From North Miami to Coral Gables to West Miami-Dade, a stupendous exhibition, a glittering museum expansion, and the sparkling-new Frost Art Museum show signs that South Florida continues flexing its cultural muscle beyond Basel. At the Museum of Contemporary Art, Anri Sala hijacks the language of cinema and video to…
What do Ted Bundy, Slick Willie, and Dubya have in common? They were all born the same year. 1946 also delivered one of our few remaining hardcore saloons. Fox’s Lounge is home to the city’s best martinis and a jukebox that rocks this town. Inside, you can imagine Johnny Wadd…
In the first post-Basel Wynwood arts crawl, a trove of riches remain on display in local galleries sans the migraines of maddening traffic and jostling crowds. This Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (3550 North Miami Ave., Miami), Hung Liu’s “Cycles” features a suite of paintings of…
The tents are gone and the handwringing dealers gone with them. This year’s Art Basel crowds were noticeably thinner. At many of the fairs, dealers reported drops in sales, and the focus fell squarely on the art — where it belonged. But the energy was still palpable, and a cheery…
If the names Mothra, Rodan, Anguirus, Kumonga, Kamacuras, and Gabara ring a bell, then you’re in for a treat. If not, don’t worry — these are not variations of exotic STDs. They are the names of atomic-age “kaiju” monsters typical of the radioactive Godzilla movies that emerged in postwar Japan…
Confronted by a crippling economic depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew how to get the good times rolling again. Just a few weeks into his first term in office, our 32nd president repealed the 18th Amendment with the famous line: “I think this would be a good time for a beer.”…
If you want to get an early leg up before Art Basel-phrenia addles your eyes, how about a dose of fresh French-Canadian roadkill to get the spirits in gear? Marc Seguin has left his snowbound haunts in the rearview mirror and brought his art to the Big Mango, hoping to…
John Henry is known for making a big splash. The artist has earned international acclaim for his powerful steel sculptures that soar heavenward in bursts of color, majestically altering many a city’s skyline. But for his current exhibit, the sculptor has taken his biggest plunge of all. Henry’s behemoths are…
Artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez has toiled mightily on her ambitious project “Giants in the City” to prepare for this year’s Art Basel, which runs from December 4 through 7. For months, she and nine others have been designing and constructing 30-foot-tall inflatable sculptures that will be lighted after dark, creating a…
If you’re piss-broke and wondering where to hide from the repo man, take heart. Tobacco Road, the Magic City’s oldest honky-tonk, is celebrating its 96th birthday bash with 96-cent drink specials from 6 to 7:36 p.m., and a night of booze-fueled revelry and musical merriment to drown your sorrows away…
At PanAmerican Art Projects, two Cuban artists level their gun sights on the Castro regime. Pedro Pablo Oliva and René Francisco Rodríguez represent different generations and approaches in their work, but their message is the same: Society on the island presents a soul-withering existence for its citizens. And this is…
When your father is the rebel in the family, what’s a young girl to do? For Marissa Chibas, the answer was to exorcize the demons of the Cuban revolution by relating the tale of three towering figures in her life through a provocative narrative of political treachery, personal tragedy, and…
The Undoing Through November 15. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 194 NW 30th St., Miami; 305-573-2130, www.galerieperrotin.com. Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Daniel Arsham makes you feel like you’re crossing the threshold into an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole, where elements of architecture and nature collide in a fractured…
Before Brian Burkhardt became an artist, he toiled in the back-breaking fields of east Long Island commercial farms, where his hands were often blistered by pesticides. “I was in my early twenties and picking strawberries with migrant workers,” Burkhardt relates. “I was getting these rashes all over my arms from…
Don’t confuse the new show at ArtCenter/South Florida with an autopsy of the presidential election or why the Dow Jones Industrial is undergoing death by a thousand cuts. Instead, Propaganda 2008 is a printmaking installation that satirizes mass consumption, communication, and sexuality in pop culture. Cooked up by the Propaganda…
In recent years, the contemporary art market boom has been sustained by young guys on Wall Street who are now out looking for jobs and can’t afford to buy art anymore,” says Gary Nader, owner of an eponymous gallery in Wynwood. “I guarantee that Art Basel will not be as…
Let’s face it. When we think of ancient artifacts, the first thing that pops to mind is John McCain. After all, he’s as stiff as a mummy, and his politics seem embalmed in a faded age. This Saturday, clear your mind of the petrified blowhard at the Lowe Art Museum,…
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum Through November 2. Lowe Art Museum, 1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-3535, www.lowemuseum.org. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday noon to 7 p.m.; Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Not your garden-variety tomb raider or occultist crackpot, Sir…
For those planning to flee the country next week if J. Mac and his dim-witted side-chick somehow swipe the election, here’s a chance for you to relax with art, food, and live music in a lush tropical setting before doomsday. Beginning at 10 a.m., “In the Park with Art” corrals…
At the Center for Visual Communication, the ghosts of a bygone era rise from the Big Easy in the haunting works of the iconoclastic photographer Clarence John Laughlin, who is often recognized as the first American surrealist. “Clarence John Laughlin: Poet Photographer” marks the first major exhibit of the American…
Conceptual Gepetto, Pablo Cano can usually be seen trolling his Little Havana nabe searching for discards to lovingly turn into enchanting marionettes. He fashions the whimsical creations from sundry found objects he uses to create amazing puppet theater works that have enthralled local audiences for more than a decade. Saturday…
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum Through November 2. Lowe Art Museum, 1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-3535, www.lowemuseum.org Not your garden-variety tomb raider or occultist crackpot, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie became known as the father of Egyptian archaeology. Today his discoveries can be found in more…
