On the tail end of women’s history month, there’s some good news for the women of Miami. A new study shows that the Magic City is one of the best paying cities for women. According to the website 24/7 Wall Street, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale corridor ranks number six among pay…
Last week, New Times brought you the story of Doral’s Coco Farm, an illegally operated slaughterhouse that was recently shut down by Miami-Dade law enforcement and Animal Recover Mission (ARM). The 70-acre “farm” was not nearly as idyllic as its name suggested. Via our previous report: Animals were bought and…
In a community event held last night, arts funding organization the Knight Foundation announced that Victoria Rogers, executive vice president of the New World Symphony, will join the foundation in the Spring. Rogers will replace Dennis Scholl, the long-time head of the foundation who’s singular vision of the arts has…
Tonight Books and Books welcomes National Book Award Winner, Phil Klay. Klay’s story collection, Redeployment, sketches the lives of the young American men deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Klay, a former Marine who served in Iraq, draws fully-formed characters, and his collection is no mere celebration of military heroics. Rather,…
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s tumultuous marriage is the stuff of legend. In a relationship situated somewhere between codependent and abusive, the two Mexican painters married in 1929, divorced in 1939, and remarried in 1940. Though deeply fraught and troubled, the appeal of their relationship endures in large part because…
Last week the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) announced their nominees for their 2014 awards. The AICA-USA’s awards are meant to honor the best of American visual art, from museum exhibitions to performances, gallery shows and more. This year, Miami’s own Pérez Art Museum Miami was among the impressive…
Last night the creative set gathered together at the Coral Gables Museum to honor our ten MasterMind 2015 finalists and crown the three winners. Or at least hand them a check for $1,000. We’d like to congratulate our three winners: performance artists TM Sisters, experimental dance company Bistoury Theatre, and…
This Thursday, Pérez Museum of Art Miami (1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) will host the Miami premiere of Curtain, a performance piece featuring artist Daniel Arsham and choreographer Jonah Bokaer. The performance comprises three dance pieces: two solos performed by Bokaer and a duet specifically choreographed for contemporary dancers. Arsham, fresh…
Rather than argue endlessly about what to call Liz Ferrer’s work, viewers should simply experience it. “I think categorization is socially problematic,” Ferrer says. “Ideas and work… can exist as many different things; it’s hard for me to identify as one.” Consider her latest project, Subaqueous, an “underwater musical” inspired…
“Home,” painter John Bailly says, “is an abstract place.” John Bailly has spent most of his life thinking about the concept of home, as a physical place but also as a state of mind. Maybe that’s because the painter has never really felt at home anywhere. The 46-year-old was born…
P. Scott Cunningham is a familiar face on the Miami arts scene. The founder of O, Miami has done something that might seem nearly impossible: turned Miami into a poetry town. But Cunningham wants even more from the Magic City. He wants a “whole different level of engagement with literature…
It was the Shepard Fairey murals at Wynwood Walls that first caught Justin Peck’s eye. The choreographer went to Wynood Walls looking for inspiration, and he certainly found it. Fairey’s murals feature prominently in Peck’s latest piece, Heatscape, which will premiere at the Miami City Ballet in March. “[Fairey] works…
Every year, New Times accepts applications for our annual MasterMind Awards. This year we received more than 120 applications, and though it was a difficult choice, we’ve whittled it down to ten finalists. Each of our finalists will be featured in a upcoming issue of New Times. In addition, they’ll…
Miami filmmakers are having a very good year. With movies screening at both Sundance and its indie counterpart, Slamdance, everyone seems to recognize that Miami has become a major hub for up-and-coming filmmakers. Everyone but the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, it seems. Monday afternoon, Joey Daoud, coproducer of…
Tucked back from the street and hidden behind bamboo trees, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation is a jewel box of a building. Founded in 2002 the CiFo is the personal collection of its namesake, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, a prolific collector who’s amassed a collection of over 2,000 objects. While the focus…
Florida International University has raised more than a few eyebrows and the ire of its faculty over its agreement with the Miss Universe pageant. The university announced in October that it would serve as the site for the Donald Trump-owned beauty pageant, a decision made ostensibly to raise the school’s…
A floating sustainable farm, a edible park, and an innovative app meant to fix some of Miami’s public transit problems: these are just three of the ten Miami-based finalists of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s new grant program, the Knight Cities Challenge. There are 126 total finalists…
Star of Jane the Virgin, Gina Rodriguez, won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy. Rodriguez was obviously excited (and so were we) about her win, and she undoubtedly gave one of the best speeches of the evening. “This award is so much bigger…
Art Miami will celebrate its 25th anniversary by expanding to New York. The fair will be the newest addition to Frieze Week, the massive international art show that is generally considered to be one of the more prestigious fairs. Last week, Art Miami named former Armory Show head Katelijne De…
“What is a weekend?” Maggie Smith’s badass Dowager Countess once famously quipped on Downton Abbey. Well, we have an answer, and it doesn’t involve sitting around the house and watching the latest season of the dreary British melodrama. No — go out and enjoy the Miami sun and this perfect…
Cultist is looking to expand its roster of freelance writers. We’re looking for enthusiastic and reliable freelancers who can generate pitches and take assignments covering events throughout Miami’s arts and culture scene. You should be as comfortable blogging about The Real Housewives of Miami as you are writing about the…
Thom Collins, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), announced late on Wednesday that he would be leaving the museum to become the director of the highly respected Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. The museum’s deputy director for external affairs, Leann Standish, will become the interim director after Collins departs…
