What happens when you assemble teams of artists in alien surroundings and then simply leave them alone to make art? Placemaker Gallery and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation conducted such an experiment, the fruit of which is now on display. New York native John Bianchi lived at the Placemaker Gallery…
For complete up-to-date South Florida art listings, click on Culture on the navigation bar to the left, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Art Galleries” or “Museums.” Anomalies: This exhibition showcases Chris Jahncke’s mixed-media works on paper. Jahncke ranges from covering entire pieces in symbolic…
Layer Cake, the new British crime drama from first-time director Matthew Vaughn, is a block of granite struggling to liberate the statue inside it. Vaughn (producer of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) has plenty of dark threat and compelling visual style, but his ambitious trip into the…
It’s fair to say that Madagascar, directed by one man who made Antz and another who used to work on Ren & Stimpy, is virtually plot-free — nothing more, really, than a scene or two from The Great Escape cut and pasted into an episode of Survivor. Its threadbare story…
Whips, chains, latex, or leather. Or perhaps vintage lingerie and corsets meet your fancy. Whatever your pleasure, you’ll be sure to find your thrill at the Fetish Factory tenth anniversary celebration this weekend. Famous fetish artists from across the country will be in town to perform for their adoring and…
THUR 26 The ladies of 3GZ Productions have been busy. Iris B. Cegarra is about to drop Dark Beat, her latest documentary on the electronic scene, and the development of their group project Wicked Garden is almost complete. Now they’re providing a forum for local talent at the 3GZ Productions…
South Beach on Memorial Day weekend looks like a scene from a rap music video — parties on the beach, baller types cruising down Ocean Drive in expensive rentals with oversize gleaming rims, and girls spilling out of tiny bikini tops. The last weekend in May has become a much-anticipated…
Artists meet to compete THUR 5/26 Is it a fashion show? An art exhibit? A contest? “Fashion Interrupted” is a wild mix of all three. “As artists, we are always sucking in our surroundings and spitting out our individual interpretations,” says Lissette Barros, president of Eve Interrupted and event organizer…
Tournament honors community builders FRI 5/27 A great number of the people who built Miami into one of the world’s most vigorous and fascinating cities during the past 110 years were dark-skinned, the progeny of Africans brought to the New World to suffer as slaves. Some made their way to…
Too Much Caffeine SAT 5/28 When drips and splatters stick to the stove, regular folks sponge them up. Debra Cortese takes pictures. Her daughter rolls her eyes, but the Miami artist appreciates the shapes and textures created by her dripping coffee filter. The photos (some natural, some artistically enhanced) are…
This farmer has Shakespearean ambitions SAT 5/28 Phil Marraccini isn’t a playwright by trade. He spends his days tending to the family business, a tropical fish farm that has been going strong for 55 years. Marraccini devotes his free time to honing his play. Poor Lenny is a dramatic comedy…
Ever cruised the drama section of your local public library? Oftentimes you’ll find collections of plays from the Forties and Fifties entombed on a back shelf, scripts that are well-crafted and thoughtful but rather timeworn and unlikely to pack much punch on a modern stage. That’s the feel of David…
Scratch and Burn really shouldn’t work, but it does. Teo Castellanos’s gripping and immensely entertaining dance-theater work staged at the Byron Carlyle over the weekend is overwhelming. Its intentions are epic and its execution exhilarating yet disarmingly naive. The result is a sweet success. Miami Light Project commissioned Scratch as…
For complete up-to-date South Florida stage listings, click on Culture on the home-page navigation bar, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Stage.” House and Garden: Alan Ayckbourn’s two comedies share one large cast of characters and myriad plot lines comprising failed marriages, adultery, and other…
AQUA is an 8.5-acre residential neighborhood nearing completion, located on the southern tip of Allison Island at Collins Avenue and 63rd Street in Miami Beach. The $225 million planned community is developer Craig Robins’s most recent and ambitious project. Drawing on the expertise of Miami’s design superstars Andres Duany and…
For complete up-to-date South Florida art listings, click on Culture on the home-page navigation bar, scroll down to the Listings Search and “Category” pulldown, then select “Art Galleries” or “Museums.” Anne Chu: This exhibition begins with a wide tabletop full of short human figures based on funerary guardians from China’s…
“Somewhere this could all be happening right now,” spoke the narrator in the trailer for the first Star Wars movie (thereafter known as Episode IV: A New Hope), and to those who were small children then, it rang true. For an entire generation the Star Wars trilogy could never be…
Kicking & Screaming might be the most predictable movie of the year, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Think about it: How many times have you gone to a movie and gotten far less than you were expecting? Here that’s not a concern; you might not get more than…
When Benoit Swan-Pouffer discusses the latest production of the Cedar Lake Ensemble, “Beyond the Red,” his French accent thickens and his words trip over each other in excitement. His passion is audibly apparent, as well it should be. As the resident choreographer of this young dance ensemble, he is able…
THUR 19 In her documentary about the impact of foreign trade and economic policies on the struggling island of Jamaica, Stephanie Black weaves text from Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place into personal stories of Jamaicans whose daily lives are affected by the U.S. and other countries. A scene from the…
Beaders are their own breed. They’ll spend hours sifting through bins at flea markets, antique shops, and specialty stores to find a few eclectic baubles that might become a pair of funky earrings or could simply end up in a pretty box with other “special” beads, waiting for just the…
Storytellers knit vibrant tales SAT 5/21 Most children are great storytellers without even trying. Whether they’re coming up with elaborate tales to make excuses for late homework assignments, or describing the unbelievable goal they made in a soccer tournament, they’ll be animated, incorporating gestures, funny voices, and hilarious facial expressions,…
