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Snarkitecture established by Alex Mustonen & Daniel Arsham.
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New World Mural 1513 Foundation
At The Gables Hispanic Cultural Festival 2013
Le Jeune and Biltmore Way Coral Gables October, 26, 27.
The Gables Hispanic Cultural Festival had it’s 4th annual weekend street festival in front of Coral Gables City Hall .
Saturday morning Mayor Jim Cason welcomed everyone from the stage to get the Festival started then made his way up the Festival tents past a host of vibrant and expressive artists and vendors to the West end entrance, where he signed the Gracias Por La Historia canvases at the New World Mural 1513 Foundation’s tent. Mayor Cason then posed with a Conquistador helmet in front of a new mural made in partnership with Dade Heritage Trust for the Viva 500 Florida theme, by two of the original Freedom Tower, muralists from 1988.
The Gracias Por La Historia canvases filled with signatures by the end of the second day of the Festival, whole families donned helmets and feathers to be photographed together in front of the Map mural being raffled. The signed canvases are destined for the State and Spanish archive collections for this historic milestone in our State’s Viva 500 history and heritage. Families put the dates of their arrival in this area, they ranged from 1866 to less than 6 months ago.
The Freedom Tower Muralists were on hand to sign posters, they were also celebrating 25 years since their New World mural was created for the News Tower/ Freedom Tower in 1988, which commemorates Juan Ponce De Leon’s naming and exploration of Biscayne Bay and Tequesta Miami for two weeks in 1513 and reminding everyone that Tequesta Miami is the first Native American settlement discovered and recorded in the ships logs of Juan Ponce De Leon’s first expedition to the waters North of Cuba.
Major Jim Cason is quick to point out that sixty percent of Coral Gables residents and businesses are Hispanic in culture or influence and having the Gables Hispanic Cultural Festival is an obvious win for all. By the time he had made his way back down the other side of the vendor’s avenue the Stage area was well warmed up and sounding out Latin beats that would vary through the weekend from folk and gypsy to Latin funk and salsa beats.
The small Merrick Park in front of Coral Gables City Hall had shade and favorite foods found from all over Miami Dade County with kids activities and cool places to sit and enjoy the stage performers.
This was a new venue for the Gables Hispanic Cultural Festival, previously at the Ponce De Leon and Biltmore intersect and park area. Their partnership with Waste Management Inc, had positioned clean trash boxes everywhere with soda and water stands never far from any point at the Festival. The Festival ran till late Saturday night attracting the usual Coral Gables Miracle Mile crowd to come across Le Jeune Ave to eat and dance, Sunday evening the Festival ended earlier.
The Gables Hispanic Cultural Foundation really organised a very fun and secure Festival again.
http://www.newworldmural1513.org/
http://www.gableshispanicfestival.com/
http://www.gableshispanicfestival.com/
http://www.vivaflorida.org/Events/New-World-Mural-1513
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Brian Curtis Stonehenge Series I&II
UM Gallery Wynwood. Miami Florida July – Sept. 2013
Miami Art Reviews.
Brian Curtis is the head of under graduate studies in Painting and drawing at University of Miami, Coral Gables. The Stonehenge Series is a departure from his life and figure paintings.
The ancient (6500yrs) megalithic stone circle of England set against a tropical sunset may seem like a remarketing tool of artistic juxtaposition but a few days after meeting the artist ,looking west from Miami Beach’s Green Diamond towards Miami’s downtown skyline. “how much alike the set sun on these new Miami megalithic towers are to Brain’s recent series”. The use of the ancient symbol “Stonehenge” has proved to be very universal this side of the Atlantic. Miami has its own mini circle, dating from a similar time in man’s history, the symbol has always been associated with the psyche,spirit and meeting place.
Brian Curtis’s Stonehenges are keys to personal spaces,each sky appealing to each destiny, the brush work delivers only as much as is required with light’s fluidity and life’s color against stone cold realism. The paintings are accompanied with mythical tales, ancient stories and ancestral traditions of ritual. It would be easy to imagine any of these paintings being a subliminal morning flash or returning welcome in many people’s homes.
Brian has succeeded in fusing two specific joys into one language, he is after all a professor of Fine Art and his use of universal symbols to evoke emotion and mind is in complete tradition of the visual language of symbols that defines Fine Art from art in general.
http://www.brian-curtis.com/um_webpage/index.html
University of Miami Wynwood Art Gallery
Wynwood Building suite # 4 – 2750 NW 3rd Ave, Miami Fl. 33127
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MIAMI FASHION WEEK 2013 15th ANNIVERSARY AT THE 4th ANNUAL HUMANITARIAN AWARDS
Co-Hosted by Tiffany & Co. and the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Benefiting the Miami Fashion Week Foundation.
The 15th annual of Miami International Fashion Week., a Latin American and International fashion show in the USA, will
be hosting the 4th annual Humanitarian Awards on February 7, 2013, 7:00pm – 10:00pm poolside at the Mondrian South
Beach Hotel in Miami Beach Florida.
The Humanitarian Awards honors ten of Miami’s most dedicated and respected philanthropists for their giving to the
community. The fashion presentation by “Miami Fashion ICON Award Recipients” Nicolas Felizola, Julian Chang and
Viviana G for Petit Pois.
Beth Sobol, Founder of Miami Fashion Week, is surprised that it’s been 15 years, bringing emerging fashion from around the world to South Florida!
Miami is awaiting the arrival of the new 2013 Fashion Week Show.
Miami Fashion Week brings a touch of glamor to Miami.
scheduled for March 20th – 24th, 2013 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Aaron Perry.
www.miamifashionweek.com
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Design Miami.
Miami Beach Art Basel 2012.
Design by Snarkitecture Projects.
Snarkitecture is a collaborative work Art incorporating architecture, exploring and experimental with the element off surprise working within existing spaces or in collaboration with other artists, architecture and designers.
Snarkitecture was established by Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham and is represented by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin.
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MIAMI Art Reviews 2012
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