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ArtMurmur is all about South Florida art. Posts here will include mini-interviews with artists, details on recent and upcoming shows, tips on places to explore art, quotes heard while eavesdropping at art shows and, of course, plenty of photos ... everything we can squeeze in here about South Florida art and the people who create and support it. The image that accompanies this text will always be the work of a local artist, a different one each week or so. Submissions are encouraged. My e-mail: colleen.dougher@gmail.com.

This week's featured works are dolls by South Florida doll maker Rosanna Pereyra. For more information about Pereyra, see the Oct. 16 Fresh Art post.

Old-School Twitter Widget

Twitter widgets don't work on this blog, so I regularly run this Old-School Twitter Widget feature so I can share some of the art Tweets that you could see here on this page if I had a real Twitter widget. Here's a list of recent Tweets: ▪ Thursday: Francesco LoCastro's 305//Neon Life show opens 6-8 p.m. @ Kidrobot Miami ▪ Check out the musici...

Blood, brains, pumpkins and Altoid zombies

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Halloween, a holiday that’s all about carving pumpkins, making costumes and baking holiday treats, brings out the creative side of people, particularly artists, many of whom use the holiday to explore the darker side of things This week, we shined our glow sticks into the darkest of places and found 17 local artists who created their own a...

Hitting the links

Went surfing for local art news tonight. Here's what I found .... ▪ PinkGhost has posted pics on its blog from the Julie West opening this past weekend ... and prints and originals from the show are still available. ▪ Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach is hosting Dia De Los Muertos, a nght of studio tours, socialization and artist Bethany K...

Carolina Franco @ Undergrounds Coffeehaus

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"What We Are Made Of," Carolina Franco's solo exhibition of works she has completed in the past three years, will open at Undergrounds Coffeehaus tonight. "All these paintings [share] a connection with nature and human development," the South Florida artist says. "I create pieces that transport people in time and space, so they relate with their...

Art of the Weekend

Plenty of art events to choose from this weekend, so read on if you haven't made your plans yet, or even if you have: The opportunity to go to a night opening reception at Girls' Club only rolls around about once a year, and tonight is the big night. The show is Set to Manual, and what the artrists in this exhibition share is an up-close and pe...

Glitter Art Diva @ Stash Gallery

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Sue Zola buys her glitter wholesale or at monthly sales at her local Hobby Lobby where she gets $200 worth of glitter for half the price. There's a reason she's stockpiling the shiny stuff. She is Glitter Art Diva. Her shiny images of vintage ads, superheroes, snacks, cereal boxes, pinup girls, porn stars and musicians such as Cher, David Bowie,...

My Old-School Twitter Widget

Now that I actually find Twitter a totally worthy way to share the cool art-related things I constantly stumble across, I found a Twitter widget people can put on their blogs so their Tweets will appear right there on their blog. How great is that? But it doesn't work on this blog, so until I find something that does, I'll run this Old-School T...

Fresh Art: Rosanna Pereyra

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I remember having dolls as a kid, but mostly dolls that had some novel feature. One had hair that got longer or shorter if you turned a knob on its back. Another was called Baby Party because it blew party horns . One doll just talked, saying things like "Nighty Night" and "I Wanna Drinka Water." But two of my dolls weren't babies. They were old...

Mixed bag

I've been catching up on some local art news, so thought I'd share ... ▪ Local Motion recently visited Frost Art Museum and returns with the goods on The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama which includes a video installation from Laurie Anderson, but she won't tell us about that so we'll have to check it out for ourselves. ▪ The mu...

ArtMurmur on Twitter

ArtMurmur is now on Twitter. I didn't want to Tweet because it sounds like something only birds should do and I didn't foresee having anything meaningful to share in 140 words or less. But now that I've arrived here (thanks to a friend who twisted my arm until I cried), I've discovered that this is a perfect venue for sharing links to wor...