Zoo Lights: Score 3D shades and check out animals all aglow. Pose with Santa, sip hot cocoa and ride a camel. It’s pretty much the perfect evening. The magic happens at Zoo Miami (12400 Southwest 152nd St., Miami), from 7-10 p.m. through Dec. 23. Admission costs $15.95 for adults 13…
Magical Snowfall: Let it snow at the holiday madhouse known as Dolphin Mall (11401 N.W. 12th St., Miami), where flurries fall on eager shoppers every night at 7 p.m. Snowfalls are scheduled daily through Jan. 6. Admission is free. Visit www.dolphinmall.com. Dec. 17-Jan. 6, 7 p.m., 2012…
Santa’s Enchanted Forest: Miami’s favorite den of twinkly lights and questionable carnival rides is open for your Christmas pleasure. Check out a Bengal tiger, stuff yourself with elephant ears, and ride the Crazy Mouse. Some things never change, like the annual commercials for Santa’s Enchanted Forest (7900 SW 40th St.,…
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While the rest of the country wallows in the dregs of winter, Miami lingers in a perpetually sunny summer day. And when every day is a beach day, you can get down to chilled-out island-tinged jams any damn time. That’s the sound Miami local and national upstart Cris Cab brings…
The dance music scene is overrun with DJs ready to slam the floor and take no prisoners. But sometimes you want to simply relax, groove, and get into the party spirit with some cool beats. That’s where someone like Rich Medinas comes in. For more than a decade, the New…
Hec One Love is a Miami graffiti pioneer who started bombing the streets in 1983.His main stomping grounds were the southwest area of Miami-Dade, and he ran with a crew, Alive 5, that claims Miami’s first wall of fame, and first graffiti art gallery show.Today, Hec is still heavy in…
Today’s 12-12-12, not that you didn’t already know; TV and Internet news sources seem to be treating it either as a bonus holiday or a Mayan apocalypse training run — or both — since this is the last repeating date most of us are likely to see in our lifetimes.But…
Marko Mäetamm’s warped children’s book, Our Daddy is a Hunter, and paintings of houses with blood spewing made him one of the breakouts of this year’s NADA art fair. The Estonian multimedia artist has twice represented his country at the Venice Biennale, so he’s not exactly coming out of nowhere…
It’s always a delight when Miami makes the pages of the Weekly World News. After all, the only thing that could make this town more wacky is a treatment by the people who brought us Bat Boy and who still believe Elvis Presley is out there, somewhere. The publication’s latest…
If there’s any time to think of others ahead of ourselves, it’s now. While it may be tempting to take advantage of seasonal sales to stock up on stuff for ourselves, how ’bout we take that extra cash and give it to those in need, instead? Hell, we could all…
During this year’s Basel week, few artists made as much impact as Iván Navarro, whose fluorescent light sculptures sparked a crackling buzz in the big fair’s Art Kabinett sector and at its Art Public outdoor sculpture garden. The Chilean-born talent’s “Impenetrables” project showcased five pieces made of neon ladders and…
I don’t think he’s seen it,” says Nick Ducassi, sitting in the living-room-turned-office of filmmaking collective Borscht Corp’s headquarters. He sounds unconvinced as he utters it. But Lucas Leyva, on a break from editing film in the adjacent Florida room, agrees: “He probably hasn’t seen it. [The letter] came from…
Artists in the 305 are a creative bunch. They find new and unique ways of creating and also performing art, not to mention displaying it. Multimedia artist Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez has done just that — projecting her avant garde film project onto the exteriors of houses during Art Basel.Says…
If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of a kitchen compost — or growing tomato plants in your own feces, for that matter — but didn’t know where to start, there’s a Miami-based organization called Fertile Earth Foundation that would like nothing more than to help you become less wasteful…
When Julian Lennon began photographing U2, he was granted unusually intimate access and took quite a few images. “Then I went to look at them,” Lennon told Cultist at the Morrison Hotel gallery’s Art Basel popup at the Dream Hotel. “And I went, ‘Shit. They look like fucking holiday photos.’…
As Miami lies panting in a puddle of its own steaming art juices, we must take the time to single out the heroes that made Art Basel Miami 2012 safe for all to enjoy: the Art Cops. Officers Matt Vis and Tony Campbell of the International Art Police (and also…
Bloggin’ ain’t easy. A common misconception is that bloggers spend their entire day sans pants behind their Macbook pros aggregating culturally relevant blog content to maximize web traffic. Au contraire, mon frères. Sometimes–not often–we have to wear adult clothes and venture out into that scary unknown old folks call “the…
Alejandro Cartagena shot his “Car Poolers” series by waiting for pickup trucks to drive under a highway overpass in Mexico. The resultant photographs, which we saw last week at Kopeikin Gallery’s booth at Miami Project, show fleeting but surprisingly intimate glimpses of laborers in the beds of the trucks, heading…
A lot inside the eminent Scope tent at Art Basel appealed to the “shock factor.” Like that very detailed line diagram of a woman giving a man anal pleasure. Or the massive installation display of dead fetuses strewn about a child’s nursery. Or that “thug fountain” so generously bestowed upon…
Congratulations, reader. If you’re seeing these words, you made it through Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, the event’s biggest, glitziest, and most spectacle-packed edition yet. There were dozens of fairs to check off your list. There were parties galore each night, with free-flowing booze and D-list celebrities in abundance. If…
Graffiti art is de facto legal in Wynwood, where there are more square feet of “permission-walls” in one compact area than almost any other city in the world. Property owners agree the art work is a positive addition to the neighborhood, and allow artists to express themselves out in the…
