South Florida continues to mature as an area brimming with the fine arts. At any time, locals and visitors alike have a rich menu of choices available to them, reflecting the unique mix of different backgrounds and talents that calls this area home. The Miami International Film Festival, Miami Book Fair International and Art Basel Miami Beach are renowned and anticipated on ... +

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Mad Cat is pleased to now call Miami Theater Center (MTC) home! Up next will be the world premiere “Blow Me” by Jessica Farr and directed by Paul Tei which will open August 16, 2013 for a three-week run in MTC’s 50-seat SandBox space, located in Miami Shores. After a successful 13 years with The Miami Light Project, Mad Cat Theatre Company ... +

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Developed by Miami Palmetto Senior High School student, Andres Flores, Project Initiative offers South Florida middle and high school students, and their parents, invaluable advice about the arduous college application process, through an easy to follow five-part video series. With the slogan “it all starts with you” Flores attempts to capture the attention of the 350,000 students enrolled in Miami-Dade County’s 37 ... +

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The incomparable Maria Callas, known to many as “La Divina,” made her mark in the opera world with her mastery of the bel canto style. In 1957, Milan’s famous Teatro alla Scala presented a production of Bellini’s La sonnambula at the Edinburgh Festival, with Callas as the star. It was so successful that an extra performance was added, but after it sold ... +

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December 2012. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced $23 million in new funding for the arts in South Florida. The support brings Knight Foundation’s total investment in South Florida’s diverse and dynamic cultural community to $86 million in six years. Knight’s initiative supports both established institutions and grassroots organizations as a way to engage South Floridians and weave ... +

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Looks, as always, are deceiving. A relatively simple warehouse space littered with Pulp Fiction film posters and postmodern street-level photographs acts as the hub for Lombardi Properties, the signature source of real estate in Wynwood. Amidst the countless family photos, community accolades and appreciation plaques, founder David Lombardi runs a sophisticated, high-volume business. Still, multi-million dollar deals and a formidable degree of ... +

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A little over a century ago, Wassily Kandinsky announced the consolidation of a new abstract language, originating in inner necessity, in spiritual need. André Malraux later reaffirmed that conviction through a prediction which, up to the moment, appears to have been erroneous: “(Art of) The 21st century will either be spiritual, or it will not be.” At a time when a large ... +

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August, 2012. The Miami-Dade County Public Schools has appointed Evonne S. Alvarez to lead the high school program of New World School of the Arts. A seasoned academic administrator and educator, Alvarez will be responsible for planning, organizing, administering and directing academic and operational activities at the high school level, which are essential to the operation of NWSA. “As the new Principal ... +

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Every spring they come back to Miami to dance together. Cuban classical dancers so exceptional that a few years back Time Magazine devoted an article to them entitled: “Psst! The Cubans Are Coming! Latin Ballet Dancers are storming the stage creating a revolution of Russian proportions.” Rolando Sarabia, likened by many to a young Baryshnikov, will be dancing. So will Lorna Feijoo ... +

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July 13 through August 12, 2012. At the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, visiting and local collaborators are polishing the glitter for a decadent performance party called “The Donkey Show.” A loose interpretation of the Shakespearian drama, “The Donkey Show” reimagines “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at legendary nightclub Studio 54. Flashback to the 1970s… the king and queen of the ... +

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Three artist collaboratives explore the city’s solild waste.  On a sweltering summer afternoon last month, a City of Miami fireman hosed down dozens of inner city kids trying to cool off during a raucous back to school party, from the ladder of his fire engine. A few yards away, at the Athalie Range Park on NW 5th Avenue and 62nd Street, a ... +

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The Wet Heat Project creates spirited documentary films, web destinations and events that explore an in-depth experience of the contemporary arts and artists of Miami, capturing history in the making… One story at a time. In the fast-paced Wet Heat video trailer, a rooster sharpens his spurs on the concrete pavement outside a Wynwood warehouse as artist Brian Burkhardt enters his studio ... +

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Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Three weeks, 120 feet of paper (seamlessly unified), twenty days of travel: these are all numbers which apply to Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. A penetrating, raw documentary of road-tripping through the American landscape, this work was only a facet of Kerouac’s oeuvre belonging to the Beat Generation. Throughout his life, Kerouac refused such specific labels, ... +

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June 2012. Amazon just announced their list of the most well read cities in America. Miami is number six. And for those with a need to know, Alexandria, VA is number one. Amazon determined the rankings, based on per capita of cities with more than 100,000 residents, after compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in print and via ... +

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Hamlet, Prince of Cuba at the South Miami Cultural Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center When it comes to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, productions and adaptations abound, but Michael Donald Edwards, Artistic Director of Sarasota’s Asolo Repertory Theatre has the distinction of creating the first Cuban Hamlet. Edwards’ adaptation made its Miami debut with English and Spanish productions the second weekend of May at the South ... +

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Farside Gallery and Art@Work Expect to be floored, and ceiling-ed, when visiting the Farside Gallery and the accompanying art space in the lobby of Mosquera Orthodontics. But don’t expect to be overwhelmed with color and dramatics. The two architecturally based interventions are subtle and simple in their presentations, but not uncomplicated. In the Farside space, which is a casita, with living room, ... +

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Galleria Ca d’Oro’s Gloria Porcella, the youngest of four generations of Rome’s renowned art connoisseurs, is on a clear mission to bring Italian art to the U.S. with the stateside debut of the gallery in Coral Gables. Having only opened last year during Art Basel, with the placement of Cracking Art Group’s Pink Snails all over Miami Beach, Porcella has already become ... +

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The nostalgias, longings and sadness of youth and the aging process, itself are the heavy subjects tackled at a joyous occasion. There are no paradoxes here. On a splendid evening in November, Miami-based orthodontist and collector Arturo Mosquera welcomed the public into his office space (and exhibition annex) for drinks, a full salsa band, food and good friends. All of these elements ... +

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With so much attention placed on contemporary art coming out of Wynwood, it is sometimes difficult to note the cultural milieus found in other areas of Miami. Consider Little Havana. Marked by sidewalk cafes, ethnic restaurants, storefront churches, and tourist busses, it is also the site of a surreal underground art space run by Adalberto Delgado: The 6th Street Container. Starting back in ... +

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Since its opening in 1974, exhibitions featuring leading artists from around the world, as well as notable emerging artists, have graced the walls of ArtSpace Virginia Miller Galleries. From its location in Coral Gables, noted art curator and dealer, Virginia Miller, continues to host contemporary artists, often introducing them to art enthusiasts in the United States in some new and important way. ... +

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For all of the inherent value laden in the masterpieces of Modern and contemporary art, there is something menacing going on beneath the surface. The public rarely, if ever, knows the scope of scandal, underhanded dealings and boldfaced deceit carried out, while dealers and auction houses cash in on the public’s money. Such appropriate timing for these questions to bubble to the ... +

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As citizens of such a uniquely blended city, we are lucky enough to experience a different culture on almost every corner. We pride ourselves in the development of our scene, in the enrichment of our own identity, and have become quite the hit for our art fairs, events, our galleries and museums, and of course, for the artists that inspire it all. ... +

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Darcy’s Law describes how a liquid disperses throughout a porous environment. The natural analogues are plenty: visualizations resemble everything from floodplains to capillaries to migration patterns. One could also talk about it in cultural terms, just replace water with cultural impetus, and sandy terrain with the equally shifting landscape of Miami. Late at night on Sunday, October 23rd, the crowd was spilling ... +

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Charest-Weinberg’s art gallery occupies a space in the unassuming Wynwood Lofts complex on NW 23rd street. It’s called the building home since 2008. Unlike other galleries in the area, it doesn’t readily announce itself by occupying a ground floor space or brandishing its name in big block letters. Instead, it nearly sequesters itself in a two-loft space on the fourth floor, an ... +

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There’s very little that’s said in the first-person about Miami-based collective Viking Funeral. In a not-too-unfamiliar cryptic fashion, the two men who exist as Viking Funeral refuse to say precisely what they are about and what motivates them except for the pursuit, transmission and interpretation of information. They say, “Viking Funeral started in 2006 as a project without a real definition and ... +

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Collector’s can’t buy it, it is all for the public. The gigantic, eye-catching maze of artwork throughout Wynwood keeps expanding – on view are more than two dozen of works by graffiti artists from all over the world, big murals painted directly onto the warehouse buildings. The largest show of such pieces mounted in one location, the Walls add a sense of ... +

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It has never been more rewarding to be Hispanic in the US; with so much effort behind the conservation of a culture driven out of so many of its own countries, Miami’s flavor continues to thrive. So much so, that the essence of this culture, its art, has become the city’s own; claiming gallery walls, street murals, concert halls, and the renowned ... +

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Fortunately, as Miamians, we are exposed to an extreme variety of art forms. We have evolved with our city, and have come to find art in the most unexpected places. We appreciate our streets, walls, and spaces, our incomparable vibe, but must at some point question where it all came from. Looking ahead to the next second Saturday of the month, we ... +

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Last December, just before the holidays, I spoke with Dance NOW! Miami founders and creative directors Diego Salterini and Hannah Baumgarten about Miami Open Stage, their new quarterly open stage series showcasing local talent at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. The concept for Miami Open Stage comes from Salterini and Baumgarten’s decade-plus creative collaboration and their real-life performance experience in front of ... +

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Armed with an enormous metal crossbow (seemingly lifted from the pages of feudal folklore versus an artist’s studio), using wooden 2 x 4’s as ammunition, Justin Long and Robert ‘Meatball’ Lorie invited onlookers to initiate a countdown (on one particular evening, each successive countdown was shouted out in a different language each time) until a ‘target board’ roughly 100 yards away was ... +

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A dose of popular culture made its way into the Dorsch Gallery, most recognizable for presenting works and metaphors far away from the likes of Hollywood, Obama gnomes and Picasso. Two solo exhibitions from Martin Murphy and Mette Tommerup reveled in color, spectacle and colloquialisms well-known to those outside the realms of academic articulation in visual art. With a rumbling sound in ... +

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February 16 through 20, 2012. Can the contemporary art community in Miami harness the busy aura of Art Basel Miami Beach…in February? The creators of Art Miami aim to find out with the launch of Art Wynwood, launching its inaugural edition over President’s Day weekend. Seeking to attract a new sector of commercial interest alongside the Miami International Yacht & Brokerage Show ... +

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One of the premier orchestras in the world looks to cement its place in Miami Miami plays host to some of the finest arts organizations and events in the nation. For several seasons now, South Florida also has been the locale for what is arguably the greatest symphony in the United States, the Cleveland Orchestra. Not only does the Cleveland Orchestra have the ... +

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  Can the contemporary art community in Miami harness the busy aura of Art Basel Miami Beach…in February? The creators of Art Miami aim to find out with the launch of Art Wynwood, launching its inaugural edition over President’s Day weekend. Seeking to attract a new sector of commercial interest alongside the Miami International Yacht & Brokerage Show (this comes directly from ... +

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  The most pedestrian friendly conglomeration of fairs were located at the stalled Midtown Miami development where, the Bridge, Red Dot, Art Miami, Photo Miami, Scope, Art Asia and the Green art fairs all pitched tents. There was plenty of parking nearby and unusually thin traffic compared to recent years. During the buildup to last December’s Art Basel Miami Beach, many local ... +

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Apart from the major institutions here in Miami (MAM, MOCA, Bass and the private collections), it’s rather difficult to get up close to works by internationally established artists, considered masters in their own country. In Wynwood, the Ascaso Gallery breaks that spell. With locations both in Miami and Caracas, Ascaso presents important works from Carlos Cruz-Diez (presented in a color-frenzy solo exhibition ... +

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Miami’s Mad Cat Theatre Company is currently running its last show of the season, So My Grandmother Died, Blah Blah Blah, and it’s a real crowd-pleaser. Daringly blending a motley assortment of off-the-wall characters with a script that’s both emotionally deep and gut-wrenchingly funny, writer-director Paul Tei has yet again brought some new and wacky life to the city’s theater scene. If ... +

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There have been a lot of changes at the Bass Museum lately. The most notable of these might be the external arrival area, recently redesigned into a naturally flowing and attractive space by Oppenheim Architecture + Design. But there’s more going on, and one only needs to head just inside the museum’s doors to catch a glimpse of its further transformation. This ... +

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It’s an enormously dangerous task to try and meld fashion and fine art in Miami; a city that, in the global imagination, has its fashion credibility stapled in bikinis, barely-there shirts and dresses, and spangly Ed Hardy nonsense. Fashion illustration, on the other hand, is another matter. The raw, instinctive and fast-paced creations of past masters including Cecil Beaton, René Gruau and ... +

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Some say that the Opera is not for everyone; declared by most as an acquired taste, it is often an intimidating venture for those looking to break into the select aficionado club. Always advocates for the discovery of new, and old, passions in the Miami Art Scene, Opera – and the Miami Lyric Opera to be exact – will be no exception ... +

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The Betsy-South Beach has long been a purveyor of fine art. With their latest exhibition – a career retrospective of photographer Robert Zuckerman – they continue to showcase dynamic and innovative pieces; and these are particularly worth seeing. From the works that marked Zuckerman’s foray into photography during the 1970s to his current labor of love – a meditative amalgam of photos ... +

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With the arrival of Facebook in 2004, a new frontier for communications and interpersonal relationships was established. With many in favor – and no less against – the Social Network stands up today with more than 700 million registered users. As a result, Social Networks have become a standard in today’s world, and many leading industries already count on their own niche ... +

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The hipster in me takes credit for knowing hit songs before they are even written, discovering new bands before they form, hot spots before they’re hot, and artists before they emerge; the hipster in me has met a perfect match. PAX (Performing Arts Exchange) has one-upped me and thrown me back into the dreamy-eyed leagues of the awestruck local. Only a bit ... +

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Mitchell Kaplan took a look around in the early 1980s, disheartened by what looked back. His community was on the ropes. “If you remember Miami back then,” he said a while ago, “it was a pretty bleak time back in 1982. The Mariel boatlift had just happened a couple of years before. Even TIME magazine had a cover story entitled Miami: Paradise ... +

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Things have been busy for Constance Collins Margulies. For the past year, the president of the Lotus House Shelter has also been working on a project that, she hopes, will turn the Miami art world upside down. She is the ringmaster for the staggering array of art that from October 21st through 23rd will spill onto the streets of the Wynwood Art ... +

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The evolutionary process behind the Wynwood art district is a defining and ongoing one. Since the neighborhood formed, it has been an epicenter for Miami’s progressive, innovative artistic community, thanks, in large part, to the dynamic galleries that compose it. Of these, one of the most recent to emerge is Maor Gallery. Its prime spot on the outskirts of the art district ... +

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The city of Miami is no stranger to Cuban heritage – and that’s an understatement, to say the least – the home of The Freedom Tower in downtown Miami, the famous Calle Ocho and Viernes Culturales, and what Miamian doesn’t enjoy a cortadito after lunch? Yes, these are staples of the Cuban community of South Florida, but Choreographer and Artistic Director Pedro ... +

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It’s not often that the notion of a Medieval illuminated manuscript leaps off the page into the physical world. Less often does that richly decorated text reach into theatre and scientific observation at the same time. In extravagant, Caribbean-tinged color and painstakingly researched flora and fauna, Mark Messersmith initiates contemplation and foreshadows the sinister possibilities of nature’s steady erosion from human abuses. ... +

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There is an eternal glamour in traveling the world: sweeping panoramas of ancient ruins, heroic monuments, physical tinges of arts and cultures of the exotic, and above all, the romance of embarking on a journey towards whatever awaits on the “greener” side of the grass, so to speak. But how is that journey defined? Once that photo album-worthy snap is captured in ... +

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Although we have had to come to terms with the fact that tight skirts, platforms, and affliction t-shirts rule a large part of our local night scene, walking down Biscayne Boulevard on opera night is just the thing to reminds us of our strong, pioneering, and always inspiring art scene. Recently, as the Florida Grand Opera presented Cyrano, it was women in ... +

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The Wynwood Art District is no stranger to new tenants. There is an almost alarming regularity to the opening of new businesses – galleries, restaurants, cafes – that one might wonder whether or not the warehouse-laden landscape can sustain them all. And yet, it thrives. Not only that, it continues to evolve into a neighborhood that pushes the boundaries of art in ... +

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A portrait of the summer in Miami: The season begins at the multiplex, with all those movies suited for youngsters. Friends with means have skipped town, heading up to the cool of the Carolinas or Georgia. The rest of us get to bake under a blanket of humidity when we’re not dreaming of that next Mojito. But take heart: there’s a way to ... +

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Since photography’s earliest inception in the 1800s, the questions of modern life in the city have been addressed. The first known photograph including a person was taken by Louis Daguerre (the inventor of the Daguerreotype), on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris circa 1839. In that photograph, the figure on the open promenade appears to be a tiny thing in the midst ... +

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What makes a good work of art? Balance, composition, use of light, how the artist moves a viewer’s eye throughout the piece – any of these could strike a chord with enough people to create a general consensus of a piece’s distinction. To Harvey Oxenberg the most stirring aspect of art is its storytelling component, how art can – besides pleasing the ... +

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Late last year, the International Solidarity for Human Rights (ISHR), a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of human rights through the arts, launched a multi-media project called Route to Human Rights at Miami Dade’s InterAmerican Campus. The project was conceived to showcase art by local and international artists at 30 different locations throughout the state, each one representing a different Article ... +

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The State Theatre Project, founded and directed by New World School of the Arts (NWSA) 2009 alum, David Hemphill, has since over a year made it its mission to “provoke, question, kick ass, shake things up”; its aim is to learn through performance and inspire inquisitiveness. “The state of our world, the state of our country and the state of our community,” ... +

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One year ago, French gallerist Bernard Marcowicz opened an art gallery in the Design District. The resulting 1,000 square-foot Markowicz Fine Arts has, since then, become a focal point for new and engaging work in a neighborhood epitomized by its conglomeration of galleries and high-end boutique design shops. “I show a lot of pop art,” says Markowicz, which defines the gallery’s general ... +

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There is a new gallery in the Wynwood Art District. Like many businesses in the area, the exterior is unassuming, merely hinting at what it contains. Walk inside and it becomes clear that something dynamic is happening; something that deepens the well of art in the neighborhood and broadens its breadth and variety. Its name is Myra Galleries and it is run ... +

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At first, you may think you’re stepping into the Dade County Federal Credit Union. In fact, the little gem of an artist compound and exhibition space is just next door at the Flagler Arts Space. The property owner/manager of the Thomas Center-Miami, Henry Block, had communicated with local artist and Brown graduate Annie Blazejack. “Thanks to Juan Travieso’s (one of the studio ... +

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On March 9, the Miami International Film Festival premiered “Making Sh*t Up,” a documentary covering three years in the life of Miami-based conceptual artist Bert Rodriguez. The chosen venue for the debut was a cultural landmark frequented by Rodriguez in his youth, the Tower Theater. This brought two artistic icons together for an unforgettable night of film. It was a packed house. ... +

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Between four days, three renowned fairs, and within a few miles of each other, Miami clearly made its voice heard in the contemporary art community during the week of the Armory Show 2011 in New York City. Each fair brought a unique element to the hectic week of events, lectures, launches and exhibitions, and several galleries astutely represented the Magic City during ... +

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You walk along Aragon Avenue in the Gables, just west of Ponce de Leon. Duck into a nondescript space to find four walls surrounding, well, nothing. It’s an impressive space though: a two-story situation in a storefront. Nice part of town. Easy access from the street. No floors, but that can be fixed. Maybe it could be used for parking, it’s certainly big ... +

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The main hall at the Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood has been transformed into an arboretum of sorts, though the plants and flowers aren’t actually growing. In fact they are all the seedlings of Cristina Lei Rodriguez, whose work most art lovers in Miami should recognize. Since her first solo show back in 2003 at the now defunct Rocket Projects, through ... +

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Enrique Martínez Celaya, a visual artist whose work is associated with the nature of human experience and the search for meaning that dominates so many contemporary societies, was a late bloomer. His interest in artistic expression began in his childhood, but art did not become his profession until well into his twenties. Painting was the starting point of his career, whose possibilities ... +

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O, Miami is a month-long initiative with a simple but ambitious goal: for every single person in Miami-Dade to encounter a poem in the month of April. The diverse program, produced by the University of Wynwood and funded by the Knight Foundation, has already brought poetry into collision with multiple art forms and unexpected environments, and we’re only halfway through the month. ... +

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As a native of Brazil now living and working in the U.S., Brazz Dance Theater choreographer and artistic director Augusto Soledade draws on an enormous variety of dance forms. He favors contemporary dance but the details – a twist of the hips, a winding spine, an explosive leap – reveal his many other influences: African and Afro-Brazilian, ballet, modern dance, and hip-hop. ... +

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Strength may be the foundation of well-executed dance, but without character, the beauty of dance can still be elusive. Dance Now! Ensemble’s evening of new work which took the stage last weekend at Lincoln Road’s Colony Theatre offered audience members technical skill as well as an enticing display of theatrical versatility. The six-member troupe performed guest choreographer Tandy Beal’s more abstract choreography ... +

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The newest and arguably one of the most ambitious art spaces to hit the Wynwood neighborhood is L-M-N-T Contemporary Art Space. Run by Gino Tozzi, it is a massive 15,000 square feet establishment aimed at not only exhibiting artwork, but also fostering the growth of those who make it. In addition to the gallery portion of the space there are artist-in-residency studios, ... +

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It is no small feat of endurance in Miami to transition from a burgeoning gallery into one of notoriety. It takes a great deal of time, patience and ingenuity to carve out that much-desired niche in this social stratosphere. An inventive and resourceful soul, however, can bring the dream of running a successful gallery in this city to fruition. This has become ... +

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If there is something to be said about Miami locals is that they are the most avid supporters and contributors of our developing art scene and cultural identity. Although it is true that our galleries, events, and fairs attract art enthusiasts from all over the world, year-round, it is our core that should be accredited for our successful ascension in the international ... +

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There is something incredibly captivating about each and every production of GableStage at The Biltmore in Coral Gables. Executive Producer Joe Adler leads a talented troop with his charismatic presence and contagious passion for theater, always welcoming audiences with warmth and transmittable devotion. His introduction to each performance is always followed by words of gratitude to the community’s continued support of GableStage, ... +

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Harold Golen first began to acquaint himself with the sort of work presented in his gallery, dubbed “Pop Surrealism,” during the 10-year span of time in which he ran a collectibles shop in South Beach. “I used to go to Magic, the fashion expo in Las Vegas,” says Golen, “where I would see new art I was excited about. Because South Beach ... +

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It would be a lie to say that we are acutely aware of the work behind everything we see. It would be a lie to say that we stare for hours at a grocery receipt in absolute awe of the process and labor behind producing a seemingly meaningless and small piece of paper. The truth is, we use what we need as ... +

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The Miami stage will be at full heat this winter when multilayered skirts, the clickety-clack of castanets and rapid-fire footwork will send stage dust flying during the 2011 Flamenco Festival. After almost a decade, the event will once again host the renowned Ballet Nacional de España, with shows scheduled from February 23 to 26 at the Adrienne Arsht Center. “The South Florida ... +

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The newest art space on Miami’s Design District defies the traditional role of the art gallery There has been a subtle parting from the word “gallery” among those in the business of art. New spaces all over Miami are opening their doors under the semblance of an art gallery, but actually defining themselves as something more. Arevalo Gallery in the Design District ... +

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It had been home since 1988 and had served them well enough, but in January 2011, the New World Symphony moved out of the Lincoln Theater and relocated to a new facility that boasts state-of-the-art luxuries and futuristic capabilities. The New World Center, as this multi-building venue is called, is located at 500 17th Street on Miami Beach, adjacent to Lincoln Road and the Lincoln Theater. As ... +

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There’s no mistaking the penchant for change in Miami’s art scene. Even galleries that have been around awhile can opt for new surroundings, additions and tones. Kunsthaus Miami is one such gallery, which has existed on North Miami Avenue, between 33rd and 34th Streets, for the past five years. In early October, it found a new home only about ten blocks away. ... +

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Daniel Arsham presents his latest solo exhibition, Alter, at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin from December 1st to 31st, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach and its plethora of satellite fairs. This is the artist’s sixth solo exhibition and is made up of three series, all of which feature new work and continue to explore Arsham’s fascination with a wide range of themes, from ... +

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It would seem as if we would have exhausted our artistic capacity by now as our city has become “the city that never sleeps” when it comes to art. However, thankfully for us, that is absurd and, dare I say, impossible. As we have agreed on before, we are no longer “up-and-coming”; we are purely “up-and-running” and one of the most exciting ... +

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It’s always exciting to witness the success of new art spaces in Miami, as it is this continued dedication of gallerists, artists, collectors, and supporters of the arts, that ensures the endurance of our hard earned reputation as a city. Karina Belilty is active in the conservation of this reputation with the sensation of her one-year-old Wynwood gallery, KaBe Contemporary. “I’ve been ... +

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Miami is in a constant state of change. In any given week it’s not surprising to see a handful of establishments, young and old, close their doors for good while fresh-faced additions emerge to take their place. Among the city’s galleries, change often occurs gradually, organically and reasonably. When new ones, like Imago Art Gallery, begin exhibiting there is not always the ... +

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From December 1, 2010 through January 31, 2011 more than fifty world-class modern and contemporary art pieces will be dotting downtown Miami, as Gary Nader hosts the first edition of the Miami  /Miami Beach Biennale of Sculpture. The exhibit is the latest major local public art project – chosen to coincide with Art Basel, said Nader, but structured to extend the “official” ... +

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Every artist must start somewhere. We all admire the prodigy who can produce the Great American Painting at a young age, especially if there was minimal training, but that’s a rare occurrence. The vast majority of artists – from every field – need years of coaching to truly find their focus. It’s at this point, when young artists get serious about their ... +

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The time has come to stop referring to our city as an “up and coming” epicenter of the arts and acknowledge that Miami has paid its dues and earned its place as a well established and ever-evolving art site. What better way to celebrate our growth than with a three-month recognition of our city’s artistic community at the Miami Art Museum? Running ... +

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Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center of the Performing Arts opened the XXV International Hispanic Theater Festival (IHTF) this summer season, presented by Teatro Avante and American Airlines. Now in its 25th year, the festival proudly boasts a quarter of a century of endurance in the often-underfunded Miami art scene by introducing theater companies from Latin America, Europe, and the United States to various ... +

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Although I cannot take credit away from the great contemporary playwrights and directors of our time, I think we could certainly agree that more often than not, a play’s success depends on the quality of its actors just as much as on the quality of its writing. Michael Weller, one of the greats in my opinion (known for Moonchildren, 1971 and Spoils ... +

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Within all of us lies the desire for knowledge, and as art enthusiasts, our desire for knowledge is often accompanied with one for beauty. As humans, “desire” is often what drives us forward in life. In fact, the desire for expression through beauty is as ongoing and essential as our instinct for survival; whether we call it Art or not is where ... +

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It would be naïve of us to think that Art can only be found in the most conventional places. The real art lover, and true supporter, looks beyond the gallery, museum, and concert hall walls and realizes that Art is everywhere. The Coral Gables Congregational Church, for instance, might not be the first place that comes to mind when searching for that ... +

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Miami is certainly the place to be for emerging conceptual artists vying to share their vision and ultimately make a name for themselves in the eye of the hurricane. Just as we are home to Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Miami, SCOPE Art Show, Photo Miami, and so many other established contemporary art fairs, we are also known for constant displays of ... +

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At St. Cristopher’s by the Sea Church in Key Biscayne a palpably excited audience sits still in the dark. A group of singers slowly descends onto the stage – with candles in their hands, they create a surreal, angelical glow. Like Seraphims, the fiery angels of the highest order who sang praises to God, the choir presents the listeners with ardent renditions ... +

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When asked to consider the state of cinemas in Miami, the first thought that comes to mind may be a strong visual like the following: a crowded theater of noisy adolescents, feet firmly planted against the rear of your seat, reveling in the ear-shattering, violent explosions of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, probably directed by Michael Bay. Somewhere in the theater, a child ... +

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For the past twenty years, the Center for Visual Communication has been at the forefront of bringing experimental and contemporary visual art to South Florida. The CVC has showcased numerous exhibits that have combined bold and daring concepts – mixing live dance with live painting, for example. It emphasizes visual arts and new media, but remains open to those artists who put ... +

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On a blazing hot day this past August, the Miami Beach Botanical Garden felt like an oasis of cool. Yes, some of it had to do with the fabulous foliage of one of our best preserves for tropical vegetation – flowers were blooming and the distinct aroma from the Ylang Ylang tree perfumed the air. But it was those large, inflatable sculptures ... +

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Hollywood producers have done the subject of Iraq and the War on Terrorism to death over the past years. However, since the subject is still very much existent, close to our hearts, and immensely relative to our society, we should not allow these blockbusters to cheapen its reality and take away from the worthwhile stage expressions happening in theaters throughout the country. ... +

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The National Art Exhibition by the Mentally Ill (NAEMI) holds its 22nd edition this month. Proof that art is often found in the unlikeliest of places, this organization focuses on presenting the work of the mentally ill to South Florida audiences with a mission that is stated on their website: “Through public exhibitions NAEMI seeks to educate the public about this art ... +

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Manny Lopez of Zu Galeria Fine Arts on Miami’s Calle Ocho has taken it upon himself to promote the literary arts in our city through a series of nights in which he dedicates his space to intimate Poetry Readings. “My poetry readings, or ‘Noches de Poesia’, have been very successful. They have generated a lot of attention, and other places that were ... +

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Haven’t we grown tired yet of paying $9.00 to see blockbuster after blockbuster of explosions, AK-47s, and end of days scenarios? How can it be possible for anyone, male or female, to enjoy these tasteless productions that seem to capitalize on just one thing: Violence? Isabelle Lambert, creator and Executive Director of the Romance in a Can Film Festival came up with ... +

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There is something unavoidably charming and analog about Jen Stark’s work. The tactile, precise-yet-handmade quality of her paper sculptures and animations is something that feels somehow influenced, in part, by her visual generation. In the arena of contemporary paper art, she is among the most notable young and prolific artists. Born in 1983 in Miami, Jen Stark creates optically engaging work that ... +

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While out walking a Second Saturday last March on NW 2nd Avenue in the middle of the street, I could see Marilyn Minter’s crazy-beautiful video on the back wall of David Castillo’s gallery. Bright red lips were licking, kissing, and slurping out green, gelatin-like stuff onto a glass behind which the video camera had captured all this lusciously bizarre movement and color. ... +

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Bass Museum of art offers a look at contemporary art Back then, John Bass, a talented musician and artist, born in 1891 in Vienna, wanted to study art but his father sent him to business school. After finishing business school, still not convinced it was money he wanted to make, Bass moved in 1914 to New York, where he spent enough time ... +

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Sometimes progress is made by revering the past When Pedro Pablo Peña dreams, he dreams big. It is not just his own dance company that he wants in Miami, it must be ballet; and not just ballet but specifically classical ballet. Peña wants entire programs performed to the rigorous, traditional standards taught in the Cuban School of Ballet, and he wants a ... +

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Cuban Artist Humberto Castro exhibits his work at Miami’s Calle Ocho in a show called “Draw- Wings: A Retrospective 1990- 2010”, which is just that, a retro- spective collection of drawings by the artist dating back to the 90’s that had not been shown in Miami since around ‘93. During a re- cent conversation with the artist, he tells me, “Yes, I ... +

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The first Friday of every month is Gables Gallery Night in Coral Gables. This event, organized in part by Virginia Miller, one of the most active advocates of the arts in Coral Gables, continues its efforts this year welcoming the public for a night of art and fulfillment in hopes of reviving a once competitive gallery night. “For the past 30 years, ... +

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Most of the time we know what the right thing to do is, however, having this knowledge does not exactly mean that we will always do so. We know that we should not do to others what we would not like done to us, we know that we should be kind, we know that we should support each other, these are all ... +

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Pablo Contrisciani’s last exhibition entitled “Synthesis” was on display at the Arch Gallery in Miami this past month. “Synthesis” was comprised of a variety of pieces from a series of works that the artist had originally entitled “Energies”, however, after he started working on the exhibition, the name “Synthesis” was developed to more aptly describe a body of work that Contrisciani believes ... +

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Calix Gustav Gallery is that hot new space that might have caught your eye on gallery night located right across the street from the Rubell Family Collection. Director Amanda Fernandez-Leon opened the gallery doors last October of 2009 and has since then implemented an aesthetic for the space that is very much her own. With a BA in Art History and natural ... +

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I have always been puzzled by the thought of “stage fright”: isn’t the very idea of a stage one that offers a platform of relative anonymity? I say “relative” because performers do not necessarily wear a mask or disguise, or remain nameless to their public, but anonymous because the very structure of their quarters rises over an already faceless crowd and renders ... +

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This past month, the Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood held the Abracadabra: Third Annual Fundraising Art Exhibition and Raffle, an event that invites the public to join the efforts of a charitable cause through their involvement in an up-for-grabs chance of a lifetime presenting 100 works of art in all media. Artists and galleries are selected each year by Curator of ... +

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Churchill’s. Monday nights. Jazz. There’s nothing in Miami that comes close to it. Then again, almost any night at Churchill’s stands out from anything else that goes on, musically and crowd-wise, in this town. But the Jazz Jam has become a staple on the scene for years now, a time and place where young and old, musicians and aficionados come together to ... +

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For something quite minimal, albeit sprawling and undoubtedly time consuming, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova’s An Uneven Floor exhibition at Locust Projects evokes many possible reads. All the implications the work holds may not be immediately detectable. To many it may feel, in part due to the color of the carpet that inundates the floor of the entire 2700 square foot space, like kitsch run ... +

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From Mar 26th through 29th, 2010. When the recession started, it took down virtually every part of the economy: housing, jobs, credit – you name it. And it hit “luxuries” such as the arts especially hard. Fundraising became a nightmare and artists scrambled to find patrons. But as the economy continues its slow climb upward, the arts reflect that reality, too. Exhibitions ... +

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Like many artists who ply their trade in studios, warehouses, and garages around the world, David Zalben says it’s not about the money. It’s about connecting with people. “Every day I’m here is an opportunity to meet somebody new. It’s not just about making a sale.” And if Zalben were a solitary artist, in a lonely studio, in some godforsaken part of ... +

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Our ability to foresee a promising future in the arts relies on our dedication to the continued support and endorsement of young artists, as the formation of our emerging talents is key in the process of establishing an everlasting culture. The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) is a leader of these efforts through its core program called YoungArts. YoungArts ... +

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More than 200 years ago, a massive deportation of African slaves to the coasts of the French colony of Saint Dominique created a new Pan African state. These new immigrants brought with them a set of beliefs that slowly evolved into the religion we call Vodou today. Haitians all over the world practice their religion against a Hollywood created stigma that portrays ... +

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Our city of Miami has not always been recognized for its incredible art scene. In fact, our advancement into one of the most important ports of the arts in the US has been quite the climb. Because of our progress, we annually expect national and international art fairs and festivals to set up camp in our city mainly for our growing art ... +

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The Nutcracker may very well be the most popular holiday ballet spectacle in the world. The sound of Tchaikovsky’s popular score can instantly transport anyone who has grown up on the classic ballet into the fantastical winter wonderland they have seen time and again on stages all around the world. The Nutcracker, based on the book called The Nutcracker and the Mouse ... +

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Art is an imprint of human life, of human creation. One of the focuses of anthropology is the effect of these captured moments in images on the people of their time. I have come to think that artists and anthropologists work hand in hand in the most indirect way as one produces the work that will be studied by the other as ... +

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A visit to the Playground Theatre takes me back to my school days in which a field trip to the theater was the highlight of my week. The Playground Theatre’s production of an old Sumerian myth called Inanna and the Huluppu Tree is the main event on a weekday morning in Miami Shores. The 10:00 a.m. show is packed with Miami-Dade students ... +

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It was impossible not to run into street art during this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach – either out on the streets or on indoor walls at various exhibition spaces and galleries. It came from the hands of an astounding array of artists – local, national, and international. For instance, if you missed Shepard Fairey’s work, large or small, inside or out ... +

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By choosing these seven artists, whose work in terms of concept seems disparate, Mosquera hopes to emphasize a lateral movement toward denarration and the dialogue created between their works. The exhibition as a whole does succeed in having an ambiguous narrative flavor; it feels almost as if the works are related in some vague way and that as the viewer you are ... +

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Its roots in South Florida go back to the time of Pearl Harbor, and it has stood as an artistic bulwark against financial challenges and shifts in the culture. Reliable in its offerings and quality, this art organization remains the yardstick by which so many other local art groups measure themselves. Florida Grand Opera will celebrate its 69th anniversary this year by ... +

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The three-story, 30,000 square foot structure that houses the Carlos and Rosa De La Cruz collection opened to an impressive turnout of visitors during Art Basel Miami Beach. Now that the crowds have dispersed and the dust has settled a bit on the brand-spankin’ new space, its presence in our local arts landscape is sure to bring more attention to the arts ... +

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To think of how a community comes to exist is tricky; kind of a chicken and the egg predicament, isn’t it? What came first, the city or the citizens? Communities, ghettos, areas of strong cultural concentrations exist all over the world, sometimes undocumented. Proyecto Habitar at Centro Cultural Español (CCE) is a representation of communities built from the ground up by coincidental ... +

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The kind of hit that American businesses, big and small, have been experiencing over the last couple of years calls for an active response, approach, and effective survival plan. Anthony Spinello, of Spinello Gallery, is exactly that type of active player in the arts. This young yet seasoned curator is always thinking of innovative events to keep the community involved and interested ... +

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As residents of Miami, most of us have grown to love the hot sticky chaos of our streets. However, as great as our love for the scene may be, it is always nice to find a place that stands above our beloved mess. In my opinion, one of the most peaceful places in Miami is the Freedom Tower’s second floor exhibition space ... +

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Miami, as most of us now know, is home to some of the most prominent and important contemporary art collectors in the world. They in turn have spawned a new generation of local connoisseurs, all of who have transformed South Florida into a true hot-bed for the art of collecting. So MAG decided to ask several of our serious scene makers about ... +

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The TM Sisters combine a slew of seemingly unlikely elements in their work – art, specialized sports, club culture – and this friction is central to their most recent collaborative work at Locust Projects in Miami, Whirl Crash Go! The sister duo Monica and Natasha Lopez de Victoria are internationally recognized artists, and are also known in Miami – where they were ... +

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Thirty-four years is a long time to be in any business, let alone in one as seemingly fickle as the art business. As the art world ponders whether it’s hit a plateau or if its beginning to see the upswing of this recession, Bernice Steinbaum has weathered enough storms to know she’s left a legacy either way. Steinbaum is akin to the ... +

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The showing of contemporary art in Miami is real evidence of this area’s artistic maturation and its need to define itself as more than just a vacation spot. While the Miami Art Museum is one of the youngest such organizations here, its collections have been expanding and show the dedication of both the museum and its patrons to developing visual art in ... +

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The first Saturday of every month has become an exciting event in the Coconut Grove art scene as The Coconut Grove Art Stroll on the Promenade at Mayfair has turned into a monthly destination for locals and visitors. Director and gallery owner Johnny Valdes is enthusiastic about the Art Stroll’s success and says, “Coconut Grove is the perfect place for such an ... +

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An urban oasis lies just north of the Wynwood Art District limits. What once was a dry cleaning warehouse and later an abandoned building has been transformed into an incredible venue of the arts called Miami Art Space (MAS). Designed by architect Kenneth Treister, this 7,000 sq. ft. space of walled courtyards, bamboo gardens and sculptures by Treister himself, serves as venue ... +

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The Colony Theater in Miami’s South Beach was home this past month to the production of Miami Lyric Opera’s Marina. Presented for 2 nights only, this 3-act Spanish Opera with the music of Emilio Arrieta and lyrics by Francisco Camprodon, displayed the talents of Beverly Coulter, Maruchi Urquiaga, Aurelio Gabaldon, Hugo Marcos, Lilo del Campo, Diego Baner and Ismael Gonzalez under the ... +

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Established Coral Gables gallery The Americas Collection, founded in 1991 by the Ortiz-Guardian family and under the current direction of Velia Larcinese and Silvia Ortiz, has moved across the street from its former location to 214 Andalusia Avenue. Although the new space is smaller, the gallery that dedicates its efforts to the endorsement of Contemporary Latin American Art in the US still ... +

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It is no secret that there is something for everyone in the Miami art scene. If the theater is what calls to you, taking a chance on smaller companies and their productions may be something you find exciting. The Miami based Mad Cat Theatre Company, founded in 2000, takes pride in producing unique performances with the acting talents of Erik Fabregat, Betsy ... +

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A quarter-century ago, Edward Villella was in South Florida giving a lecture. After his speech, a group of arts activists approached. They wanted to start a ballet troupe here, they told him, and didn’t know how to go about it. Would he consider advising them? With one word – “Sure!” – Villella set in motion the birth of what would become one ... +

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It’s summertime in Miami: Official artistic activity slows down as the temperature heats up and various members of the cultural community depart to cooler and slightly less lethargic locales across the globe. But the season also gives natives a chance to savor what’s here in an unhurried pace, as some galleries and museums leave shows up for an extended period and artistic ... +

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It is hard to find the right words sometimes, isn’t it? There have been about a thousand instances in which I knew exactly what I was feeling, exactly what was driving me, yet my brain was incapable at that specific moment of producing a phrase that would accurately describe the sensation. Perhaps it is for this reason that when someone actually achieves ... +

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Almost the only rich thing about cultural enrichment these days is the struggle these organizations face. If big business, local, state and federal governments are facing a grim economic scene, then cultural non-profits across the country will be destroyed by reduced funding and declining participation in the arts. However, some will survive, only to find even tougher conditions to operate in. And ... +

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Art nowadays is a very enigmatic activity for those not initiated in this very tiny marvelous world. Curiously, from its very beginning, art was only conceivable as an active part of the life and the community. This alienation that the contemporary arts has been trying to break down for more than a century now – through the integration of ordinary materials, subjects ... +

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Like a one-man band, Teo Castellanos is a cacophony of characters and vernaculars all rolled into one. Widely recognized for NE 2nd Ave, a performance that incurred many accolades in it’s global jaunts including the prestigious Fringe First Award in the Edinburgh Festival, Castellanos draws from the diverse demographical complexion of Miami to create his characters. Whimsical, brash, sociological, and tragic all ... +

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Compagnie Marie Chouinard at Colony Theatre in Miami Beach In December 2008, my parents and I visited Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, for the first time. I wanted Jesús to go with us too, but I couldn’t convince him. My younger brother argued that it was inappropriate for him, being catholic, to experience God through a different sermon. (He might have just ... +

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Potential energy is more or less defined as “the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its position; rather than it’s motion”. The idea of stored energy seems to refer to Miami local Robert Lorie in several different ways – it not only embodies the work he has been creating over the past few years, but also highlights the spring-loaded ... +

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May/June 09. The arts are in a constant struggle for survival in today’s educational system. As supporters of the arts we should be as concerned with every art form’s existence in our educational institutions as we are with the economy’s effect on art as an industry. Glass art education has been excluded from many art programs throughout the nation. Students around the ... +

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May/June 09. Arteaméricas, the fair that defines trends of contemporary art by Latin American and Caribbean artists, took place on March 27th through March 30th, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. This art fair, unique in its concentration of cultural and ethnic artwork, housed a variety of booths with displays by about 50 participating galleries from around the world. In its ... +

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May/June 09. As we have spoken of many times before, and will continue to speak of for as long as we have a voice, the revolutionary efforts of the Wynwood Art District rely on the active involvement of gallery founders, owners, patrons, and visitors alike. The movement does not depend on one individual factor but on all of these combined. It is ... +

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May/June 09. Pablo Peinado, curator of Coleccion Visible’s Love Stories / Historias de Amor, presents Miami with his collection of homosexual art in avid support of the gay rights movement in Spain and around the globe. His collection, currently at the Hardcore Art Contemporary Space in Wynwood, is comprised of 200 pieces by 30 artists from different parts of the world. Living ... +

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May/June 09. This year’s Miami International Film Festival brought films from all over the world to our great city. However, only one had true Miami ties. Produced by Miami-based producers Diego Ojeda and Oscar Teran, Máncora tells the story of a jaded boy’s rude awakening from a life of sex, drugs, and the underground club scene. The film follows the story of ... +

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WinterFest, from The Florida Dance Association, producers of the renowned Florida Dance Festival, made its debut this past 2008 holiday season in Miami and Miami Beach. At the festival, South Florida dance fans had the option of taking a class or simply enjoying one of the many public performances hosted by the New World School of the Arts. Celebrated improvisational dancers Chris ... +

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The largest and richest corporations of our country are laying people off left and right in hopes to stay afloat in a competitive capitalist society we call home. There was a time when a loyal employee would receive a gold watch or a fountain pen for his 10th, 15th, or 25th anniversary with a company. Now, all anyone is receiving is a ... +

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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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Our city of Miami characterizes itself by its diverse population and the constant arrival of new and eye-opening cultural organizations hoping to call our home their own. Over the last few years, Wynwood Art District has become the prime location for any gallery eager to participate in its pioneering efforts. Galerie Hélène Lamarque, an impressive and established gallery with a fifteen-year run ... +

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During my afternoon visit of Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts’ space in the Wynwood Art Disctrict, I was optimistically overwhelmed by the number of pieces currently on display and my desire to absorb them all at once. However, once I caught my breath I decided to experience the gallery one piece at a time in an order I would recommend to its every ... +

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An inherent feature of our existence, light is a source of energy, power, wisdom and grace. As we move from one point to another, we constantly emit gentle, imperceptible light signals that attract similar vibrations. Some people – like dancers, actors, martial arts practitioners, among others – can transform that natural inner light in a compelling creative energy by training their bodies ... +

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From the Whitney Biennial to museum and gallery appearances across the country to booth stops at international art fairs, Miami homeboy Gispert has exported an urban, Cuban-American imagery throughout the world. Miami has had the pleasure again to be smothered with the eye-and-ear-catching, mind-bending art of Luis Gispert. His 28-minute movie Smother unspoiled in a back room of Fred Snitzer’s gallery during ... +

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Performance art, by its very nature, is one of the most challenging avenues of expression. One part street theater, one part psychodrama, the best performances are always challenging and unique. At times, these pieces can be provocative to the point of real controversy: Think back to your reaction the first time you heard of an audience being sprayed with “blood.” Performance art ... +

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It is hard for us to imagine, as members of an incredibly active community of the arts, there was a time when art was a limited institution. Luckily for us, we have the opportunity, in our present day existence and exploration of different means of expression, to experience the innovative concepts of the artists of our time. These visionaries, who have worked ... +

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It is always exciting to hear of new events taking place in South Florida. Even more exciting is learning of such a success that a second of the kind will take place the following year. Last year, South Beach hosted several parties and special events at a number of different venues around Miami and the Beaches for the first South Beach International ... +

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Well-known photographer and gallerist Daniel Azoulay opened a new space at Miami’s latest urban development, Midtown 4, on December 2nd, 2008. The Daniel Azoulay Gallery dedicates its walls exclusively to contemporary photography, a medium Azoulay has always believed in and practiced, and video art. His new location is no coincidence; this calculated move to the Midtown area, located just south of his ... +

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It is no secret that a woman’s place in our society is constantly evolving through the efforts of strong and relentless pioneers. This evolution may not always be a fast and obvious improvement, but nonetheless, it is an evolution. Women’s suffrage, the civil rights movement, and the progress of the working-woman are prevalent in the discussion of women’s issues of yesterday, today, ... +

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Engages with and awards the local arts community. And the winners are… It’s a concern for every neighborhood, but with the current economic meltdown the country is experiencing, it is especially pressing: What action can be taken that will keep the arts scene vital? The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation came up with an answer: the Knight Arts Challenge, which ... +

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Kemal Gekic, the Croatian pianist who made his U.S. debut 1999 and was subsequently selected by Florida International University as their artist-in-residence, opens the Miami International Piano Festival’s Master Series this year. And since artists are more known for their performances, repertoire or roles, than for being themselves, MAG takes this opportunity to speak with the person behind the work and to ... +

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Peggy Levison Nolan at Dina Mitrani Gallery Peggy Levison Nolan likes a beautiful landscape just as much as the next person. She just doesn’t like to shoot it – or anything else classically easy on the eye. “I was starring at a stunning mesa once,” she recalls about that flat-topped formation particular to the American Southwest and a favorite focal point for ... +

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Everybody wanted to cook something! O.H.W.O.W., or Our House West of Wynwood – the name kinda says it all. This funky alternative space, opened last fall, is a hybrid cultural community center: part art gallery, part events space, part hang-out, or as the owners put it, “a social and cultural experiment like no other that takes place in a living, breathing venue ... +

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In 8 short years, Wynwood went from total obscurity to internationally recognized arts hub – and now, it may be on the verge of a new journey once again. As Art Basel Miami Beach hits the sands for a 7th year, and as the global economic earthquake starts to give even the art world tremors, it seems a good time to take ... +

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As South Florida changes and grows, so, too, does Miami Dade College, one of the nation’s largest educational institutions. And one of the finest examples of how it’s improving to meet the needs of the community is its vaunted Art Gallery System, a completely integrated museum-classroom-conservatory network that offers visual arts in every possible form. From its start years ago as a ... +

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The space shifts, the audience collaborates, there is no permanent stage, no scenery, and at times the room’s complete silence is only disturbed by the sound of dancers’ uninterrupted footsteps; there is nothing conventional about choreographer Tere O’conner’s Rammed Earth, a unique portrayal of the relationship between architecture and the language of dance. A combination of O’conner’s choreography and skillfully tactical lighting, ... +

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The desire for application or expression of human creative skill is as perpetual and basic as our instinct for survival; whether we call it Art or not is where the triviality of it lies. Photographers, painters, and musicians, the obvious artists among us, are usually accredited for the presence and endurance of the arts. But what of its not so obvious propellers? ... +

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Our House West Of Wynwood (O.H.W.O.W), a free spirited space for every type of art medium located, you guessed it, west of Wynwood, lends itself to the display of everything and everyone art; from photographers, musicians, writers, poets, filmmakers, skaters, and performers, to curators, designers and “creatives” alike. Its surroundings are as eclectic as the art it exhibits. Evocative of creative director ... +

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The international exchange of culture and education in the arts has been a constant in the history of the civilized world. This exchange is one of the only worldwide practices that has not yet been lost or transformed in the midst of countless wars, economic crises, and the always-growing hunger for power. The fortunate survival of the arts and the insatiable desire ... +

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Everything today is “Green”; everyone seems to be concerned with the depletion of our natural resources, deforestation, offshore drilling, and recycling, right? Wrong! This is how it seems to most of us; we are under the impression that the problem is “being taken care of”, while the reality is that not everyone is concerned with our planet’s well-being and the conservation of ... +

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Art -Baseling with David Castillo Gallery By Mia Opalka In the face of a global economic crisis, art is probably the last thing on the minds of the general public. But with Art Basel Miami Beach right around the corner, it’s hard not to wonder how it’s all going to pan out for local galleries this December. For Wynwood’s David Castillo Gallery, ... +

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With its unique ability to communicate ideas through the projection of moving images and sound, over the years, film and video have rightfully claimed their place in the art scene. This year’s 6th annual Rewind/Fast Forward Film and Video Festival, presented by the Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive, solidly commits to this medium through an array of Widescreen classics and ... +

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It is not the largest theater on the most illuminated Broadway-like street, it stands alone and unpretentious, warm and inviting, charming and unexpected; New Theater in Coral Gables is curiously small for the worlds that come alive within its walls. A lively team, lead by Artistic Director Ricky J. Martinez and Managing Director Eilleen Suarez, has made it possible for this multicultural ... +

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I walk the few blocks from the parking lot near Miami’s Bayside and the iconic Freedom Tower in downtown Miami on a day in which the temperature could not have been lower than 98 degrees. The streets are loud, the air is sticky, and the people that usually fill the downtown streets with cheerful Miami spirit are missing; it is a typical ... +

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Cozily located in the heart of Coconut Grove, Butter Gallery offers a diverse selection of art to locals and visitors. This engaging space houses paintings from veteran artists such as Ramirez Vallejo (Colombia) and Francisco de la Torre III (Cuba), to the newer talents of Ross Ford (New Hampshire) and Gustavo Oviedo (France). Francisco “Paco” De la Torre IV, owner and curator ... +

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As it has done for the past thirteen years, the International Ballet Festival of Miami, considered one of the most unique and successful festivals of its kind in the country, will summon dancers from all parts of the world to perform in various Miami theaters this Fall. The XIII International Ballet Festival of Miami promises a unique mixture of classic elegance and ... +

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It started out thirty years ago as The Art Museum at Florida International University. This November, it is reborn as The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, a huge and hugely improved space to show off some of South Florida’s finest, most intriguing exhibits. The Frost boasts a new director and building site and will be charged with bringing a higher level ... +

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Before Wynwood was synonymous with the arts, three local artists – Westen Charles, Elizabeth Withstandley, and Cooper – got together and started an alternative space where their peers could create work without having to deal with the pressures of producing art for a commercial gallery. Ten years later, Locust Projects has grown from a grassroots, artist-run space to an official non-profit organization ... +

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Until he died, Jorge Bartlett lived his art. The performance and visual artist in fact morphed into a persona he called Art Kendallman (a.k.a. KMAN) – he was a man, he lived in Kendall, and he was a piece of art. This is what he had recorded on his Website, under the heading “My Complete Profile”: About Me: Art ; Interests: Art; ... +

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With the founding of the New World Symphony in 1987, Miami was put on the map as a city keen to encourage its young, aspiring orchestral musicians and conductors. From the very beginning, the NWS set for itself a high goal: to not only perform works from both the modern and classical repertoires but to allow ambitious musicians to study further and ... +

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Every year, the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival presents original and touching films by veteran and emerging directors. Innovative and bold, this film festival has proven its success with its growing popularity over the years. This year, the MGLFF has spread to serve its Broward and Palm Beach county supporters with the launch of the Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film ... +

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The Hispanic Theater Guild presents, Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz’s, Lorca con un vestido verde (Lorca In A Green Dress) this month at Little Havana’s own Teatro 8. Captivating performances, engaging music, and a passionate appreciation for Federico Garcia Lorca’s life make this Spanish version of the play wonderfully entrancing. Directed by Rolando Moreno, this retelling of one of Spain’s most celebrated ... +

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There is a group of people in Miami that dedicate their lives to social consciousness through the photographic medium. These photographic activists are supported by an organization that prides itself on its volunteer based community and its mission to promote positive social change through the art of photography. This non-profit organization is aptly named Fotomission. Events, publications, and exhibitions of new talent ... +

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I arrive at the Diaspora Vibe Gallery, which lends its space to the exhibition of promising Caribbean and Latin American emerging artists, on a Tuesday afternoon. The gallery feels unusually lonely today, as Jamaica-born owner, Rosie Gordon Wallace, and her team prepare to leave for their 2nd International Artists Biennale in Phillipsburg, St. Maarten (April 16th-23rd) where artists from Cuba, Dominican Republic, ... +

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The latest work of two prominent Miami based artists – Gustavo Acosta and Carlos Estevez – has been recently on view at Panamerican Art Projects. The exhibition opened to the public with a reception bursting in positive energy and red dots. Gustavo Acosta is one of the few contemporary artists that has resisted the temptation of making three dimensional works. He is ... +

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Miami’s New World Symphony is a seedbed for new talent, a catalyst for performance, and a source of high-caliber community outreach. With the founding of the New World Symphony in 1987, Miami was put on the map as a city keen to encourage its young, aspiring orchestral musicians and conductors. From the very beginning, the NWS set for itself a high goal: ... +

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Anyone who has visited China recently can only describe what they see in superlatives — the tallest skyscrapers, the fastest trains, the biggest cities, the worst pollution. The emerging country’s growth spurt might be unprecedented in history, considering its size and population. Shanghai in particular elicits the most amazement, a spanking new, glittering city that has sprung skyward to become an economic ... +

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The most appropriate way to answer an inquiry may probably be formulating a question. One would avoid so many uncomfortable situations like blushing, getting nervous, or (worse) acting as if not finding an intelligent response was not important. “Are you happy?” someone asked me not too long ago, and I didn’t know what to say. But not all questions are there to ... +

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It’s a rainy Friday. It’s very difficult to drive on North East 2nd Street because construction workers have designed a new roadway for people to go through. Cars take other routes to make their trip easier. That’s exactly what one needs to get to the theater on time. The front gates are already open to the public, but the performance does not ... +

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“Humor, which is the function of wit in any medium, linguistics as well as visual, is the triumph of context, not content, form not image, manner, not message,” says critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa in his essay “Esteban Blanco’s ‘Playing with Dolls.’” Esteban Blanco is the kind of artist who uses his acquired knowledge very wisely for his work. Blanco migrated from Cuba to ... +

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Michelle Weinberg, Neil Bender and Elisabeth Condon exhibited in a group show at the ArtCenter/SouthFlorida. Creating the imaginary city of Picturopolis was the le motif for these artists to collaborate in a harmonic visual interaction. The word Picturopolis may refer to Persepolis, the ancient ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire. According to Deodorus, Persepolis had three walls with ramparts. All of them ... +

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There’s been a ship wrecking. The body of a young man appears floating in the waters of the ocean. Is he still alive? His eyes are open, but his face looks pale as if he were almost entering the kingdom of death. Two men peacefully rest on the grass under the sunset. A couple of boys stare at a volcanic eruption while ... +

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Fans of indie films in Los Angeles know to go to the Nuart. In New York, the Quad Cinema is the movie house for those with a taste for the unique. On Miami Beach, there is a theater dedicated to showing non-commercial movies and much more: the Miami Beach Cinematheque on South Beach. And it’s due to the determination and vision of ... +

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Leonard Tachmes has one of the coolest gallery spaces in town – three cozy rooms in an old house, with wooden floors and fireplace. That setting happens to be the perfect place to delve even more deeply into the world of interiors, through the large paintings hanging on those walls from one of the most talented painters in town, Jordan Massengale. These ... +

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The artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, known as Guerra de la Paz, have been working as a collaborative unit since 1996. They reside and work in Miami, using the city as a launch pad for a life in art that has an ambitious scope above and beyond the local art milieu. Self-described “outsiders”, they make work scavenged from the ... +

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Little I really know about the city’s public transportation system, about how it all works, or where it goes, or from where to where. However, Miami has it all: The Metrorail, the Metromover, bus-lines traces. It all make sense, or maybe it doesn’t – thinking on how many people I know that actually make use of public transportation in Miami. Except for ... +

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Xu Zhen’s ShanghART Supermarket. Art Basel Miami Beach 2007. Xu Zhen’s project for Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 was a full-scale replica of what is alleged to be a proto-typical Chinese convenience store. Yes, one of those 24h little stores that are populated by an eclectic mix of well-known international goods – such as soft drinks, cigarettes and dairy – inter-mingling with ... +

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Sarkisian uses technology to explore the concept of illusion. His work resembles that of a magician who transforms a tiger into a mouse in front of thousands of perplexed spectators. Although the artist doesn’t present live performances, the actions shown in his video projections may be taken from real life events like driving, swimming, hammering, or walking. The characters captured on his ... +

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It has been said that art is a reflection of the world and time in which we live in. Parting from this notion, would it be too far-fetched to assume that history could be studied through art? Maybe it would not have been so hard to stay up during fourth period history had our high school text-books been filled with images of ... +

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The use of technology is commonplace in contemporary artists. More and more we see artists venturing into non-traditional ways of art making, being “new technologies” – namely digital imaging and video, – the most generalized practices. Wendy Wischer is an artist whose work is often based in the use of technology. However, while most of the artists are using it to comment ... +

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Art in Public Places is a program of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs dedicated to promoting creative art projects with the purpose of improving the visual quality of Miami-Dade County public spaces. For the last 35 years, the outcomes of the program have succeeded in transforming ordinary civic areas into artistic sites that not only have enriched the artistic dimension ... +

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There are moments when art reaches unexpected dimensions that go far beyond people’s prospects. Sometimes it happens so fast that one can’t even notice it, as when a shooting star crosses the air. Only those who have telescopes or spend too much time looking at the sky are able to see it. Fortunately, we may still have this kind of event within ... +

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Among all different events that happened during Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, The Cane Art Fair presented by the Department of Art and Art History of the University of Miami became a major success. The fair took place at the UM’s Project Space in the Wynwood Art District, and it featured the works of a great number of faculty members and artist ... +

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At first, what really impresses about La Galerie Bertin-Toublanc is its ampleness. When visiting the space, one doubts whether this is the biggest art gallery in town or just a palace standing in front of one’s eyes. Rooms are connected through long corridors in which the viewer can see the work of young artists from different parts of the world. The gallery ... +

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Thoughts of a painter. “Everything done with honesty should be admired, or at least deserve a few minutes of observation.” Thus begins a reflection by Raul de la Nuez about his inseparable relationship with art. “We artists enjoy life in a very peculiar way. We don’t see green or blue or black and white, but all the tonalities of green, the nuances ... +

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It was already the year 2000 when the Director of Daros Foundation – a Swiss private collection based in Zurich – created a curatorial team devoted to building up a collection of contemporary art from Latin America. Today, Daros-Latinamerican holds works of over 70 artists from almost every country of the southern continent. This year, the capital for international contemporary art trade, ... +

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Until May of 2006, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a collection of Salvador Dalí’s monumental sculptures, presented all together for the first time at the Village of Merrick Park in Coral Gables. Organized by A+ Gallery, this may be a unique occasion to revisit the work of one of the most prominent artists of the Twentieth Century. Dalí was, at ... +

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Kuhl and Leyton have been collaborating for over two years, and have worked closely as artists for over seven years.  Kuhl and Leyton’s collaborative works depict crime scenes, emergencies and crisis situations.  Their work draws upon mass media’s conventional mode of documenting states of emergency. Police officers, security guards, emergency medical technicians, crime scene investigators, detectives and firefighters are the government forces ... +

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A list of movers and shakers in Miami’s art community would likely be topped with names of private collectors and art dealers. One name to start looking for on such a list is Ilana Vardy. Art + Auction included her among its Power List 2004 for the work she’s done directing Art Miami and launching Chicago’s Navy Pier, Chicago Contemporary & Classic ... +

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The Centro Cultural Español (CCE) has once again expanded beyond the boundaries of Coral Gables into Wynwood Art District. During December it will have two exhibitions showing at the same time in these two different locations (Coral Gables and Wynwood). Clima X In collaboration with Goldman Properties, the center kicks off CLIMA X, an exhibit by the legendary art collective Jus d’art ... +

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Hanging by a Thread features over 25 established, mid-career, and emerging artists devoted to the use of stitch and craft in contemporary art. This exhibition pays tribute to the 1998 exhibition Loose Threads, curated by Lisa Corrin at the Serpentine Gallery in London. The Miami curators draw parallels to Corrin’s exhibition by including artists from the Loose Threads roster such as Tracey ... +

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Flying has been an obsession of human beings for centuries. From Da Vinci’s drawings to the Right brothers the iconography that supports this idea is impossible to catalogue. There are innumerable examples of artists who had worked with this theme. Symbols have varied according to the epoch, however, birds and wings are perhaps the most common in this repertoire. From religious to ... +

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We all heard about the “emerging” applied to young, talented artists, meaning coming out to be noticed, or perhaps being on the rocky path to success. However, we rarely see this term applied to an art gallery director or a curator like they were naturally labeled “established”. But emerging anyways, Miami art scene sees many new initiatives run by fresh professionals. Just ... +

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There is a parallel to be made between the International Ballet Festival of Miami and the area it benefits, South Florida. For too many years, this region was considered merely a beachside resort with few redeeming features besides good weather and lovely beaches. A traveler went to New York or London for entertainment. One certainly didn’t go to Miami for its plethora ... +

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Just as temperatures begin to cool down in Miami this fall, things will really be heating up in the arts and entertainment scene with this year’s Miami Short Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the festival promises to deliver even more of the critically acclaimed and award-winning films it has come to be known for. Past winners include, The Fine Line ... +

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On its third year – the premier art show of Latin America, Merrill Lynch arteaméricas, the art fair devoted exclusively to art from Latin America, returns to Miami for its third year opens, April 7 through April 11, 2005, at the Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Fla. In less than three years, Merrill Lynch arteaméricas has become the premier fair of art ... +

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FeCuOp is a contemporary art collaborative established in 1997 by Jason Ferguson, Brandon Opalka and Christian Curiel. The name constitutes an amalgam of the three artist’s names. Much like the periodic table of elements, the unique characteristics of each member bring a unique variable property to every collaboration. Each an artist in their own right, together FeCuOp fuses to create work that ... +

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Virginia Miller, described by a leading magazine as “the undisputed doyenne of South Florida art dealers,”  has presented more than 300 public exhibitions of art ranging from works by acknowledged masters to the initial exhibitions of emerging artists, all with several common characteristics. “The work that I’ve shown reflects my taste and my judgment,” said the veteran art dealer. “I’ve always tried ... +

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The international art world’s favorite winter meeting place. The third edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will take place from December 2 to 5, 2004. America’s most important art show is the favorite winter meeting place of the international art world. From a record number of 530 applications, the Selection Committee chose 180 galleries from the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia and ... +

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