Miami Art Week 2002—Across mediums, and particularly within painting, the traditional art circuit seemed to be weaving itself into a new ecosystem, one that values the digital, the absurd, the commercial, and the culturally relevant.
When artist Glenn Kaino sought out the legendary Olympic runner Tommie Smith as a creative collaborator, he recognized the enduring value of art as a means to preserve a noble act. With Drawn Arms amplifies Smith’s courage, bringing history to reckon with our contemporary moment.
Creating Connections/Sparking Engagement, issue 4 of our Fresh Art International Research Guide, delves into the theme of social engagement.
In Toronto, artist filmmakers Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca produced the film RISE to illuminate the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves as the set where the collective’s poets, rappers, and musicians voice their experiences as first and second generation immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa.
Public art meets poetry in the month-long festival known as O, Miami. We sit down with visual artists Najja Moon and Michelle Lisa Polissaint and O, Miami’s managing director Melody Santiago Cummings to talk about their work and introduce site-specific projects that bring poetry to communities.
Before you begin your parcours of Miami’s ever-expanding Art Week, we invite you to consult our curated guide to singular experiences—from pop ups to performances,…
From Port of Spain, Trinidad, we live stream a special radio program about the significance of digital media as a contemporary cultural space in the…
Miami Marine Stadium inspires this tale of modernist architecture and Biscayne Bay, of speedboats and rock stars, of skateboarding, street art and a storm named…
Art with Caribbean roots inspires this episode of our radio show. Franklin Sirmans, Director of Perez Art Museum Miami, sets the tone, in his conversation with Cathy Byrd about…
The real premise is that I believe in looking at the difficult things that my culture wants to suppress and not examine. Carolee Schneemann talks about painting,…
