For its fourth edition, the Prizm Art Fair has relocated to Little Haiti and maintained its focus on artists of the African Diaspora in two special exhibitions and its eclectic main show.
Monica Uszerowicz
Monica Uszerowicz is a writer and photographer in Miami, FL. She has contributed work to BOMB, Los Angeles Review of Books' Avidly channel, Hazlitt, VICE, and The Miami Rail.
Miami Beach’s Satellite Art Fair Draws the Interactive into Its Orbit
Miami Beach’s Satellite art fair is not a release from an inundation of art — but perhaps it’s a reminder of why you like it in the first place.
Exploring the Faulty Nature of Memory in Video Art and Clay
Artist and composer Alexis Gideon synesthetically examines the nebulous line between memory and truth in The Comet and the Glacier, on view at Locust Projects.
A Sound Installation in Miami’s Drains Warns of the Impending Flood
Cara Despain’s “Sea Unseen” tells the tale of a great American paradise that’s swiftly and frantically overtaken by the sea.
An Artist’s Fantastical Drawings of Cars, Made While Living in One
For 18 years, William A. Hall lived in his car, a pale yellow 1972 Dodge Dart, and spent the same amount of time reimagining it.
How Drawing Became Ida Applebroog’s Means to Communicate with the Outside World
Bouts of internal madness and discomfort have no one specific cure. But drawing did create an outlet and conversational platform for the otherwise silent Applebroog.
In Miami’s Little Haiti, a Muralist Fights Gentrification One Wall at a Time
MIAMI — In late May, the City of Miami Commission voted unanimously to designate Little Haiti as “Little Haiti.”
“I Am an Invented Character”: A Performance Artist on Living in His Utopia
“I am back in New York. My lungs need poison air,” began Papo Colo in one of his recent emails to me.
Cao Fei’s Fantastical Take on China’s Sociopolitical Climate
In Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan with tales of his travels, musing about the strange poetry of each city and their intersections with memory and selfhood.
A Half-Documentary, Half-Fantasy Telling of the Caribbean’s Colonial Past
MIAMI — There is a dizzying effect in Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s short film “Otro usos (Other Uses).”
Jonas Mekas on the Poetry of Filmmaking and Living
“All of my past is in me. And whatever I do is determined and tinted by it. But there are also things in me that were inherited or given to me by angels, which are completely out of my control.”
A Monument to Philip Roth that Maybe Also Mocks Him
MIAMI — Initially, the title of Bryan Zanisnik’s exhibition at Locust Projects, Philip Roth Presidential Library, feels appropriate.