Like many people in town for Art Basel last week, Miami pop artist Romero Britto went shopping for new works to add to his personal collection in Wynwood. Unlike most people, Britto came home with a piece of canvas painted by Bubbles, the celebrity chimpanzee. The jokes, they write themselves…
The folks at Borscht Corp. are having a tough couple weeks. First, they received a cease-and-desist letter from Chris Bosh, the subject of artist Bleeding Palm’s trippy homage Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse, just weeks before tonight’s planned Bosh Film Festival. Then, earlier this week, they experienced trouble…
At about 8:30 p.m. last night, the atmosphere in Katsuya, the lounge-y Japanese restaurant at the SLS South Beach, will filled with anticipation. Rumor spread through the dining room that Brooklyn Nets player Kris Humphries had made a reservation for dinner — and that his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, was on…
It’s time to add another title to the list of films shot in South Florida. The Magic City tells the story of a handful of a Liberty City community: Tiana and Nia, sisters who are abandoned by their drug-addicted mother; Georgia, the aunt who takes them in; and their neighbors,…
Larsa Pippen disappeared from Miami’s Real Housewives franchise after its failure of a first season. In Real Housewives of Miami’s second season, Pippen and her co-star Christy Rice were replaced by newcomers Lisa Hochstein (of “Boob Palace” fame) and Joanna Krupa (of “fur crotch” fame). But Larsa’s landed on her…
Borscht has set up its own celebrity-studded event this year — if you consider animals to be celebrities. O Cinema (90 NW 29th St., Miami) is hosting a petting zoo populated by four-legged friends you might recognize from the big screen, including pigs from Beasts of the Southern Wild and…
Gold-dripping vaginas. A vivid ’90s flashback. Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh as a displaced space prince. It can mean only one thing: Borscht is back. The Borscht Film Festival returns for its eighth edition this Saturday, but its main screening event at the Adrienne Arsht Center (1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami)…
At the Bosh Film Festival, presented at the Miami Art Museum (101 W. Flagler St., Miami), viewers can see Adventures of Chris Bosh in the Multiverse, a cartoon featuring the Heat star as time-altering, inter-dimensional space royalty. The film has become even more highly anticipated than it would normally be…
The 2012 Borscht Film Festival gets underway with FutureHistory at SoundScape Park (400 17th St., Miami Beach), where Coral Morphologic’s psychedelic films will be projected onto the brain-meltingly large screen typically used for classy symphonic affairs. The show begins at 8 p.m. and is free. Thu., Dec. 13, 8 p.m.,…
Borscht Film Festival 8 at Arsht Center December 13 to 16
Borscht Film Festival 8 Returns December 13 to 16
Today’s 12-12-12, not that you didn’t already know; TV and Internet news sources seem to be treating it either as a bonus holiday or a Mayan apocalypse training run — or both — since this is the last repeating date most of us are likely to see in our lifetimes.But…
It’s always a delight when Miami makes the pages of the Weekly World News. After all, the only thing that could make this town more wacky is a treatment by the people who brought us Bat Boy and who still believe Elvis Presley is out there, somewhere. The publication’s latest…
I don’t think he’s seen it,” says Nick Ducassi, sitting in the living-room-turned-office of filmmaking collective Borscht Corp’s headquarters. He sounds unconvinced as he utters it. But Lucas Leyva, on a break from editing film in the adjacent Florida room, agrees: “He probably hasn’t seen it. [The letter] came from…
Congratulations, reader. If you’re seeing these words, you made it through Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, the event’s biggest, glitziest, and most spectacle-packed edition yet. There were dozens of fairs to check off your list. There were parties galore each night, with free-flowing booze and D-list celebrities in abundance. If…
It’s early. Everything hurts. The sun is streaming through your bedroom window, the one with the shades you forgot to close last night — or was it already morning; had the sun already risen? — when you stumbled into bed, drunk on free booze and mind-screwed by all the freaks…
Artists like Trek6, CP1, and Prime have all added to Miami’s street culture landscape with new murals in Wynwood and Midtown. And that’s great and all. But no work of art has been properly feted in this town without popping a few bottles. Especially if they’re beer bottles. And free…
Miami Art Museum director Thom Collins announced this morning a $5 million contribution to MAM’s capital campaign to build Perez Art Museum Miami, its new facility in downtown Miami.The funds come from Miguel B. “Mike” Fernandez, chairman of the Coral Gables private equity firm MBF Healthcare Partners, and his family…
If you’re a responsible adult with a nine-to-five job, you may have wasted this whole week slaving away for the man instead of guzzling Champagne and eyeing wacky art installations like the rest of this city. Well guess what. It’s Friday, meaning that for Miami’s government employees, bankers, accountants, the…
The time has come. The big show is here. Before you know it, it’ll be Sunday, and you’ll find yourself wondering where Art Basel 2012 went. (Hint: You spent a good chunk of it in a boozy blackout.) With so many shows, parties, and other events competing for your attention…
The key to being as spooky as possible, according to Anthony Hopkins, is acting totally normal. In an interview with New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Hopkins offered advice to Mads Mikkelsen, the actor who plays his Silence of the Lambs villain, Hannibal Lecter, in an upcoming TV show. “The key…
When contemporary art star Jeff Koons immortalized Michael Jackson and Bubbles the Chimp in 1988, little did he imagine that the celebrity primate would one day follow in his footsteps to become the featured artist during an Art Basel exhibit. Back then, Koons created a series of three life-sized gold…
If you’ve been partying for Art Basel since Monday — and let’s be honest, who hasn’t? — you might already be feeling the need to slow your roll. But your unshakable case of FOMO (aka Fear Of Missing Out) means you don’t want to let any culture pass you by.Our…
