News
Miami's Pérez Art Museum Has Made Admission Free for Public School Students
Thanks to a Knight Foundation grant, Miami-Dade County Public School students can now visit their local art museum anytime, for free.
Miami
Books
Stories from a Once Culturally Vibrant, Now Neglected Miami Neighborhood
Jacob Katel’s A People’s History of Overtown collects interviews with the people who remember the neighborhood's golden years, before the expressway divided and ultimately decimated it.
Art
In Miami, a Museum Attempts to Bring Teens and Cops Together Over Art
Art Detectives, a partnership between the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Miami-Dade Police Department, and two community organizations that launched last month, may be the only program of its kind in the US.
Art
Two Artists Make a Mess in the Name of Process
Husband-and-wife artist duo Rotem Tamir and Omri Zin created a pair of elaborate contraptions to help them laboriously make balloons and ink inside the gallery.
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.
Art
Reconstructing the Tattered History of a Fictional 19th-Century Family
Titus Kaphar's The Vesper Project is a complex, multimedia project that dissolves the boundary between reality and fiction.
Art
A Cuban-American Artist’s Scathing Yet Loving Views of His Homeland
Luis Cruz Azaceta, an artist who fled Cuba at age 18, shortly after Fidel Castro came to power, is a fitting inaugural exhibition for Miami's new American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora.
Podcast
“Artists, Like Actors, Can’t Develop in Public”: A Conversation with Mega-collector Don Rubell
"I have a flawed gene. I have a collector's gene."
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.
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.”
Art
A Battle Between Body, Blood, and Bile Through Dance and Sculpture
MIAMI — The idea that a balance of four humors — blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile — determines the health of our bodies was once prevalent in Western medicine, and is reinterpreted in a visceral collaboration between sculptor Martha Friedman and dancer Silas Riener.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Colorado cops target artist who stacks stones, Chinese authorities not pleased about Forbidden City nude photo shoot, and murder weapon turns up in London museum.