If you’re re really in love, you’d take your sweetheart out for a swanky dinner at a swell restaurant, like stone crab at some place on the beach, instead of trying to slide by with the trinket that came with your Happy Meal at the local McFranchise. Factor in the…
If you’re one of those people who can actually haul their ass out of bed and out of the house Sunday morning, you might want to check out the new Sunday brunch at Sra. Martinez. From 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Michelle Bernstein’s Design District restaurant will plate up weekend…
You’ve heard about petrified forests, but in Miami we have something just as cool – a fossilized reef. One of only a couple such reefs in the world, the fossilized reef in the Bear Cut Preserve in Crandon Park is believed to be the remnants of long dead mangroves. And…
We were sort of jealous when local art collective FriendsWithYou put on its interactive display “Rainbow City” at Toronto’s Queen’s Park during the Luminato Festival. Sam Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval really haven’t done an interactive display in Miami since “Fun House” debuted at Scope Art Fair in 2008. So…
The British may not be the masters of cuisine or dental work, but they really can dress. Sure, the Parisians and Milanese are known for their couture, but the Brits have a unique strength and daring to their style. To name only a couple of heroes of garb, there’s the…
Add Jennifer Lopez’s crotch to the list of things we’re hoping to see in our holiday stocking this year. J-Lo is reportedly trying to stop her ex-husband, Ojai Noa, and his agent, Ed Meyer, from releasing and marketing sexy videos made during the couple’s short-lived marriage, according to Radar Online.In…
Last night, Midtown Miami morphed into an overwhelming visual arts playground. On a terrace in front of Art Miami, what looked like eight-foot-long indigo stalks of licorice swished around with visitors passing through it. Purple-caped girls handed out tiny kites, advertising the Cirque du Soleil show Kooza (in Bicentennial Park)…
The Modern Primitives installation is a collaboration between famed Italian design house Fendi and architecture and design firm ArandaLasch.This year, something about Design Miami/ seemed stuck, as in not moving forward. Appropriately it’s being held in a parking lot. Besides the move to the Miami Beach Convention Center’s asphalt (in…
A cheap lead for this story might’ve included a Beatles song reference or the name John Lennon. But that’d be unfair to Julian Lennon, the remarkable photographer behind “Timeless,” a collection of 30 hand-signed portraiture and landscape photographs edited by the artist himself. Last night, Lennon debuted his critically acclaimed…
View photos of Art Miami 2010 here.When are art-world types going to stop wearing red pants? Aren’t they basically just conforming at this point? Now an artist wearing some nice modest chinos: That would be a fashion statement. We managed to get into last night’s VIP opening of Art Miami…
“It’s Art Basel (pronounced Basle), not Art Basel (pronounced Bay-zil).” If you’ve never been to the art extravaganza that will soon take over Miami causing the entire city to collectively lift its nose at the rest of the country and world, then prepare yourself to hear some gasbag correct some…
Thirty years ago, when the NYPD declared war on graffiti via a newly-minted vandal squad, it would have been difficult to imagine odes to the spray can at a high-brow international art fair. But these are different times, when crews who did stints for vandalism can now get paid by…
The Art Basel issue doesn’t hit newsstands until Thursday, but the complete issue is now available online, including our feature story on artist Bert Rodriguez, who in 2006 was reading bedtime stories to handful of people during Basel and now sells art, sight-unseen, to prominent collectors around the world. Monday,…
Choreographer Merce Cunningham and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg were groundbreaking when they first collaborated from 1954 to 1964, and they kept breaking ground right up through their last collaboration in 2007. The two men believed art referred only to itself, and they created riveting works together. Even now in the…
Art Basel is here! We’re guessing there’s likely thousands of Miamians out there that don’t know what the freak that means. You’re probably thinking that unless you’re dropping serious coin on a piece of contemporary art or rubbing elbows with Steve Martin at the W Hotel, Art Basel is just…
Is it possible to be exhausted by Art Basel before it even begins? While most fairs and parties haven’t even opened yet (except for those annoying VIPs and press previews), yesterday might have been the unofficial start to this crazed week. Bruce Weber was at the Standard, and Calvin Klein…
Fashion Breakdown: Leather vintage bag, shoes from heels.com, American Apparel tights and top, jacket , and MAC Cyber lipstick…
In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys. 66. David RohnForget Dana Carvey; artist David Rohn is the true master of disguise. From channeling Gretchen Bender…
Looks like we’re not the only art fans handing out money. The Knight Foundation, that benevolent overlord who makes most great art happen in Miami, announced the 27 winners of the 2010 Knights Art Challenge. Among the honorees are New Times favorites Borscht Film Festival and free Florida Grand Opera…
You can stop turning tricks to buy your resin and tempura paint. The Miami New Times wants to give deserving artists some cash. Yes, we’re still striving for that Utopian society where we all wear seashell brassieres and use the barter system. But in the meantime, making art ain’t easy…
If you suffer from art-claustrophobia, yearning to hack through the gleaming white walls of fancy galleries and out into the world, there’s no reason to feel left out during Art Basel. Primary Flight, Miami’s number one purveyor of graffiti-related events, has a line-up heavy on outdoor frolicking and low on…
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