For Italian photographer Tina Modotti, her place of artistic inspiration was Mexico. As an immigrant living in an unknown city, Modotti was struck my the cultural roots alive within the country in the first-half of the 20th century. She was so enthralled, the photographer continued to work in Mexico City…
Esti Chazanow is a busy woman. Based out of Miami, Chazanow is the co-founder and brand manager for LIV, a Swiss watch company. Though the brand has no problem selling their watches, their most recent accomplishment is pretty impressive. In order to raise funds for a new design, Chazanow turned to…
Bad cop movies — whether bad movies about cops or movies about bad cops — can be like those Arctic core samples from which scientists determine long-gone CO2 levels, though in this case they’re measuring American anxiety about police authority. Pop on John Hillcoat’s agonized pulp thriller Triple 9 in…
In the Winter Olympics, ski jumping is one of those sports — bobsledding and luging are others — where Joe and Jane Satellite Dish cannot tell the difference between a great performance and a terrible one unless the athlete is carried away on a stretcher. No doubt there are crucial…
When your favorite television show calls it quits, the struggle is real. That particular night of the week that was once filled with joy, now feels empty without it. It’s akin to someone breaking up with you. You lost the love of your life, and you wish you could just…
Out of all the tributes to David Bowie after his passing on January 10, lead singer Ian Astbury of The Cult probably said it best, “The sky fell.” After all, the musician even had a constellation named after him. However, Markus Klinko, the photographer who shot the sessions that illustrate Bowie’s 2003…
The annual Model Beach Volleyball Tournament went down on Miami Beach this past weekend, February 20 through 21. For the seventh year in a row, beautiful people donned bathing suits and battled competing talent agencies. We’re not sure who won, and really, we don’t know who would care. The real…
Miami Beach today unveiled four new lifeguard stands to go along with the 31 towers that dot the beach from 87th Street to South Point. The new stations, two of which are pictured above and below, are the designs of architect William Lane, who began working on them more than…
For his first on-stage appearance as the new creative director of the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra at the University of Miami, James Newton Howard organized a concert Friday night showcasing precisely why he was an excellent choice for the job. The Grammy Award nominated film composer brought his talents from…
For Cuban musician and Fabrica del Arte Cubano (FAC) founder, X Alfonso, art exists in a multidisciplinary space. The Havana based business brings this sensory experience to Vedado’s early 20th century government electricity building every week; screening films and hosting visual artists all in the same venue. It’s a testament…
To say the past couple weeks have been rough would be an understatement. The Florida legislature once again denied the LGBT community basic nondiscrimination protections, Donald Trump won South Carolina’s GOP primary, and The Grammys were a total toss up. Though we can’t guarantee a total turnaround this week, Miami’s…
In a September interview with GQ, Constance Wu, star of NBC’s Fresh Off the Boat, observed of the HBO series Togetherness, “It’s a show about white people.” She’s not wrong: Created by indie-film luminaries Jay and Mark Duplass, along with the actor Steve Zissis, Togetherness is a low-key look at…
New York-based choreographer Camille A. Brown is known for her wide embrace of many dance forms: from African to tap to street styles. Part of the 2016 MDC Live Arts performance program, Brown will make her Miami debut at the Miami Dade County Auditorium on Saturday. Her project, Black Girl: Linguistic…
Graffiti operates under the assumption that art is by and for the people. The murals of Wynwood prove that street art can be of such high caliber that it demands worldwide recognition. This point is echoed when public works from famous street artists such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey find…
The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach is under construction until December, but the exhibitions continue. Through partnerships with other organizations, the museum has been presenting art and educational programs outside its own walls since 2015. The bassX series is one such initiative. The exhibitions at bassX are shown…
The Coral Gables Art Museum was transformed into the ultimate party venue for New Times’ annual Artopia. The gathering — arguably one of the biggest art parties of the year — saw thousands of attendees and by the end of the night, the three MasterMind Awards winners were announced. New…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend — and Miami offers just about every activity. On the music front, you can catch DJ Craze at Rec Room, Erick Morillo at Story, Bryan Adams at The Fillmore Miami Beach, and Paul Oakenfold at LIV. On Saturday and…
There is precisely one attempted coup de cinema in the Jesse Owens biopic Race, which otherwise defaults to the backlot handsomeness of other Great Men tributes from Hollywood. In 1935, Owens (Stephan James), a freshman sensation on the Ohio State University track team, returns to the locker room after practice…
The centerpiece of Hail, Caesar!’s mid-century Hollywood satire is the eponymous film-within-a-film itself, an overwrought biblical epic in which a skeptical Roman centurion played by George Clooney has a literal come-to-Jesus moment. Risen, whose plot can be described in exactly the same way, never inspires one of its own. Co-writer/director…
In 2012, artist Bryan Zanisnik, standing inside a Plexiglas case, silently read Phillip Roth’s The Great American Novel while a chaotic assortment of baseball cards and outdated U.S. currency whirled around him. Roth immediately served him a cease-and-desist order. It was only the first day of the artist’s planned five-week performance in…
Alvin Ailey American Dance Company returns to the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts under the direction of artistic director Robert Battle. The program features the premiere of Miami native Battle’s Awakening, a new dance work commissioned by the Arsht Center as part of the theater’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced this Thursday, February 18, at Artopia, New Times’ annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. A night deep in the Southwest Florida farmlands means silence. During the day,…
