Arts & Culture

Sometimes change is not only good but also worth celebrating. This Saturday, the annual Miami Art Museum Ball celebrates MAM’s 29th birthday and its upcoming new digs. Next December, the downtown Miami icon will be renamed the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and relocated to its new Museum Park facility…

It’s hard to think of British contemporary art savant Damien Hirst without also bringing to mind his $100 million diamond-studded skull sculpture. But if you visit Art Basel this weekend, some of his more affordable “Color Dot” paintings might catch your eye — and provoke revelries of forking over six…

Art Basel is stress-inducing. From the parking to the prices to the pretentious collectors, it’s enough to induce palpitations. And while boozing it up or procuring some less-than-legal remedy is most people’s go-to method of dealing with the tension, YogArt is offering a healthier way to chill the hell out…

For “Midtown 34th Street,” local nonprofit Art of Cultural Evolution has teamed with mobile creative workshop Transit Antenna and artlurker.com, a Miami-based online publication, to produce a sustainable living site at 82-84 NW 34th St., Miami. It’s opening for Basel as a work of art but also serving as a…

Look for New York painter Nicole Eisenman’s “Bus Shelter Project,” in which her black-and-white portraits of snaking wires are surrounded by colorfully collaged pop-culture imagery on city bus benches scattered across the city as part of Locust Projects’ continuing public art series. Visit locustprojects.org. Dec. 6-9, 2012…

The rash of gritty urban guerrilla interventions spawned by Baselphrenia extends everywhere this time of year, making all of Miami a stage for neck-craning art. In the storefront windows of the Walgreens on the corner of 23rd and Collins in South Beach, check out Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s site-specific installations commissioned…

This Thursday through Sunday, if you visit the corner drugstore to pick up some toothpaste or wait for public transportation to whisk you to work, you’ll likely be surrounded by eye-popping art. That’s because Art Basel Miami Beach has parachuted into town once again, converting the 305 into a colossal…

Enough with the Warhols, Banksys, and an entire convention center filled with the new and innovative. There is a limit to any art fan’s ability to analyze a sculpture she’s sure looks like a phallus even though the artist insists it’s a representation of his mother. After a week’s worth…

The key to being as spooky as possible, according to Anthony Hopkins, is acting totally normal. In an interview with New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Hopkins offered advice to Mads Mikkelsen, the actor who plays his Silence of the Lambs villain, Hannibal Lecter, in an upcoming TV show. “The key…

Forget all of that iKindle, eNook nonsense; books are totally making a comeback. They’re more easily replaceable and much more beach-friendly than electronic devices. Plus, you can’t exactly fill a bookcase with e-reader files to prove your extreme intelligence to the hookups you bring home from the bar. So ditch…

If you’re not familiar with the Christmas tale The Nutcracker, it goes something like this: A giddy little Clara can’t wait for the big day but to her amazement gets an early present unlike any other when the Nutcracker, the Sugar-Plum Fairy, and the Snow Queen all come to life…

The Tea Party is not the only entity obsessed with our Revolutionary War days. Dancer, performance artist, and choreographer Dayna Hanson is too, in her latest work, the combination rock musical/dance performance/history lesson Gloria’s Cause. But her take is a little darker and less enthusiastic than that of the musket-carrying…

Last night, Gary Nader, the world’s top collector of Latin American art, opened his gallery to Portuguese billionaire Joe Berardo, who received a key to the City of Miami for making it rain $500 million worth of masterpieces in one big room. The top floor of the Nader space is…