New Book Offers Revealing Look at Robert Huff, a Giant in South Florida Art
The battered dustpan hangs on a peg of its own. It's within easy reach for a tall man. A never-opened ball of string from Ace Hardware...
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INFLUENCER: Rina Carvajal Is Remaking a Miami Museum, Inside and Out
Miami, FL—Miami's infamous traffic jams don't stop Rina Carvajal from forging connections with art.
"I'm super interested...
William Cordova: Now’s the Time for His ‘New Type of Perspective’
William Cordova rarely stays put.
Though he's based in Miami and New York, change is a constant for this Peruvian-born artist. Since...
ART REVIEW: Ya Levy La’Ford Finds Unexpected Connections in ‘Sublimation’
A riveting tension courses through "Sublimation: Ancestral Patterns" by Ya Levy La'ford at Yeelen Gallery. It's the tension between...
ART REVIEW: Emilio Sánchez: Flirting with Abstraction To Record Modern World
As a painter and printmaker, he distilled architecture into elegant compositions, coyly flirting with geometric abstraction while...
ART REVIEW: Leyla Cárdenas Opens New Chapter with Construction Debris
Recalling frail newsprint or smudged drawings, much of the photographic imagery in the current show at Dimension Variable's new space...
ART REVIEW: María Martínez-Cañas Exhibit Reveals Shocking New Realm
As a photographer, María Martínez-Cañas pushes her medium to the edge and then some, manipulating photographic materials in highly...
ART REVIEW: Marina Font Remakes Female Nudes with Vintage Textiles
Ironically, Marina Font's skills with digital photography led her to discover a decidedly low-tech material: vintage doilies. With...
ART REVIEW: Shock and Awe in Julio Le Parc’s Miami Retrospective
"This is not painting, it's watchmaking."
"I come every day when I get off work. It's a great detox."
These two wildly divergent...
Critic’s Picks: Five Outstanding Artworks at Art Basel Miami Beach
I spent most of Tuesday, November 29, 2016, roaming the crowded aisles of Art Basel Miami Beach after it opened its doors for press...
In Turbulent Times, Florida Puts Best Face Forward for Miami Art Week
Although the international cultural extravaganza of Miami Art Week reflects months of planning, this year there was a bizarre...
Yolanda Sánchez: A Surprising Path to Painting
Late in the afternoon on a recent October day, Yolanda Sánchez checked into her Manhattan hotel after flying from Miami to New York...
ART REVIEW: Agustina Woodgate Subverts Linkage of Value, Time and Money
In "Power-Line," Agustina Woodgate's impressive show at Spinello Projects in Miami, the artist has wedded conceptual conundrums to a...
ART REVIEW: Titus Kaphar Installation Explores Aches of Race Relations
At the opening reception for "Titus Kaphar: The Vesper Project" at Lowe Art Museum of the University of Miami, artist Titus Kaphar...
ART REVIEW: Doris Salcedo Retrospective in Miami Pays Witness to Loss
Her commanding art disrupts and deforms space. Since the 1980s Doris Salcedo has created art to pay witness to brutalities plaguing...
ART REVIEW: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz Brings Iconoclastic Style to Miami
Describing how she incorporates the research skills of a documentary filmmaker into her art, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz says, "You have...
“Always a Place to Crash”: ’60s Photographs Reveal a Storied Provincetown in New Book
A photographer on the cusp of a career spends five summers in a village on the cusp of change. Both are outliers: Al Kaplan and...
ART REVIEW: Kundera Homage Exhibition Reveals Contrast Between Lightness and Weight
Can art endow ephemera with form? Can it subtract matter from substance?
At first, these questions might seem no more than...