Celebrities, the ultimate in public commodities, are common fodder for the creative set. Whether it’s a garbage painting of Honey Boo Boo or a velvet recreation of the King, the A list, B list and D list are all over the art world. See also: – Miami Art Museum Receives…
With Basel madness officially concluding yesterday, it’s likely you’re hungover, shell-shocked and wondering how the hell you spent $767 when everywhere you went had open bars. No matter, it’s only once a year — and as long as you captured the action on Instagram, we’re guessing it was worth it…
The minimalist musical The Last Five Years is a dead relationship’s post-mortem. Using his own failed nuptials as inspiration, composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown channeled his universal frustration into this ingenious, 15-part, one-act song cycle charting both the ascent and descent of his relationship with his wife — at…
Art has the power to give voice to the voiceless, and few among us have struggled to find a place in society more than Shitman has. Fortunately, Italian artist Laurina Paperina explores the existential plight of her own sociopathic anthropomorphic cartoon feces in her video piece, “Shitman and the End…
Formerly Miami-based photographer Lee Materazzi is back home for Basel, or at least some of her art is. Images from her new series “Finding Myself at Home,” at Quint Contemporary Art’s Miami Project booth, show Materazzi embracing peeled sheets of wallpaper; buried, her legs and head stick out of the…
What’s warm, and wet, and makes the world go ’round? Vaginas!And artist Allison Kotzig, American native and part-time Slovakia resident, has several on a wall in Wynwood’s Hangar space, which gives a hole new meaning to art opening. (See what we did there?)The surprisingly realistic, yet creepily detached sets of…
Theaster Gates isn’t trying to sell you anything. And that’s why his work, a labor performance called Soul Manufacturing Corporation, at Locust Projects in Little Haiti is worth so much money. The Chicago based artist is involved in a “poetic contemplation” on the intrinsic value of skilled labor in emerging economies. So…
The name Anton Pavlovovich Chekhov may not mean all that much to many Miamians. Hell, it doesn’t mean much to us either, and we call ourselves writers. But all that will change if Miami Theater Center artistic director Stephanie Ansin gets her way. The smart, chic, and passionate linguaphile is bringing…
“JUST SHUT THE F*CK UP!” …Or so insists one of Mel Bochner’s large, mixed media text-based pieces. It’s currently in the home of one of a collector, where its “beautiful muted pinks and yellows look great on a grey slate wall in his living room,” according to Sarah Trujillo-Porter. Her…
The freaks were out this week — literally. Production company Riot Development put together Reprise Parisienne Thursday night, a surrealistic fiesta complete with bearded lady, fire dancers, and lions (really — there was a performer in a lion costume), turning Villa 221 into Sideshow de Soleil for the evening…
It’s early. Everything hurts. The sun is streaming through your bedroom window, the one with the shades you forgot to close last night — or was it already morning; had the sun already risen? — when you stumbled into bed, drunk on free booze and mind-screwed by all the freaks…
It must be said that Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock, opening today at Coral Gables Art Cinema, is worth seeing if you’re a fan of old Hollywood, the film industry in general, and/or Hitch himself. If you aren’t, feel free to skip this messy biopic as you’ll probably be bored — cue dramatic…
As the “theater kid” of Miami’s art fair scene during Art Basel week, NADA Art Fair is known for supporting emerging talent — much of which leans toward the dramatic end of the spectrum.This year’s fair is no exception, with exhibits focused on themes of violence, experimental music, tabloid culture,…
Artists like Trek6, CP1, and Prime have all added to Miami’s street culture landscape with new murals in Wynwood and Midtown. And that’s great and all. But no work of art has been properly feted in this town without popping a few bottles. Especially if they’re beer bottles. And free…
Just as every mighty oak began as an itty bitty acorn, so too did Entourage star and patron saint to bros Adrian Grenier start as just a little boy with dusky stubble and a dream. But it wasn’t only childhood fantasies of inspecting Jeremy Piven’s wig collection that gave Adrian…
For maybe the best moment of the entire season, we started Real Housewives of Miami with a sleepover with Marysol Patton and Mama Elsa. In a very Martha Stewart moment, Elsa decided to make some coffee. No, not with the use of a pot or a kettle. With her, all…
A lucky few filled up the half-empty Colony Theater on Lincoln Road for the world premiere of Paris-based street artist Invader’s documentary Art4Space last night and met the mysterious artist/director in the flesh. Jaie Laplante, Executive Director at the Miami International Film Festival, introduced the film by the Paris-based artist who…
When it comes to the tens of thousands of works of art on display at Basel — well, let’s just say that “free” is the last word that comes to mind. After all, there are beaucoup bucks to be made. Regardless of cultural relevance, this week is all about the…
Miami Art Museum director Thom Collins announced this morning a $5 million contribution to MAM’s capital campaign to build Perez Art Museum Miami, its new facility in downtown Miami.The funds come from Miguel B. “Mike” Fernandez, chairman of the Coral Gables private equity firm MBF Healthcare Partners, and his family…
To be sung in the tune of the “The Witch is Dead” from Wizard of Oz. DING DONG ART BASEL’S HERE! WHICH OLD SHOW? ART BASEL SHOWS! DING DONG ART BASEL’S HERE, LET’S PLAYYY! Hope you’ve dusted off your sensible heels and packed an extra liver! This weekend will probably…
Jarritos, art, Breakfast Tacos at Tiffani’s, and Robert Rodriguez’s Chingon. Can Basel week get any better? Representing the “vibrant and varied” influence Latino culture has played in the United States, Henry Muñoz’s 6,700-square-foot, site-specific interactive art instillation, Mestizo City, opens tonight in Miami’s Design District. But the San Antonio-based CEO…
If you’re a responsible adult with a nine-to-five job, you may have wasted this whole week slaving away for the man instead of guzzling Champagne and eyeing wacky art installations like the rest of this city. Well guess what. It’s Friday, meaning that for Miami’s government employees, bankers, accountants, the…
