Art
A Sea of Suspended Boats Evokes the Migrant’s Perilous Journey
Hew Locke’s installation at the Pérez Art Museum Miami features dozens of small boats suspended from the ceiling, forming many horizons that nearly blend into one.
Monica Uszerowicz
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Imagining the Uncanny Life of a Sculptor’s “Awkward Creatures”
R.M. Fischer's lamp sculptures are like an uncanny assembly of anthropomorphic creatures that might abruptly move on their own.
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From the KKK to Darfur, Reflecting on Evil as a Deliberate Act
Evil: A Matter of Intent at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU features works from 1940 to the present, with each addressing evil in its various incarnations.
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A Cuban Artist, Anthropologist, and Cosmologist’s Journey to West Africa
The exhibition showcases the unique space the Cuban artist José Bedia occupies: concurrently artist, anthropologist, and religious practitioner.
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Imagining a House Where Domestic Labor Is Automated
Grace Quah, a graduate student of architecture, imagines a house that would drastically reduce the domestic labor attributed to women while also making it visible.
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The Trickster Artist Behind the I Spy Books
At the Lowe Art Museum, a retrospective dives into the mirrored mazes and optical illusions of Walter Wick, a photographer, illustrator, and children's book author.
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When Artists Carry the Burden of History
No burden as heavy, on view at David Castillo Gallery, feels like a response to history’s weight: how heavily the past’s truths and fictions weigh, how often they (for better or worse) repeat themselves.
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Charting the Proliferation of Confederate Symbols Alongside Social Movements
A chart by the Southern Poverty Law Center cataloguing Confederate symbols around the country recently resurfaced.
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Comedian Spray Paints Hate Tweets Outside Twitter Headquarters
After Twitter refused to delete numerous hate tweets, Shahak Shapira, a Berlin-based Jewish comedian and author, spray painted them outside the company's German headquarters.
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No, Stephen Miller, the Statue of Liberty Can’t Be Divorced from the Poem on Its Base
In a White House press briefing that announced President Donald Trump’s support for the RAISE Act, Miller dismissed Emma Lazarus’s poem as being “added later.”
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The Many Fluid Faces of Miami
The latest exhibition at Spinello Projects confronts the city's façades.
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A Street Artist’s Whimsical Interventions Turn the City into a Playground
The New York-based street artist Tom Bob has a knack for bringing mundane bits of the cityscape to cartoonish life.