Arturo Rodríguez reemerges, much like Delacroix in the Salon of 1859: a 63-year-old painter with an impressive career, but who does not rest on his laurels, instead exploring and taking risks, all in the name of painting and its possibilities.
The exhibit, “Arcimboldo’s Ghosts,” dwells with almost classical austerity in the halls of the unpretentious and elegant LnS Gallery in Miami, where pale gray walls provide the perfect backdrop for Arturo Rodríguez’s pictorial explosion.
As Wynwood grows into a trendy art district, these popular artists have left the area to find community, impact and unity in neighborhoods like Overtown and Liberty City.
Once painting graffiti on walls came with the risk of arrest. Today, Miami street artists are being commissioned to paint in offices, condo buildings and train stations.
They work outside the artistic mainstream, have received no formal art training and often suffer from mental illness and isolation, but Cuba’s outsider artists create art for art’s sake.
Héctor Pascual “Gallo” Portieles, 94, a Cuban outsider artist, uses random objects he’s found in his Alamar neighborhood to create art. His collection spills out of his house and into his neighborhood.
Street artists commissioned by Wynwood Walls complete their artwork at the annual repainting, a precursor to the events of Miami Art Week on Thursday, November 29, 2018.
Miami Art Basel and satellite fairs saw record attendance and sales in the millions of dollars at this year’s Art Week. A revamped Miami Beach Convention Center had many gallerists saying it was their best year yet.
A Miami art gallery was vandalized with a swastika and vulgar language on Saturday morning during Miami Art Week. The storefront of Yeelen Gallery was defaced sometime after 1 a.m., police have been made aware of the incident.
Cuban artists, writers and performers have met with government officials for weeks trying to get changes in a law they say amounts to censorship. Despite their displeasure, Decree Law 349 went into effect Friday.
David Castillo Gallery, a fixture on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, made it to the main stage to display his art at Art Basel Miami Beach. He was invited to the fair’s Galleries sector for the first time.
Tennis star Serena Williams debuted her sporty meets sexy new fashion line at Faena Bazaar in Miami Beach at Art Basel. The pop-up shop runs through the end of December.
Tennis star Serena Williams debuted her sporty meets sexy new fashion line at Faena Bazaar in Miami Beach at Art Basel. The pop-up shop runs through the end of December.
The Art Basel orbit keeps expanding, so to enjoy art and avoid the crowds and hassles of the major fairs, visit exhibits in such places as Pinecrest, Overtown, Little Haiti, Surfside and Doral.
Art Basel Miami Beach opened on Wednesday morning, Dec. 4, 2018, to the very VIPS invited to the fair for an early look-see. There was no mad crush at the door, no unseemly Black Friday-like rush to the booths as in former years.
The mad opening rush at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair disappeared thanks to an improved convention center, but the early buying and selling seemed no less active, the prices no less eye-popping and the art as good as ever.
Arturo Rodríguez reemerges, much like Delacroix in the Salon of 1859: a 63-year-old painter with an impressive career, but who does not rest on his laurels, instead exploring and taking risks, all in the name of painting and its possibilities.
