As Miami prepares for the annual glitzy fest that is Art Basel, New York City is experiencing a different kind of renaissance. Famed graffiti artist Banksy, the anonymous entity who has stenciled messages and icons in locations around the world, has undertaken a monthlong “artist residency” on the streets of…
If you’re the kind of person who looks at a conceptual work of art and thinks, “I could do that,” Design Miami’s tent this year is going to piss you off. (Also, stop that. You’re annoying.) If, on the other hand, you’re big on inventive architecture, natural materials, and site-specific…
Elsewhere on this site, you can read about Wynwood’s new Thursday-night art walk, organized partly in response to the raging, crowded party that the neighborhood’s Second Saturday Art Walk has become. Critics complain that Second Saturdays attract partiers, not art lovers, people who are more interested in boozing at the…
Eros. Narcissus. Psyche. Midas. The myths of Ovid live on in our everyday language, centuries after the Roman poet first composed them. And this weekend at the Arsht Center, they’re living on the stage, too. Metamorphoses, playwright Mary Zimmerman’s series of vignettes inspired by the works of Ovid, opens tomorrow…
There are about a million types of people in Miami: billionaires and day laborers, porn stars and conservative Jews, and just about every nationality on the planet. But when you really think about it, there are just two kinds of people in this town: The ones who are from Miami,…
Mornin’, Miami! Did you party too hard at III Points this weekend? Drink your sorrows away after the Dolphins’ loss yesterday? Or do you just hate mornings? If you’re dragging this a.m., then congratulations — you have something in common with Miley Cyrus. On Saturday Night Live last weekend, Cyrus…
Next month, the Holi One Festival makes its first U.S. landfall in Miami, aiming to draw crowds of neo-hippies to Wynwood to celebrate the vague concepts of peace, togetherness, and “the color of everyday life.” But behind the clouds of rainbow-colored dust, the business of Holi festivals is anything but…
This year, the biggest news in Miami’s art scene is the opening of the Perez Art Museum Miami, scheduled to coincide with Art Basel in December. But PAMM isn’t the only Miami museum with new digs on the horizon. The Bass Museum announced this morning that it will celebrate its…
If you had grand plans for an Everglades adventure or a killer scuba session in Biscayne National Park this week, think again. Thanks to Congress’ inability to get its shit together, non-essential government programs have been shut down as of this morning — and that includes both Miami-area national parks…
If you’ve been following the quest of Miami realtor Katrina Campins to sell houses to the South Florida elite, you probably need a more constructive hobby. And now, the TV station formerly known as the Style Network is forcing you to find one. The Style Network, which was known for…
When the curtain rises on Antony and Cleopatra at GableStage next year, audiences will be able to say they’ve witnessed the work of a bona fide genius. That’s because Miami playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, who reimagined the Shakespeare classic set in the late 18th Century tropics on the eve of…
Here in Miami, fitness is a way of life. And it’s not just because bikini season never ends (though that is one hell of a motivating factor). The Magic City crowd is made up of a unique mix of vain party people and neo-hippie health nuts. And the one thing…
Of the retro-looking motels that line the strip of Biscayne Boulevard between 54th and 79th Streets, the Vagabond Motel is the most impressive. Or, rather, it was; in recent years, the property was better known for its graffiti’d up walls than for being, as Curbed Miami described it, “the most…
“I really want to fly.” “It’s all about ridiculousness and just having a good time.” “We wanted to do something where there’s a slight chance we might die.” Judging from Saturday’s Red Bull Flugtag at Bayfront Park, the reasons competitors fling themselves into the bay atop their own homemade flying…
Rainstorms threatened Miami all day yesterday, but somebody up there must really love vintage movies in a retro, open-air setting. Blue Starlite Miami Urban Drive-In launched its soft opening week last night with Pretty in Pink and damn near perfect weather. The lot was already nearing capacity at around 8…
Single ladies of Miami, count yourselves lucky. Maybe you’ve made your way through every stereotype in the book, and maybe the slim pickings in this town have made you lower your standards. But look at it this way: At least you’re not single in Alaska. Unless you like your men…
Get ready for the Illuminati, historical mysteries, and flashbacks to Tom Hanks’ gross long hair. Dan Brown, bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol, is coming to Miami. Brown will launch the 2013 Miami Book Fair International and lead this year’s author lineup with an event…
When Miami gallerist Anthony Spinello learned that his gallery had been accepted to Art Basel for the first time, in 2012, he was in New York City. “In May of that year, I was invited to curate a special project for the Frieze Art Fair at White Box,” he remembers…
Inside Grand Central nightclub, the lights are dim and the music is pulsing. On the dance floor, beat freaks jump, bounce, and flail to the rhythms of a live DJ. In the corners of the room, onlookers belly up to the bar and sip their drinks. Every so often, the…
Sure, Miami’s an EDM-heavy, beat freak haven. But that hasn’t scared off other styles of music, especially those with close ties to the Magic City’s Latin culture. Just ask the folks behind the Cuba Nu-Wave Festival, bringing four multitalented musicians to the Gusman Center this Saturday to kick it, Cuban…
Just when you thought Miami couldn’t get any sexier and/or seedier, here comes Vivid Live, a strip club branded by Vivid Entertainment, known for distributing the celebrity sex tapes of Kim Kardashian, Farrah Abraham, and others. The club opens this weekend with fanfare usually reserved for Hollywood movie premieres. On…
Sure, Miami’s an EDM-heavy, beat freak haven. But that hasn’t scared off other styles of music, especially those with close ties to the Magic City’s Latin culture. Just ask the folks behind the Cuba Nu-Wave Festival, bringing four multitalented musicians to the Gusman Center this Saturday to kick it, Cuban…
