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The divine feminine interventions of Vickie Pierre on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art Vickie Pierre with visitor at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. BOCA RATON, FL .- Like the town crier in a fractured fairy tale, “Be My Herald of What’s to Come” rings in Vickie Pierre’s premiere solo museum show at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Grounded in the Arts and Crafts movement, her installations have a storybook feel. A fractured fairy tale is, after all, a new twist on an old story, reimagined and restructured for a contemporary sensibility. Just as fractured fairytales can be more subversive ...

This month sees the return of Bhakti Baxter to Miami at Nina Johnson, while Oolite Arts explores humanity's lost connection to nature in "Natural Transcendence."

Join award-winning writers Patricia Engel and Edwidge Danticat on Thursday for a virtual discussion about Engle's new novel, Infinite Country, hosted by Books & Books. The story follows Talia as she desperately searches for a way back to her family after being incarcerated following an impulsive act of violence. Her father is waiting for her in Bogotá with a ticket to the U.S., where the rest of her family resides. Infinite Country is a tale of family, love, and sacrifice and explores what it means to straddle two worlds and what challenges are faced by those living undocumented in the U....

March 8, 2021 The Department of Fine Arts presents an artist talk with Los Angeles-based artist Kori Newkirk, supported by the Forst Endowed Visiting Artist Program. Kori Newkirk creates mixed media artworks often inspired from cast-off objects found in his local environs of downtown Los Angeles. By using unpredictable materials such as pony beads, pomade and hair extensions, Newkirk astounds us by articulating complex ideas about our cultural memory. Newkirk’s provocative works, inflected and informed by his African-American heritage, poignantly remind us of our racist inhumanity. Newkirk ...

"You are surrounded by videos of what it would be like to be on top of the building," she says. "It is supposed to take you away." The projections — which videographer Pedro Wazzan shot from above at twilight, using a camera on a drone — document Tommerup's process: how she "liberates" her canvases before they enter into a gallery space. "For the first time, I was able to document pulling up all of the work onto the roof of the building and then, consequently, tossing the work down," she says. “Why would I want to toss the canvas? The idea was to expose the work to the natural element o...