Asif Farooq, a contemporary artist and expert craftsman from Miami, is creating a life-size Soviet-era jet made entirely from paper and glue. So, yeah, you could say he doesn’t exactly shy away from a meticulous art project.
Watching Antonia Wright’s Are You OK? is uncomfortable. As she weeps on the street behind what used to be the Miami Art Museum, people walk by indifferently, maybe stealing a brief glance. A man hovers on the left side of the frame but does nothing.
Girls Club Collection is going on an extended road show. March 2017 will see the Broward County arts institution shutter its original downtown Fort Lauderdale location and embark on a program of pop-up performances, collaborations, temporary exhibitions, and farther-ranging outreach. For people concerned with gender representation in the South Florida…
The MasterMind Awards submissions have been judged. The finalists have been chosen. Now it’s time to reveal who will take home New Times’ artist grants — and to party in the process. New Times’ Artopia, presented by Miracle Mile Downtown Coral Gables, is your chance to mix, mingle, munch, move, and more. The event will feature a lineup filled with fun and interactive culture, from live music to art, performance, and beyond.
It’s thematically fitting that Henry Phillips’ slight, prickling Punching Henry hits theaters just weeks after The Comedian, a bloated Robert De Niro exercise also about a difficult stand-up comic grinding through bad gigs and insulting meetings with TV suits — and accidentally starring in viral videos. The Comedian was about…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, parties, and boozy beverages galore. From Coral Gables to Little Havana to South Beach, these are the best places to be until the sun comes up Monday morning.
A stylized painting of Woody Allen, a golden gun to his forehead, stares down at Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) in the astonishing third episode of Girls’ final season. She’s seated in the study of a best-selling wunderkind novelist, planted in the middle of his sofa while he faces her, coldly,…
The one thing I know for sure is that most Oscar voters don’t care that a film as seemingly pleasant as Damien Chazelle’s modern musical La La Land has proven so divisive. Even as lyrics from “City of Stars” have become inspirational memes, artists like songwriter Elon Rutberg are calling…
To celebrate its 40th year of LGBTQ awareness, Pride Fort Lauderdale (formerly South Florida Pride) is taking its annual festival from the cozy confines of Holiday Park to Fort Lauderdale Beach. This weekend’s Pride Fort Lauderdale — scheduled to be centrally located at 1100 Seabreeze Blvd., also the site of the Tortuga Music Festival — will be an expanded version of the free celebration of the LGBTQ community, supporters, and friends.
We’re fast approaching the end of Carnival, the traditional Christian season of festivities before Lent. “Mardi gras” means “fat Tuesday” in French, marking a centuries-old ritual of feasting before fasting. Like your fellow revelers around the world and in New Orleans — the capital of Mardi Gras — you too can fatten up before giving up earthly pleasures and atoning for your sins. South Florida pays homage to the Big Easy’s party spirit at the following events, some of which spill over into March, in case you want to sneak in a bit more hedonism. What’s a few more days of celebration?
For Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artistic director Robert Battle, this week marks a special return, not just to the Arsht Center, where his company performs annually, but also to the city where he grew up. “It’s more personal [performing in Miami]; it reminds me where I come from,” says Battle, a Liberty City native. “My mom [Dessie Williams] still lives in the same house. I used to dance on the marble floor of our front porch. The Arsht Center wasn’t far away.”
If you’ve grown weary of the Don Drapers and Walter Whites of the world, don’t expect James Keziah Delaney to make a strong first impression. Taboo’s antihero, played with signature laconicism by Tom Hardy, is another difficult man for this golden age of TV — and, as fate would have…
Art has always shone brightest in the midst of political oppression. And Mad Cat Theatre Company is tackling both art and political oppression during a time when those topics are controversial at best. February 23 through March 12, the eclectic and offbeat production company will open its 17th season by putting on two plays by subversive Czechoslovakian playwright Vaclav Havel.
The Cure gave its fans a reason to wear black in June last year when the English rock band made a tour stop in Miami. Now the group’s founding drummer, Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst, is giving fans a reason to read. This Friday, February 24, Tolhurst will wrap up his book tour promoting…
From the South Beach Wine & Food Festival to Borscht Diez, these are the best things to do in Miami the week of February 23 through March 1.
Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Lure is a cautionary tale of sisterhood, sexuality and the sometimes self-destructive things people do for love. The film, which won the award for best debut at the Gdynia Film Festival, is also a diabolically wicked Polish-language musical about two beautiful mermaids who climb ashore in Warsaw…
In his atmospheric debut film, Australian theater director Simon Stone whittles down The Wild Duck into a cautionary tale about welcoming home an emotional exile. While stage adaptations of Henrik Ibsen’s tragicomedy often emphasize its farcical elements, Stone sticks to tragedy in his naturalistic version, set in densely planted logging…
She was told to go back to Cuba on a banana boat when she was growing up in Broward. Now award-winning actor and playwright Elena María García strikes back in the world premiere of ¡Fuácata! or a Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe at that Arsht Center February 23.
Don’t hold it against Martin Zandvliet’s land-mine drama that its English title is the dopiest movie-title pun since John Singleton’s Poetic Justice. That film concerned a poet named Justice; Land of Mine a land of mines. Called Under Sandet in the original Danish — roughly Under the Sand — Zandvliet’s…
Apart from being a cultural melting pot, Miami has produced a fair number of talented local artists for a city of its size. Daniel Arsham, Hernan Bas, and many others have gone from high-school stars on the local art scene to national and international standouts. Apart from the tropical sun, the single thread connecting these artistic native sons is their affiliation with YoungArts — a national organization providing support for young creative minds at a seminal point in their development.
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is the most trenchant studio release in years, a slow-building, often hilarious horror thriller built upon a dead-serious idea: that a black man walking alone through white suburbs is in as much danger as any slasher-flick teenager. Peele opens with that image, showing us, in a…
Last year, while preparing for the film festival Borscht Diez, Borscht Corp.’s “minister of the interior,” Lucas Leyva, asked grant applicants a simple question: Does Borscht even matter anymore? “That’s a question we’re constantly asking ourselves,” Leyva says. “Does it matter? And if it doesn’t, why are we doing it?”…
