February 2012
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Submit your Art Ideas to Knight Arts Challenge...
For one month, Feb. 21- March 19, KnightArts.org is accepting idea submissions from the Miami artistic community to compete for this year’s art challenge.
Considered as important art project nowadays, ideas that were previously submitted have found a home here in Miami-Dade County because of the Knight Arts Challenge: the New World Symphony’s Sound and Sight Video series; the...
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Sandra Montenegro Contemporary Presents YA SE LEER
Jorge Wellesley Cuba, From North to South (Diptych) Acrylic on canvas (27 5/8 x 29 3/8 in) 2011
On April last year, the Havana’s Wifredo Lam Center of Contemporary Art presented the exhibition “YA SEE LEER” or “I CAN READ NOW,” a show that portrayed the use of image and text in Latin American which was also privileged with a 2011 Honored Mention ...
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Isabel Allende Receives Lawrence A. Sanders Award
On Monday, March 5th, 2012 at 8PM, the FIU Wolfe University Center Ballroom on Biscayne Bay Campus will be the place to honor and celebrate the legacy of Isabel Allende with the annual Lawrence A. Sanders Award for Fiction.
Allende’s 19 books have sold more than 57 million copies world-wide and have been printed in 35 languages.
The annual award is given to fiction writers whose work...
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Juan Manuel Echavarría and Ursula von Rydingsvard...
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Droga, 2009, Cedar and graphite, 54 x 115 x 219 in.Courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong.
Photo: Rosalyn and Michael Bodycomb.
The Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series continues its 30th season with lectures by internationally acclaimed artists Juan Manuel Echavarría and Ursula von Rydingsvard presented by The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at...
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Inaugural Art Wynwood Reports Strong Sales
Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimaraes Video
After the VIP Preview Opening Reception on Thursday, which was attended by 5,100 collectors and art enthusiasts, galleries continued to report strong sales and promising leads from serious collectors on their diverse works by established and emerging international artists from more than 13 countries around the globe. “We are thrilled to see that...
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Little Havana Welcomes Mercenary Square
AHOL
Last night, large amounts of people gathered to celebrate a new hangout for the art community in Little Havana, Mercenary Square with an opening inaugural solo exhibition entitled Ahol: Full Time by Miami-based artist Alouishous San Gomma.
The unpretentious tiny space is located on SW 12 Avenue in a corner block that is developing as a creative niche for the artistic community in...
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A Night with Alexander Mijares at BALTUS
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Jewelry Fair BIJOUX! Opens at The Norton Museum of...
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach is presenting BIJOUX!, a contemporary art jewelry fundraiser, offering the public the chance to purchase one-of-a-kind contemporary art jewelry pieces directly from their creators.
With the goal of introducing to the South Florida’s community the best of the world’s art jewelry BIJOUX! Chair Donna Schneier visited one of the ...
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Jill Slaughter and Jay Michaelson at Next@19
Jay Michaelson
Next@19th taps into South Florida’s literary pulse with CHAIku, a recurring, free event that brings together writers and enthusiasts in haikus rooted in Jewish identity, culture and community.
Taking place at Next@19th’s downtown headquarters (137 NE 19th Street, just east of NE 2nd Ave), the al fresco digs bring new dimension to the soap box experience.
Guests are also...
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Conor McGrady, Roberto Visani and Ana Albertina...
Carol Jazzar presents “Full Spectrum Dominance,” a two person exhibition featuring drawings by Conor McGrady and sculptures by Roberto Visani, both Brooklyn based artists.
This will be the first exhibit at the gallery for both artists who will be in attendance for the opening reception on Friday, February 24th, 2012. Full spectrum Dominance considers the manifestation of dominance...
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Art Wynwood 2012 Highlights
These are this week’s highlights during Art Wynwood Fair 2012
Bollydoll
In celebration of Art Wynwood’s debut, guests at the VIP Preview on Thursday, Feb. 16, will have front-row seats to a special live performance and exhibit by Indian visual artist Amrita Sen.
Commonly known as Bollydoll, Sen is not only recognized as the talent who sang “Jai-Ho,” the theme song from Slumdog...
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Mercenary Square Inaugurates Space with...
Next week, there will be a new addition to Miami’s underground multicultural scene in Little Havana with the inauguration of Mercenary Square on Friday, February 17th, 2012 from 7 to 11PM on SW 12 Avenue.
An off-the-grid forum space, Mercenary Square will inaugurate with a solo exhibition entitled “Ahol: Full-Time, “ by South Florida-based artist Alouishous San Gomma ...
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Moving Jewish Culture Forward "Next @19"
Next@19th delves into the many facets of Miami’s diversity with Alejandra Czarny, a local Argentinean and Jewish folksinger who with Alan Reyna on percussion, Alberto Miranda on bass and guest pianist Dr. Alan Mason will perform for Next@19 a musical event that is bringing Jewish culture and its people together through artistic performances.
For this event, Next@19th invited Dr. Alan Mason, an...
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Enrique Martinez Celaya at Galeria Joan Prats,...
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Coral Gables Encounter "Bolívar Belongs to Us All"
On Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 the most successful Colombian theater company, El Aguila Descalza and Venezuelan-born, Miami-based artist Evelyn Valdirio will present “Bolívar Belongs to Us All,” an exhibition that brings together two artistic standpoints of the Venezuelan patriot and statesman.
The event will be hosted at Evelyn Valdirio’s home in San Miguel Avenue,...
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"Frames & Documents" A Tour with Eugenio Espinoza...
Tomorrow, Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 7PM CIFO Art Space in Midtown Miami will have a guided tour with Venezuelan artist Eugenio Espinoza.
Espinoza will take the public through a guided tour of the exhibition “Frames and Documents,” with a presentation by CIFO’s Director & Curator, Jesus Fuenmayor.
Eugenio Espinoza was born in 1950, in San Juan de los Morros,...
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ARTE/AMOR Fundraiser Event at Cafeina
In December 2011, Miami-based makeup artist Gabriela McAdams decided to organize and launch an event entitled ARTE/AMOR for 2012 to benefit the Florida AIDS Walk.
An inspiration which came from her willingness and desire to help others through the sales of artworks from her artists’ friends including her own creation, McAdams wanted to donate the most possible to benefit the...
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Fabiana Peña Pacheco To Exhibit at Elite Fine Art...
Fabiana Peña Pacheco is a Colombian-born artist who graduated from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia who first exhibited her engravings in a group show in 1993 at the Galeria Espacios Alternos de Uniadinos in Bogota.
A decade later, Peña began to have yearly collective exhibitions and in 2005, she began having solo shows of her works in Bogota and Washington DC that included ...
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Art Wynwood 2012
Spotlighting and projecting the Wynwood Arts District of Miami as a vigorous cultural destination, Art Miami, LLC., confirmed its exhibitor list for this year’s inaugural Art Wynwood which will take place during President’s Day Weekend from February 16-20, 2012.
Attracting more than 50 galleries that will occupy 100,000 square feet of space, the five-day fair will showcase...
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ArtCenter/South Florida Presents "Mapping:Time and...
Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin Double Self Portrait: Pennsylvania (detail) 2010
ArtCenter/South Florida presents “Mapping: Time and Space,” a group exhibition that redefines the map as a philosophical gateway to sex, consumption, growth and communication.
Interested in experimental ways of conceptualizing the map, artists Jake Margolin and Nick Vaughn, Rosa Naday Garmendia,...
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Casa Turquesa Presents "Latinoamericart"
This coming Friday 3rd, Casa Turquesa Art Space in Coral Gables will inaugurate an opening reception for the exhibition “Latinoamericart” with works by Ahmed Gomez , Aldo Menendez, Javier Guerra, K-cho y Lazaro Sigler , Julian Lopez , Evelyn Valdirio and Hernan Sosa.
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Second Annual Art Crawl: Graffiti by Bike
Saturday, February 11, 1pm
Back by popular demand, the MAM Contemporaries are invited to the second annual ‘Graffiti by Bike’ Art Crawl. Check out the latest and greatest murals in the Wynwood arts district with: Adam (Atomik) Vargas, your guide through “the streets;” Wynwood Walls’ Arts Manager Meghan Coleman; Aurelio Roman, who will give a historical perspective on Miami Graffiti...
