“Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I”: MoCA’s institutional toast to the legendary choreographer’s career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists, and features costumes and decor actually used in his company’s productions. The exhibit includes works by Sandra…
Step inside the freshly hatched Center for Visual Communication in Wynwood, and you might find yourself transported from the tangle of building sites and boom cranes honeycombing the area to a pristine vision of Florida far from the construction din. The space has popped its cork with “Majestic Florida,” an…
While most tenderfoot galleries are staking a claim in Wynwood, veteran dealer Natalie Uribe has packed up the Conestoga and headed west to christen her new digs. Uribe, who has been in the business for more than 25 years, has opened Uribe Brown Fine Art at the Westend Center in…
For those who left theaters moaning that the recent Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl had fleas, Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures at the Miami Art Museum (MAM) promises a time capsule throwback to the superstar Sixties as captured through the Pop Art provocateur’s lens. After earning fame for his iconic paintings…
“Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part I”: MoCA’s institutional toast to the legendary choreographer’s career marks the first U.S. museum show since 1997 to focus on Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists, and features costumes and decor actually used in his company’s productions. The exhibit includes works by Sandra…
In his knee-weakening show at the Dorsch Gallery, Arnold Mesches presents a foreboding vision of a world shrouded in gloom, delivered with a sideshow carny’s flair and a wizened old devil’s sure hand. “Coming Attractions,” his 124th solo exhibition, is fermented in an Insane-Clown-Posse-meets-Edgar-Allan-Poe vibe, and may be one of…
The Miami Art Museum (MAM) draws a bead on the godfather of conceptual art, with a double-barreled blast targeting Sol LeWitt’s career and collection. LeWitt x 2, opening today at MAM, is a two-part exhibit, “Sol LeWitt: Structure and Line,” a retrospective, takes aim at the artist’s own work, while…
“People Under the Stairs” and “Vacuuming Gave Me Carpal Tunnel”: Locust Projects cobbled “People Under the Stairs” in a fortnight, and despite the rush, the show fires on all cylinders. A quartet of locals tinkered with illusions of depth in the gallery space, at times tilling the field of commonplace,…
Merce Cunningham, dance’s avant doyen, makes his first-ever appearance in Miami next week, kicking off a citywide bash honoring the pioneer choreographer’s life and work. Celebrating the collaborative spirit that has characterized Cunningham’s five-decade career, South Florida’s major cultural organizations have come together, beginning with a show at the Museum…
During a time when most of her snot-nosed peers where draining a keg at a frat party, Maya Lin was busy designing national monuments. At the tender age of 21, while still an architecture student at Yale, Lin was making history for her design of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in…
“It’s like triage,” declares Octavio Campos of the provocative outreach labs he describes as equal parts “health intervention and visceral theatrical education.” Tonight at 8:00, the altmeister presents Subversive Cabaret II: Sex Without Condoms, featuring a panel of South Florida HIV/AIDS doctors and activists who will be engaging the audience…
“People Under the Stairs” and “Vacuuming Gave Me Carpal Tunnel”: Locust Projects cobbled “People Under the Stairs” in a fortnight, and despite the rush, the show fires on all cylinders. A quartet of locals tinkered with illusions of depth in the gallery space, at times tilling the field of commonplace,…
During a recent visit to Gary Nader Fine Art, a forklift weaved perilously close to pricey marble and bronze sculptures in the main gallery. The driver was hauling several crated Pablo Atchugarry works to a loading dock where a truck waited to transport the Uruguayan’s striking Carrara pieces to their…
Don’t confuse “I Still Love My Box” with a hymn to the lost hymen or a tale of a vaginoplasty gone sour. It’s the moniker for the funky exhibit and performance unfolding tonight at 7:00 at Damien B. Contemporary Art Center, featuring the work of Paris-based Ruddy Candillon and La-La…
For those who have agonized in front of a mirror, wondering whether your ass was too fat to shake on South Beach, “The Model at Hand” should inspire you to get that rump rolling without shame. Busting out tonight at 7:00 at ArtCenter/South Florida, the exhibit features work by resident…
Su-en Wong: At Kevin Bruk Gallery, Su-en Wong parodies and pulverizes preconceptions of Asian women in a show that’s both brazen and brainy. Mining the muck of porn fantasy, Wong clones herself in paintings and drawings in which she often appears nude or draped in suggestive schoolgirl regalia, turning the…
Fine-tuning an alternative art space’s programming is not an easy thing to do. Exhibitions are usually booked a year or more in advance, after curators and organizers sift through reams of proposals, combing the wheat from the chaff. Serious spaces do so hoping to deliver challenging shows that remain true…
Of course South Florida loves its Marlins and Heat, but if you take account of the glittering talent flowing from the New World School of the Arts (NWSA) for the past twenty years, can you think of an institution more deserving of a parade down Biscayne Boulevard? Since NWSA opened…
When it comes to quenching a jones, Tim Calver simply reaches for his camera and dives into the drink. The hydroholic lensman can often be found immersed in one of the seven seas, capturing breathtaking aquatic scenes that have appeared in National Geographic and Time. “Surface,” an exhibit of his…
I’m So Much Better than You: Magnus Sigurdarson’s installation features four tons of Miami New Times papers interlocked like bricks to form a curving hip-high wall. It houses a DVD player and monitor where the artist is seen performing a puppet show in Xiamen, China. Sigurdarson, who was born in…
For her solo debut at Kevin Bruk Gallery, Su-en Wong parodies and pulverizes preconceptions of Asian women in a show that’s both brazen and brainy. Mining the muck of porn fantasy, Wong clones herself in paintings and drawings in which she often appears nude or draped in suggestive schoolgirl regalia,…
In arguably the most anticipated event of the season, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) is featuring the first U.S. exhibit focusing on Merce Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists from 1997 to the present. The two-part project culminates at the museum’s Wynwood annex in April. During a career spanning more…
