It boggles the mind that a year after Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans, nearly half the city’s residents have not returned home. Nearly 250,000 Katrina evacuees remain in Houston and Atlanta alone. Tonight, on the killer storm’s first anniversary, Share Our Strength’s Restaurants for Relief 2 seeks to assist Katrina…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
It Happened One Night, Frank Capra’s deliciously screwy 1934 romantic comedy, has shown legs, remaining one of the most popular films of all time. The only thing “It Happened One Summer,” on view at Dot Fiftyone, can muster for posterity’s sake is a lingering musty taste. This stale bonbon, stuffed…
Short on running time but long on edgy deconstructions of contemporary life’s weird minutiae, the films slated for this year’s Optic Nerve promise an enticing poke in the peepers. MoCA’s popular annual festival spools short films and videos by talented homegrown auteurs and will feature fifteen films stretching from one…
During an emergency, I sometimes can and will drive. For instance, when my girlfriend got decked by a medical test a few weeks ago and enlisted me to chauffeur her home from the clinic, I reluctantly agreed, even though it was the first time this millennium I found myself behind…
Ella: It’s ten years this month since songstress Ella Fitzgerald died. Fitzgerald, whose romantically distinctive voice has gently passed from generation to generation since her first recordings in 1936, didn’t so much have her own songs but rather made anything she sang an Ella experience. In the past year, Florida…
In Terminal Baggage, Paul Tei and Ivonne Azurdia have hatched a batch of quirky tone poems that center on what people do in airports while waiting, interminably, to fly. The result is a production that skids into turbulence yet hits a cruising altitude to deliver an evening of well-acted fun…
Like Rumpelstiltskin, the wily dwarf in the Grimm brothers’ fairytale, Jean Lurçat had a knack for spinning straw into gold. When wheedled by Picasso in the Fifties as to why he was weaving his pictures in wool, Lurçat, the leading revivalist of tapestries among his contemporaries, chided the old Spanish…
You might recall from grade school how Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill. The future prez busted a cap in a Spanish soldier, watching him fall like “a jackrabbit.” American sailors, blockading Santiago Harbor, called their dustup with Spain a “turkey shoot.” Catch mementos of the…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
Norberto “Bert” Rodriguez is an artist with a knack for applying the headlock. His works are relentlessly clever, crow-barring the protective layer off of the mundane, exposing and altering the muck underneath. Spectators encountering his work often walk away reeling, as if given the business, feeling conned instead. His stuff…
The audience waiting for the curtain to rise for The Mystery of Irma Vep at Actors’ Playhouse was a thicket of blue-hairs strafing the room with chitchat louder than gunfire in Compton, yakking about where to get their grub on after the matinee. Thankfully they were silenced by a stern…
Very little appears to be happening in some of Jamilah Abdul-Sabur’s imagery, and perhaps that is precisely her message. For her project, opening tonight at 6:00 at Diaspora Vibe Gallery, the young artist documented people as they navigated down-at-the-heels sections of Baltimore, attempting to focus on the socioeconomic disparities among…
Nicole Henry knows how to mesmerize an audience. Whether she is belting out “Fly Me to the Moon” or “Over the Rainbow,” Henry has a rare talent for commanding a room. Her voice has been described as lush, powerful, and sultry, as well as full of “emotion that seeps sincerely…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
Let’s face it, most people are afraid of something. An IRS audit. A cheating spouse. Catching an STD from a public toilet. Something. For everyone fear creeps in at birth. After getting all cushy as fetuses in the relative silence and peace of the maternal womb, we suddenly find ourselves…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since 2002’s “Miami Currents” that MAM…
If you come across a woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated, chances are she is wearing a swimsuit, because in the testosterone-laden sports media, many female athletes have a difficult time getting respect. Tanith Belbin, who skated away with a silver medal at the 2006 Torino Olympics, recently garnered…
Big Juicy Paintings (and more): On view through the summer, “Juicy” features nearly 50 works from the permanent collection, including a number of new acquisitions making their Miami debut. The brawny exhibit is complemented by a handful of works on loan from area collectors. This marks the first time since…
In his catalogue essay for “Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography,” on view at Miami Art Central, curator and art historian Okwui Enwezor refers to Kevin Carter’s appalling photograph of a naked and emaciated Sudanese child as emblematic of the West’s myopic view of Africa. The image was…
For those feeling blue that France gob-smacked the defending champs out of the World Cup and spoiled your party, you can still samba on over to the Miami Art Museum where Stephen Dean’s Volta keeps the dream of a Brazilian victory alive. Dean’s euphoric experimental film, spooling at the museum’s…
I’m So Much Better than You: Magnus Sigurdarson’s installation features four tons of Miami New Times papers interlocked like bricks to form a curving hip-high wall. It houses a DVD player and monitor where the artist is seen performing a puppet show in Xiamen, China. Sigurdarson, who was born in…
