As China aims to surpass the US as the world’s leading economic force, many of the nation’s most distinguished artists have also made significant in-roads into the contemporary art world. These game changing creative talents have shaken-up the market, driving up prices of work previously overlooked by the art establishment…
For the first time since its inception in 2011, Jai-Alai Magazine is accepting online submissions in short essays, poetry, fiction, translation, and art. New Times spoke with the magazine’s editor José A. Villar-Portela to discuss writing, and why Miami “is a place that’s no place.” New Times: How did you…
Given its abundance of sunshine, affinity for tropical hues and persistently warm hot weather, it’s like Miami was made for outdoor art. And in keeping with its growing international reputation in this arena, the city is about to see 15 colorful new additions. Thanks to the Beck’s Urban Canvas project, works…
Here’s a shocker: In Pixels, his latest, Adam Sandler plays a stunted man-child who turns out to be very, very special. That’s his ecological niche: the Manic Potbellied Dream Dork, or, if you prefer, the fragile Sand-Man.
The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center will present The Chicago Repertory Ballet Company this coming Saturday night, the first chance for Miami audiences to see this company, just three years old, and already being heralded by the Chicago Tribune as “wonderfully dramatic.” One might add “mightily varied” as well. “I…
When Christin Paige Minnotte moved back to Florida after spending years living in New York, she was taken aback to see the amount of plastic and garbage clogging our otherwise crystal waters. “I thought to myself, usually evolutionary adaptive mechanisms are [made] to help a species thrive. So why is…
Thursday, July 23 The countdown to Miami Spice, the two-month restaurant promotion that lets you try the city’s top (and most expensive) eateries, has begun. In just a short week, you’ll be able to eat your way through 150-plus restaurants, most of which have probably been on your foodie wish…
Artist Carlos Luna has had quite the journey to his inaugural solo exhibition at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. After he was cast out from his native Cuba, Luna traveled first to Mexico in 1991 and almost a decade later to his now-permanent home in Miami. It’s an…
One of Miami’s most beloved fashion events, Miami Swim Week has long been regarded as the platform for swimwear designers to showcase their designs to a market that’s perennially clad in bikinis. And while internationally recognized swimwear designers like Mara Hoffman, Agua Bendita, and Gottex show up every year to present…
HBO has renewed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Miami based football comedy Ballers for a second season, which means so much more Miami. Ballers is like if you wrote the word Miami on a piece of paper, covered it with glue, then poured an entire bottle of glitter on it — it’s incredibly…
The opening of Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw, shot in gritty, grayed-out tones, is a grim harbinger: A fighter getting ready for the ring holds up his meaty paws for the ritualistic wrapping of gauze and tape. His gloves are slipped over the wrappings, and then they’re taped on too — but…
“Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow,” Stephen Dedalus declared in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In the case of Jimmy Gralton, she took bites and spat him out a couple of times. It’s tempting to say some people never learn, but, as played…
Dana Nachman’s Batkid Begins marches in with the mini-movie you’ve already seen. (Unless, as Bruce Wayne suffered in The Dark Knight Rises, you’ve spent months in a hole.) On a November weekday in San Francisco — AKA Gotham-by-the-Bay — 5-year-old cancer survivor Miles Scott rode shotgun in a Lamborghini Batmobile,…
On Saturday, eager Mara Hoffman fans clamored outside of the former Versace Mansion for what was surely the most anticipated event of Miami Swim Week 2016. Hoffman’s prints have graced the runways countless times in Swim Weeks past, but this year’s show was a transformative experience. Inspired by a holiday…
On July 10, the Cuban government returned artist Tania Bruguera’s passport. The government had previously seized the document after the artist attempted a performance in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion in December 2014. The planned performance was inspired by a dissident movement who uses the online hashtag #YoTambienExijo (I Also Demand). Bruguera…
Film fans got a glimpse of what is to come when Entertainment Weekly released the first X-Men: Apocalypse photos late last week. The film features Oscar Isaac, who we recently named Miami’s Best Movie Star, as the blue-skinned-alien-villain Apocalypse. Isaac’s character in Apocalypse is unearthed after 5,000 years and recruits the…
Chances are, this week is running music lovers’ ragged. From Sam Smith and Nicki Minaj, to Marilyn Manson and The Smashing Pumpkins, the concerts converging in Miami are enough to drain the flushest of pockets. Thankfully, there’s a slew of alternative activities offering food, fashion, booze, and more music that…
After winning a slew of awards across Europe and major U.S. film festivals, The Tribe, a film featuring a cast of deaf teenagers playing characters caught up in the harrowing world of the deaf mafia of Kiev, finally arrives in South Florida for its theatrical run. The film has no…
Unlike most of its competition, Locust Projects was a trendsetter on the Miami art scene. In the late 90s, the art collective got the jump on the incredibly cheap rents available in Downtown adjacent neighborhoods. Almost twenty years later, and Locust Projects keeps opening up new shows and exhibits that…
Bayside is not quite local central, but if you live in the downtown area as I do, you head over to that strange tourist trap for convenient one-stop shopping. Also, tourists get to choose from the best selection of sun-hats, and you really should be donning those daily. Anyway, I’ve…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. And Miami offers everything from Joe Jonas spinning at Mansion, Ariana Grande belting it out at the BB&T Center, and hardcore beats and booze at Chocolate Sundays. Put on your party pants and get ready for another memorable, Miami-style…
Peter London Global Dance Company takes the stage at Little Haiti Cultural Arts Center on July 18 with their annual Heat Wave summer showcase. Featuring a world premiere new work by Peter London, the program will also feature two pieces by choreographer Luis Alberto Cuevas. By fusing contemporary dance and…
