Features
With Cafecito Cups and Direct Action, Miami Artists Rise Against “Alligator Alcatraz”
As the notorious detention center faces legal setbacks, an exhibition in Little Havana underscores the need to keep resisting.
Miami
News
Miami Beach Mayor Pulls Motion to Defund Cinema Screening No Other Land
Dozens of people, including former Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman, spoke against a resolution to shutter O Cinema at a city commission meeting today.
Art
Andrea Chung’s Afrofuturism of Cyanotypes and Sugar
The artist’s show at MOCA North Miami follows her interest in destructive transformation as a path to a more accurate history.
News
Miami Beach Cinema Targeted by Mayor Speaks Out: “We Don’t Want To Leave”
The city is threatening to close O Cinema after it refused to cancel screenings of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning film about Israel’s displacement of Palestinians.
Art
Unmissable Gems at Miami's Art Fairs
These standout artworks caught my eye at Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA, Untitled Art, and the new Open Invitational.
News
Miami Fair Asks Gallery to Remove Portrait of Trump
Scope Art Show said the work was taken down because it was not part of L Kotler Fine Art’s original proposal.
Art
Art Basel Miami Beach Returns With Smoke and Mirrors
An AI app you can’t opt out of and buzzy sales reports shroud political uncertainty and hidden costs.
Art
Elias Rischmawi Preserves Memory Against Erasure
What happens when home traverses miles — when it’s caught in the sway between one’s homeland and the land one makes a home of?
News
Sale of De la Cruz Collection Raises Concerns in Miami’s Art World
As major artworks head to auction, some question whether the city’s over-dependence on private collections is harmful to its arts ecosystem.
News
Art Alluding to Pro-Palestine Slogan Nixed From Miami Beach Display
Hundreds signed a letter in support of Khánh Nguyên Hoàng Vũ after Oolite Arts removed their work, which referred metaphorically to the phrase “from the river to the sea.”
Film
A Caribbean Film Festival in Miami Confronts a World in Crisis
The Third Horizon festival, opening May 9, has championed radical and anticolonial filmmakers since its inception.
Art
Lesia Khomenko Distills the Resolve of Ukrainians
Khomenko forcefully responds to her war-torn Ukrainian homeland with complex compositions, lavish and varied brushwork, and avidity for color.