MiamiHerald.com: Visual Arts

Miami Art Walk guide for February

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:44 EST

Just as the Art Basel hangover is wearing off, galleries in Wynwood and the Design District are ramping up for Art Wynwood, a fair that will feature more than 50 exhibitors during President's Day weekend. While certain galleries seem to be holding off their new exhibitions until closer to the fair, which is based in Midtown (for now), there are plenty of new shows opening this week in time for Art Walk on Saturday. Below are all the new exhibitions on our radar.

SHOCK AND AWE: Two South Florida museums showcase women painters

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00 EST

Two exhibitions by women painters celebrate the human figure in unconventional ways.

Pop-up gallery on vacant lot in Wynwood arrives in time for Art Walk

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:38 EST

On most days, the vacant lot at 44 NE. 29 St. next to Morgan’s restaurant in Midtown is nothing more than a patch of grassy land with an abandoned old rusty trailer.

60 years of the Lowe

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00 EST

Miami-Dade’s oldest art museum celebrates a milestone as it seeks to make its wide-ranging collection better known.

Fort Lauderdale artist paints ‘Visions of the Apocalypse’

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:04 EST

A Fort Lauderdale artist has produced more than a thousand paintings and collages about the joys, hopes and horrors of the apocalypse.

UM’s Lowe Art Museum celebrates 60 years with exhibition

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

To assemble an exhibition marking 60 years of history at the Lowe Art Museum, director and chief curator Brian Dursum turned to pieces that in some cases have never before been displayed.

Herald building is historic on all counts

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:19 EST

These walls around me can talk and they have a heck of a story to tell — our history, Miami’s history.

Upstairs, downstairs

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

In a pair of Bass Museum exhibits, creativity takes divergent forms

Miami Art Museum receives $1 million grant

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:21 EST

Miami Art Museum said Tuesday that it has received a $1 million challenge grant from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at the Miami Foundation that will help it build its collection.

Artists show their work at Pinecrest Gardens

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:26 EST

A photo gallery

At Miami’s Bakehouse Art Complex, women create complex visions

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

An exhibit at Miami’s Bakehouse translates complex relationships into photographs, installations and poetry — and all the artists are female

The Art of Immigration

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

War refugee and artist Huong continues her mission of peace with a mural exploring the immigrant story

Art fair on yacht coming to downtown Miami

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00 EST

Miami International Art’s third annual fair will take place on a luxury mega yacht moored in downtown.

MOCA’s Mark Handforth exhibit all about the light

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:09 EST

MOCA’s Mark Handforth show signals urbanites to slow down, if just for the moment

Artist Faith Ringgold exhibition at Miami Art Museum

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00 EST

Miami Art Museum’s exhibit explores the early work of a mature artist’s response to a maturing nation. It closes this week.