Been thinking of getting out to Miami’s museums? This weekend is a good time for it, with new exhibitions opening around the city — and old exhibits closing out. If you’re a Bank of America or Merrill Lynch cardholder, you have an extra reason to go Saturday or Sunday: free…
The best time of the week is finally here — the weekend. The next three days are filled with music, art, 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. Friday House…
Just when it didn’t seem possible to squeeze one more thing into your packed III Points itinerary, the festival has announced its latest addition: “Surface Imagery,” an exhibition of video-based artwork by some of Miami’s best-known artists. Presented in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art, the show will feature…
It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with WorldRedEye, New Times…
Judy Davis doesn’t like the expression “scene-stealing,” even though it precisely describes her performance in The Dressmaker. “I always sort of cringe when I hear that,” she says, “because what it implies is that’s what the actor is after.” So let’s just put it this way: As Kate Winslet’s acerbic,…
Brace yourselves, Miami. The butts are coming. You might have seen them the first time they invaded Miami. Like a colorful, moderately obscene plague, wax and plaster butt sculptures appeared in locations across Miami this summer. The butts showed up at the beach. They perched atop playground equipment in parks…
In the nine years since she was first accused of and jailed for murder — then exculpated, only to be retried and found guilty again, and finally absolved — Amanda Knox has learned a thing or two about performance. “Either I’m a psychopath in sheep’s clothing…,” the 21st century’s most…
Miamians might not have known Scott “Nobody” Patterson’s face. He typically hid it behind a black bandana in photos. But almost all of them know his art: It’s almost impossible to walk through Wynwood without encountering his spraypainted crown or a stencil of the phrase “Art is My Weapon” on…
To the rest of America, the countries of the Caribbean might seem like nothing more than a bunch of beachy vacation destinations. But when Jason Fitzroy Jeffers imagines the region, he sees the future. Jeffers, who is from Barbados, says the Caribbean is a microcosm of mixing. “The people of…
A woman wears sunglasses, a tight red dress, matching long gloves and red lipstick. She stands and smokes a cigarette, ostensibly watching a rugby game, but really the players are watching her, fumbling their footwork, and it’s exactly the effect she desires. This early scene, with its shifting gazes and…
Miami stopped dead in its tracks today to mourn the loss of Jose Fernandez, one of baseball’s brightest stars, one of Cuba’s most-visible young immigrants, and one of the most rawly talented people to ever wear a Miami Marlins jersey. After Fernandez and two others were killed in a boating…
Ever since III Points announced its musical lineup in May, fans of the annual festival have been counting down the days to October. But there’s more to III Points than music. The fest just announced its schedule of “activations,” AKA the daytime events designed to engage participants in unique cultural and/or…
The mission of New Times’ arts and culture coverage is essentially to help you live your best life. We tell you all about upcoming museum exhibits, film screenings, and theatrical performances, sure, but we also spend time exploring every aspect of culture, from indie fashion to new tech to dating,…
Thursday One of the most exciting things about life in the 21st Century is the wealth of possibilities offered by the internet. Apart from the steady — and sometimes overwhelming — flow of information, the web encourages creativity from a DIY platform without having to get permission or editorial input…
Christian Carion’s refugees-on-the-march World War II drama Come What May is the kind of old-fashioned war movie that’s crafted not just to emphasize history’s horror and brutality. Yes, Carion stages the occasional slaughter with heartsick brio, and sometimes can’t resist taking pleasure when the violence goes against the bad guys,…
Every year, National YoungArts Day celebrates the outstanding artists that make up the organization’s roster of alumni. Last year, the YoungArts Campus housed a solo exhibition of hometown hero and YoungArts award winner Daniel Arsham—the most internationally recognized local artist of his generation. This year, YoungArts celebrates the day with…
Prodigies flame out; it happens all the time. But the tale of Sergei Polunin, a young Ukrainian ballet dancer whose family hitched its wagon to his star, is a particularly sad one. Steven Cantor’s doc Dancer illuminates Polunin’s celebrity before it reveals his artistry; much of the film is a…
Embedded in the colorful world of Wynwood, the III Points Music, Art & Technology Festival attracts what it presents: frenetic, energetic personalities and living works of art. Aileen Quintana, creative director and artist at III Points, brings both. A college dropout and a Miami born-and-raised, first-generation Cuban, Quintana reveals, “I…
The conventional wisdom about early-career Tim Burton is that he was an imaginative visual stylist but not a great storyteller. That sounds smart, right? It’s still something that a certain kind of ratty-beard-stroking film critic keeps tucked in his sweater vest in case he needs to say something that sounds…
From Jekyll and Hyde to Fight Club, the trope of dual personalities has come in many forms throughout the history of storytelling. But it’s probably fair to say it’s never been tackled with as much irreverence and existential outrageousness than in playwright Robert Askin’s Hand to God, which opens at…
Deepwater Horizon is the most entertaining Hollywood disaster movie in years. I’m sorry — is that a terrible thing to say? Peter Berg’s film is based on the true story of the BP-leased, Transocean-owned deepwater drilling rig that in 2010 exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 souls and…
Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe is a true-life tale transformed into an inspirational fable. That’s not novel for the movies, but in this director’s hands, the results are mostly enchanting. The film follows Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga), an impoverished Ugandan girl who became a chess champion at the age of…
