Miami Art Museum's current exhibition, Space as Medium, is a rigorously intellectual show: it covers the historical continuum of art that engages the physical space in which it is displayed. Curated by associate curator Rene Morales, the show moves beyond site-specificity and comments on the portability of art objects and the nature of visual enjoyment. Along the way, it introduces a hearty helping of social criticism and a rebellion against the sterility of the ``white cube'' that is the modern showcase for contemporary art.
From Homestead to Pompano Beach, art communities in South Florida are responding to the tragedy in Haiti by fundraising for relief organizations through art sales and exhibitions and offering programs to help survivors.
The $32.8 million Tampa Museum of Art, which opens to the public Saturday, rises on the historic banks of the Hillsborough River across from a Moorish, late-19th century, minaret-topped University of Tampa building that once served as headquarters for officers waiting to be deployed to the Spanish American war in Cuba. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders passed through here.
The Bass Museum of Art's exhibition of the Mexico-based Colección Jumex -- considered the most important private collection of international contemporary art in Latin America -- begins with a giant light bulb hanging from the ceiling, the work of Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, and the question: ''Where do we go from here?'
An original Rembrandt etching hidden in a bathroom cabinet at a university in D.C. is now part of a new exhibit. The Rev. David O'Connell found the print when he was searching for paper towels shortly after he became president of the Catholic University of America in 1998.
Imagine a world in which John Lennon spent his days not making music but lounging at home with his young son, Sean, and wife, Yoko Ono, and filling sketch pads with whimsical images.
There's no steeple out front. There are no rows of pews inside. There is not even a crucifix on display. Still, this cramped little art studio in the middle of what, until not long ago, was a street with as many broken dreams as potholes, is the closest thing to paradise Father Bill Moore has found. It's the place where the 60-year-old Catholic creates abstract paintings he sells by the hundreds.
The Miami International Art Fair, which showcases local and Latin American artists, will be at Miami Beach Convention Center.
On the Boulevard Jean Jacques Dessalines stands an enormous sculpture of Papa Legba, the vodou spirit guardian of entryways and crossroads. Some 25 feet high, it has been welded together from an abandoned truck chassis, with its head a battered oil drum. The rusty giant is an incongruous sight among the bustling street vendors and small businesses crowding this busy street in Haiti's capital.
In a rocky year for arts funding, South Florida's museums tackled budget cuts and drops in philanthropy by extending the runs of their shows and partnering with local private collectors to stage low-cost but stellar exhibitions.
This year, I want to start my holiday art-book list with a little, riotous stocking-stuffer of book, MY NAME IS CHARLES SAATCHI AND I AM AN ARTOHOLIC (Phaidon, $9.95).
Art Basel galleries left 2008's glum fair behind them, posting healthy sales gains and general relief about Miami Beach's role in the art market.
Something different was in the air this year at Art Basel Miami Beach -- some would say substance had supplanted the superficial, and dealers couldn't have been happier.
If you think that Florida architecture is a mishmash of Mediterranean, Art Deco and Bungalow-style architecture with a splash of Caribbean color, then Four Florida Moderns by Saxon Henry will show you in colorful detail just how wrong you are.
Through a $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, 18 artists will get $50,000 gifts over the next five years.
By now, everyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows that Art Basel Miami Beach is taking over this weekend at the Miami Beach Convention Center. It's a great event, for sure, but its $35 daily ticket is a little steep when you're looking to take the family. But there are plenty of ways to participate in Baselmania without breaking the bank: Actually, you can spend the whole weekend seeing art from around the world without spending a penny.
Within minutes of Wednesday's opening to VIP collectors from around the world and through the evening's packed Vernissage, select works were being sold and a cautiously optimistic atmosphere reigned at the eighth Art Basel Miami Beach, which opens to the public Thursday.
The de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space opened Thursday in the Design District to a crowd smitten with the museum-like building's clean, soaring architectural lines and three floors bursting with elegantly installed international contemporary art.
It's the day after Thanksgiving, and art dealers, collectors, curators and museum directors from all over the world are already trickling into town. In one more day, the art -- millions and millions of dollars worth of crated Picassos, Warhols, Hirsts, Murakamis, Bedias -- will start piling up on the Miami Beach Convention Center floor for Art Basel Miami Beach.
New is necessary in the art world. And so this year the beachfront at Collins Park, which had been home to Art Basel Miami Beach's popular Art Containers exhibit of mini-galleries inside metal shipping containers, is bursting from its boxes.
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