If our future robot overlords eradicate humanity, will a robot philosophy take the place of our humanoid musings? Luciana Parisi, a scholar of technology in culture, art, and politics, is researching the consequences of techno-logic, or the organic development of reasoning in machines. Her lecture, part of the Art…
Thursday Last year, in the midst of the presidential election, a play set in Mussolini’s Italy on the day of a parade for Hitler ran for a short weekend at the Colony Theatre. The election has come and gone, but the urgency of addressing xenophobia, hate speech, and violence has…
Baseball is considered America’s pastime, but other countries have been beating us at it for a while. Japan won the World Baseball Classic in 2006 and 2009, and the Dominican Republic snatched the crown in 2013. But hey, in Miami, our allegiances don’t always lie with the good old…
The finalists in New Times’ eighth-annual MasterMind Awards are a diverse bunch, representing the best locally created culture in South Florida. A group of editors and critics chose these nine talents from a pool of more than 80 applicants. The three winners, who will each receive a $750 grant, will…
Those who can’t do, critique (or write articles). So we at New Times make our contribution to culture with cold, hard cash for the artists and musicians who inspire its readers. Artopia is the culmination of our MasterMind Awards, in which three winners will be given grants to continue the groundbreaking…
Watching Antonia Wright’s Are You OK? is uncomfortable. As she weeps on the street behind what used to be the Miami Art Museum, people walk by indifferently, maybe stealing a brief glance. A man hovers on the left side of the frame but does nothing.
From the South Beach Wine & Food Festival to Borscht Diez, these are the best things to do in Miami the week of February 23 through March 1.
Thursday Fluorescent flamingos, bejeweled breasts, a dizzying swirl of palms: This is the opening to Miami Vice, which forever froze Miami in a pastel-colored time warp in the minds of cable consumers across the nation. It’s also the focus of David Reed’s exhibit at PAMM, which will benefit from a…
Thursday Have you ever wanted to know more about the work of German pop artist Thomas Bayrle? If so, you’re in luck! Critic Kirsty Bell is presenting a talk with an impressively long title: “The Massive Scale of Sameness Makes Everything Completely Different.” Bell knows a thing or two about…
If art nouveau sounds like something your great-grandmother liked, that’s because it is. But it’s also the art form that preceded the art deco-style buildings of South Beach and inspired a generation of acid-dropping hippies to make innovative and hallucinatory poster art in the ’60s and ’70s. Bet you…
