Art Miami Director Nick Korniloff on What Sets South Florida Apart

Art Basel Miami Beach eclipses most of the events surrounding the first week in December. Yet, despite the financial heft carried on by the behemoth, the satellite art fairs, gallery and museum shows, and various other functions that surround ABMB actually fall under the auspices of Miami Art Week. At…

Stallone Won’t Let Creed Escape Rocky‘s Shadow

The heads of the City Dionysia, the Grecian playwriting competition that pitted Aeschylus against Sophocles and can be considered the original Oscars, had a rule: no original characters. Instead, the best creative minds of a generation — or really, a millennium — exhausted themselves finding new spins on, say, Medea…

Migrant Drama Brooklyn Reveals Saoirse Ronan as One of the Greats

Saoirse Ronan makes a grand case for herself as the millennial generation’s finest leading lady in Brooklyn, an immaculately crafted, immensely moving character study about a 1950s immigrant struggling to find her place in the world. With an open, innocent countenance equally capable of registering tremulous separation anxiety, exhilarating joy,…

Old Ways Meet the New Reality in the Wondrous The Wonders

Bees are such tiny, seemingly inconsequential creatures, yet milligram for milligram, they affect the landscape in profound ways. You could say the same about small, delicate movies like Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s 2014 Cannes Grand Prix winner The Wonders, which tells the story of a hippie beekeeper family in the…

Trumbo Honors a Blacklisted Screenwriter With Drama He Would Have Cut

Bryan Cranston parades through Trumbo, a wiki-pageant of shorthand history, like he’s a costumed kid playing Actor Bryan Cranston at a Disney park. As blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a man given to mannered diction, Cranston layers movieland falseness over the scraped-raw heart of his Breaking Bad triumph. Remember how you…

Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan Enjoys Its Second Coming-Out Gala

There are movies that aren’t for everyone, and then there are movies that ought to be stamped with a “Caution: Not for Everyone” disclaimer. Whit Stillman’s 1990 debut, Metropolitan, is not only about rich teenagers — a common one-note villain in most American comedies. It’s also about old-money Manhattan teenagers…

Trends to Expect for Art Basel Miami Beach 2015

‹ Left Center Right Resize Cancel Crop 745 x 593 ?i › Courtesy of the Rubell Family Collection, Miami Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #21, 1978 Gelatin silver print, ed. 2/3 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Every year gallery owners, fair organizers, artists, and attendees crowd around…

Letter16 Photo Book Captures a Forgotten Time in Miami’s History

Before the sweet instant photographic gratification presented by digital devices, citizens of the world documented their lives using this very sensitive and fickle thing called film. It had a limited number of exposures and you couldn’t see what or if you captured anything until it was developed in your college’s…

Nari Ward Looks Back at Two Decades of Work in “Sun Splashed” at PAMM

As more museums come into bloom, the challenge becomes how to retain an institution’s individual identity while speaking to the immediate environment. “Sun Splashed,” the latest exhibition at the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), goes a long way towards establishing a relationship with South Florida’s Caribbean roots while retaining a…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

The best time of the week is finally here: the weekend. Miami offers just about every activity this weekend. On the music front, you can catch Skylar Spence at Bardot, Future at Gramps, Jesse Marco at LIV, Phife Dawg at Rec Room, and Fatboy Slim at LIV. On Friday, Sonic…

Jessica Jones Is the Best Onscreen Drama Marvel Has Ever Made

Marvel’s Jessica Jones is smart, surprising and occasionally terrifying, a human tale of trauma and healing in a superhero vein. Its first episodes have more (unexploitative) sex scenes than battles, more shrugs and eye rolls than mighty kapows. But it’s not the shock or novelty that gives it resonance. Jessica…