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SundialSigne and Genna Grushovenko are the artists behind this year’s poster for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival. The couple explain how they came to unite their love — and their artwork.
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Cuban-American artist Tony Mendoza plucks culture out of the air so we can see it. He tells Carlos FrÃas how he makes biculturalism tangible in South Florida.
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Thousands of people attended the latest Coconut Grove Arts Festival. An estimated 280 artists were invited to set up shop on McFarlane Road. Some were veterans — while others made their CGAF debut.
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As early as 1959, Frankenthaler became a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and had her first major museum exhibition in 1960.
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Hundreds of people each year parade the streets of Fantasy Fest in Key West after having their naked bodies transformed into artwork through detailed body…
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In the Jim Crow Florida of the 1960's a group of young African-American landscape painters became famous for their art. They also made a lot of money selling oil paintings that depicted an idealized, candy-colored Florida of palms and beaches, and sleepy inlets. These young painters came to be known as the Highwaymen, and they painted thousands of these paintings until the market was saturated and the whole genre vanished. Host Jacki Lyden traveled to Florida and explored their fascinating story. (This piece originally aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 19, 2012.)
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Florida’s natural world, like its social world, is of many minds: serene, clear, or bright one minute, then dark, indignant, or utterly furious the next.…
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A painter who lives in Miami and teaches at Florida International University has collaborated with inaugural poet Richard Blanco to create paintings based…