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…
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…
Maybe Cars and the Hot Wheels-ification of Pixar has been a good thing. Now that the storied studio has, like its rivals, puked onto our screens indifferent kid-distracting junk, its new movies come unfreighted from expectations of genius. Miserable as it was, Planes: Fire and Rescue (from corporate parent Disney…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
‹ 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…
For over a decade, art dealer Anthony Spinello has presented some of the most groundbreaking and important artists that Miami’s art scene has produced, several of whom have found global success. Performance artist Antonia Wright, one of ten artists who will be represented in Spinello’s tenth anniversary “Full Moon” exhibition this…
Happy Thanksgiving week, Miami. Whether you’re preparing to hunker down at a table with the family or plan to party it up Friendsgiving style, you’re going to need some activity to balance all that traditional binge eating. We’ve got music, fashion, movies, and more, all light in calories and light…
You may know the Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco for his reading at President Obama’s second inauguration, or more recently, the poem he recited in honor the reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. He has written poetry books and memoirs, and this year he’s on the panel “Bridges to/from…
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…
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…
Can’t make it out to the 32nd Annual Miami Book Fair? No problem, C-SPAN2 has you covered. This Saturday and Sunday starting at 10 a.m., the channel’s BookTV will air live coverage of all the events happenings including: author talks, interviews, viewer call-in segments, and anything else you they come…
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…
The Nazis lost World War II, but they’ve conquered the American imagination. Seventy years after his suicide, Hitler is still everywhere: in the movies, on YouTube, in political headlines and on the History Channel. The latest manifestation of our Third Reich fixation is The Man in the High Castle, Amazon’s…
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…
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and now a longtime resident of South Florida, M.J. Fièvre is a poet, essayist, short story writer, translator and the author of numerous French-language novels. At 34 years of age, her most recent work is the English-language memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, chronicling her upbringing in the…
Comedians aren’t known for their warmth or inviting nature, so when Colombian-American actor John Leguizamo opens up about his upbringing and invites the whole world in, things can get a little ghetto. The star of the HBO standup hit Ghetto Klown, Leguizamo decided to turn his skit into a more…
Everyone knows there’s nothing more valuable than Oprah’s seal of approval. A kind word from the queen of talk TV can propel an otherwise unknown brand into the stratosphere. Miami’s own Peace Love World has been on her radar for awhile, and now, the local biz has made Oprah’s December 2015…
Tom Austin was documenting South Beach long before the Art Basel crowd moved in and transformed the quirky island into a luxury enclave. As a staff writer at the Miami New Times in the early ’90s, Austin’s weekly nightlife column “Swelter” put the author in touch with the artists and…
Amber Tamblyn is, in many ways, a mystery. An actress, a director, a poet, a performance artist (she recently embarked on a motorcycle poetry tour across Texas with fellow poet Derrick Brown, dubbed Lazers of Sexcellence 5.0) — Tamblyn has been working since the tender age of 13. From turns in The Sisterhood…
