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Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora in Miami

Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Mar 5th, 2009 through Jan 24th, 2010.  Casting a dramatic new light on the impact African-Americans, Africans, black Caribbeans and black Hispanics have had in shaping the City of Miami, the Historical Museum of Southern Florida presents an 11-month long exhibition, Black Crossroads: The African Diaspora on March 5th, 2009. “This is a long overdue focus on one … +

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With You I Want To Live. Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale

Apr 18th, 2009 through Mar 22nd, 2010. A great love of collecting the art of our time is shown in the private holdings of Gordon Locksley and Francie Bishop Good + David Horvitz. All three individuals are tireless collectors passionately engaged in the contemporary art scene. The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale has brought together over one hundred selected works from these two collections … +

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Leslie Gabaldon: And let it go…
By Manuela Gabaldon

Collective loss: another visual register of unavoidable thoughts .Our preoccupation as citizens of a society in crisis is reflected in almost every aspect of our life. We have questioned the professional, the economic, and the consequential, but have we had the time to explore a crisis’ emotional toll? Artist Leslie Gabaldon channels maturity and practicality within us as spectators and relentless participants … +

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NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith

Miami Art Museum. Feb 22nd through May 24th, 2009.  Although for centuries spirituality was an essential, even guiding, component of art, in the modern era artists have often distanced themselves from otherworldly concerns. NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith brings together an intergenerational group of artists who address ritual in the artistic process and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art. … +

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Arts and Healing

Arts at St. Johns. Mar 7th, 2009. 2:00 p.m.   Arts and Healing is a new series at Arts at St. Johns. Participants will articulate feelings and experiences in a safe learning and healing environment. The February program featured Dance as a way as a means of nature studies, fall/recovery, and improvisation as it applies to the healing process.

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Artformz Alternative

Faith, Fear, and Fortune. From Feb 14th trough Mar 9th, 2009.  Artformz Alternative is opening its February exhibition featuring the work of Ramon Williams and PJ Mills on February 14th, 2009 with a special performance by Philosopher Enrique Paterson as part of the artist's Collaborative Installation.

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Elements of Art

Who Am I? From Feb 14th through Mar 27th, 2009.   Elements of Art will host their first exhibition of the year on February 14th, 2009. The art exhibition/auction will take place during the Design District's gallery walk. The district offers an array of gallery, artists and most importantly artwork that expresses the culture that is South Florida.

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Miami Art Space

H. Allen Benowitz. From Feb 12th through Mar 27th, 2009.  Miami Art Space presents an exhibition of original photographs from Mr. Benowitz’s recent trip to Cuba, reflecting on the culture, poverty, occupations and history of this island nation’s people under Castro's rule, and the barrios and neighborhoods of Old Havana. The exhibit features photographs taken shortly before Hurricanes Gustav and Ike wreaked … +

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Jewish Photographic Memories

Jewish Museum of Florida. From Feb 10th through May 10th, 2009.  The Jewish Museum of Florida announces the opening of its next temporary exhibit, Jewish Photographic Memories by Gabriela Landau, on February 10th, 2009. The show of 25 black and white images of New York City's Lower East Side will run through May 10th, 2009.

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O.H.W.O.W. Our House West of Wynwood

Confection. February 13th, 2009.  Pres Rodriguez brings the local artistic community together in this one-of-a-kind Charity Bake Sale Art Exhibition to benefit the Daily Bread Food Bank. Over twenty artists will contribute to this anything goes exhibition including Jim Drain, Aranzazu Gayoso, Michael Genovese, Jason Hedges, Alvaro Ilizarbe, Susan Lee-Chun, Nick D. Lobo, Justin Long, Lee Materazzi, Hugo Montoya, Bert Rodriguez, Leyden … +

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Laberinto de Miradas / Labyrinth of Glances

CCE Miami and MDC Galery System. From Feb 5th through 9th, 2009.  Starting February 5th, the Cultural Center of Spain (CCE) and MDC Gallery System present the first Edition of “Laberinto de Miradas”. This particular show of the series, entitled Identidades y Fronteras en Iberoamérica, (Identities and Borders in Ibero America) aims to promote documentary production made in Ibero America in connection … +

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Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

Otherworld. From Jan 16th through Mar 10th, 2009.  Carol Jazzar presents Otherworld; an exhibition of found textile, garments and objects by Miami based art collaborative Guerra de la Paz. This will be the artist’s second solo show with the gallery.

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Locust Projects

From Jan 10th through 28th, 2009.  On Saturday, January 10th, Locust Projects kicks off the New Year with the opening reception for it’s first exhibition of 2009, in conjunction with the Wynwood Art District Walk. Part of the Locust Projects 10-year Anniversary Season, the show features three artists whose range reflects the diverse and experimental work for which the alternative artspace is … +

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Pedro Reyes: 47 Undertakings

Bass Museum. From Dec 4th, 2008 through Mar 1st, 2009.  This exhibition is comprised of sculptures, drawings, models, props, and video footage – 47 pieces total – which reveal the progression of the artist's conceptual strategies that precede the final product. Trained as an architect, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes explores the ways in which a space can be created to combine utopian ideas as well as functionality.

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Museum of the Americas

From Jan 9th through Jan 31st, 2009.  The Museum of the Americas, located in Doral, Florida, will open the first of three exhibitions of the 2009 series titled 7 Women from 7 Countries. Artists included in the exhibition are Nicole Angelica from Bahamas, Jeanette Berndsen from The Netherlands, Kanak Chanpa Chakma from Bangladesh, Marina Reiter from Russia, Eba RG from Spain, Shahla … +

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Raul Mendez: This is Nowhere

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. Through Jan 4th, 2009.  This is Nowhere is a multimedia installation that shifts our regular vantage point and perspective. We are made to look down at a surrounding landscape, as if aloft. The viewer is placed neither here nor there: between floating photographs of clouds, a sectioned metropolis of buildings in the snow, and a painted … +

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Nothing Moments Project

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. Through Jan 4th, 2009.  Nothing Moments is the newest project of Steven Hull, who has teamed up with Tami Demaree, Annie Buckley, and Jon Sueda for this most ambitious of Hull’s projects to date. With nearly 100 participating writers, artists, and designers, Nothing Moments embraces the disparate fields of visual art, literature, and design.

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World Aids Day Art Exhibition

From Nov 26th through Dec 14th, 2008.  Miami Beach Community Health Center’s "Through the Eyes of Love" in honor of World AIDS Day showcases a diverse collection of artworks symbolizing the depth of local artists’ thoughts and feelings as it relates to HIV / AIDS. This Miami and Fort Lauderdale admission-free exhibition also includes hundreds of panels from The NAMES Project Foundation-AIDS … +

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It Ain't Fair at O.H.W.O.W.

From Dec 2nd through Dec 7th, 2008.  O.H.W.O.W. presents It Ain't Fair, an exhibition featuring Deitch Projects, Peres Projects, Nueva Galeria De La Barra, A.S.S. Gallery, A.M.P., Picturebox and TV Books with curators Tim Barber, Kathy Grayson, Andreas Melas, Dan Nadel, Pablo de la Barra, Nicola Vassell and Terence Koh.