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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.

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.

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 … +

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 … +

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.

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 … +

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”,

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 … +