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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.

Shake It Up

"Shake It Up,": billed as a "bawdy, brilliant, and beer-guzzling" series of original monologues that "turn Shakespeare on his head," will be performed tonight at AE District in Miami's Design District. The evening of cocktails and monologues is a joint effort of The Krane, The New Light Studio/Gallery, Schnebly Redland’s Winery AE Distric...

10x10

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Question: How do you lure 600 people to a storage facility? Answer: 10x10. That's the title of Kara Walker-Tome's annual installation art show in a storage facility. Walker-Tome is woman with a vision for art in odd places. She's the woman behind Showtel, a show where installation artists take over the rooms, and even the hotel pool at West Pa...

Time + Temp

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Harumi Abe is intrigued with the family photo albums that wind up at thrift shops and flea markets, and wonders how they arrived there. Perhaps someone died and left behind no living relative. Maybe a person went through an ugly divorce and ditched the albums to make a clean break with his past. Abe, a 28-year-old painter from Hollywood, says he...

Second Saturday

It's that time of the month again in Wynwood and the Design District in Miami, and this is the month before Art Basel, so there are many great shows. Here are some details on several of the events, and more may be coming in later, so the list could grow. ▪ Sacrificial Offering, Miami artist Rick Falcon's debut solo exhibition, opens at Butter G...

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 some recent select Tweets, though I may have added a little wordage: ▪ Miami Herald story on students from UM, FIU and New ...

How the Land Lies

For his latest solo exhibition, Miami painter Michael Vasquez mined his past for memories of the people who provided the support, encouragement and acceptance that helped him through his teen years in St. Petersburg. They were mentors, and like extended family. They were gang members.Vasquez says he grew up in St. Petersburg where he went search...

Everybody Suz-ercise!

The opening of artist Susan Lee-Chun's new exhibition on Saturday at David Castillo Gallery may feel like a trip to the gym, if the people at your gym all wore matching futuristic black and gold outfits, dark glasses and head gear while propelling their lives toward a utopian vision.“What I’m trying to portray is this faux real ventu...

Friday the 13th: Sacrificial Offering

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“Sacrificial Offering,” Rick Falcon’s upcoming show at Butter Gallery, refers not only to the sort of sacrifices the 27-year-old Miami artist learned about as part of his Christian upbringing, but sacrifices artists make to pursue their passion.A year and a half ago, Falcon, who had worked “as the stock guy at just random...

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...