Keiichi Tanaami: Reminiscence CollageInstitute of Up to date Artwork Miami, till 30 March 2025An icon of the Japanese counterculture who served as the primary artwork director for Playboy Japan, the late Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024) was enormously influential in his homeland’s modern artwork scene. His cacophonous imagery, mixing references to tremendous artwork and widespread tradition from inside Japan and overseas, imprinted on a technology of artists. Like many artists of his period, Tanaami was closely influenced by American tradition and artists. He emulated Andy Warhol, whom he met a number of occasions each in Japan and New York, by pivoting away from pure illustration in direction of methods like collage and printing.
“His graphic design was very inspiring to many younger generations,” says Shinji Nanzuka, the founding father of the Pop art-focused Nanzuka Underground Gallery in Tokyo, which began working with Tanaami in 2005. “His profession, which began within the late Nineteen Fifties, represents the conjunction between democracy and American widespread tradition in opposition to Japanese previous traditions.” D.M.
Set up view of Andrea Chung: Between Too Late and Too Early on the Museum of Up to date Artwork North Museum Photograph: Zachary Balber
Andrea Chung: Between Too Late and Too EarlyMuseum of Up to date Artwork North Miami, till 6 April 2025In her solo exhibition, Between Too Late and Too Early on the Museum of Up to date Artwork North Miami, Andrea Chung presents a strong investigation of motherhood, the Atlantic slave commerce and the legacies of commerce and labour. It showcases a number of our bodies of Chung’s work, together with collages on paper constituted of birthing cloths, lithographs and cyanotypes. The present additionally includes a site-specific set up consisting of bottles fabricated from sugar which are melting over the course of the exhibition.
“I’m drawn to the ephemerality of the fabric and that the work has its personal lifespan, so it may well’t be commodified,” Chung says. “I really feel unusual making one thing extraordinarily private or speaking about trauma after which considering that it may go up for public sale or be purchased and resold.” A.Okay.
A customer on the opening for Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years on the Bass © Zaire Aranguren
Rachel Feinstein: The Miami YearsThe Bass, till 17 August 2025Rachel Feinstein’s exhibition traces practically three a long time of the artist’s multifaceted profession, marking her first main exhibition in her hometown of Miami. The centrepiece is the brand new site-specific fee, Panorama of Miami (2024), a scenographic mirrored wall panel spanning 30ft that evokes Feinstein’s reminiscences of the town and the way it has formed and continues to affect her apply.
“I imagine that each artist’s life work and what they’re attempting to attain from making their artwork stems from their childhood sights, sounds, tastes and experiences,” Feinstein says. “Rising up in Miami within the Seventies and 80s was the fertile floor the place all my inventive visions have been born. The eccentricity, lack of tradition, encroaching jungle and faux-everything had an enormous impression on me as a bit lady.” G.A.
A satirical picture of Randolph Hearst options in a 1936 ebook of lithographs by the left-wing activist and illustrator Hugo Gellert Courtesy of the Wolfsonian, Florida Worldwide College
Hearst: Lampooning the King of Yellow JournalismThe Wolfsonian, Florida Worldwide College, till 2 March 2025The infamous media mogul William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was a pioneer of sensationalism, publishing exaggerated tales involving intercourse, violence and scandals of every kind with big lurid headlines so as to promote his newspapers. The good-grandfather of clickbait’s “yellow journalism” prioritised revenue over info in a battle to achieve readership for his New York Journal over his rival Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, which employed the identical unethical ways.
The Wolfsonian-FIU’s exhibition, curated by two Florida Worldwide College historical past college students, collects archival supplies from the college’s library with a concentrate on cartoonist caricatures of Hearst leveraging his media empire in an try to achieve political energy; he was briefly a congressman and unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York Metropolis, governor of New York and president of the US. Impressed by the fictionalised depiction of Hearst in Orson Welles’s well-known 1941 movie Citizen Kane, the present offers a peek into the backlash in opposition to the once-great titan as he languished, debt-ridden in his gaudy fort. E.G.
Marguerite Humeau’s otherwordly rubber, glass, silk, felt and wool set up*sky*/ey- throughout fabrication Photograph: Eoin Greally, courtesy of the artist
Marguerite Humeau: *sk*/ey-Institute of Up to date Artwork Miami, till 30 March 2025The French London-based artist Marguerite Humeau is a grasp of science-fiction, extrapolating future worlds knowledgeable by her research-intensive apply. For her first large-scale presentation at a US establishment, she has envisioned a future by which gravity’s maintain has loosened and Earth’s inhabitants are adapting to a newly nomadic, floating existence.
A video chronicles how this case took place, together with a mass migration and the rising of a brand new, humanmade solar. The present’s central, large-scale set up contains tree-like types and a gaggle of seemingly natural, floating figures, crafted from rubber, glass, silk, felt and wool. The ensuing otherworldly atmosphere presents a sobering analogy for our current actuality of local weather cataclysm and migrations spurred by floods, fires and heatwaves. B.S.
William H. Johnson, Boxers, 1945-46 Smithsonian American Artwork Museum, Reward of the Harmon Basis
Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing JusticeFrost Artwork Museum, till 5 January 2025The Harlem Renaissance artist William H. Johnson’s prescient, social justice-forward remaining collection of work, Fighters for Freedom, options 29 portraits of change makers—together with Black scientists, singers, educators, activists, musicians and worldwide leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Toussaint L’Ouverture. That is the primary time the collection has been proven collectively as a single physique of labor. Johnson’s Modernist model, described on the time as “fashionable primitive”, is characterised by easy types and vibrant, flat colors.
“In the course of the Nineteen Forties, photos of African Individuals have been typically destructive, a group of racist stereotypes meant to minimise Black folks and rob them of their humanity,” says Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian Establishment, which organised the touring exhibition. “Johnson supplied an essential counter narrative, displaying how a lot African Individuals had contributed to the nation’s historical past.” V.P.
Jacqueline de Jong, Flottant devant les yeux (floating earlier than the eyes), 1981 Photograph: Gert Jan van Rooij
Jacqueline de Jong: Vicious CirclesNSU Artwork Museum Fort Lauderdale, till 4 Could 2025The NSU Artwork Museum has organised the primary US solo present dedicated to Jacqueline de Jong, the avant-garde Dutch artist who died in June, aged 85. That includes work, sculptures, works on paper and magazines, Vicious Circles explores her curiosity in warfare, protest, humour and eroticism, in addition to her involvement with European avant-garde actions, together with the Situationist Worldwide and Cobra. The exhibition contains all the things from De Jong’s early summary explorations of color seen in 1962’s Doomsnight (Doomsday) all the way in which to extra figurative, harrowing scenes of the warfare in Ukraine in Mariupol (2022).
Though she labored prolifically from the Nineteen Sixties, De Jong has solely seen broad recognition in recent times. She died earlier than having the ability to see the present however labored intently with the museum for practically 4 years planning the exhibition. “Jacqueline is a part of this epidemic of ladies artists who’ve needed to wait till they’re on the finish of their lives to be critically recognised,” says Ariella Wolens, the exhibition’s curator. A.Okay.
Sonia Gomes combines secondhand textiles with on a regular basis supplies, together with driftwood and wire, to create summary sculptures reminiscent of Untitled from the collection Torções (twists, 2021) Photograph: Bruno Leão. © Sonia Gomes. Courtesy the artist and Mendes Wooden DM
One Turns into ManyPérez Artwork Museum Miami, till 16 April 2026One Turns into Many is likely one of the first exhibitions within the US dedicated to themes associated to Candomblé, an animist African diasporic faith that originated in Brazil within the nineteenth century. It contains works by ten Brazilian artists spanning the Nineteen Sixties to at present, most of which just lately entered the Pérez Artwork Museum Miami’s assortment.
“Maybe different reveals have referenced these themes right here and there, however none has targeted on them,” says Jennifer Inacio, the exhibition’s curator. “Nonetheless, it’s not didactic. The works ought to converse for themselves. Not all are particularly speaking about Candomblé, however quite ancestral historical past and the way that informs the current.”
Notably, One Turns into Many has an overarching concentrate on abstraction. It options a number of drawings by Tadáskía, who had her breakthrough exhibition on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York earlier this 12 months. Different works—by artists together with Emanoel Araújo, Mestre Didi and Antonio Obá—carry extra express references to Candomblé, honouring the deity Oxumaré, the rainbow serpent in Yoruba mythology that symbolises regeneration, demise and rebirth. G.A.
Translator 2180, a glass-and-fired-clay piece from Virgil Ortiz’s Revolt 1680/2180 collection Photograph: Addison Doty. © Virgil Ortiz
Virgil Ortiz: SlipstreamLowe Artwork Museum, till 11 January 2025The Pueblo Revolt of 1680, which has been referred to as “the primary American revolution”, was an rebellion by which the Pueblos, Navajos and Apaches banded collectively to run Spanish colonisers out of what’s now Santa Fe, New Mexico. Virgil Ortiz, an enrolled member of the Cochiti Pueblo, took inspiration from this occasion to create the round 30 works on view right here. Foremost amongst them are the ceramic figures that draw on conventional Pueblo methods he was taught by his mom and grandmother, which solid figures from the Pueblo Revolt in an aesthetic that blends historic and futuristic components. These clay items, a few of which additionally characteristic glass components, are accompanied by video, images, costumes and augmented actuality (AR) options. B.S.
José Parlá, Return to Miami’s Ancestral Circle, 2024 Courtesy the artist and Parlá Studios
José Parlá: HomecomingPeréz Artwork Museum Miami, till 6 July 2025José Parlá has had a couple of brush with demise. The Cuban American painter spent his youth as a “author”—his most popular time period for a graffiti artist—on the cut-throat streets of Miami within the Eighties. However dodging bullets was nothing in comparison with Covid-19. In 2021, he contracted the virus and survived a four-month coma, a stroke and bleeding from the mind. His gravelly voice, broken by the virus, is a continuing of the ordeal.
Parlá’s expertise provides the title of his Pérez Artwork Museum Miami present one other layer of which means. He’s not solely returning to his hometown; he’s returning to art-making after a near-death expertise. “It’s not simply me I’m right here to symbolize,” Parlá says. “I’m representing a tribe of individuals, younger women and men, who selected to make artwork in actually determined circumstances.” D.M.
Smita Sen’s exhibition on the Museum of Up to date Artwork North Miami contains sculpture, works on paper and efficiency items Photograph: Zachary Balber
Smita Sen: EmbodiedMuseum of Up to date Artwork North Miami, till 6 April 2025Smita Sen’s sculptures, performances and works on paper discover the motion of the physique by area and time, with a watch in direction of the emotional weight it inevitably accumulates. Incorporating 3D fashions and scans, Sen considers the ways in which our bodies internalise their atmosphere and the reminiscences they gather. She makes an attempt to work by the grief and trauma saved inside by way of meditative workouts and narrative medication drawn from South Asian cultural and spiritual practices.
A dancer by coaching, Sen typically makes use of her personal experiences of harm, each bodily and emotional, in her work. Notably, she considers the bodily illnesses, or “ghost pains”, that she skilled throughout her father’s final days and after his demise in 2019. Her sculptures, movies and collages utilizing topographical maps function each tangible manifestations of grief and ache and tributes to her late father’s profession as a geologist. E.G.
Lauren Shapiro, Spectral Nature, 2024 Photograph by Pedro Wazzan
Lauren Shapiro: PasticheVizcaya Museum & Gardens, till 19 Could 2025To mark the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its unique inventive director, Paul Chalfin (1874-1959), Vizcaya commissioned the Miami-based artist Lauren Shapiro to stage a collection of interventions on the historic dwelling that resonate along with his legacy. In the home’s enclosed loggia, reception room and breakfast room, Shapiro’s intricate ceramic, glass and Plexiglas sculptures mix human-made and pure types to deliver the property’s lush vegetation inside whereas alluding to the motifs in Chalfin’s designs. The present’s title, Pastiche, displays Shapiro’s mixing of disparate methods and types, in addition to Chalfin’s omnivorous aesthetic.
“My strategy to creating objects combines digital fabrication applied sciences with conventional ceramic methods,” Shapiro says. “The ensuing artworks not solely spotlight every room’s distinctive traits but in addition characteristic a mixture of types from the pure world with Vizcaya’s design components, mixing architectural and natural shapes.” B.S.
