Bass Museum plays old masters against new mavericks

Naomi Fisher’s long anticipated exhibit at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery represents the mytho-poetic journey of a group of women into the Florida wilderness. At times the exhibit is haunting with nature reminiscent of the ancient mystery cults where priestesses conducted Arcadian rituals for the rebirth of nature from generation to…

The cubists had Guillaume Apollinaire; the surrealists André Breton. Guild, an emerging group of eight Miami painters, all New World School of the Arts grads, have Ricardo Pau-Llosa to champion their cause. Since discovering the octet during a Little Havana exhibit coinciding with Art Basel this past December, the local…

The Guild, eight Miami artists, pushes art ahead at the Ladder Room

Some couples can’t agree on anything. Who will pick up the kid from day care? Who will throw out the trash? Who will scoop up the dog poop? Who will decide who decides? Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova are both prolific Miami artists who happen to be married. They have…

Some couples can’t agree on anything. Who will pick up the kid from day care? Who will take out the trash? Who will scoop up the dog poop? Who will decide who decides? But for Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, both prolific Miami artists who happen to be married, working…

The Spinello Gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary with “Collectivism,” featuring the work of Agustina Woodgate who has been with the Spinello stable since its inception. On view is one of Woodgate’s recent monumental pieces, which swallows an entire wall and measures a whopping 10 by 16 feet. For No Rain…

“The Wilderness” at MAM explores man’s relationship with nature

Anchoring “The Wilderness,” Miami Art Museum’s provocative group exhibit, is McCollum’s sprawling installation, The Event: Petrified Lightning From Central Florida (With Supplemental Didactics) (1998), which takes over the center gallery. To create his jaw-dropping opus, the New York-based artist teamed up with geologists and electrical engineers from the University of…

One of the most entertaining things about the Second Saturday Art Walks is discovering the weird media artists often employ in their work. This past weekend, Agustina Woodgate put on a clinic on the subject in “Collectivism,” her solo show at the Spinello Gallery featuring works made from 3000 bricks…

Tom Hollingworth, his wife, and two kids are about to launch a trip across the continent on a retro-fitted Greyhound fueled by solar power and vegetable waste. And Miami’s art community is sending them off with a carnival fundraiser.Hollingworth, the founder and editor of ARTLURKER, plans to travel from hamlet…

This weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk boasts robot death matches, art made from bodily waste, stuffed toy animal pelts, an exhibit inspired by Bolivian flea markets, and another featuring the works of an artist inspired by her ideas of family and home.You’ll also find a mysterious couple pledging their eternal…

Wynwood’s April 9 art walk offers robots and body hair

In September 2007, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter rescued Kirby Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo from a life raft drifting near the coast of Cuba. The two wove an unbelievable tale about pirates attacking their boat and murdering the captain, his wife, and two crew members before ditching their bodies overboard…

While preparing a midcareer retrospective of conceptual artist Glenn Ligon for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Scott Rothkopf didn’t just select pieces from jpegs and transparencies. He journeyed all over the United States — rifling through museum vaults, collectors’ homes, and storage facilities — to cull works for the…

Life in boom town: The asphalt jungle may alienate, but strangers’ kindness can also inspire serendipitous joy. A pair of disparate exhibits explores both sides of urban living during this weekend’s Second Saturday Art Walk. It’s time yet again to wander Wynwood and Design District streets for the free monthly…

Those hankering for some Southern-fried generosity during the Second Saturday Art Walk in our urban climes can mosey over to the University of Miami’s Wynwood Project Space, where artist Sean Smith will host a sensory-smacking hoedown. The artist invites the public to join him in “Creativity Driven Southern Hospitality,” an…

Artists Typoe and Catalina Jaramillo explore the afterlife

When we last reviewed Agustin Bejarano’s work in May of 2007 at a show titled “Rites of Silence” at Wynwood’s Pan American Art Projects, many of his paintings depicted a solitary figure riding on horseback into a desolate landscape or clinging for his life on a capsized dinghy.In some of…

Since the beginning of civilization, every culture has exhibited ways of keeping alive the memory of the dead. The ancient Egyptians believed that statues of the dead, once animated through ritual breathing, could appear at various locations.  Other cultures created wax or plaster death masks and displayed portraits of the…

From dancing dildos to swollen scrotums, from scrapping artists to vandalized paintings, not to mention truly thought-provoking artwork, this year’s ArteAmericas is turning out to be the most memorable ever.By mid-afternoon, Convention Center security and Miami Beach cops stood at the Miami Art Museum booth, examining four canvases by Miami…

Man might be able to erect soaring skyscrapers on postage stamp-sized plots of land but nature remains unimpressed. If the recent Tsunami in Japan taught us something it’s that our efforts to yoke nature to our needs is futile at best. “The Wilderness,” the new exhibit opening Sunday at the…