Biscayne Bay is lined with plenty of eye-popping structures fit for a sweet Architectural Digest spread, but none on that waterway is quite as impressive as Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. The Italian Renaissance-style former villa and estate of businessman and environmentalist James Deering was built on a seaside strip of mangrove forest…
Artist John Miller is a slender man with long hair and stylish thick-framed glasses. He is very thorough and detaile d as he explains the artwork he’s created over the past 35 years on display as “I Stand, I Fall” at ICA Miami. This is the first solo museum exhibition…
Miami Beach native and promoter Jose Pulido is all about passion. His enthusiasm is clear in the way his eyes light up when he remembers the “golden age” of Miami’s rock scene — of which he was a dedicated part — and the intensity with which they sadden when discussing…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced Thursday, February 18, at Artopia, New Times’ annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. Juana Meneses and Leila A. Leder Kremer believe art isn’t something simply for…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced this Thursday, February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture at the Coral Gables Museum. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. As a young kid growing up in Darien, Connecticut,…
As Farley Aguilar stood in a room overflowing with art fans among 14 of his large, bright paintings at Little Haiti’s Spinello Projects,his mother, ironically, tried to slip him a little cash. This was the opening of Aguilar’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and not only is there an…
Bill Maher had never asked his Real Time audience for anything. Until last Friday night when, seated next to Ralph Reed, Nicolle Wallace, and Cornel West, he requested one thing for his 60th birthday. He asked viewers to sign a petition to get President Barack Obama — who has appeared…
Upstairs, in a dressing room backstage at the Orpheum in Ybor City, Robb Bank$ walks in small circles, winding himself up like a spring, mike in hand and awaiting his turn onstage. It’s about 9 p.m. Saturday, November 14, the last date of the 21-year-old rapper’s U.S. tour, an all-ages…
Opa-locka, circa 1979. There’s a rowdy crowd of mostly black young men standing in anticipation of an illegal drag race. They’re like live wires — lines of dudes on motorcycles raring to take off down an unused airstrip. Photographer Charles Hashim isn’t concerned about being mauled by the wound-up spectators;…
The brand new Satellite Show legitimized artists and musicians of the more unconventional sort this Art Basel week. It reached its funny fingers all through the North Beach neighborhood, not quite used to the bizarre noise that comes along with innovative art gatherings. Taking place at a variety of quirky…
After a week of art partying during Art Basel Miami Beach 2015, we all looked a little haggard, like someone flogged us hard with the ugly paddle. But at New Times, we don’t let soul crushing exhaustion keep us from joking about some fine art or boobs! No siree! In…
While dismantling the home where Beatriz Monteavaro and her family spent decades before her parents sold it, the slight brunet artist and her sister found volumes of photos that told the story of their early life: of family gatherings, birthday parties, pets and people who had passed away, couples now…
Wet streets and way too many rowdy party options made this Friday during Art Basel Miami Beach 2015 a time to seek refuge from two kinds of storms. Over in Little Haiti, at Churchill’s, was a safe — albeit loud — space where people who both create and genuinely love…
Art Basel is finally over. The behemoth art fair that sweeps into our fair city every year has packed its bags and blown us a very European kiss goodbye. And in its wake, it’s inevitably left both the victorious and the conquered. We here at the Miami New Times have…
Seated on a chair at floor level, face to face with a tall, soft-spoken blonde astrologer Morgan Rehbock, I feel my hands start to sweat. We’re separated by a short table and fake candles in a breezy tented resting area in the center of bustling Art Basel Miami Beach. I start…
Chickens poke around in the grass as cars fly down NW Second Avenue past a bustling laundromat, botanicas packed with votive candles and cascarilla, and — just near 63rd Street — the neon-purple ampersand in a window that marks the contemporary art gallery on the corner. The gallery is the…
Nicky Bowe got his first motorcycle at the age of 14 in Waterford, Ireland. “It was completely illegal,” he recalls in his Irish brogue, “but I still had one.” Racing bikes was popular where he grew up. Specifically, it was the Waterford Freewheelers that got him into motorcycles. “Seeing them…
Before the sweet instant photographic gratification presented by digital devices, citizens of the world documented their lives using this very sensitive and fickle thing called film. It had a limited number of exposures and you couldn’t see what or if you captured anything until it was developed in your college’s…
Miami Beach has more contenders for newest, “coolest” hotel than the Republican Party has presidential candidates. And much more attractive ones too. But with its one year anniversary concert last night, the Thompson Miami Beach proved it was the clear winner in the categories of style and party production. Part…
When artist Magnus Sodamin was young, his grandfather would take him fishing in Norway before sunrise. His grandmother would accompany him into the forest to hunt for mushrooms and into the mountains with a spike and hammer to look for cool rocks. Before flying home to Connecticut, he would fill…
When you read about all the impressive things comedian and actress Margaret Cho does in the span of a year — both the volume of activity, level of impact, and quality of its humanity — it’s hard to think of her as anything other than a role model. It seems…
That Ricky Martin, the sultry Puerto Rican with a skill for shaking his bon-bon, was born Christmas Eve is no surprise. He’s certainly some kind of miracle child with the power to light up the darkest of winter nights. Not long after the turn of the millennium, I remember one…
