Arts & Culture

We’re on the verge of the busiest season in Miami, the insanity of late fall and early winter when other Americans come flocking for warmth or high-class art or the craziest party. For now, we’re in that lull before the storm. You can enjoy it with comedy from John Mulaney and music from Miami Paradise, Jolt Radio, and the ’90s Love Fest, or you can be prepared by getting beefy at the Tone It Up Tour or the South Florida Craft Beer Run. Whatever your fancy, there’s enough here to keep you occupied till Monday morning.

Hugh Hefner, the Playboy founder who died last night at the age of 91, will be remembered for helping drive the sexual revolution of the ’60s; objectifying women on a massive, unprecedented scale; and surrounding himself with young, attractive, rigidly policed girlfriends for the better part of his life.

In anticipation of the Institute of Contemporary Art’s (ICA) December inauguration of its new home—located around the corner from its current facilities in the Design District’s Moore Building—organizers are debuting plans for a sculpture park in collaboration with Craig Robins of Dacra, the neighborhood’s seminal figure. The project will display…

“Intercultural” is not only a timely show but also a beautiful harbinger of what this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach has in store.

Spend more than 30 seconds at an art school or modern-art museum and you’ll realize you’re way out of the realm of beauty or skill or anything remotely familiar to a novice art appreciator. The first time you hear “hegemonic cultural institutions,” your instinct might be to take cover,…

Amid the relief efforts, these folks are looking well beyond the confines of their homes and communities to help those in dire need.

As Hurricane Irma tore through the Caribbean, floodwaters crashed over Havana’s winding coastline. The storm plagued the city with power outages and battered its decades-old buildings. Meanwhile, one street artist was busy doling out drawings. Amid the chaos, Yulier Rodríguez Pérez was rolling up his signature sketches, stuffing them into bottles, and floating them through Cuba’s capital.

As South Florida prepared for Hurricane Irma, residents frantically scavenged hardware stores, boarded up their windows, and sandbagged their entrances. But Miami arts organization Locust Projects took its storm prep as an opportunity to create a work of art.

Every week brings a new expensive concert, a new trend to chase online, or a new political event to trigger a mental breakdown that only Netflix a mango key lime pie can fix. Whether you still have room to splurge after all of this or you’re working toward the luxury of just a sample of Fenty foundation, you can save a few pennies this week with a free beer tasting at Tank Brewing, art talks at Art Center/South Florida, and a shindig in Wynwood.

All proceeds will go to Hurricane Irma relief.

R.M. Fischer began his art career in the 1980s, making sculptures from scuffed brass knobs, rusted metal rods, pots, pans, and other found objects. Later, in the early 2000s, he progressed to soft sculpture — pieces made from vinyl fabric and upholstery. In a new show at Nina Johnson Gallery…

It’s been nearly two weeks since Hurricane Irma first made landfall in Florida, but its effects will be felt in the state for months — through Art Basel week, at least. NADA Miami, the art fair that’s been held at the Deauville hotel in Miami Beach since 2009, announced yesterday…