Look, we get it. You’ve been busy. You’ve had important things to do. You had to travel for Thanksgiving, and then you had to go shopping for holiday presents, and then there was that whole week of debauchery masquerading as culture that just ended. Hell, you’re probably still hungover. But…
For the fourth consecutive year, Miami will be represented at the Sundance Film Festival, arguably the nation’s most prestigious film event, by the filmmakers of the Borscht Corporation. Sundance announced its short film program yesterday, including Yearbook by Miami filmmaker Bernardo Britto. The five-minute animated short will mark Britto’s first…
Look, we get it. You’ve been busy. You’ve had important things to do. You had to travel for Thanksgiving, and then you had to go shopping for holiday presents, and then there was that whole week of debauchery masquerading as culture that just ended. Hell, you’re probably still hungover. But…
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality… One can’t possess reality, one can possess images — one can’t possess the present, but one can possess the past.” –Susan Sontag Each of the four scenes in Sean Grennan’s play Making God Laugh ends in a family photograph that’s meant to immortalize…
If you’re a fan of the 2003 Will Ferrell movie Elf, you know that there’s only one appropriate reaction to the news that the stage version of that film, Elf the Musical, is coming to the Arsht Center this month: “SANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTA’S COMING! I KNOW HIM!” Yes,…
You know how you spent the past week: the endless art fairs, the busy party schedule, the regrettable mornings waking up next to that guy who convinced your drunk ass he was Banksy the night before. But what was Art Basel like for the VIP set? Judging from these pics,…
You did it again, Miami. You survived yet another Art Basel — no easy feat in a year that surely was the biggest in the event’s Miami history. You witnessed the opening of PAMM, the highly anticipated anchor to downtown’s new cultural center. You partied with Kevin Spacey and Real…
So you’re hungover. You’re tired. Your feet are still aching from spending all week in heels, and your apartment is strewn with event flyers you don’t even remember taking. There’s a lot you don’t remember about the past couple days, actually. You’ve been Basel-battered, Basel-bruised, Basel-beaten-the-fuck-up. But you know what?…
The city of Miami is fully saturated in Art Basel madness this week. But if there’s any news that can cut through the haze of champagne hangovers and celebrity cameos, it’s this: It’s Dave Chappelle, bitch! Update: After Chappelle’s first show sold out, a second, later show has been added…
Art Basel in Miami Beach may have begun as a snooty event for the arts elite, but these days, there’s something for everyone at the cultural mega-fest. (Well, everyone brave enough to join the endless traffic queues, anyway.) Proof: Today’s best events include both Martha Stewart and Ghostface Killah. You…
Art Basel in Miami Beach: It’s kind of a big deal. So big, in fact, that we at New Times couldn’t possibly cover its entirety in one single article. That’s why we’ve spent the past weeks — months, even — working on a wide selection of stories about its upcoming…
Uh-oh. Guess what day it is! Guess what day it is. Eh? Anybody? Mike. Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike. What day is it, Mike? That’s right. It’s your Art Basel hump day. No, it’s not Wednesday. But after the last couple days of VIP parties and satellite fair openings, today…
There’s a little art party happening in Miami this week. It’s called Art Basel. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s no big deal, really. Just a festival of culture collecting the world’s top artists, gallerists, and glitzy culturati, along with 50,000 onlookers who make the trek to South Florida for…
Miami’s art scene doesn’t pack up and leave when Art Basel ends. Culture is a year-round perk of life in the 305, and each year, New Times awards the city’s best creatives with MasterMind grants. New Times’ MasterMind Awards program seeks to give back to Miami’s cultural community in the…
The big news at Art Miami and CONTEXT this year fell into two camps. Scornful street art aficionados have railed against the fairs’ showing — and this year, selling — of works by the anonymous street artist Banksy ever since they first appeared at the event last year. Meanwhile, art…
Maybe you’re not interested in the upper crust Art Basel scene. Maybe you find the exclusive opening parties to be vapid and overblown. Maybe you hate drinking for free in a room full of bizarrely dressed strangers. Or maybe you just forgot to RSVP this year. Either way, if you’re…
Every year, people complain that Christmas preparations are beginning earlier than the last. But somehow, nobody ever stresses about Art Basel, which has expanded from a weekend event into a weeklong fest full of events, parties, fairs, shows, movie screenings, and more. Once upon a time, you had to wait…
Last night, while many Miamians were busy planning out their Art Basel event itineraries, an entirely separate arts organization unveiled its plans to help further expand culture in South Florida. The Knight Foundation announced the winners of this year’s Knight Arts Challenge last night, including 49 winners taking home a…
So you think you can Basel? Think again. In the annual arts mayhem that erupts across Miami at this time each year, there’s no way to avoid mishaps. You’re going to get stuck in traffic. You’re going to forget to RSVP for that Vernissage. You’re going to drink too much…
On a normal day, Miami is a mash-up of the world’s most eccentric, flamboyant, noisy, and colorful people. We dress for attention, we party all night, and we drive like madmen. Imagine, then, a Miami turned up to eleven, courtesy of an onslaught of cultural events followed by a slew…
We’ve featured the fairs. We’ve given you the galleries. But during Art Basel week in Miami, the arts cannot be contained to traditional venues. Every place in town wants a piece of the Basel action, from hotels to restaurants to random addresses in Wynwood. All this attention on Basel’s fairs…
Let the celebrity watch begin. At the beginning of this month, we speculated about the A-listers who might show up in Miami for some champagne-soaked Art Basel parties this year. But with the mega culture fest less than one week away, the time for speculation is over. And the time…
