Down a quiet residential street in the Little River neighborhood, framed between trees, is a golden yellow door that opens into the studio space of budding artist Beth Rhodes. A sign that reads “Paint or Be Painted” greets guests as they walk up her front steps. Rhodes, a Mississippi native,…
Based on a collection of true news items about exactly what the film’s title promises, Kore-eda’s story centers around a household that at first might appear to be a somewhat ordinary family that has merely fallen on hard times
Buskerfest, the Listening Den, Wallcast concerts, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, December 10 through 16.
The fighter once known as the baddest man on the planet has become a staple of the American pop culture landscape — and what better proof of that than an Art Basel event made up of pieces inspired by the man himself? That was the scene last night at the Hyde Beach in the backyard of the SLS Hotel.
It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with World Red Eye,…
Does Hollywood have sharks all wrong? Photographer Aysegul Dinçkök and free-diver Sahika Ercümen went swimming with these sea creatures to prove they’re not dangerous and are sharing photos and videos from their experience in their Art Basel exhibit, Misunderstood.
Art Basel, Miami Art Week, Rakastella, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, December 7 through 9.
For most Miami residents, Art Basel is a week of horrific traffic. For some, it’s a chance to engage in a multitude of cultural offerings bubbling up all over the city. For fewer, it’s a chance to buy art offered by a selection of international galleries. According to statistics from…
It’s no secret the arts have a major economic impact in Miami and have directly contributed to the city’s rapid growth. Yet this cultural activity inevitably triggers a speedy gentrification process that displaces locals, as well as the artists who set a neighborhood’s revision in motion. While there’s currently…
Are you the ideal Real World housemate? Bring your A-game this weekend.
To Neil Hall, “Black Art Matters” is as timely as it gets. An established architect and founder of Art Africa Miami, Hall reveals how the meaningful theme for this year’s fair was inspired by Kanye West. “Kanye West made a comment concerning slavery, that ‘slavery is a choice.’ We…
At the Magic City Studio, the current home of the controversial “Art of Banksy” exhibit, a scruffy man in board shorts uses his smartphone to snap a picture of the artist’s Rude Copper piece. He observes the walls of the exhibit before taking successive shots of Gangsta Rat, Barcode, and…
“Darker Gods in The Garden of The Low Hanging Heavens” is acclaimed post-disciplinary artist Damon Davis’ gift to his culture and his people. In his latest Afro-surrealism project, the objective was to turn a crippling idea into power. “I was trying to dissect the idea that black people are not…
The arrival of the international art dealing behemoth known as Basel draws many Magic City residents to a slew of festivals, fairs, and public art displays in early December. And while much of Miami Art Week is geared toward billions of dollars of spending, we plebeians can still enjoy the…
The anchor of The Litany is a display of Collins’s latest artist book, titled America: A Hymnal. The book features 100 reworked versions of American proto-anthem “My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” originally written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831. From the 18th through 20th Centuries, its melody was used as a template for songwriters who crafted reworked versions in support of different causes throughout the course of American history.
Thursday The artsiest time of the year is upon us. Art Basel is back, boasting more than 200 galleries by 4,000-plus modern and contemporary artists from across the globe. This year’s fair features work in six distinct sections, including the collaborative Edition sector and the historical Survey sector. And beyond…
Did you wait too long to get tickets to this month’s run of Hamilton at the Broward Center? The box office sold out quickly, but you still have one more shot to see the show. A lottery of tickets cheekily named #Ham4Ham will offer 40 tickets to each show of…
Today, I’m still awed by the film’s scope and scale, by its relentless energy and attention to detail, by its interest in faces and names and coats and belongings
Millions of women participate in household labor, and the majority of them are underappreciated, underpaid, overlooked, or all of the above. This year during Art Basel, at a time when glitz and glamour are at an all-time peak, Miami Girls Foundation, in partnership with Miami Workers Center and Advocacy…
Miami’s art scene wouldn’t be the same without Locust Projects, one of the city’s most prominent arts organizations and its longest-running alternative nonprofit art space. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Locust Projects is releasing a book, fittingly titled The Twentieth Anniversary Retrospective, that documents the many thought-provoking, intense, and zany…
Art Basel is back. The bad traffic and free wine, the star-studded afterparties and weird warehouse gettys, the artwork that’s stunning and stimulating or provocative or incomprehensible or simply bullshit — all of it will make its annual landfall in South Florida this week. The Swiss are coming, and they’re…
This time, though, the lessons are urgent, the jungle threatened by man, the wicked tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) a true terror vowing to one day taste that boy’s blood
