Sharon Hayes is the winner of the 2013 Alpert Award in the Arts for visual arts category. 

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  • Dear Miami xo AP: an Introduction

    Dear Miami xo AP: an Introduction

    by Art Practical Editors

    Beer drinking is prevalent in this languid, tropical city, but in choosing a beverage, consideration rarely extends to hops or grains. The only thing that matters is the coldness of your drink as you settle into a long, leisurely conversation

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  • Videodrome Miami

    Videodrome Miami

    by Gean Moreno

    The resort, with its “striking and iconic design,” is going to magically complement so many existing buildings and other spaces that one starts to wonder where its iconicity will reside.

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  • Agustina Woodgate

    Agustina Woodgate

    by Tess Thackara

    Woodgate’s fluid and responsive embrace of the accidental means that side effects and by-products often become central elements in her work; residue that has collected around the atlas during sanding becomes its own topography

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  • Breakfast with Roberto and Rosario

    Breakfast with Roberto and Rosario

    by Kara Q. Smith

    Intertwining memory, both personal and universal, and place, both real and imagined, each of their projects creates a kind of shared experience that is often underwritten by a sense of optimism.

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  • Front Yards/Backyards

    Front Yards/Backyards

    by Laura A. Ogden

    Collecting all this information has meant crawling around every square inch of people’s yards and taking leaf samples from every tree, bush, and weed. We are also spending a lot of time talking to homeowners about the choices they make in their yards.

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  • The Capital of Caribbean Cool: Caribbean Diasporic Artists in Miami

    The Capital of Caribbean Cool: Caribbean Diasporic Artists in Miami

    by crystal am nelson

    When we look to Miami and talk about how diaspora contributed to its evolution as a unique cultural space, we are also obligated to discuss diaspora's influence on cultural production in Miami.

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  • Miami and the Architecture of Display

    Miami and the Architecture of Display

    by Renny Pritikin

    They stand like Ozymandias, warning of the lesser fate that can ultimately undermine the ambitions and pretensions of either a visionary artist or a collector.

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  • Culture, Commandeered

    Culture, Commandeered

    by Sarah Trigg

    Miami is a port of entry, and as such, its cartography is crisscrossed with the wakes and contrails of passing entities. These transported bodies—human, commercial, cultural—often come and go illicitly.

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  • Your Name Here: Private Collections in Public Places

    Your Name Here: Private Collections in Public Places

    by Patricia Maloney

    The County includes numerous unincorporated areas, regions not governed by one municipality or another, and it was hard to wrap my head around the concept that some places don’t belong to anywhere in particular.

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  • Art Pharmacology: the Conversations

    Art Pharmacology: the Conversations

    by Art Practical Editors

    Art Practical presented a series of talks exploring the attributes that define the visual arts culture in Miami. Using Renny Pritkin’s “Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene,” each talk focused on a different aspect of Miami's cultural scene.

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