Photography Exhibit at the Lowe Brings Alive the History of the Art

A potent brew of hoofers and hoodoo simmers under the stars at Miami Art Museum as part of MAM Summer Nights. Each second Thursday of the month, the museum organizes a harmonic convergence of the visual and performing arts in order to spice up its programming with sensory magic and…

Joyas Latinoamericanas Through September 25. ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, 169 Madeira Ave., Coral Gables; 305-444-4493; virginiamiller.com. Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday by appointment Where most dealers wouldn’t dare exhibit the work of masters alongside that of relative unknowns, Virginia Miller welcomes the risk with aplomb in “Joyas…

Land Mine Legacy in Coral Gables

The California governor himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, calls him “the best photographer I have ever worked with.” But for Robert Zuckerman, shooting photographs is just like being “a kid in a candy store.” Zuckerman’s experience snapping publicity pictures for films such as Any Given Sunday, Training Day, National Treasure, Transformers, and…

Dave McKenzie plans to meet a stranger at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. He’d like to take that person to dinner and pick up the tab. The Jamaican artist has installed a Plexiglas drop-off box at the museum where visitors can fill out a slip with their…

For Groucho Marx, the stock market was nothing to laugh at. The mustached wag invested his fortune, a quarter-million dollars, on a tip from a bellhop at the Ritz-Carlton during the height of the Roaring Twenties. On Black Tuesday, he lost it all. By 1929, Wall Street tycoons had popularized…

Leave it to Virginia Miller to find the silver lining in an economic storm. Despite the tribulations of the art world in an increasingly stagnant sales environment, the Coral Gables dealer is putting on an eclectic summer group show. Just don’t call it a clearance blowout, please. Where most dealers…

Leave it to Virginia Miller to find the silver lining in an economic storm. Despite the tribulations of the art world in an increasingly stagnant sales environment, the Coral Gables dealer is putting on an eclectic summer group show. Just don’t call it a clearance blowout, please. Where most dealers…

During the past few decades, Leonard Krakovitch King has tinkered with the way we see ourselves. In 1972, the innovative Coconut Grove artist invented a contraption he calls the “Variable Form Image Reflector,” which uses concave mirrors to create fractal abstract forms that appear to move in the direction of…

Homegrown Brew at Miami Art Museum

Ever since Robert Rauschenberg elevated the craptastic into high art by yoking a stuffed Angora goat with a truck tire, artists have been creating subversive works using the rubble of modern consumer society. Enter Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, with a “cruddy” exhibit featuring a dumpster’s load of artwork created from…

Aramis Gutierrez has a gift for engulfing both his characters and the viewer in looming anguish. His deftly rendered painting At the Water Park depicts a scene some South Floridians will be familiar with. In it, two pasty-skinned, slightly dazed tourists are at the end of a frolic on a…

Because I Say So Through August 16. Frost Art Museum, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami; 305-348-2890; thefrost.fiu.edu. Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. “Because I Say So” is an exhibition featuring selections from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl that challenges the…

Artists with mental illness shine at MCPA Gallery

As if this tale of murder, greed, adultery, and exploitation wasn’t enough to snap your garters, the new production of Chicago at the Arsht Center promises to make the blood boil with Sofia Vergara starring in the role of Mama Morton. Vergara, undeniably one of the hottest stars of Hispanic…

Luis Gispert Through June 27 MoCA at Goldman Warehouse 404 NW 26th St., Miami 305-893-6211 mocanomi.org Wednesday through Saturday noon to 5 p.m. At first blush, the fetching cheerleader with Bettie Page bangs and twinkling blue eyes appears to be the stuff of a teenager’s wet dream. That is until…

Artist Kevin Arrow’s new exhibit, “Burning Bright,” at the Farside Gallery in Westchester

During the early ’90s, Kevin Arrow spent a year in the Himalayas helping Bhutanese artisans spruce up the shrine rooms of ancient Buddhist monasteries. Living in one of the remotest regions of the world, Arrow often went weeks without seeing another Westerner. “I have always been fascinated with that culture,”…

Kate Gilmore knows how to make a smashing impression. In her visceral videos, the New York-based artist appears fetchingly dressed while swinging a sledgehammer or kicking through drywall in heels. Gilmore has become known for turning female stereotypes on their heads by parodying the limits of physical endurance against bright…

Because I Say So Through August 16 Frost Art Museum, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami 305-348-2890; thefrost.fiu.edu Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Because I Say So” is an exhibition featuring selections from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl that challenges the…

Ghetto Fab at MoCA in Wynwood