Viewpoints<\/p>\n
For the late John Baldessari, art was a means of exploring ideas and systems of meaning. Faces were often obscured with colored dots, to draw the viewer\u2019s attention away from an image\u2019s central figures to the surrounding elements. Often he appropriated images and text, arranging them in unconventional ways to upend traditional definitions.<\/p>\n
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\u201cJohn Baldessari: The End of the Line\u201d is on display at Perez Art Museum Miami through May 9, 2027. Here: a pair of 1990 photographs, copyright John Baldessari Family Foundation. <\/p>\n
Viewers can see 40 of those interpretations spanning his career at P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami in the survey show, \u201cJohn Baldessari: The End of the Line.\u201d Most of the works come from the personal collection of Miami\u2019s Craig Robins, developer of the Miami Design District and co-founder of Design Miami. Robins and Baldessari were introduced in the early 1990s by Bonnie Clearwater, now director and chief curator of the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. The nascent collector and the artist became fast friends. Robins bought three works that first day \u2013 and kept going. \u201cI thought he was one of the most visionary and special people that I have met in the art world,\u201d said Robins.<\/p>\n
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Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat from the Kenneth C. Griffin Collection are on display display at Perez Art Museum Miami through June 6, 2027. Here: \u201cIn Italian,\u201d from 1983, copyright Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. <\/p>\n
The Baldessari show runs through May 9, 2027. While you\u2019re there, be sure to see the spectacular exhibition of 10 paintings by the late Jean-Michel Basquiat from the Kenneth C. Griffin Collection, South Florida\u2019s largest Basquiat show to date; through June 6, 2027.<\/p>\n
P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; pamm.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n EXPLOSIONS OF COLOR<\/p>\n Visiting the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami\u2019s Design District is like finding the spot marked X. There\u2019s always treasure, usually overlooked or forgotten by the larger art world. This year\u2019s discoveries include a survey of works created over 50 years by painter Carroll Dunham, and Miami-based Diego Singh\u2019s first solo museum show.<\/p>\n While Dunham\u2019s work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum and New York\u2019s MoMA, this will be his first museum survey show in 25 years \u2013 in part because his later work is decidedly adults-only. Viewers can ponder Dunham\u2019s dramatic stylistic shift from abstract forms to cartoonish figurative images through the exhibition\u2019s 50 career-spanning works.<\/p>\n As for Singh, while his plays on color resemble a brain on fire, they also provoke the deep emotion that characterizes the best abstract art. Both shows run Dec. 1 to April 11, 2027.<\/p>\n Institute of Contemporary Art – Miami, 61 NE 41st St., Miami Design District; icamiami.org<\/a><\/p>\n GIFTED AND BLACK<\/p>\n Survey exhibitions of contemporary work by Black artists are surprisingly rare. Museums often focus on a single artist \u2013 as in the upcoming show of Bisa Butler\u2019s quilts at the Smithsonian \u2013 or stylistic approach, like the Museum of African American History and Culture\u2019s current exploration of abstraction by Black artists. Broad collections of Black art are generally held by individuals \u2013 which is how University of Miami\u2019s Lowe Art Museum\u2019s upcoming show came to be. \u201cYoung, Gifted and Black\u201d features 52 works by 49 leading contemporary artists from the collection of the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi family. Included are works by such established artists as Glenn Ligon, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker and Nari Ward, and younger voices like Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Vaughn Spann. Together the works create \u201ca snapshot in time,\u201d in the words of Studio Museum of Harlem Director Thelma Golden. Open Oct. 23-April 24, 2027.<\/p>\n Lowe Museum of Art, 1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables on the University of Miami campus. lowe.miami.edu<\/a><\/p>\n ON THE LAM<\/p>\n Wifredo Lam was, undeniably, the most important Cuban painter of the mid 20th century. His years in Europe brought him into close contact with other major artists of his time, exposing him to the most futurist ideas of the time. But rather than succumbing to any one style, Lam developed a unique voice shaped by surrealism, cubism and his heritage as the son of a Chinese immigrant father and a mixed-race mother.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art presented a retrospective of Lam\u2019s work. Though that closed in the spring, you can still catch two local exhibitions showcasing his influence. At the Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at FIU, \u201cModern Cuban Painters from Havana to New York, Revisited\u201d reprises the pivotal 1940s show organized by New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art that introduced the U.S. to Cuba\u2019s modernist masters; through Oct. 18. \u201cWifredo Lam\u2019s Legacy\u201d at the NSU Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale features works by Lam, Ray Azcuy, Jos\u00e9 Bedia, Mar\u00eda Brito, Agust\u00edn C\u00e1rdenas, Los Carpinteros, Kcho, Ana Mendieta, Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez-Ca\u00f1as, Mar\u00eda Magdalena Compos-Pons and Ricardo Zulueta, all drawn from the museum\u2019s collection; through March 14.<\/p>\n NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, 1 E Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; nsuartmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum – FIU, 10975 SW 17th St., Miami; frost.fiu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n EPHEMERAL NATURE OF BEING<\/p>\n What you see is what you get \u2013 but will it stay that way? Tokyo-based artist Yuko Mohri presents machine parts and everyday items as unwitting elements in an improvisational performance driven by gravity, light and time. The objects create discrete ecosystems often bound by unseen forces.<\/p>\n \u201cUnviolated Imperfection,\u201d Mohri\u2019s first solo show in a U.S. museum, spans three galleries at The Bass Museum. The first installation, \u201cDecomposition,\u201d presents familiar fruits as they decay. There\u2019s more than just blackening bananas; electrodes embedded in the fruit transmit electrical signals into sound and light tones that constantly shift. \u201cMor\u00e9 Mor\u00e9 (Leaky)\u201d reprises her 2024 presentation at the Venice Biennale, where water moving through an array of found objects creates a chain reaction of sound and motion \u2013 much like the ceiling leaks in Tokyo\u2019s underground stations that inspired the work. In a third gallery, \u201cPiano Solo\u201d uses the changing sounds of Miami Beach\u2019s coastline to determine the composition projected from the installation\u2019s central element, a self-playing grand piano flanked by a huge LED screen featuring scenes of the sea. Through May 30, 2027.<\/p>\n The Bass Museum, 2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; thebass.org<\/p>\n CONNECTIONS<\/p>\n Artgoers sometimes confuse El Espacio 23 with the P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami. The latter is a public institution supported by developer Jorge M. P\u00e9rez. El Espacio showcases art from his personal collection, a deep trove of works chosen by one of Miami\u2019s most impassioned collectors. Espacio 23\u2019s new show, \u201cNothing Is Linear: Relations Across Latin America and its Diasporas,\u201d explores the history, traditions and collective memory that transcend geography to create the borderless cultural landscape that is Latin America. Themes of migration, resistance and heritage are showcased in works by artists including Ana Segovia, Agust\u00edn C\u00e1rdenas, Tony Labat, Mariela Scafati, Julio Le Parc and Jos\u00e9 Parl\u00e1, to name a few. Nov. 19-Aug. 14, 2027.<\/p>\n ![\"Carroll](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ICA_Carroll_Dunham.jpeg\" "\\"ICA_Carroll_Dunham.jpeg\\"")
Carroll Dunham\u2019s \u201cFlood (Deep Blue),\u201d 1995-1996, will be on exhibit from Dec. 1 \u2013 March 14 at the Institute of Contemporary Art \u2013 Miami. From the Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann Collection <\/p>\n![\"Diego](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ICA_Diego_Singh.jpg\" "\\"ICA_Diego_Singh.jpg\\"")
Diego Singh\u2019s \u201cIn my Yellow Eye (Sin Nombre 3),\u201d 2022-2025, is part of the show \u201cDiego Singh: Deeper and Deeper,\u201d on display from Dec. 1 \u2013 April 11, 2027, at the Institute of Contemporary Art \u2013 Miami. Armando Vaquer Courtesy of CENTRAL FINE and Luhring Augustine Gallery <\/p>\n Yuko Mohri\u2019s installation \u201cDecomposition,\u201d 2024. Installation includes a vintage table, speakers, lights, 5 channel audio generated by fruits, and 5 LED lights dimmed by fruits. Photography by Koshiro Shikine. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. <\/p>\n
Ana Segovia\u2019s painting, \u201cHuapango Torero, 2020,\u201d is part of the show, \u201cNothing Is Linear: Relations Across Latin America and Its Diasporas in the Jorge M. P\u00e9rez Collection,\u201d at El Espacio 23 through Aug. 14, 2027. Courtesy of the Jorge M. P\u00e9rez Collection <\/p>\n