Jen Stark’s color-minded hands

There is something unavoidably charming and analog about Jen Stark’s work. The tactile, precise-yet-handmade quality of her paper sculptures and animations is something that feels somehow influenced, in part, by her visual generation. In the arena of contemporary paper art, she is among the most notable young and prolific artists. Born in 1983 in Miami, Jen Stark creates optically engaging Read more

Video Art. What does Miami see?

While out walking a Second Saturday last March on NW 2nd Avenue in the middle of the street, I could see Marilyn Minter’s crazy-beautiful video on the back wall of David Castillo’s gallery. Bright red lips were licking, kissing, and slurping out green, gelatin-like stuff onto a glass behind which the video camera had captured all this lusciously bizarre movement Read more

Then and Now. Bass Museum of art offers a look at contemporary art

Back then, John Bass, a talented musician and artist, born in 1891 in Vienna, wanted to study art but his father sent him to business school. After finishing business school, still not convinced it was money he wanted to make, Bass moved in 1914 to New York, where he spent enough time as an unsuccessful pianist to realize his old Read more

Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami

Sometimes progress is made by revering the past When Pedro Pablo Peña dreams, he dreams big. It is not just his own dance company that he wants in Miami, it must be ballet; and not just ballet but specifically classical ballet. Peña wants entire programs performed to the rigorous, traditional standards taught in the Cuban School of Ballet, and he wants Read more

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Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami
Sometimes progress is made by revering the past When Pedro Pablo Peña dreams, he dreams big. It is not just his own dance company that he wants in Miami, it must be ballet; and not just ballet but specifically classical ballet. Peña wants entire... Read more...
Video Art. What does Miami see?
While out walking a Second Saturday last March on NW 2nd Avenue in the middle of the street, I could see Marilyn Minter’s crazy-beautiful video on the back wall of David Castillo’s gallery. Bright red lips were licking, kissing, and slurping out... Read more...
Jen Stark’s color-minded hands
There is something unavoidably charming and analog about Jen Stark’s work. The tactile, precise-yet-handmade quality of her paper sculptures and animations is something that feels somehow influenced, in part, by her visual generation. In the arena... Read more...
Then and Now. Bass Museum of art offers a look at contemporary art
Back then, John Bass, a talented musician and artist, born in 1891 in Vienna, wanted to study art but his father sent him to business school. After finishing business school, still not convinced it was money he wanted to make, Bass moved in 1914 to... Read more...

Past Stories

Eye Contacts
The Enlightened Body
“This indeed is subtle Light”Lao TzuAn inherent feature of our existence, light is a source of energy, power, wisdom and grace. As we move from one point to another, we constantly emit gentle, imperceptible light signals that attract similar... Read more...
Reviews
Reviews. MAG 22. Jan-Feb 10
The Playground Theatre. Inanna and the Huluppu Tree A visit to the Playground Theatre takes me back to my school days in which a field trip to the theater was the highlight of my week. The Playground Theatre’s production of an old Sumerian myth... Read more...
Museums
Museums
Lowe Art MuseumWomen Only! In Their StudiosFrom Feb 16th through Mar 30th, 2008Women Only! In Their Studios is the new exhibition on view at the Lowe Art Museum featuring the work of contemporary women artists, who despite having exhibited... Read more...
Interviews
Bâlelatina: A New Contemporary Art Fair. Conversation with Mariangela Capuzzo
By Francis AceaIt was already the year 2000 when the Director of Daros Foundation - a Swiss private collection based in Zurich - created a curatorial team devoted to building up a collection of contemporary art from Latin America. Today,... Read more...

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