The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami presents The Garden, the first major retrospective of Karachi-born, Brooklyn-based artist Hiba Schahbaz, showcasing fifteen years of her practice. Curated by Jasmine Wahi, the exhibition is anchored in the idea of the jannat, or the Paradise Garden, a motif rooted in Islamic tradition and Sufi poetry.

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

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.

“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

The Harlem Renaissance artist William H. Johnson’s prescient, social justice-forward final series of paintings is a testament to courage. Fighters for Freedom, organised as a touring exhibition by the Smithsonian American Art Museum curator Virginia Mecklenburg, features 29 portraits of change-makers—including Black scientists, singers, educators, activists, musicians and international leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture. This is th

The first major retrospective devoted to the Karachi-born, Brooklyn-based artist Hiba Schahbaz, The Garden, features works spanning 15 years of the artist’s practice—including loans from private collections, work from her studio and newly commissioned pieces. It was curated by Jasmine Wahi and is anchored by the idea of the jannat, the Paradise Garden, a motif rooted in Islamic tradition and Sufi poetry.

In the paintings on paper of Los Angeles–based artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez, each color has a defined function. “Each pigment carries symbolic power,” she recently told ARTnews. “Maya Blue connects us to our ancestors; red ochre records history; charcoal for transformation; and cochineal red stands for blood. Walnut ink has deep medicinal and artistic significance.”

This year the Bienal de Cuenca, the country’s premier international art event, celebrated its 40th anniversary with a thematic twist. Under the title The Game, the 17th edition opened on 24 October in the Andean city of Cuenca, a UNESCO World Heritage site perched more than 2,000 metres above sea level.