Exhibitions, discussions, and performances during Miami Art Week celebrate the diversity of the African Diaspora.
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Artist Malcolm Lauredo Is Miami’s Unconventional Historian
Miami’s Greater Bureau of Time Tourism is an experimental history department meant to combat Florida’s erasure of Black and Brown stories.
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Jorge Pérez Can Build on Ancient Indigenous Site in Miami
Though a portion of the Tequesta site was approved for historical designation, the developer and arts patron can move forward with luxury high-rises, per city permits.
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Miami’s Fountainhead Residency Announces 2024 Selected Artists
The fully funded residency immerses artists in Miami’s cultural landscape, where they can forge connections to help their careers thrive.
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Bittersweet Last Hurrah for Miami’s Fountainhead Studio
The affordable artists’ studio building in Little Haiti, founded in 2008, will be demolished to make way for new developments in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
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In Miami, Diaspora Women Artists Tell Their Stories Through Photobooks
Participants in a 12-day workshop led by photographers Yumi Goto and Paola Jiménez Quispe explored the medium as a conduit for memory and self-discovery.
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Miami Halts Digging on Ancestral Site Slated for Luxury Hotel
The vote will temporarily protect the archeological site from further demolition by Related Group, founded by museum namesake Jorge Pérez.
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The Most Endangered Historic Sites in the US
From Miami’s Little Santo Domingo to Chinatowns in Seattle and Philadelphia, a new list highlights places threatened by gentrification and climate change.
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A Living History of Black Queer Miami
“Give Them Their Flowers” pays homage to Miami’s Black queer history by merging historical research, archival imagery, artifacts, and oral histories.
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Contested Miami Ancestral Site to Be Considered for Landmark Designation
The vote to protect one of the parcels in Jorge Pérez’s luxury development is but a small victory for Native activists, who say they don’t feel heard.
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Who Will Decide on the Future of a Miami Native Burial Ground?
Native activists say sacred remains and objects dug up from a Brickell construction site should remain there, but mega-developer Jorge Pérez is pushing back.
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Miami Film Festival Reveals South Florida’s Cinema Crisis
The art-house movie theaters that long served as the festival’s screening venues now face extinction.
