Art sometimes turns up in the most improbable places, manifesting itself in the most surprising ways. 9Muses Art Center is located in a nondescript strip mall in Lauderhill, and the artworks on display in the one-room gallery there, as well as those being worked on in the center’s adjacent studio…
There are no other Everglades in the world. The opening line of the late Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ famous The Everglades: River of Grass kept echoing through my mind as I walked among the 22 black-and-white photographs that make up “A Portrait of the Everglades: The Photography of Clyde Butcher.” Again…
On my way over to the Gallery Center in Boca Raton, I expected to find a row of quaint little shops side by side in some trendy shopping mall. With any luck one gallery might have some art worth getting excited about. What I found instead was a sprawling, 30,000-square-foot…
If you happen to stop by the Schacknow Museum of Fine Art in Coral Springs, resist the urge to take a closer look at the austere, enigmatic sculptures dotting the center of the main gallery when you first enter. They’re worth waiting for. Proceed, instead, to the immediate left, warming…
Realism is alive and reasonably well at Call of Africa’s Native Visions Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, which specializes not in the tribal art of Africa as you might expect, but in wildlife paintings, prints, and sculptures. One owner is from South Africa, the other from Zimbabwe, which is also the…
Performance art or happening? Light-and-space art or installation? The mixed-media art at Lumonics, also known as the Tanner Studio, resolutely resists categorizing. It’s all of the above and then some. The gallery is full of sculptures, some of which double as fountains. But then there’s also a small auditorium that…
Everything but the Kitchen Sink might make a better name for Art Frenzie, a new Wilton Manors gallery crammed with an amazing amount, not to mention variety, of art. Paintings and prints cover the walls, of course, but they’re also hung from the ceiling, placed on easels, and propped wherever…
The work of sculptor Duane Hanson exerts a powerful pull on people. It’s not unusual to see a handful of museum visitors clustered around one of his life-size, detailed, uncannily realistic sculptures of the human figure, inspecting it with both amazement and wariness, as if vaguely worried that the piece…
In a professional career that lasted just more than a decade, Keith Haring not only proved to be one of the most prolific American artists of his generation, he also forged one of the most instantly recognizable, unmistakable styles in contemporary art. With thick, bold strokes, he created a series…
The problem with “Sandro Chia: New Work” is not the art itself, some of which is quite impressive, but its presentation. The show, which runs through March 15 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, feels haphazard, thrown together, as if someone had hastily put up some pictures in the…
The fifteenth Miami Film Festival continues apace Thursday through Sunday with two works by Japanese director-actor Takeshi Kitano, a star-studded entry from venerable new-wave filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, and the most recent movie made by playwright David Mamet. Not forgetting a closing-night screening of Italy’s Il Ciclone, which has become that…
You will give yourself a migraine if you attempt to divine a theme running through the 26 films that make up the fifteenth Miami Film Festival. Don’t bother trying. A readily apparent theme does not exist — not that one needs to. International in everything but name, this year’s renewal…
Gertrude Stein, no stranger to the art world, once famously dismissed sculpture by complaining that “one always has the bother of being able to walk around it.” Harsh words, perhaps, but whenever I see some of the massive heaps of metal and stone foisted on us as public art, I’m…
The rooms in the paintings and prints of the young Colombian artist Homero Aguilar are empty — at least for the moment. Someone may have just passed through, leaving a door ajar or a window open, or perhaps someone hesitates beyond the frame, just out of sight, waiting to enter…
The juxtaposition, faintly surreal, reminds me of a shop I once saw in the rural Deep South, housing both a beauty salon and a hardware store. But Needlepoint Originals and Paradise Gallery (the italics appear right there on the business card), an unassuming little establishment next to the Riverside Hotel…
The big surprise about “Breaking Barriers: Selections From the Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection of Contemporary Cuban Art” is how little of this large, ambitious show is explicitly political. Sure there’s a nod to Che Guevara here, a reference to raft refugees there, and a handful of works include oblique…
