It’s technically day one, but the madness has already begun. We’ve seen buck naked supervillains. We’ve seen flashy disco flooring. We’ve even seen photo evidence of Andy Warhol looking relatively normal. It’s a lot to take in. Can you even handle any more Basel?Of course you can, especially with so…
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Ten years ago, organizer Samuel Keller persuaded Miami Beach to welcome a crowd of Swiss art freaks to town, transforming overnight a city derided as a cultural desert into the contemporary art world’s version of Vegas. It’s hard to believe Art Basel has already been landing in the Big Mango…
Some Art Baselites strive for 24/7 consciousness, relying on chemical aids to cram in every possible exhibit. Others limit themselves to the fresh rash of graffiti murals erupting around town. More, like me, seek out the immersive experiences where you can not only see world-class art but also engage with…
Steve McQueen’s first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as they must have been to make. But where Shame might be nearly as excruciating as 2008’s Hunger, it’s a lot less exalted. In Hunger, Fassbender’s imprisoned Irish revolutionary Bobby…
The movies are full of bed-hopping men — think of Humphrey Bogart’s serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946) and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen’s Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot — it is the plot…
An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That would be the abyss of the title, though if you’re looking for more of that kind of shameless lyrical swagger, you…
Carried by Gregg Weiner’s grounded yet forceful performance, Red is a semibiographical drama based on the life of Mark Rothko, the Russian-born American painter whose expressionist works rival those of Jackson Pollock on the abstract-genius scale. At its core, the play is a series of snapshots of the artist’s mind…
Taking inspiration from a Chinese folktale called The Magical Embroidery, the PlayGround Theatre, which prides itself on staging unique and innovative stories for all ages, presents an encore performance of The Red Thread, a moving and fun journey into myth and fantasy, for the holiday season. It’s a tale steeped…
You might know the amiable and charming Madeline from Ludwig Bemelmans’s popular children’s book series about an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Paris. Actors’ Playhouse, which did such a splendid job with Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, is bringing one of the precocious little redhead’s…
Before Lars von Trier’s Melancholia premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, organizers declared the Danish filmmaker persona non grata. The decision was announced one day after the director jokingly told reporters he was a Nazi and sympathized with Adolf Hitler. Though Trier was banned from the festival, stars Kirsten…
Part blockbuster, part narrative of the wide-open range of contemporary art over the past few decades, “American Exuberance,” opening at the Rubell Family Collection November 30th, seeks to deliver a sprawling summation on the state of our society today. Two years in the making, the expansive group offering features 190…
America doesn’t dress up. America doesn’t pose (OK, maybe here and there — in certain parts of Miami, or in Vegas or L.A.). Mostly, though, America happens in discrete little moments when it doesn’t seem like anyone is watching. That’s the country revealed in “Artist Unknown: The Free World,” an…
Somewhere in Eurasia, an old lady cries because she has no grandkids and then dies alone. But that’s not the case on mainland China, which has grown faster than the biceps on a major-league steroid junkie. Since 1980, Shenzhen, a city in China’s Guangdong Province, has gone from 20,000 farmers…
Art Basel is back, bringing with it the same fancy faces and high art madness. An this week of culture isn’t all about graffiti or murals in Wynwood — the Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, made sure to put on a Basel bash with style. Last night, in cool weather…
Boasting a rainbow circle of brain toads, a coffin full of pharmaceuticals, cash money, bullets and condoms, not to mention a swami fortune teller greeting visitors at the entrance, the Scope Art Fair returns for its eleventh edition to remind us of the circus tent atmosphere we tropical culture vultures…
Cultist firmly believes in Occupy Movement–corporate greed and economic inequality are two things we absolutely abhor. Admittedly, however, we got down with the 1% last night at Art Miami. Don’t judge, if you heard there’d be free booze and finger foods you’d jump at the opportunity also. And quite frankly,…
Once a year around the holidays, Victoria’s Secret gets their angels to strut their stuff during a leggy fashion show that’s guaranteed to make your grandmother blush. While the underpants empire is one of the most lucrative brands out there, their annual fashion show has become more about theatrics and…
This Art Basel Miami Beach promises to be the most fashionable yet, thanks in no small part to the pending arrival of fashion site Refinery29, which is due to open a Miami satellite next month. To celebrate, Refinery29 is throwing a fashionista bash at Cafeina in Wynwood on Thursday. The…
Chambers Stevens just sounds like a guy who’d write a play about Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw sitting down to lunch. In fact, it sounds like a guy who might have attended such a lunch. Truth is, the playwright of the show making its world premier December 2 at…
Maybe the gallerists at Design Miami/ had Don Drapper on their mind. What other way to explain the seemingly unending parade of mid-century style work on display at just about every other both? And if the booths didn’t seem like sets from Mad Men, many took cues from the arts…
Fashion Breakdown: Floral dress from Urban Outfitters, striped shirt and jacket from Dolce & Gabbana, knee high socks from Flamingo Plaza, shoes from Aldo, glasses from a NY street stand, Dali earrings from e-Bay, piercing when she was 20 in South Beach, white gold grill (real) got it 6 years…
