This weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk offers avian attacks, glitzy Latin flavor, and uncanny word play. Beginning at 6 p.m., Taro Hattori conjures a vision of a postapocalyptic world. Menacing clouds of birds blot out the sun, and the darkened landscape is scattered with the skeletal armatures of man’s fallen…
At Gallery Diet, “Mayami Son Machin” is a group show organized by Guatemala City’s Proyectos Ultravioleta, exploring stereotypes associated with Latin American identity refracted through the Magic City’s prism of glitz and glam. The provocative exhibit, named for Gloria Estefan’s back-up band, riffs on our city’s exoticism, overinflated machismo, and…
The hazy spaces where communication evolves or dissolves into nonsense is the subject of “Noise Field” at the Dorsch Gallery, investigating written, spoken, and nonverbal languages in a variety of media. Curated by local writer Annie Hollingsworth, the compelling group show oscillates between the meaning of words and murky images…
Miami art this week: sleeping giants
A new exhibit at the Frost Art Museum crams Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book through the shredder. In fact the gang of 12 Chinese artists whose works are on view in “East/West: Visually Speaking” traffic with the currency of American pop culture and runaway globalization in a way that probably…
When Commodore Matthew Perry led the U.S. Navy into Japan in 1854, forcing the island nation to open its ports to the outside world, little did he realize his actions would lead to the swift rise of a brutal empire. Japan soon transformed into an industrialized power unafraid to use…
Frost art exhibit explores Big Macs and Mao
A new exhibit at the Frost Art Museum crams Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book through the shredder. In fact the gang of 12 Chinese artists whose works are on view in “East/West: Visually Speaking” traffic with the currency of American pop culture and runaway globalization in a way that probably…
For more than two decades, the South Florida Cultural Consortium has been a trend guru, recognizing local artists who are leaving deep footprints. Each year the alliance awards $7,500 to $15,000 grants to top talent in the Sunshine State. It also offers winners of the juried South Florida Cultural Consortium…
Don’t expect sullen lawmen pistol-whipping horse thieves or renegade Indians attacking wagon trains in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff. “It’s not a shoot-’em-up type of movie,” explains Robert Rosenberg, director of the Coral Gables Art Cinema, where the critically acclaimed picture is making its Magic City debut. Instead, the Miami-born indie…
For over two decades the National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill (NAEMI) has organized some pretty incredible shows of outsider art while also launching the careers of local talents such as Mario Mesa, Lucia Ballester, and Boris Lopez whose works are regularly sold in galleries from New York to…
A Latin lover, a mysterious coven of wild women, a frolic in a candy-colored fun house, and an all-female group show riffing on how the unseen can powerfully shape perception, are just a few of the offerings making this weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk. It’s a sizzling ticket before the…
For more than two decades, the South Florida Cultural Consortium has been a trend guru, recognizing local artists who are leaving deep footprints. Each year the alliance awards $7,500 to $15,000 grants to top talent in the Sunshine State. It also offers winners of the juried South Florida Cultural Consortium…
Wynwood’s May 14 art walk tricks the eye
The instant the statuesque bombshell made her move from posing for the camera to joining the ranks of professional photographers, Bunny Yeager’s male counterparts were left slavering over her natural talents. Yeager, already South Florida’s most photographed model during the late ’40s, knew how to pose a woman better than…
This weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk, the Wynwood and Design District arts romp, will get going at 6 p.m., when you can catch Mark Messersmith’s “Blighted Eden” at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. The artist presents canvases weaving a tale of man’s destructive intrusion into Florida’s pristine natural splendor. Rather than evoking…
Venture south to Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts and discover “Indigo.” It’s a collaborative exhibit by Chicago’s Laura Kina and India-based artist Shelly Jyoti, built around the plant that has long been symbolic of England’s colonial heritage in India. Working together since 2008, the artists share a mutual interest in textiles…
Don’t miss “The Fabulous Bunny Yeager” at the Harold Golen Gallery, the first gallery show featuring the iconic photographer as its subject. Most people know Yeager as the shutterbug who snapped the infamous Bettie Page pics for the holiday-themed centerfold during Playboy’s infancy. What they don’t know is that Yeager…
“The Fabulous Bunny Yeager” at Harold Golen Gallery
Rush Limbaugh? Sean Hannity? Bill O’Reilly? All you right-wing gasbags can line up and get ready to kiss Pablo Cano’s ass. Miami’s favorite puppet master has a doozy lined up to give all the Obama haters their just desserts. “It’s very up to date, a whimsical comedy,” Cano says. “I…
Miami sculptor, Daniel Fiorda has often played the role of urban archeologist in his oeuvre. He has used everything from racing boat pistons, to the metal guts of discarded convertible couches to increasingly obsolete technology in his expansive series of works.He has created menacing robot warriors, soaring totems, alien insects…
Rush Limbaugh? Sean Hannity? Bill O’Reilly? All of you right-wing gasbags can line up and get ready to kiss Pablo Cano’s ass. Miami’s favorite puppet master has a doozy to give all the president’s haters their just deserts. Inspired by Barack Obama’s historic election, Cano created The Seven Wonders of…
