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“In Plain Sight” at Tunnel Projects in Little Havana, is a photography exhibition by Miami artist and creative director, Esdras T. Thelusma (b.1989, Freeport, Bahamas), curated by painter Reginald O'Neal, currently on view until Jan 5th. Thelusma is known for his edgy portraits of hip-hop artists, but this show includes pictures of neighbors and friends as well. As the title hints, this exhibit reveals contrasts between humble surroundings and symbols of aspiration that serve

Born in Soviet-occupied Warsaw, Miami-based artist Justyna Kisielewicz’s paintings brim with multi-layered, socio-political references, humor, and kaleidoscopic colors. Her work will be shown for the first time at the Untitled fair during Art Basel Miami Beach after a busy year that includes five group exhibits in Paris, Warsaw, Miami and Bogota plus two solo shows. As an Eastern European living in sunny Miami, she personifies Untitled's 2024 curatorial focus of East meets We

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Textiles have been used as a means of communication for centuries; the word “text” comes from the Latin textus, meaning “woven.” Covering us from birth to death, textiles have conveyed symbolic, political, and spiritual messages across cultures from the Incan empire to Gee Bends quilters. As evident in the multi dimensional work of Miami’s Fiber-based women artists, textiles intrinsically convey both ideas of care and nurturing, as well as resistance and critical inquiry.

Instead of the Easter Bunny and its pastel-colored eggs, on this Spring Equinox I feel like this Mesopotamian goddess of love, fertility, and war is more in tune with our current global state of affairs. She is a deity of paradoxes, linked to the planet Venus and known as the “Queen of Heaven or Queen of Death,” embodying both creativity and love as well as destruction, conflict and power.

Recent Fashion Photography and Non-Performative Diversity Veronica Pesantes As a teenager growing up in Dallas, Texas in the pre-internet era I spent countless hours combing through fashion magazines, yet nobody ever looked like me. I emigrated to the US from Ecuador with my mother at the age of five. When she told me we were headed to the United States I asked her if that meant I would have blond hair and blue eyes when we moved? Somehow in Ecuador, by age four, I had alread

“The current art world suffers from an unsustainable hunger for more: more art fairs, more noise, more buzz and an ever-growing obsession with market price. Despite some record-breaking sales, the art market has been in decline for fifteen years. Artists, argues former Art Basel global director Marc Spiegl, create transformative objects and experiences, and encountering them should feel like a better use of money than anything else.