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Cuba in the International Biennials of Art in Sao Paulo. Original article HERE (Article Excerpt, Full article in print only) The decade of the 1940s results enormously significant for the development of arts in Brazil. In the field of visual arts, this aspiration was made tangible in 1951 with the creation of the Sao Paulo Biennial. Inspired in the model of the … +

Pleased to welcome back our good friend and amazing artist, Manny Prieres for our Artist in House residency program with Soho Beach House – BOOTLEG CULTURE – PRINTMAKERS WORKSHOP – APRIL 18 | 7 – 8:30 PM  Los Angeles-based artist Manny Prieres drops by the House for a discussion on appropriation and the art of transferring a preprinted image from one surface to … +

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Poet Dave Landsberger culminates his day shooting a poetry-themed remake of 2 Fast 2 Furious with a reading and party at Primary Projects in the Design District. Landsberger and guests read poems commemorating the death of Paul Walker and other tributes to the Fast Franchise inside of a white Ferrari, generously donated by Lou La Vie, Miami’s Premier Exotic Car Rental Agency. … +

SYZYGY Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Opening Reception Thursday October 13, 2016 / 6-9 pm Curated by Tiffany Madera syz·y·gy ˈsizijē/ noun • a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun. • a pair of connected or corresponding things. Drawing from Jungian psychology, SYZYGY unites 10 Miami-based Hispanic women artists whose work explores themes of identity, sexuality, power … +

Artists and educators are invited to submit proposals for the de la Cruz Collection 2017 Summer Workshop Series. Workshops will take place at the collection, located at: 23 NE 41 Street, from Wednesday, July 5th through Saturday, July 22nd, 2017 from 10am to 3pm.     The deadline for submitting your proposals is Saturday, May 27th, 2017. Submit proposal by e-mail to: … +

POSTED April 28, 2017 Miami nonprofit exhibition space Locust Projects announced today that Lorie Mertes was appointed executive director. Currently the director of public programs at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, Mertes will officially assume the position on May 5. She succeeds Chana Budgazad Sheldon, who said she is stepping down after eight years to pursue … +

POSTED April 28, 2017 Gladstone Gallery announced today that moving forward it will represent the estate of Robert Mapplethorpe in New York. An exhibition of his works will be presented by the gallery at its 515 West Twenty-Fourth Street location in the spring of 2018. “Robert was one of my closest friends, and we worked on a series of portfolios together in … +

Join us for an evening of good drinks and great conversation as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Primary present “Collecting 101”, A conversation with industry professionals Jimena Guijarro of Guijarro de Pablo Art Consultants, Valentina Garcia of Phillips Auction House, & Cristina Gonzalez of Primary. Beginning to collect comes with many questions, here is your opportunity to meet on a … +

Experience Chocolate and Art Show Miami at Wynwood Warehouse Project for a two night event May 18th & 19th, 2017 from 8pm-2am filled with fine art, great music, tasty chocolate and good vibes, benefiting Artists for Trauma (AFT). On opening night guest will meet & greet the artists and indulge in some of Miami’s finest up-and-coming fine, contemporary and street artists, photographers and artisans. There … +

Cuban artist Ulices Alfonso is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist whose current series of work ‘Abandoned‘ represents the idea of false images of the human being. Alfonso’s work was selected to be exhibited this coming May at the Cuban Nostalgia exhibition in Miami, celebrating all things Cuban. The emerging artist is quickly making a name for himself, he is definitely an up-and-coming artist … +

With the Goya Awards taking place just a few days away, we’re excited to be cheering on five titles that screened at the 2016 Miami Film Festival & Miami Film Festival’s GEMS, as well as four highly anticipated films that will premiere at the 34th annual Miami Film Festival in March:  Smoke & Mirrors, Maria (and Everybody Else), Don’t Blame on Your … +

What defunding the NEA would mean to Miami Dade College Cultural programs? The White House proposed budget for FY2018 officially recommends the complete defunding of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). At Miami Dade College (MDC), we strongly believe that arts have the power to enable people to see beyond their differences. Because of this, and for more than 50 years, MDC … +

  Excitement filled the air as season subscribers and other VIP guests milled around the lobby and then took their seats for the recent ArtsLaunch event at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. The VIP event was a first look at the upcoming 2017-18 Broadway in Miami series, the 12th presented at the Arsht, as hints were dropped about a few … +

International Mixed Ability Dance Collaboration with Austria’s LizArt Productions What makes a person or object physically beautiful? How do our ideas of what makes compelling contemporary dance change when people with disabilities are fully included on stage? Together, Miami’s Karen Peterson and Dancers (KPD) and Austria’s LizArt Productions (LAP) dive into these questions, and address the state of the world today, in … +

A reimagined of Vivaldi’s masterwork The Four Seasons! Come witness the world premiere of The Vivaldi Project: “4”, a collaboration between Miami’s own Nu Deco Ensemble and Brooklyn’s phenomenal hip-hop dance company Decadancetheatre at the Arsht Center!! Hear and see a new take on The Four Seasons! The program will also include work by Bach and Stravinsky, both with special twists! Join … +

This group exhibition features resident artists from the MFU: New York Studio & Teaching Program. The interdisciplinary show includes works created by the artists Nina Behrle, Jesse Chun, Kentaro Ikegami, Pastiche Lumumba and Andrew Ross. Parafiction is loosely defined by art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty as an emergent genre of artwork that plays between fact and fiction. In a climate of “alternative facts” … +

This exhibition is inspired by an artist residency commemorating the National Parks Service Centennial in 2016. These paintings in oil, pastel and acrylic capture very personal impressions of the landscapes of Big Cypress, Fort Jefferson, Biscayne and Everglades National Parks created during this coveted residency. In the gallery, the viewer can also experience a raw-footage video of the artist’s multiple visits to … +

Textiles are inherently connected to the domestic environment. In the U.S., fiber art has often been mislabeled as craft or “women’s work.” However, in many countries, textile is considered men’s labor. Artists in this exhibition are Alissa Alfonso, Mora Barber, Tanja Boukal, Chiachio & Giannone, Jen Clay, John O’Donnell, Aurora Molina, Norma Minkowitz, Valerie Molnar, Sophia Narrett, and David Rohn Some of … +

A tortuous love triangle involving the King of Sweden. A mysterious fortune teller who predicts that the King will soon die. An assassination plot. Few of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas contain as many bewitching elements as his 1859 masterpiece Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), which opens at Florida Grand Opera on April 29, 2017, in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing … +

Gallim Dance is one of New York’s leading contemporary dance companies. Artistic Director Andrea Miller creates works of uncompromising language that exert every drop of sweat, every breath, and full abandonment from a virtuosic company of dancers. With each new work, Gallim dives into singular explorations of universal struggles such as love, spirituality, and the tensions between the individual and collective experience. … +