Here are the exhibits to see at South Florida museums during Miami Art Week

Despite shipping and scheduling challenges created by the pandemic, local museums and permanent art spaces have arranged thought-provoking exhibitions and shows of rarely seen works.

Be sure to put these on your agenda. (The good news: Most remain on display long after Art Week ends.)

ART WEEK GUIDE

A NEW FOCUS

New on the Upper East Side is Green Space Miami from the Green Family Foundation. Its inaugural show, “Inside Feelings, Outside Voices: Reflections from Miami,” features works by 10 Miami BIPOC artists whose work centers on critical social issues, including Alma Leiva, DePaul Vera, Edison Peñafiel, Luis Garcia Nerey, Morel Doucet, Pamela Largaespada, Rhea Leonard, Stephen Arboite, T. Eliott Mansa, and Vanessa Charlot. The foundation awarded a total of $50,000 to support the artists’ continuing work.

▪ Through Jan. 8 at 7200 Biscayne Blvd., Suite A & B; open Tuesday-Sunday; 305-751-8816; greenff.org/GSM/

Also at the Green Space: “Female in Focus.” This satellite exhibition to the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Congress features work by winners of the international award from Nov. 18-Jan. 18 before the show moves to the United Kingdom.

ART OF A SAGE

You knew he was a poet, unconventional singer and a generation’s voice of wisdom. But it may come as a surprise that Nobel laureate Bob Dylan is also a visual artist. “Retrospectum,” the largest-ever show of his artwork in the U.S., opens Nov. 30 at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University.

▪ 10975 SW 17th St., Miami; 305-348-2890; frost.fiu.edu

RETURN TO BEGINNING

Longtime fair-goers will remember ethereal installations with draped walls, low couches and floating lamps at Art Basel and his red lanterns floating in the trees at Fairchild Garden. This year, Cuban-born artist Jorge Pardo returns to where it all began for him in the U.S. — at Miami’s Freedom Tower. The former refugee processing center — now Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art and Design — will host Pardo’s site-specific installation “Jorge Pardo: Mongrel,” featuring 25 drawings, modernist chairs, carpet and custom chandeliers for which he is so well known.

▪ Through May 1, 600 Biscayne Blvd.; 305-237-7700; moadmdc.org

IDENTITY EXPLORED

One of the most haunting works in the 2019 Art Basel Miami Beach fair was a black canoe filled with black hands reaching up from a sea of fluorescent cobalt stones, suspended over a diagram of slaves packed into a ship’s cargo hold during the Middle Passage. “Gliding into Midnight” is among the assemblages by Betye Saar on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art - Miami. Though Saar is well-known for her explorations into African-American and feminist identity, this show highlights lesser-known aspects of her work, including her monumental sculptures and installations and forays into spirituality. Especially evocative is her 1998 installation, “Brides of Bondage,” featuring a wedding dress whose train is weighted by sailing ships representing the Middle Passage. A weighty marriage indeed.

▪ Through April 17 at ICA-Miami, 61 NE 41st St. in Miami’s Design District; icamiami.org.

ART THAT REALLY MOVES

For those who think of art as a static medium, The Bass is the place to be. In the show “Alex Israel x Snapchat,” the artist has taken five self-portraits and embellished them with Snap’s Marker Tracking augmented reality technology that allows viewers to trip through a surreal universe of animation.

▪ Through May 1; 2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673; 7530; thebass.org.

In another break with the usual art reality, Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based Naama Tsabar combines sculpture, architecture, music and performance to transform the Bass museum space into a musical instrument. Through April 17.

OUT OF AFRICA

Interest in African and diaspora artists has surged in recent years. A pair of Miami shows featuring works collected by developer and art patron Jorge M. Pérez offers a survey of art by contemporary masters that is unique in its breadth. At the county-run Pérez Art Museum Miami, “Allied with Power: African and African Disapora Art,” includes masterpieces by Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, Rashid Johnson, Isaac Julien and María Magdalena Campos-Pons. At the developer’s private El Espacio 23, the show unveiled last year has been refreshed, giving art lovers new reasons to check out “Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection,” featuring works by artists who may be less familiar — but no less noteworthy.

▪ Through spring 2022 at El Espacio 23, 2270 NW 23rd St., Allapattah, 786-490-9090; elespacio23.org

▪ “Allied with Power” through Feb. 6, 2022, at Pérez Art Museum Miami; 1103 Biscayne Blvd., downtown Miami; 305-375-3000; pamm.org.

PRIVATE MUSEUMS

Miami’s private museums — gifts to the community from world-class collectors — bring public access to a richness of art that few cities can match. All have added new works as their collectors, like the rest of us, rethink perceptions in the context of these strange times. All have extended Art Week hours, when most are free. Best to check capacity limits and COVID protocols online before you turn up.

At the Design District’s de la Cruz Collection, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz have re-contextualized paintings, installations and sculptures and added new works by artists including Cristina Quarles and Xaviera Simmons in the show “There is Always One Direction.” The collection space is an oasis allowing viewers serenity to contemplate this visual essay on the nonstop nature of change.

▪ Through spring 2022; 23 NE 41st St., Miami Design District; 305-576-6112; delacruzcollection.org.

Scouting the next art stars? The Rubell Museum is showcasing works by its three recent artists-in-residence — Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Kennedy Yanko, Genesis Tramaine — plus local Reginald O’Neal. (Past artists-in-residence included Ghanian Amoako Boafo, now an international superstar.) The Rubells’ three Insta-worthy installations by Yayoi Kusama will also be on view.

▪ Through summer 2022; 1100 NW 23rd St., Allapattah; 305-573-6090; rubellmuseum.org.

If you haven’t yet been to Superblue, the immersive and interactive art center, now is the time. While some art aficionados have pooh-poohed the installations, we remain wowed by the rare opportunity to burst the traditional boundaries between artwork and viewer through works created by three of today’s most important immersive artists: Japan’s teamLab, Es Devlin and James Turrell. Touch the clouds, stand in a waterfall, get lost in a maze as complex as your own life. Make it a morning; Superblue is just across the street from the Rubell Museum.

▪ Ongoing; 1101 NW 23rd St., Allapattah; 786-697-3414; superblue.com. From $36.

For students of art, this year’s highlight will likely be the exhibition of Arte Povera Postwar Italian works at the Margulies Collection. Dating from the 1960s, artists of the Arte Povera movement focus on political and activist themes in a reaction to World War II using unconventional materials and techniques. Though well known in Europe, these influential artists — including Mario Merz, Alighiero Boetti, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Jannis Kounellis — are little known in the U.S. In the U.S., they are exhibited primarily at the Magazzino in Cold Springs, N.Y., and now, at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse.

▪ Coffee from 9 a.m. Dec. 1-5; show runs through spring 2022; 591 NW 27th St., Wynwood; 305-576-1051; margulieswarehouse.com.

CUBA IN THE SOUL

Art Week brings the first retrospective of Cuban-born, Miami-based Julio Larraz. “The Kingdom We Carry Inside,” at the Coral Gables Museum, includes work from his salad days as a New York caricaturist popular with newspapers and magazines through today. Works come from his own archives and private collections in a rarely seen showcase.

▪ Dec. 1-April 30, Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; 305-603-8067; coralgablesmuseum.org.

Longtime locals will recall Margarita Cano’s 30 years with the Miami-Dade Public Library system, where she helped shape the library system’s art collection. After her 1993 retirement, Cano turned her brush to her own canvases, creating dream-like paintings recalling her homeland of Cuba. In honor of her 90th year, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale celebrates her career through more than 100 of her works.

▪ Through Feb. 13, 1 E Las Olas Blvd., downtown Fort Lauderdale; 954-525-5500; nsuartmuseum.org.

SOARING IMAGINATION

Today’s tech revolution is transmitted primarily through a smartphone. The previous tech age came through the physical conveyances of fantastical flying machines, skyscrapers and the elevators that took men — and women — to new heights. The Wolfsonian-FIU celebrates those soaring advancements of the early 20th century in “Aerial Vision,” with 100 works including paintings, prints, drawings and magazine covers.

▪ Through April 24, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-531-1001; wolfsonian.org.

REVISITING THE PAST

Born in 1927 in Poland, Pinkas Schindel survived the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps. His family did not. After World War II, he renamed himself Maryan as he forged “truth paintings” aiming at revealing sometimes ugly truths hidden behind the shiny surface of modern life. The figures at times feel tortured, much as the artist himself. In the exhibition “My Name is Maryan,” the Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami offers viewers the opportunity to rediscover the artist through a survey of sculptures, paintings, drawings and film and revisit the difficult but pivotal period of postwar Europe.

▪ Through March 20, 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami, 770 NE 125th St., North Miami; 305-893-6211; mocanomi.org.

CELEBRATING CULTURE

Nobody can belt out a song like Babs. The Jewish Museum of Florida - FIU celebrates all things Streisand in “Hello Gorgeous,” a tribute through costumes, photos, videos and record album covers. Through February.

Just opened is a survey of work by one of the most influential and vibrant artists of Miami’s nascent 1980s art scene. Though he now lives in Las Vegas, Marty Kreloff never stays away for long. “Martin Kreloff: A Retrospective,” is on display through March.

▪ 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-672-5044; jmof.fiu.edu.

SCULPTING THE MOMENT

Since its 2013 opening, Pérez Art Museum Miami’s campus has featured two monumental steel sculptures seemingly tottering on collapse. PAMM’s new show, “Jedd Novatt: Monotypes and More,” offers insight into Novatt’s work through a rare display of smaller sculptures and works on paper as he explores the present moment and the political and natural chaos that appears ever-imminent.

▪ Through June 26, 2022, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., downtown Miami; 305-375-3000; pamm.org.

LASTING IMPRESSIONS

Impressionism is most often associated with European painters, but the movement made its way onto American canvases as well. The results are on display at the Lowe Art Museum in “American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection.” Organized by the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia, the exhibition showcases 40 works by Arthur Bowen Davies, Charles Webster Hawthorne, George Inness, John Sloan and others.

▪ Through Feb. 13, Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, 301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables; 305-284-3535; lowe.miami.edu

This story was originally published November 23, 2021 at 6:00 AM.

Jane Wooldridge

Miami Herald

Jane Wooldridge is a former journalist for the Miami Herald.