Art
Mark Dion Reimagines a Pioneering Botanist's Lab
The former winter home of Dr. David Fairchild in Miami now houses a permanent installation that Dion extrapolated from the botanist's life and work.
Monica Uszerowicz
Interview
While Held by US Immigration, an Artist Sketches His Fellow Detainees
Artist José Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) talks about the 30 portraits he drew while detained at the Krome Detention Center in Miami. The drawings, accompanied by each subject's story, are on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Art
In Miami's Little Haiti, a Fair Spotlights Artists of the African Diaspora
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Interview
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.”
Interview
“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.
Art
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.
Art
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).”