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Environmental Awareness Celebration

Artmiami.tv 2012 Environmental Awareness Event

SATURDAY MAY 12, 2012 in Miami Beach Efforts to raise environmental awareness don’t end in the month of April; organizations and communities work year-round to take care of our planet and that is exactly what ArtMiami.TV and Greenpeace, in partnership with the Shelborne Hotel, are doing in Miami Beach this Saturday! Meeting point; The [...]

Billie Grace Lynn

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Legendary Awareness Artist Billie Grace Lynn is a force to contend with. Over the years she has invested a good chunk of her life amassing and collecting welding and sculpting tools in order to have everything she could possibly need to create her thought provoking art. Once she starts a project she will disappear in [...]

Lucinda Linderman

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Images of Yellow Loosestrife flowers often elucidate feelings of springtime. An evocative image created by the talented Lucinda Linderman. Only the image is not a bouquet of flowers, it is a sculpture made out of Caution Tape. Lucinda is one of the original pioneers in Awareness Art. The first Eco Art Movement was pioneered back [...]

Rosa de la Cruz

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Philanthropist, art collector and cultural incubator. These are the thoughts that come to mind when I think of Rosa de la Cruz. For the past 25 years and to this day Rosa is still remembered as the gracious hostess who would open the doors of her home to the public so they could experience her [...]

Javier J. Sanchez

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Is one of Miami’s most passionate and fervent art collectors. Much like artists who live, breath, think and dream about art, there are collectors who feel the same way about acquiring art. At the age of 8 Javier had already amassed an impressive collection of stamps. It was not until a family friend, Dr. Alfredo [...]

Jean Chiang

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Artist Jean Chiang has been fixated with her roots and Chinese heritage since the age of reason. Over the years her artwork has been inspired by her interests in anthropology, archaeology, architecture, astrology and metaphysics. After her arrival in Miami in 2001, Chiang herself became the subject of research. The investigative journey into Chinese history, [...]

Benjamin Grosvenor

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We are all born with a special talent. Benjamin Grosvenor discovered his talent for playing piano at the tender age of 6. The 19 year old concert pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is the youngest of five brothers and is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship. On Thursday, March 1, 2012 the [...]

Arteaméricas 2012

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THE premier fair of art from Latin America has arrived! Congratulations to Leslie Pantin, Emilio Calleja, Dora Valdes-Fauli, Maria Napoles and the amazing Arteaméricas team for their tenth year anniversary. The fair will showcase the latest trends in paintings, sculpture and multimedia. An interesting array of galleries from all over Latin America will be participating [...]

Manuel Carbonell

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Was regarded as the last of the Cuban Master Sculptors. He was a part of the generation of Cuban artists which included Wifredo Lam and Agustin Cardenas, who also studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” in Havana, Cuba. Carbonell’s inexhaustible vision and his ever evolving style are the product of a [...]

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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DANCE THIS WAY: Photographs by Mikhail Baryshnikov currently on view at Gary Nader Fine Art until April 8, 2012. The Latvian born dancer who electrified ballet in the Soviet Union before defecting to dance with major ballet companies worldwide is also a visionary photographer. Who knew? In fact, Baryshnikov has been taking pictures most of [...]

Jose Bedia

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Is the quintessential “Transcultural Spiritual Pilgrim”. He is the archetype traveler whose painterly passages refer to his experiences of mobility and transpassing. Jose in many respects is a modern day Indiana Jones. His trips abroad start off about his encounters and observations jotted down in his journal, followed by dialogue, apprenticeship and ultimately long term [...]

Art Wynwood!

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The VIP vernisage drew 5100 attendees and boasted significant sales. Amid multiple competing events, art collectors still lined up and peered through the glass to catch a glimpse of City Mayor Tomas Regalado, alongside Art Wynwood Director Nick Korniloff and Tony Goldman during the ribbon cutting ceremony. In celebration of the fair’s launch and in [...]

Edouard Duval Carrié

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Love has been the source of inspiration for artists since the beginning of time. Even as far back as 35,000 years with the recent discovery of the sculpture of Venus. Johannes Vermeer’s “Love Letter” gives us a blast into the past as we peek inside a dark room and beyond where a woman has paused [...]

Alejandro Mendoza

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The breadth and depth of the 20th-century phenomenon that is Cuban art is a fascinating survey and study. Renowned art critic and award winning author, Ricardo Pau-Llosa will be giving a lecture titled “Dwelling and the Cuban Imagination in Exile” at the Coral Gables Museum this Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm. The discussion [...]

Eleazar Delgado

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Started off his professional career in Architecture and Interior Design. Architects and draftsmen are artists by nature. As of late, more and more architects seem to be leaving their office jobs in order to pursue full time work in the field of the arts. Eleazar too has grown tired of the rigid form of expression [...]