The progenitors of Art Basel Miami Beach have long tentacles. So long that you can trace their suck marks all across town this week where over a dozen ancillary fairs have latched like remoras onto the underbelly of a bloated whale. But it’s at the Octopus’s garden at the Miami…
Art Basel satellite fairs just might be badder than the main event
Perhaps best known for his iconic photos of beefcake Olympic athletes clad solely in tighty-whities for Calvin Klein, Bruce Weber is a fashion maverick whose provocative spreads regularly grace the pages of glossies such as GQ, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. But since 2003, the free-spirited shutterbug has focused his lens…
Miami art this week: Witchcraft in the White House
Art Basel preview in Wynwood
Miami art this week: DNA cloning at the Frost
Mesches at the Frost: Nightmarish images of America
Luis Cruz Azaceta has become known for his arresting works that explore the exile experience with a profound sense of loss, angst, and isolation. We recently caught up with the Cuban-American artist, who lives in New Orleans, and has returned to Miami for “Trajectories/Trayectorias,” at Pan American Art Projects in…
Navigating the tightrope between the figural and abstract, Susan Rothenberg creates dizzying paintings of animals and humans rendered from quirky perspectives, often in midstride. “Moving in Place,” on view at the Miami Art Museum, marks the artist’s first museum exhibit in more than a decade as well as her South…
The horrors of war, totalitarian governments, and political dissent are the minefield of expression in this multimedia exhibit where more than a dozen artists tackle repressive regimes through imagery aspiring to a subversive wallop. Cuban artist Antuan Riguez’s installation, Left, Right, features rows of heavy red punching bags hanging from…
The tawdry image of a frumpy, nude housewife posing next to a dildo on view at a South Dade gallery could easily have been titled, “Is That a Cell Phone in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?” The photograph is one of about 200 pictures on…
Miami art this week: Freedom Tower hangs world-leader punching bags
Artspace MAGQ’s cell-phone photography
With Art Basel looming and legions of collectors, curators, and museum honchos preparing to sack South Florida, local dealers have begun breaking out the big guns and marshaling their forces. Wynwood’s Pan American Art Projects has mustered Luis Cruz Azaceta and is unleashing the human howitzer during “Trajectories/Trayectorias,” a major…
Subversive art on display at Frost.Arnold Mesches was tailed by the Feds during the Hoover years for what they considered to be subversive paintings casting President Eisenhower’s America in a corrosive light. When the painter obtained his FBI file in 1999 under the Freedom of Information Act, it contained close…
The precocious lad, who had won second place in a drawing contest while only six years old, was the son of educators who both worked for the government. Solomoukha later entered the Faculty for the Restoration of Icons in the Kiev School of Fine Art and was awarded a diploma…
Upwind, at the Center for Visual Communications, a sprawling exhibit showcasing a homegrown movement calling itself The Miami School puts the 305 front and center in contemporary painting. The show features the work of Darby Bannard, who was one of the originators of minimalism in the late 1950s with Frank…
Miami art this week: Little Red Riding Hood at Black Square
During the Hoover years, the feds tailed artist Arnold Mesches for what they considered to be subversive paintings casting President Eisenhower’s America in a corrosive light. When the painter obtained his FBI file in 1999 under the Freedom of Information Act, it contained close to 800 pages that further fueled…
Wynwood Second Saturday preview: Russkis and a new movement
Xavier Cortada desperately needs your DNA — for his show, that is. With the public’s help, he plans to create a live DNA strand in a petri dish. “I am working with 400 museum visitors who will leave their DNA as part of the exhibit,” he explains. “I am creating…
MAM’s Thom Collins offers perfect mix
