru, addressed to an art dealer in Texas. When U.S. Customs agents became suspicious and started tracking and opening the packages, they found fanciful, feathered textiles. When dogs began to sniff and signal that something else was afoot, the packages revealed more quizzical evidence: Clinging to some of the artifacts was human hair.
Contemporary tapestry art both builds on and transcends those famously hand-knotted Medieval unicorns surrounded by fields of flowers that adorned castles and homes. A collection of tapestries -- images produced from paintings specifically created for that purpose -- will be on display this week as a satellite of Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art, offers a rare opportunity to pinpoint the trends and movements that brought American artists to the forefront of modern art.
A lively South Florida art scene, energized by Art Basel Miami Beach, has spawned a growing legion of collectors.
It's billed as the world's most expensive, most beautiful new book. Costing well over $100,000, a 62-pound handmade tome depicting the life and work of Michelangelo has arrived at the New York Public Library, fresh from publication in Italy.
December brings the birth of a South Florida company, Unhinged Theatre. Most of the artists involved in the professional troupe are or were students at Florida International University, and the aim is to stage plays that are experimental and engaging, with a focus on ensemble work, according to company member Denisse Schwartz.
Among the most traditional and affordable South Florida holiday observances this year are those hosted by the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale. One is the 21st annual Festival of Trees at the Galleria Mall in Fort Lauderdale, presented by Beaux Arts through Nov. 30.
''No one tells you no: If I wanted to take the roof off, they'd let me.'' That operating philosophy is why experimental filmmaker Clifton Childree adores Wynwood's Locust Projects. It's why he believes his recent Dream-Cum-Tru exhibit there -- a singularly scatological take on Buster Keaton's theatrics amid an array of hand-built vintage carnival attractions -- was received so well. And it's clearly why dozens of Childree's fellow Miami artists donated their work to this month's ''Smash & Grab...
With the opening of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum on Florida International University's Tamiami campus, the FIU art department is poised to become an even more visible player on the South Florida art scene. The school's more notable made-in-Miami alums include the collaborative teams GisMo and the TM Sisters, as well as Teresita Fernandez, who won a MacArthur Foundation ''genius'' grant in 2005.
CasaLin, founded five years ago in Wynwood by Lin Lougheed, bills itself as 'Miami's only art exhibit space in an urban garden.' CasaLin is what it is, as they say in Zen world -- a house in a neighborhood -- and several Miami artists are staging there their sixth installation, Yard Work, in time for Art Basel Miami Beach. The show features site-specific works by Robert Chambers, Julie Davidow, Ralph Provisero, Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova, Mette Tommerup and Frances Trombly. They...
A mural by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo -- one of five exhibited in the United States still in private hands -- was sold Tuesday for almost $7 million at an auction of Latin American art.
Family, friends and art collectors are honoring 88-year-old Cuban master artist Rafael Soriano with an exhibit of his surrealist works, The mystic and spiritual, which opens this weekend at Miami Dade College's West Campus.
Given the ailing national and global economy, who isn't thinking about what they truly value, and reassessing priorities these days? Artists have been questioning the value society places on objects long before the crisis, and Objects of Value at the Miami Art Museum offers a timely peek at what they think. Works by artists such as the late Felix González-Torres's white candies wrapped in cellophane, Untitled (Portrait of Dad), and Darío Escobar's Silver Skateboard...
Joseph Hoyt was a 22-year-old backpacker on the Grecian islands when he first heard of the mountainous peaks and sweltering deserts of Afghanistan. Fresh out of college and armed with savings from a year as a medical orderly, he was in Europe to do what many 20-somethings do: lose, or possibly find, himself in travel.
The Fontainebleau is back, and it is back in the style to which it had once been accustomed, and maybe even more so. It is more sophisticated, in a real sense, than it ever was in its giddier, glitzier past. It has major art-light boxes from James Turrell, collages by Robert Rauschenberg -- and what promise to be several-star restaurants on the way. But it also has a real sense of its true self in a design that pays homage (and more than mere lip service) to the larger-than-life architect...
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