For the “Nothing Moments Project,” now at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, nearly a hundred writers, artists, and designers were invited to participate in “a collaborative project in art, literature and design.” This strangely compelling exhibition collects the results: two dozen limited-edition books and more than 400 drawings…

Simply put, it has been a banner year for Latin American art in South Florida. Consider that we have already seen such major shows as “Wifredo Lam in North America” at the Miami Art Museum, “Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art” at the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale, and “Of Rage…

The brochure for “José Clemente Orozco: The Graphic Work” quotes the great Mexican muralist as once saying, “And after all, isn’t it possible to make the most marvelous picture with only a pencil on any piece of paper?” The nearly three dozen works in this exquisite little exhibition, now winding…

Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín — This relatively small but extremely powerful exhibition includes not quite 50 paintings and prints and more than two dozen drawings by the great but underexposed Ecuadorian artist Guayasamín, who died in 1999 at age 79. The introduction to the show…

Under the Influence” is nothing if not ambitious: more than 60 artists, some represented by more than one work; three curators, all artists in their own right; and two separate venues, one of which will display its portion of the show for nearly a full year. The exhibition is a…

Too much of a good thing,” Mae West once famously said, “can be wonderful.” Or, as in the case of “Yuroz: Retrospective 1986-2008,” now at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, too much of a good thing can be, well, too much. In 2005, the Coral Springs Museum presented roughly…

As intensely as I admire “Pablo Picasso Ceramics/Carlos Luna Paintings,” the splashy new exhibition at the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale, I can’t help but wonder whether a lot of people will exit puzzled. It’s not so much that Luna is “difficult” — he can be — but rather a matter…

Are political cartoons art? As the title implies, “Art of Politics: Drawings & Paintings,” now at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, takes the answer to that question for granted. The show features dozens of works by Jim Morin, who in his 30 years with the Miami Herald has racked…

When artist and gallery owner Timothy Leistner slips and characterizes his by-appointment-only display space as “tiny,” he says his friends correct him and say “intimate.” They’re both right. Leistner’s spot in a cozy Dania Beach complex called Canterbury Square is currently host to the small show “Inside Out,” featuring the…

If you’re unfamiliar with Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín, there’s a good reason: His work has not been extensively shown in the United States for more than half a century. “Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín,” now at Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt Center Gallery in Boca Raton, goes…

Let’s say you’re a South Florida parent casting about for a school of higher education for your artsy-fartsy teen. The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale comes immediately to mind, right? Well, not so fast. A swing through the Art Institute’s current “31st Annual Faculty Art Exhibition” might give you pause…

The photographs of Alex Heria have an eerie quietness that’s sometimes at odds with the means of their creation. Take the triptychs from a series called “Roadside Gardens,” whose prosaic names belie their beauty: I-75 North, Northern Georgia, for instance, or I-195 East, Wilma Staging Area. Heria parked himself and…

Visiting “I Shot Warhol Wesselmann Lichtenstein Rosenquist and Indiana” is sort of like flipping through a friend’s personal photo albums — if your friend has also been friends with some of the top names in pop art. The exhibition, now winding down at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, includes…

Just as there’s often an idiot with a cell phone on hand to disrupt your moviegoing, sooner or later some short-fingered vulgarian with a bad attitude will show up to add a sour note to your museum experience. Case in point: A friend and I were at the Boca Raton…

Nobody portrays entrails as beautifully as Carol Prusa. Stripped of all their bloody messiness, pale organs float in a sort of stylized heavenly realm in her mixed-media paintings, a reminder that the words ether and ethereal share a common root. Ducts trail away from body parts, curling into plantlike tendrils…

Just in case you don’t pick up on it the instant you walk in, the key to “Nathan Sawaya: The Art of the Brick” can be found in a sculpture on the far side of the main gallery. It consists of a roughly six-foot-tall reproduction of a pencil, standing upright…

While I’m not sure if I can claim complete objectivity, “Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art” is much too important an exhibition to let go unaddressed. So let me make full disclosure before I offer some commentary. A couple of years ago, when “Unbroken Ties” was still in its infancy,…

The come-on was seductive: “There is an assumption that patterns created by the stars carry an indisputable reality to them, and it is with this misapprehension that the viewer may become more vulnerable.” The words are part of a flier for “Jay Oré: Skygarden,” an installation of related works now…

Have you ever had the experience of getting together with old friends who seemed not themselves that particular day? That’s sort of how my most recent visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami felt. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was, but almost…

“Exploding the Lotus” is heavy on conceptual art — to the point, perhaps, of inducing a mild headache. The show, now at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, was jointly curated by the center’s curator of exhibitions, Jane Hart, and the New York-based Jaishri Abichandani, who’s also represented in…