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  Architecture Commentary

  Designs for Miami Beach Convention Center are sleek, smart — but flawed

  Two competing designs for a new Miami Beach Convention Center are sleek, smart and sophisticated. But the visioning process for the project is flawed.
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  Pérez Art Museum Miami

  Miami’s art museum gets anonymous $15 million gift

  An anonymous donor has given $12 million in cash and more than $3 million worth of art to the future Pérez Art Museum Miami.

• Two rival visions vie for Miami Beach Convention Center redevelopment

  Two teams of developers and famed architects are vying for the chance to renovate Miami Beach’s convention center, add a hotel and turn the desolate site into a connected, cohesive urban district.
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  Architecture

  Architect, thinker, provocateur Rem Koolhaas brings his talents to South Beach

  Celebrated Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who is competing to remake Miami Beach’s dated convention center, has been hailed and scrutinized for his mastery of large-scale design and his provocative writings.
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  Only 38, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has amassed a portfolio and recognition that sets him apart

  Only 38, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has amassed a portfolio and recognition at a pace that set him apart.
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  Coral Gables

  Exhibit highlights artwork by UM architecture professor

  “Thomas A. Spain: A Retrospective” features drawings and paintings by a longtime University of Miami architecture professor.
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  HOLLYWOOD

  Is this art? Hollywood leaders aren’t so happy with famous muralist’s work

  Hollywood leaders aren’t so happy with the creative piece a well-known muralist created for downtown.
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  VISUAL ARTS

  Two Miami exhibitions link art with city life

  A pair of Miami exhibitions link art with urban life.

• ‘Latino/US Cotidiano’ exhibit breaks boundaries of stereotypes

  The Incredible Hulk drilling a stone with a jackhammer. Catwoman caring for young children. Spider-Man perched on a skyscraper washing windows. The photographs are of Hispanic Americans at work, dressed by photographer Dulce Pinzon to show everyday Latinos the way their families see them: superheroes working to send money back to their relatives in Latin America. They’re just a few of the photographs in a new exhibition and book.
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  VISUAL ARTS

  ‘Artist as Jeweler’ exhibition at Bass Museum on Miami Beach reveals unknown skills of well-known artists

  Curated by the wife of French artist Bernar Venet, ‘From Picasso to Koons’ avoids common pitfalls of trying to combine fine art with popular design.
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  design

  The art of the mola comes from Panama’s Guna women

  Sculptures in cloth are all-purpose pieces traditionally made by Guna women from the San Blas Islands

• WYNWOOD

  Bakehouse Art Complex executive director to retire

  The executive director of Wynwood’s Bakehouse Art Complex will retire at the end of the June.
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  VISUAL ARTS

  At Palm Beach’s Norton Museum, the first traveling show from Doris Duke’s Shangri-La

  The expansive collection of Islamic Art amassed by the late Doris Duke and housed in her Honolulu home makes its mainland debut at the Norton Museum in Palm Beach.
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  MOCA celebrates anniversary with ‘Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting’

  To celebrate its 15th anniversary, friends of MOCA donate works to expand its permanent collection. You can see them now.
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  Pieces of Jorge Perez collection on display at last show at MAM Flagler Street

  Frames of Reference: Latin American Art from the Jorge M. Perez Collection, newly opened at the Miami Art Museum, is an appropriate and telling title. This highly anticipated exhibit unveils for the first time some of the works that Perez has donated to the museum. His gift of art and cash convinced the board of directors to change the name of the museum — due to open in December in its new digs on Biscayne Bay — to the Pérez Art Museum Miami. It was a controversial decision, so many eyes have been focused on this show, the final one in MAM’s Flagler Street building.
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  Visual arts

  Avis Collins Robinson has first major exhibit in Key West

  A Key West gallery hosts the first major exhibit of Avis Collins Robinson’s very personal and stunning work
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  VISUAL ARTS

  Like contemporary art itself, the de la Cruz art space is always on the move

  Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz’s art space showcases extraordinary contemporary works that, like the center that houses them, never sit still
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  Visual Arts

  Miami’s Locust Projects at 15 years: new home, same mission

  Locust Projects has been supporting local artists and welcoming international stars for 15 years.
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  New Crop of Rising Stars at Miami’s New World School of the Arts

  For a brief shining moment, the latest talent coming out of New World School of the Arts took over the New World Gallery, for a Rising Stars Showcase. This was simply one of the best local shows around, although up for an unfortunately short time. Multiple forms were represented, from painting, drawing and photography to sculpture, video, installation and mixed-media. But what was most striking was the high quality of the work.
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  Visual arts

  Cruise company partners with ArtCenter/South Florida

  Ahita Keshmirian placed bits of broken yet colorful glass into a pendant. Outside, beyond the natural grass on the top deck of Celebrity Cruise Lines’ Silhouette, the mosaic-decorated churches of Ravenna, Italy, were visible.

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