Arguably the most important artist of the past century, Marcel Duchamp and his readymades changed art forever. By calling mundane objects such as bottle racks, typewriter dust covers, and hat racks art, the French genius destroyed the barricades separating art from everyday life. He also expanded notions of what an…
Art Basel Miami Beach is the time of year our city’s street art is replenished with new work. That Hanged Banker mural by Above next to I-95 replaced this graffing pin-up girls piece. We’re excited to see the new stuff but also a little sad that some of our favorites…
Well before Brett Ratner became Brett Ratner, the 42-year-old filmmaker was a spoiled rich kid in Miami Beach. Though he left the city at 16 to attend NYU’s legendary film school and later moved to Hollywood, Ratner managed to hold onto one Miami trait–albeit a despicable one–throughout the years. Ratner…
Since this spring, Brazz Dance Theater has been giving Miami audiences sneak peeks at a work called “Cordel.” In the company’s March performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Theater, we saw a short lyrical piece, no doubt a tiny fragment of what has now become an ambitious, hour-long choreography…
“Comics are words and pictures,” opined the late Harvey Pekar, comic book writer, critic and cult-personality. “You can make anything with words and pictures.” For over three decades — as the writer (and main character) of navel-gazing indie comic book American Splendor — Pekar’s life was dedicated to the infinite…
Fashion Breakdown: Black suspenders from Dickies, tank top out of the rack, plaid pants and saddle shoes from Goddwill…
The idea of a funny doorman is perfectly logical. The job puts people in their line of vision for exactly ten seconds, prompting short conversations every time they enter and exit the building — a situation that seems almost designed for the cultivation of witty one-liners.Maybe that’s what playwright Kenneth…
New York-based artist Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos has lived her life surrounded by unique cultures–born in Greece, raised in Paris–and now she aims to bring her one-of-a-kind vision to Miami’s own little center of culture, Art Basel. With “Palm Authority,” Kosmatopoulos is raising funds to create five towering sculptures of hands in…
Something’s wrong. There’s obvious tension, warning signs of infidelity linger, eating away at the very foundation your marriage is built on, trust. But what if she’s not fucking someone else? What if it’s your own twisted mind planting dangerously subconscious seeds of betrayal in your head? Three years ago, graffiti…
The nights just seem to be getting longer, and we aren’t talking about Daylight Savings! As the contestants get whittled down, everyone becomes a better dancer, which makes Dancing With the Stars harder to recap because there are less things to be mean about. We just have to pray for…
In honor of our People Issue, which will hit newsstands and computer screens November 24, Cultist presents “Miami Backstage,” where we feature some of the city’s behind-the-scenes culture makers. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys. Naomi WilzigTwenty years ago, Naomi Wilzig, the curator of…
In Spanish, an arboleda is a grove of trees. Grace Castro and Francine Madera chose the term to name their vintage and handmade crafts festival — which lands in the Design District this weekend — because to them, the word represents “Mother Nature and her incredible power to create.” Inspired by Etsy,…
No one quite captures the true neurotic inadequate essence of the classic American schlub better than playwright Neil Simon. His plays were filled with gobs of schlubs. All of them down-on-their-luck, trying desperately to get by while walking a tightrope between sanity and crazy, all while we laugh and laugh…
Anthony Spinello is talking about gentrification and displacement at his new Design District digs when water unexpectedly starts rushing out of several open faucets in the building. “Shit, I guess they turned on the service,” Spinello yells as he drops the phone and starts running from room-to-room to twist taps…
Wynwood may be the heart of the art scene in Miami, but South Beach is still the place where all the people are at on a Saturday night, which means hundreds of thousands got to enjoy the many and varied happenings for Sleepless Night 2011. Hours of subtropical ministorms, and…
Postmodernism is slipperier than a greased watermelon. Society used to have simple standards and reasonable expectations: up was up, men and women were men and women, and fiction tidily progressed from beginning to end in a linear fashion. But then Postmodernism — the literary and arts movement that threw out…
We would like to officially call Steve Ward a groundbreaker. No, we aren’t going to follow that statement with a 🙂 or LOL, which if you remember from the texting episode, he hates. We all have girlfriends that have serious dating issues. And what we really mean is that we…
In honor of our 10th Anniversary Basel Issue, Cultist introduces “Baselphrenia,” where Miami art scenesters discuss the Swiss art fair’s impact on our cultural landscape over the past decade. Robert Fontaine is the owner of an eponymous candy-striped gallery in Wynwood where he traffics in the work of emerging and…
Fashion Photography: Floral dress from Miss Selfridge in England, jacket from Moda International, leather purse from Roxy (got it today!), earrings from the Caribbean, and shoes from Rainbow…
Red, which opened last night at the GableStage, is a venerable one-act play that hurls symbolism, existentialism, and Fredrick Nietzsche all up in your face like an abstract expressionist dousing flecks of paint on a canvas. Loosely based on the life of Mark Rothko, the brilliant Russian-born American painter whose expressionist…
It’s a house filled with an odd mix of seven people, with character defects in full effect, and lots of booze-fueled drama. And it’s not MTV’s Real World, Season 73. It’s Captiva, a world premiere play by Carbonell-winning playwright Christopher Demos-Brown. And it’s smart as hell and funnier than a…
Not so enthused with the job market? Go hang yourself… upside down from 40-foot silk scarves, that is.Victoria Pike! — exclamation intended — isn’t even out of high school, but she’s already setting her sights on an untraditional career path: the circus. The quirky 16-year-old has spent the past two…
