Face Your Past

During a new exhibit at the Miami Art Museum, Rivane Neuenschwander will re-create the mug of your youthful source of ardor with the help of a police sketch artist. Neuenschwander’s First Love, an installation inspired by Samuel Beckett’s novella of the same name, is on view as part of “A…

Sweat Out Art

You don’t have to be a big kahuna, beachcomber, or surfer chick to get leid during this weekend’s balmy Second Saturday Art Walk. Just follow the torches and ukulele music wafting from the Harold Golen Gallery, where the art dealer is celebrating his annual Fine Art Tiki Show with some…

Lowe’s “Sacred Stories” Explores 5,000 Years of Myth

If you don’t think myth remains a large part of contemporary culture, you probably haven’t been paying close attention to the evening news, the Discovery Channel, or the Internet, where stories of the fantastic, inexplicable, or just plain dumb abound. Remember Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction? How about Barack Obama…

Altar of Art

Sandra Gamarra is the rare artist who might just commune directly with your soul. The Madrid-based Peruvian artist draws her inspiration from the parallels between artistic and mystical experiences. In her ongoing series of paintings titled The New Worshiper and The Apostles, Gamarra proposes that art museums are places of…

Mike Nelson’s “I, Imposter” Draws Record Crowds at Venice Biennale

British artist Mike Nelson is known for his discomfiting installations that typically leave viewers disoriented and evoke all manner of literary, historic, artistic and cinematic references. For his daring, epic-scaled “I, Imposter” at this year’s Venice Biennale, Nelson spent nearly three months in the city transforming the neoclassical British Pavilion…

Cubans Rule Roost at Pan American’s Diaspora-Themed Show

Pan American Art Projects’ new exhibit isn’t your typical summer group show. At a time when most local galleries are dusting off their stock and having the ubiquitous fire sale to move brand merchandise, this Wynwood space is delivering a museum-quality show featuring top-drawer talent courtesy of Abelardo Mena, curator…

Miami Dade College Snags Cintas Collection of Cuban Art

Most people don’t know that with seven galleries scattered across town and sprawling exhibition spaces at the Freedom Tower, Miami Dade College boasts the region’s largest art network.But by next Monday, MDC’s rambling Art Gallery System will experience an even bigger bulge in its seam when it becomes home to…

Video Star

Ryan Trecartin has been called the first YouTube art star. Rather than simply go online to see his hallucinatory flicks, it’s a lot more fun to view the movies spooled together at the Museum of Contemporary Art, where videos, sets, and props for Trecartin’s opus will be on display for…

Venice Biennale: Anish Kapoor Pulls a LeBron James

In game four of the NBA Finals, Lebron James reminded us that sometimes the planet’s best talent can fade on the big stage. Last week when the 54th Venice Biennale kicked off, Anish Kapoor, one of the leading figures of the international art scene today was set to hold court…

Objects of Procreation

Long before Octomom (AKA Nadya Suleman) was implanted with a dozen embryos by a California doctor, diverse cultures across Africa employed sacred objects to ensure fecundation. Octodoc, Michael Kamrava, later had his license revoked when it was discovered he had also produced Suleman’s first six kids through in vitro fertilization…