Amanda Rosa | Miami Herald

The human experience is difficult to capture in words, but El Espacio 23’s exhibition, “Mirror of the Mind,” takes a solid crack at it through 150 artworks from over 120 artists.

The Institute of Contemporary Art announced that it has acquired the former site of the de la Cruz Collection. It had been previously been a free art space that had exhibited the internationally acclaimed art collection of power couple Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, for 15 years

The South Florida nonprofit Teeny Violini, a mobile music education program that reaches children from 2 year olds to sixth graders, partners with early learning centers, elementary schools, after-school programs and community organizations “to foster positive youth development.”

The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach opened “Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years,” a solo exhibition of works spanning nearly three decades that thematically focus on Feinstein’s childhood in the fabulous yet seedy world of Miami in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

While audiences and visitors may not notice the financial strain or behind-the-scenes scrambling to make this arts season happen, the arts industry workers that keep us entertained certainly do.

The Miami Beach City Commission unanimously approved a one-time fund of over $492,000 for 16 Miami Beach-based arts and cultural institutions at its Wednesday meeting.

Exchange for Change, which offers writing and communication skills-building classes to incarcerated students in South Florida correctional facilities, is celebrating 10 years of education this fall.

Vizcaya received $750,000 from the National Park Service’s Save America’s Treasures grant program to conserve the ceiling mural and restore it — as much as possible — to its former glory.

Longtime fans and local businesses have been racing to get their hands on new quarters embossed with a portrait Celia Cruz, the iconic late salsa singer.

While Miamians have felt the squeeze of rising rents as South Florida roils from an ongoing, well-documented housing crisis, many local artists, from early career to well-established, have struggled to keep up with paying two rents: one for a place to live and another for a place to work.

O, Miami, which organizes poetry programming and hosts an annual poetry festival in April, announced Melody Santiago Cummings and Caroline Cabrera will lead the organization as executive director and artistic director, respectively.

Miami arts nonprofit Oolite Arts has canceled this year’s The Ellies, its annual event that awards grant funding to local artists and arts educators. This comes after months of controversy surrounding the group’s removal a pro-Palestinian artwork from an exhibition.