It’s almost the new year, and the floor of Dimensions Variable gallery is covered in banyan branches. The remains of its Art Basel exhibit burst through the far gallery wall and stretch across the floor in all directions. Part of artist Fabian Peña’s “Death of a Printed Story” exhibit, the…
Not all sequels suck. Case in point: the Borscht Film Festival, which launches its ninth edition this week at venues across Miami. The work coming out of the Borscht Corp. film collective has earned major accolades over the past several years. Bernardo Britto’s Yearbook took home the Short Film Jury…
This time last year, the biggest thing on everybody’s Art Basel agenda was getting a peek inside the newly opened Perez Art Museum Miami. One year later, traffic and unpredictable rainstorms did their best to spoil the downtown institution’s first birthday party. But hundreds still flocked to the museum’s hanging…
At last night’s Vernissage, Design Miami celebrated 10 years of forward-thinking design in furniture, jewelry, and more. But many Miamians who came out to sip champagne and browse the booths were more interested in celebrating the local institutions who’d gained access to the tent for the first time. See also:…
Ask AholSniffsGlue what he has planned for this year’s Art Basel, and Miami’s favorite gold-grilled, eyeball-painting street-art genius admits the truth: He can’t fully wrap his head around all the murals, gallery and museum shows, parties, and film projects he has lined up. “I don’t even know where to start,”…
Are you feeling sad? Lonely? Has Art Basel got you down? You’re not alone — and the Institute of Contemporary Art is here to help. “I mean, who doesn’t need free therapy?” laughs Tommy Pace, associate director of the new museum setting up shop in the Design District’s Moore Building…
In 2011, Miami celebrated ten years of Art Basel Miami Beach with Picassos, parties galore, and one pigpen featuring a naked artist that was decidedly NSFW. Three years later, a pair of its satellite fairs is entering the double digits, bringing work and programming that’s just as exciting (and probably…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Animation… is the quickest way to get my thoughts out to other people,” says filmmaker Bernardo Britto…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. The art hung like sparkling portals to another world. Lining the walls of the dim room, lit…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Nery Saenz is a funny guy. Everybody around him can sense it. In fact, his friends and…
What’s the most important invention of the 20th Century? Is it the telephone? The assembly line? The airplane? Nope — it’s the birth control pill. That’s according to author and journalist Jonathan Eig, whose book, The Birth of The Pill, traces the pill’s origins and the risk-taking innovators who pushed…
When John Waters arrives in Miami for this year’s book fair, it might just feel like home. Waters, who directed Pink Flamingos and about a dozen other twisted cult films, is known as the Pope of Trash and the Prince of Puke; he’s most comfortable at the intersection of gross,…
Mike Birbiglia is a joke. No, really. He’s better known as a comedian, actor, screenwriter, author, and performer, of course. But when he steps onstage next Thursday at the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall, he says, he wants the audience to laugh not only with him but also at him…
What do Questlove, John Cleese, and Judy Blume have in common? One’s the hip-hop leader of the Roots. One’s the British comedian who rose to fame with Monty Python. And one’s the beloved author of young adult classics like Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Their careers and lives…
Get ready, Miami word nerds. The Miami Book Fair International is just two short months away. But you won’t have to wait until November to start planning your literary itinerary. Tonight at 6 p.m. the fair is throwing a kickoff party at the Freedom Tower to celebrate its 31st year…
Women get a rough deal in the art world. They’re underrepresented in the collections of many museums, on the walls of many galleries, and in leadership positions at arts organizations (where they’re usually paid less than their male counterparts). So “Jardim Botânico,” an exhibition of work by Brazilian artist Beatriz…
The spirit of Churchill’s Pub’s past is alive at Primary Projects. A taxidermied billfish, hung high on the first wall crowds will encounter when “Agalma” opens this Saturday, recalls artist Autumn Casey’s six years behind the bar at the legendary Miami dive. As the bar prepared to change ownership, Casey…
Popped collars? Too ’90s. Designer watches? Trying too hard. Slotted sunglasses, Kanye-style? You must be kidding. These accessories are for the clubgoing douchebags of yesteryear. But for the Miami bros of the future, the next big thing in club fashion is here. And it’ll literally get you lit. Feast your…
Alice Walker. John Updike. Susan Sontag. Jonathan Franzen. Joyce Carol Oates. What do these authors have in common? For one, they’re all National Book Award winners. They’ve also all appeared at the Miami Book Fair International. The book fair, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, has ensured that tradition…
Are you an expert at the “Conga”? Have you ever successfully turned the beat around? Does it seem like the rhythm is on a constant mission to get you? If so, you’re a natural for On Your Feet, the musical based on the life of Miami superstar Gloria Estefan and…
All month long, Cultist’s Miami Icons series has spotlighted Miami’s most deserving landmarks. There are the obvious choices, like Ocean Drive’s Colony Hotel. There are the historical gems, like Vizcaya. There were modern additions, like the Arsht Center. We even threw in a couple weirdo picks — El Faraon, for…
The Vagabond is back, baby. It feels like forever since construction crews took over the site of the former motel at NE 73rd Street and Biscayne Boulevard, the one where the original Vagabond, the standout property in a string of motels built in the 1950s, once attracted some of Miami’s…
