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    Art Pick | 'Isabel Muñoz Photographs'

    Isabel Muñoz has spent the last 17 years traveling the world and photographing the bodies of women in movement. Through her eyes, the hands of a dancer in Cambodia (Bailarina del Ballet Real de Camboya), the lips of an African, the hips of a Cuban become a landscape studied in detail. Thirty-five of the Spanish photographer's powerful images comprise the show Isabel Muñoz Photographs, a joint presentation of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and the Spanish...

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    17 Miami artists get display in `exhibition in print'

    At a time when contemporary art seems dominated by either technological high-jinks or reinterpretations of found objects, the 2008 southern edition of New American Paintings (Open Studios, $20) is here to remind us that painting is far from dead.

  • Luck of the drawing: Sketches offer a window into the Spanish avant-garde

    Imagine the Catalonian painter Salvador Dalí in 1932, fingers twirling his famous mustache, then putting pen to paper, obsessed with retooling the shape of the clock of his most famous painting, The Persistence of Memory.

  • Art Pick | Little Havana Cultural Friday

    Little Havana's Cultural Fridays take place the last Friday of the month, and besides art vendors lining the sidewalks, there are plenty of art galleries. So put on your comfortable dancing shoes -- yes, music is inseparable from art here -- and stroll/shimmy the night away. Many of the galleries, like the long-standing Agustín Gainza's and Cremata Fine Art, are owned and run by artists. The latest newcomer is María Sonia Martín Art Gallery, which debuts...

  • Painter Conni Gordon teaches how to create 5-minute masterpieces

    Conni Gordon likes to joke that when she first started painting, her canvas was the wall of a cave. Her self-deprecation is charming, but she is exaggerating.

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    The gang of 13: imagination (and luck) distinguish this year's Consortium winners

    It would be easy to call these artists the Lucky 13, and that they are. Competition for the attention of art lovers and patrons has never been tougher in South Florida, home to thousands of artists who toil, sometimes in anonymity, at home and in their studios. Photo Gallery Available

  • Art Pick | Bass Museum exhibit

    It's opening weekend for the Bass Museum's anticipated exhibition of works on paper by some of the most renowned of the Spanish Modernist masters, 20th Century Works on Paper from the Fundación Mapfre Collection: Picasso, Tápies, Miró and Others.

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    Filling in the picture of Miami's early arts scene

    ''It's a freak show, an absolute freak show!'' Helen Kohen chuckles. That's the false portrait of the Miami art scene found in the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, where Kohen has been sifting through almost six decades of locally produced television shows. Miami's TV stations ``weren't interested in the visual arts unless it had an absurd hook. For three Halloweens in a row, [then-CBS affiliate] WTVJ visited the home of a man who placed huge, grotesque sculptures on his front... Video Available

  • Don't box us in: A Wal-Mart in the emerging cultural center would be a giant step backward for Miami

    Miami has always been a city on the verge, and it's never quite clear whether it will embrace greatness or mediocrity. Drive up Biscayne Boulevard, a street with the potential for beauty and dignity, and you can see both possibility and stupidity -- whole blocks given over to fast-food franchises, sprawling corner gas stations and more. It somehow seems like a high-stakes game of Mother-May-I, with baby steps forward and a giant step back.

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    MAM exhibition focuses on `old favorites'

    The Miami Art Museum is exhibiting ''old favorites'' from its permanent collection, and some new acquisitions at MAM's Plaza-level gallery through Nov. 2.

  • Art Pick | `Let the Games Begin'

    A most timely show, Let the Games Begin: The Art of Competition and Just Plain Fun was organized by the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach to coincide with Summer Olympics in Beijing. The exhibition about the importance of games throughout time and across cultures is divided into five sections: the Olympics, Ball Games, Games of Skill and Chance, Just Plain Fun, and the interactive Game Room. The works shown, most part of the Norton collection, represent the cultures...

  • Not just talking trash: How a hubcap from Pop's '88 Subaru became art

    Three young artists from the Madrid collective Basurama, whose mission is to expose the world's waste, have been in South Florida for a week studying our discards -- and recycling them into works of art. Photo Gallery Available

  • Art Pick | `Livin for the City'

    Miami street artists take on social issues in a formal gallery setting with Livin' for the City, an exhibit and silent auction, a joint-project of Arts at St. Johns, downtowndiva art, and Imagine Miami. Mixed-media paintings such as Gerry Stecca's Livable and Connected Communities represent 'young, raw, informed voices speaking out in ways that have, in some cases, been censored or outlawed,' says curator Jean Villamizar. Other exhibiting artists include Krave, and Raymond Gems Adrian. They...

  • Living Art: Lofts provide community plus creative elbow room

    Tucked among the cottages and clapboard houses, the old bridge and green squares of Fort Lauderdale's historic Sailboat Bend neighborhood, a colony of professional and emerging artists flourishes in an unassuming concrete complex just west of downtown. Artspace Sailboat Bend Lofts, one of 21 such projects sponsored by a national arts organization and the first in Florida, is home to a broad collection of visual, literary and performance artists. Some absolutely embody the cliche of starving artist... Photo Gallery Available

  • Going beyond: Art to bite and delight on Galloway Road

    Tales from the far side is the sort of fun, mischievous exhibit Miami's rising-star artists used to stage before they became famous, before pressure mounted for them to produce -- then produce more, before every day turned into a hectic prelude to Art Basel Miami Beach.

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    Miami painter turns in an Olympic effort

    Miami-based artist Mark T. Smith, a New York transplant, has completed a painting, Olympic Dragon, to be used by the U.S. Olympic Committee in its promotional efforts to raise funds for American teams to participate in the Beijing games.

  • Art Pick | Pop Art

    Travel back to the 1960s and height of the pop art movement through I Shot Warhol, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and Indiana: Photographs by Bob Adelman and William John Kennedy, showing at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Adelman and Kennedy, two photographers who now live in Miami, had access to Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), James Rosenquist (1933-) and Robert Indiana (1928-) when they became key players in the pop art movement.

  • Dressing Drama: Celebrating the allegorical mysteries of Spain's `Shakespeare'

    How do you dress Death, Vice, Guilt, Hope? If you're a Spanish costume designer interpreting these characters from the allegorical religious plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca -- and yes, Death, Vice, Guilt and Hope prance on stage, as do Charity, Faith and Rage -- you clothe them with so much imagination that the costumes become works of art. Photo Gallery Available

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    X-rays: Picasso's 'Guernica' the picture of health

    . Picasso's masterpiece Guernica depicts intense suffering, but its health is not in danger. That's the diagnosis after the first X-ray of Pablo Picasso's 20th century anti-war painting carried out by the Reina Sofia art museum.

  • Art Pick | `Thirteen_08'

    From obesity to gun violence, the 13 South Florida artists who won the South Florida Cultural Consortium Juried Exhibition of 2008 tackle social and environmental ills in an impressive range of mediums. Thirteen_08, a show of their winning work is on exhibit at the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale through Oct. 6. Among the most eye-catching are the digital graphite illustrations of Diane Arrieta, a 40-year-old artist from Tequesta in South Palm Beach County. Pictured above is I'm Loving It...

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