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Michelle Weinberg wears many hats: working artist, gallery director, arts educator — and now, judge for the MasterMind Awards, a contest founded by New Times and...
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I would be hard-pressed to come up with two artists as diametrically opposed as Sheila Elias and Stan Slutsky, whose work is presented in a mismatched pair of solo shows at...
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It seemed like a cool idea: Invite a bunch of tattoo artists to put down the needle and pick up the paintbrush (or pencil or whatever). That's the premise behind "Off the...
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In the early 1960s, George Segal began producing the sculptures on which he built his reputation: life-sized plaster casts of the human figure, sometimes alone, often in pairs...
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New Times is excited to announce that we're giving away $1,000 apiece to four local artists as part of our newly established MasterMind Awards. Individuals can enter a...
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As one character says to another in the 1992 indie film The Living End, "You know what they say: Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach get paid 25 cents a word...
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The two-man show "Recent Works 09: Drawings, Paintings, Digital, Sculpture," now at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale's Mark K. Wheeler Gallery, pairs current Art Institute...
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While many of us are feeling draggy and listless during the hot, humid days of a South Florida summer, the seemingly tireless executive director of the Coral Springs Museum of...
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In the one-woman show "Passages," now at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale's Mark K. Wheeler Gallery, Art Institute instructor Jody Thompson explores her fascination with a...
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When I tell you the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood's big summer show features the work of a Jack Russell terrier, you'll probably expect a string of dog puns: "It's the...
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With a group exhibition, as with a party, so much depends on both the guest list and the host. In the case of the "58th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition,"...
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For anyone who has been inside the tiny display space that is Artist's Eye Fine Art Gallery in Dania Beach, a continuing source of amazement is the amount of art that owner...
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Two exhibitions at two venues take a look at the phenomenon of outsider artist Purvis Young. One, titled simply "Purvis," is now winding down at the 12th Floor Art Space at...
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The title of Vickie Pierre's "If You Win Me, I'm Forever," now
in the Project Room at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, rings
an ever-so-slightly ominous note as if to...
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It's hard to look at the crumpled black form that seems to be
crashing toward the bottom of the canvas in Cleve Gray's Death of
the Eagle (1977) and not see the eagle of the...
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There are ordinary framers, and then there is the Art & Frame Shop and the Williams Gallery in Davie, where owner William Bock is an artist himself and brings his well-trained...
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What impulse compels people to buy art and hang it on the walls of their homes? What drives them to share that art — or some of it, anyway — with museums so that...
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Would it be the teensiest bit ungenerous to suggest that artists, as a group, tend to be self-involved? Of course not. Artistic ego is part of what makes "Me Me Me Me Me" so...
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The people portrayed in the paintings of Andrew Stevovich tend to be social creatures. They congregate in places like an internet café, a cocktail lounge, a casino....
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A decade or so ago, I used to run across the work of David Maxwell in group shows on a fairly regular basis. I always said nice things about it, and one day the artist...
