A skull-staving double whammy at the Kevin Bruk Gallery has the polished allure of the Bellagio’s high-kicking showgirls and, conceptually, pays out like a juicy row of cherries on the casino’s slot machines. Inside the sinister-sounding KBG — the cocky dealer’s chosen name for his capacious new digs — Bruk…
Hanging by a Thread: Crafts have always battled for acceptance in the contemporary art world. During the Nineteenth Century, weaving was considered a noble tradition, in spite of it’s role in the exploitation of women. Curated by José Diaz and Nina Arias, this exhibition provides viewers with a great opportunity…
Her name is Domino Harvey, and she is a bounty hunter. If you’ve seen even one TV spot or theatrical trailer for Domino, you’ve heard that message ground into your brain like an annoying jingle. What you might not know is that Domino Harvey was a real person, daughter of…
Good Night,and Good Luck, a riveting movie that’s as entertaining as it is socially and politically important, could not have come at a more propitious time. But more than just the right film at the right moment, George Clooney’s sophomore directorial effort is dynamic filmmaking: brilliantly conceived, visually arresting, beautifully…
With a name like Prime, a movie had better be about something more than an older woman digging on a younger man, much to the disapproval of the younger man’s mom. It ought to be about, oh, I dunno, math or something — like Pi or Proof or even Primer,…
It happened almost with the first step off the airplane at the Toronto airport last month. Someone, a friend or merely a concerned stranger, would stop to warn you of impending peril. They would plead with you to avoid the danger ahead in Elizabethtown, the Cameron Crowe film that screened…
Some films leave an indelible impression upon the heart and mind. Innocent Voices is one of those films. Set in El Salvador in the early 1980s, during that country’s protracted civil unrest, the movie depicts the nightmare of warfare through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. The fact it’s a…
This fall, the roll call of gigantic ghosts inhabiting cinematic biographic continues unabated, with Joaquin Phoenix as a shrunken Johnny Cash in Ring of Fire, David Strathairn as an inscrutable Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as the ambitiously manipulative Truman Capote in,…
From the New Times Department of Philosophy, Division of Metaphysics, an answer to the eternal question of why a benevolent God would inflict suffering upon humanity. Beyond the standard explanations (concerning free will and the Book of Job) is this: If all people could eat steak and lobster and anything…
THU 13 Hollis Liverpool is more than a calypso singer; he’s a historian of the art form. His stage name is The Mighty Chalkdust, a reference to his three decades as a teacher. He is a professor at the University of the Virgin Islands, an author of compelling Caribbean academic…
Naomi Wilzig is not the kind of woman you’d expect to own a stash of erotic art. She’s a beautiful, rosy-cheeked, 70-year-old Jewish grandmother. Her late husband, Siggi Wilzig, was by all accounts a very proper man: a bank president and one of the founders of the Holocaust Museum in…
Learn an ancient shaolin art THUR 10/13 If you’re skeptical about alternative medicine, yoga, and all things new-age, then chi kung might seem too good to be true. Disciples claim that the ancient Chinese art, also known as qigong, can cure otherwise incurable diseases and prolong the lives of its…
The Dolphins take on the Buccaneers SUN 10/16 When the Miami Dolphins make their first regular-season trip to Raymond James Stadium today to face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you can expect a defensive struggle and an exciting rookie running-back showdown as former Auburn teammates Ronnie Brown and Carnell “Cadillac” Williams…
Pablo Cano pulls strings at MoCA SUN 10/16 In the beginning there was Pablo Cano. At least that’s what the artist enchants one to believe. Like a mixed-media genie rubbed out of a lantern from Hollywood’s golden age of spectacle, Cano thunders onstage today at 2:00 at the Museum of…
Gen Art introduces Si*Sé FRI 10/14 Gen Art is known for its amazing film screenings, inspiring fashion shows, and fabulous afterparties. Now the culture-promoting organization is delving into the live-music action. Its latest program, Exposed, promises to get Miami rocking with unique performances by up-and-coming artists. The down-tempo collective known…
What first sprang to mind upon encountering Christian Duran’s New Growth, 2005, was a landscaper I once saw driving along a highway in Detroit who had stenciled “The Marquis de Sod” on his rusted panel van. Looming quixotically in the South Gallery at Ingalls & Associates, the cryptic yet palpably…
Artformz: The video accompanying Alette Simmons Jimenez’s installation gives the viewer the illusion of moving through the walls of a green labyrinth. Suddenly a voice says: “Fiddle dee dee” (it’s actually a dub of Vivien Leigh in an excerpt from Gone with the Wind). A sign on the wall reads:…
Ah, Wallace and Gromit. Who doesn’t get a little lift at the sound of those names? Who doesn’t feel the edges of her mouth begin to tickle toward a smile, her heart grow warmer with images of the love between a (plasticine) man and his (plasticine) dog? Perhaps you’re not…
Any thing can be anything to anybody, particularly in the case of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence. If you want to believe that his new film, a loose adaptation of a little-known graphic novel, is a work of damning criticism aimed at the hypocrisy of Americans who believe violence…
The Global Film Initiative is calling all would-be Truffauts and Fassbinders. In addition to underwriting international filmmaking, the New York City-based program brings art-house movies into high schools across the country. Thanks to collaboration with the Miami International Film Festival, this year’s full program will be offered locally outside the…
THU 6 The long-awaited party season is finally here, and tonight you can toast to a fabulous fall at the eighth annual March of Dimes Signature Chefs & Wine Extravaganza presented by Miccosukee Resort & Gaming. Too many cooks won’t spoil this party as Chispa’s Adam Votaw will lead team…
Is there life after New Times? For alum Sean Rowe, there almost wasn’t. While recovering from a run-in with a train — yes, he was hit by a train, he’s fine now, get over it — Rowe realized it was time to write the damn book and make the transition…
