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Museum's Plan To Sell 40 Works Has Art World Up In Arms

By • Jul 30, 2017

A museum in Western Massachusettts has found itself as the focus of a recurrent discussion in the art world: Is it ever okay for a museum to sell some of its works for financial reasons?

For Van Shields, executive director of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, the answer is a firm yes.

Film Festival Kicks Off In South Beach

By Holly Pretsky • Jul 6, 2017
collabfeature.com

The second annual Miami Independent Film festival, or MINDIE, kicks off this weekend in Miami Beach. 

The festival will screen work that has been selected from more than 1,000 submissions in categories including short films, student films, feature films, and documentaries. 

One of the films, Train Station, is a collaboration of 40 directors from 25 different countries. 

The festival’s organizers aren’t from South Florida, but they were attracted to the art scene here.

Play Dominoes In An Art Gallery

By • Jul 6, 2017
Wilson Sayre / WLRN

Dominoes. The game is played throughout South Florida and Latin America at parties, in backyards and at parks.

Now, for a few weeks, you can play it in an art gallery in a show with some real Miami flavor.

Pérez Art Museum Miami has a new show called Spots, Dots, Pips and Tiles: An Exhibition About Dominoes, which takes the game as a launch point for art.

Traffic, Diversity And Women: Conversations From RadioFest

By • Jul 3, 2017
Wilson Sayre / WLRN

Warm weather, bad traffic, store-bought tits, the beach, diversity, rudeness and the women.

Miami in a nutshell according to the people we talked at our VoxPop recording booth during RadioFest at the Wolfsonian on Miami Beach.

It was Spring Break, parking was bad, music was bumping and people were more than willing to spout off the things they love and hate about Miami. (Especially when we were plying them with free coffee in exchange for the conversation.)

Take a listen:

What Does Heartbreak Look Like? Love Lost, Miami Is Accepting Submissions For Second Exhibit

By Isabella Cueto • Jun 19, 2017
lovelost.co

What does heartbreak look like?

 

That’s what the organizers of “Love Lost, Miami” want to know.  It’s an art exhibit that launched during last year’s Miami Art Week and is scheduled for a reprise this year.

 

 

 

The idea started as a conversation among girlfriends talking about the prospect of finding love in Miami.

 

Art Collector Sells A Lichtenstein For $165 Million To Fund Criminal Justice Reform

By • Jun 12, 2017

A noted art collector and philanthropist has sold a major painting for an eye-popping $165 million to raise money for criminal justice reform.

Agnes Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein's 1962 work Masterpiece, reportedly to billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector Steve Cohen. The sale apparently took place months ago; an art industry newsletter reported on the transaction in January, but Gund would not confirm it.

Fabric Of Soul Exhibit Portrays Richness Of African-American Life, History

By • May 11, 2017
Nancy Klingener / WLRN


The Colombian Pacific On Display In Coral Gables

By • May 2, 2017

I’m looking at a photograph of a shoreline on the wall at the opening reception of "Potente" through my smartphone.

Four little white dots converge in the center and all of a sudden the water begins to crash on the rocks.

How did this happen? For answers I spoke with Felipe Aguilar, creator of "Potente," the installation currently being shown at the Colombian consulate in Coral Gables.

Aguilar, a native of Bogota, Colombia, is a graduate of the University of Miami with a degree in filmmaking.

(Paper) Plants and Animals Invade South Florida To Create 'Origami Everglades'

By • Apr 25, 2017

South Florida middle schoolers are folding paper to teach their communities about Florida’s River of Grass.

Origami Everglades is an art project creating life-sized sculptures of the region’s endangered species.

Hear how the project uses a technique called “modular origami” to create the animals.

Origami Everglades is a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge winner. The Knight Foundation is accepting ideas for its 2017 grants through Friday. For details, click here.

Nation's Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S. Students In Visual Arts, Music

By • Apr 25, 2017

For only the third time ever, the government released today a national report card examining the knowledge, understanding and abilities of U.S. eighth-graders in visual arts and music.

And in many ways, the numbers aren't great, with little progress shown in most categories since the last time the assessment was given in 2008. One bright spot: The achievement gap between Hispanic students and their white peers has narrowed. But Hispanics and African-Americans still lag far behind white and Asian eighth-graders.

This Elementary Teacher Didn’t Find Art Books That Connected With Her Students, So She Wrote Her Own

By • Apr 24, 2017
Rebecca Hinson

What Will You Get If You Google 'Miami Inmates?' Hopefully A Poem

By • Apr 17, 2017
Gesi Schilling / O, Miami

If you Google the phrase “Miami inmates,” you’ll likely find stories about criminals and statistics about prisoners.

But a project called View-Through is trying to trick the Google search algorithm and introduce poems written by incarcerated South Floridians to those results.

Artist Sets Futuristic Dinner Party In World Reshaped By Rising Seas

By editor • Apr 16, 2017

What will our dinners look like when temperatures and sea levels rise and water floods our coastal towns and cities?

Allie Wist, 29, an associate art director at Saveur magazine, attempts to answer that question in her latest art project, "Flooded." It's a fictional photo essay (based on real scientific data) about a dinner party menu at a time when climate change has significantly altered our diets.

Love, Robots, and 40 Puppets: Kid Koala's 'Nufonia Must Fall'

By • Apr 6, 2017
Wilson Sayre / WLRN

What do you get when you combine 20 miniature movie sets, three-dozen puppets, a string quartet, three turntables and five video cameras?

Who Says There's No Money For Artists? The Knight Arts Challenge Is Listening (And Willing To Give)

By • Mar 28, 2017
Pat Farrell for Knight Foundation

 

 


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