Arts & Culture

Dana Schutz’s MAM show: Politics turned upside down

“You say a word, I say a word, and we will make a sentence” That’s the premise of the Axis Dance Company’s premiere of Full of Words, presented by Tigertail Productions Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Colony Theatre. The dancers will create language with their bodies, completing a romantic…

Attention, readers with spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends, better halves, friends with benefits, and amorous relationships of all sorts: Valentine’s Day is approaching, and you had better be prepared. After all, if the world really does end in 2012, you would want to go out as a caring and thoughtful lover, right?…

Last year, homeboy artist Daniel Arsham returned from his transplanted home of New York to put on the experimental dance performance Replica. He and his firm, Snarkitecture, created the amazing sets, and avant-garde dancer Jonah Bokaer provided much of the movement. The two have teamed up again for a brand-new…

One of the greatest things about Miami in the wintertime is having the opportunity to run a weekend marathon. Right? Bueller? Bueller? OK, for those of you who’d prefer to skip the sweat, cramps, dehydration, and overall physical punishment, Sunday’s 2012 ING Miami Marathon and Half Marathon is an opportune…

Believe it or not, before we started down the journalism path to Alt-Weekly Land, rodeo clown struck us as a glamorous occupation. It was the early ’90s, career day at our elementary school. Firefighters, doctors, and even an embalmer shared their respective lines of work, up-selling their job descriptions to…

The Miami Heat started off the season wrecking opponents and making people believe they were on their way to the NBA’s first perfect season. But as it is with all teams (yes, even the good ones), they hit a snag in mid-January. Miami suffered its first losing streak of the…

If you didn’t catch Theophilus London last summer at the W South Beach’s two-year anniversary party, that’s a shame. If you couldn’t get into the Bing party at the Shelborne during Art Basel or his intimate gig at midtown’s Ricochet Lounge with Nas, double and triple shame. Surely you’ve learned…

This month, an innocuous-looking 14-year-old launched the most terrifying YouTube video we’ve seen since the Jesus Camp movie trailers. In it, the stone-faced teen calls for a Girl Scouts cookie boycott and warns that the organization is pushing a “radical homosexual agenda” because it allowed a 7-year-old transgendered girl into…

On the surface, Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl’s smart and witty comedy In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), opening Friday at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, is about the inadvertent invention of the vibrator. But at its heart, the play explores the mistreatment of women in the late…

In the ’50s, we worried about the Cold War; today we’re mostly concerned with wars staged in deserts. The ’50s marked the beginning of the Mad Men era; today we just watch Mad Men on television. A lot of things have changed in the past six decades. But through it…

A disturbing vision of nature profoundly shaped by man is the subject of María Thereza Negreiros’s new exhibit, ushering in an early spring at the Frost Art Museum. In her solo show, “Offerings”the Brazilian native presents a suite of compelling canvases that isolate the intricate beauty of the Amazon as…

Fashion Breakdown: Jacket and bag from a pile of clothes her mom was donating; tank top from Fruit Of The Loom (men’s); spandex tights by American Apparel; boots: “I have no clue”; watch is a Casio calculator watch from the thrift store; lipstick is Diva from MAC…

Fashion Breakdown: Top by Robbi & Nikki; dress from Zara; boots from BCBG; clutch is vintage; bone ring from Africa; wedding ring was custom-made, from her husband…