Art Critic Elisa Turner: “Miami’s Art Boom”
ELISA TURNER is an award-winning art critic and journalist based in Miami. In October 2025 her book, “Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence,” was published by the University Press of Florida. It chronicles the city’s art scene from 1987 to 2007.
Read MoreArtist Solomon Souza Wears a Coat of Many Colors
SOLOMON SOUZA is a British-Israeli street artist. He is best known for spray painting portraits of contemporary and historical figures on the metal shutters of the Mahane Yehuda Market (“The Shuk”) in Jerusalem, turning them into an after-hours attraction.
Read MoreIn Memoriam: David Schaecter — Spearheading the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach & the March of the Living
DAVID SCHAECTER was one of the founders of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach and of The March of the Living.
Read MoreTruth of a Portrait at the Historic Hampton House Museum
YIGAL OZERI is an Israeli-born and raised photorealist painter based in New York City. Ozeri’s work has been exhibited extensively around the world in seminal galleries and museums.
ETHAN COHEN is a collector and art dealer based in New York City who specializes in contemporary Chinese art and contemporary African art. He was one of the first western dealers to sell work by contemporary Japanese and Chinese artists including Ushio Shinohara and Ai Weiwei.
Gilles Dyan: Founder & Chairman of the Opera Gallery Group
GILLES DYAN (b.1960) is the founder and chairman of the Opera Gallery Group, a modern and contemporary art gallery with seventive exhibition spaces worldwide.
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