As eager tourists all over the United States gear up for what is surely an imminent easing of travel restrictions to Cuba, the International Center of Photography is turning its lens towards the island, offering a looking glass for those longing to uncover its enchantment and suspension in time. But…

Growing up Cuban in Miami was kind of like growing up Cuban in Cuba – if you were raised in the 1950s. Fidel may have taken their properties, their businesses, and their country, but he would never take their way of life, GODDAMNIT! Our parents did their best to assimilate…

In one of the gallery’s final shows before its forced relocation from their downtown Miami space, Dimensions Variable will present Voleur (thief), a two-day performance by artists Jamilah Sabur and Andy Robert. Voleur (thief) builds on the themes explored in Dimensions Variable’s recent exhibition, Sounds Like, in which artists explored…

When Christin Paige Minnotte moved back to Florida after spending years living in New York, she was taken aback to see the amount of plastic and garbage clogging our otherwise crystal waters. “I thought to myself, usually evolutionary adaptive mechanisms are [made] to help a species thrive. So why is…

Artist Carlos Luna has had quite the journey to his inaugural solo exhibition at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. After he was cast out from his native Cuba, Luna traveled first to Mexico in 1991 and almost a decade later to his now-permanent home in Miami. It’s an…

One of Miami’s most beloved fashion events, Miami Swim Week has long been regarded as the platform for swimwear designers to showcase their designs to a market that’s perennially clad in bikinis. And while internationally recognized swimwear designers like Mara Hoffman, Agua Bendita, and Gottex show up every year to present…

On Saturday, eager Mara Hoffman fans clamored outside of the former Versace Mansion for what was surely the most anticipated event of Miami Swim Week 2016. Hoffman’s prints have graced the runways countless times in Swim Weeks past, but this year’s show was a transformative experience.  Inspired by a holiday…

Earlier this year, we broke the news that Miami Beach’s beloved Swim Week would be stripped of its main event, and fashion fiends and PR mavens all over Miami unanimously lost their shit. Throngs of Swim Week producers, presenters, and aficionados took to Twitter to declare that the Swim Week…

Escaping Miami’s sweltering summer heat becomes top priority in July, and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) just gave us another reason to stay inside. In conjunction with PAMM’s ongoing exhibition “Poetics of Relation,” the museum will host weekly film screenings presented by Cinémathèque de Tangier, the first cultural cinema in…

Like most museum exhibitions, HistoryMiami’s “Operation Pedro Pan: The Cuban Children’s Exodus” has been planned for years. Museum President Stuart A. Chase has been gathering financial resources and artifacts in anticipation of the exhibition since 2012. It’s pure coincidence that the exhibition debuted only months after President Obama announced he…

“All handiwork is not necessarily good, but all good work is handiwork,” was the motto of the man that founded the Newcomb Pottery movement, an enterprise presumably created as a correction for the idle hands of turn-of-the-century women. Founded in 1895, the Newcomb Pottery group had a long run, producing…

The powers-that-be at the freshly minted Institute of Contemporary Art are quite used to getting what they want. The board, comprised of former m embers of MOCA North Miami, walked away from their long tenure at MOCA with enough art and museum staff to open a new, privately funded museum…

Ever sit around complaining about Miami, wishing it were more like New York or L.A., and vowing to move away from this place totally devoid of culture and human connection? Well, the New Tropic thinks its time we all get together and do something about it. The fledgling media and…

The Bass Museum of Art announced it would donate over 400 works of art by Miami artist Purvis Young to the Black Archives History and Research Foundation of South Florida, an unprecedented gift by the Museum to one of South Florida’s largest African-American arts organizations. The gift comes on the…

If “FP01” was about the role fashion plays in social evolution, “FP02: Morphing” was an homage to fashion as individual expression. Perspective and personal preference can certainly influence how we view an object; consider the rise of the fashion blogger as an example of this concept. Why else would multi-million…

After a search that lasted over a year, the Wolfsonian-FIU has announced it has hired Timothy Rodgers as their new director. His appointment officially begins on July 1. Rodgers comes to FIU from the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), where he served as Director for the past six years…

One of Miami’s most anticipated summer events just lost its top. Miami’s annual Swim Week, a series of fashion shows, parties and trade exhibits, announced its flagship event would not be held this year. Executives at IMG Fashion, the producers of the show’s main event, announced they would be “postponing” their…

#CubanWaysToDie has been trending on Twitter this week, finally bringing awareness to millions of Twitter followers around the world that the struggle is real. If you’re the child of Cuban immigrants, then you know what we’re talking about. The chancletazos. The “eyes” from your abuela when you’re misbehaving at Sedano’s…

By now, Martine Rothblatt is used to making headlines. She’s launched four extremely successful and totally diverse ventures that have revolutionized telecommunications and life sciences industries. She’s the highest paid female executive in the world, earning $38 million in 2013. She’s a trans woman and an activist for transgender rights…