How The University Of Miami Uses Art To Train Future Doctors
The University of Miami is adding Baroque paintings and Greek vases to its diagnostic arsenal.Medical, nursing and physical therapy students at UM are supplementing their clinical training with visits...
View ArticleHere’s What A “Florida Man” Art Exhibition Looks Like
A group of Florida teens is embracing their inner "Florida Man" with an art exhibition at Miami's Locust Projects which, every summer for the last six years, has handed its gallery over to...
View ArticleAmerican Black Film Fest Returns To Miami For Good
The American Black Film Fest has announced its return to Miami Beach for its 20th anniversary next year. Originally envisioned as a destination event, founder Jeff Friday says the festival may be ready...
View ArticleArt Installation Explores Human Desire For Flight
In a room full of sand, Michael Namkung is exploring his body’s relationship to flight. The Miami artist’s new work “Flying Towards the Ground” is opening at Locust Projects, an art gallery in the...
View ArticleMiami Activist Mermaid To Perform Environmental Theater On Local Beaches
This is a story about a mermaid.A vigilante-environmentalist mermaid, and she can't stay quiet any longer. She needs people to stop polluting South Florida’s waters.“She’s the daughter of the goddess...
View ArticlePolk County Students Create Art Inspired By Sacrifice
Take the single word – sacrifice – and turn it into a three-dimensional sculpture that represents veterans, military service members and first responders like police and firefighters.It’s a tall order....
View ArticleArt Days 2015 Celebrates New, Established Artists In Downtown Miami
When Emile Milgrim left Miami for Oregon in 2003, she recalls a different kind of city.“There weren’t a lot of people living in downtown Miami, Midtown, Little Haiti, North Miami, MiMo, whatever you...
View ArticleOut Of The Dumpster, Into The Gallery: Obsolete Media Miami
Five-year-old Brian Eberhardt sits watching cartoons at gate D7 at Miami International Airport.But he’s not watching them on a phone, a tablet or even the television hanging from the ceiling. The...
View ArticlePaper Pavement: The History of Miami’s Streets Preserved Through Art
The city of Miami is rich with artistic, architectural and historic detail, but what can be learned from the streets themselves? Local artist Nick Gilmore explores the heavily used, but often...
View ArticleWynwood Welcomes Picasso
Wynwood is known for its world-renowned street art, but this month it has also been the temporary home of influential museum art in the form of etchings from Pablo Picasso in a show called La...
View ArticleHow Art Heists Play Out: Stolen Picasso One Year Later
Among the elaborate parties and gallery exhibits that come to South Florida every year for Miami Art Week, last year an usual heist became it’s own cause célèbre.Art crimes make up a $6 billion...
View ArticleNative Host Signs 'Intervene' In Key West
Key West has a lot of signs denoting historic sites. Most point to events and places of significance since Europeans settled the island in the early 19th century.For the month of March, four new...
View Article'Scrollathon' Workshops Teach Creativity and Personal Values
Lineth Mardomingo, a third-grader at Coral Terrace Elementary School, calls her latest piece of art, "Spinny Scroll." The piece is inspired by a memory: the time she dropped a crayon on the floor and...
View ArticleThe Instagrammer From 1969: Jonas Mekas Makes His Miami Debut
In a studio above a pizza place in Miami’s Design District, a film projects onto a screen. Scenes of life flicker past. The graininess and clothing style give away the time - late 1960s. But, the...
View ArticleParade, Permanent Exhibit Honor Keys Sculptor
On Michael Gieda's first day at work with the Key West Art & Historical Society, he checked out one of the society's three museums, Fort East Martello.There he found a couple of local artists...
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