Travel around Miami

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As a founder of COBRA, the late-1940s movement involving artists based in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, Liège-born Corneille (real name: Guillaume van Beverloo) became identified with bold experimentalism. Featuring 35 of his works in several media, this exhibition shows him using garish colours to engage in a bizarre exploration of the links between sex and nature. Most of the paintings here date from the 1990s, proving that the 77-year-old has a creative vigour that many younger artists would envy.

This exhibition at the Dutch Nautical Museum allows children to literally step into the Bible story of Noah, where the noise of rain gets overpowered by the noise of animal couples barking, crowing, roaring, mooing, oinking and whistling. Besides a real ark, the story is brought to life with the aid of an animation film, paintings, children’s drawings, toys and illustrated bibles.

This, the third edition of Photoespaña, is a massive event and a must for lovers of photography. Comprising more than 70 simultaneous exhibitions, Photoespaña 2000, as in previous editions, is centred on the eight-kilometre Castellana, the wide boulevard running between Atocha station and Plaza de Castilla. Thirty-two of the shows make up the official section with the common theme of ‘frontiers’, the borders that define cultures, different artistic languages and the mutations implicit in processes such as globalisation. The other section, centred mainly on private galleries, is more diverse.

François Delfosse is to visual art what Sylvia Plath is to poetry and PJ Harvey to rock music. Using charcoal, crayons, Indian ink and paint, the Belgian artist depicts abstract images of confusion, angst and pent-up emotions that cannot fail to disturb. Traces of both Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat can be detected in his nervous breakdowns on canvas. This particularly applies to two works that he completed last year: ‘Morning are broken’ and ‘Edimbourg tatoo’.