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Travis Cohen

Travis Cohen is a writer for Miami New Times and covers subjects ranging from arts and architecture to marijuana and monkeys with herpes. He graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor's degree in English in 2012 and began working with New Times shortly thereafter. He was born and raised in Miami.

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Miami Dancer Hattie Mae Williams on Guerrilla Dancing and the Tattooed Ballerina Movement

By Travis Cohen
Dec 18, 2013

You walk into a large room with high ceilings and walls made of massive mirrors. You are dressed in tights and a form-fitting leo, perhaps a pair of garbage bag shorts for the sake of menial comfort, and the floor has a slight spring beneath you. Every day that you...
PAMM Opens Today, and It's More Beautiful Than You Imagined

By Travis Cohen
Dec 4, 2013

Two thousand words is too many for a Wednesday morning, but too few to do the new Pérez Art Museum Miami justice. So we'll put it simply: the new Herzog and De Meuron (HDM) edifice on museum island is, no exaggeration, exquisite. Naturally, in this story, we'll be describing the...
Art Basel 2013: The Year of the Pop-Up

By Travis Cohen
Nov 27, 2013

Just a few years ago, if you had asked just about anyone what they thought of "pop-ups," the responses would've been hateful and disgusted across the board: "Those god-forsaken, invasive little adverts? They've completely buggered my computer! Have these people no shame?!" But times have changed for the once-dubious term...
Black Sunday 2: Metal 305 and Their Motorcycle Bazaar Return

By Travis Cohen
Nov 27, 2013

Florida contains a city that is, for many, the Mecca of American motorcycling: Daytona. And yet the state's most vibrant, crazed, burgeoning city, Miami, a city that is by all measures of science and quantifiable fact a far better city than Daytona, has almost no motorcycle culture to speak of...
Ideagarden Park Project: LAB Miami and Matthew Lewis Aim to "Repair" Wynwood With Green Spaces

By Travis Cohen
Nov 11, 2013

Miami. It's the Magic City in the Sunshine State. This town has too many superlatives and nicknames associated with it to list, but they add up to the same thing: it ain't bad living in the sub-tropics. Our weather is the envy of Bostonians and Chicagoans who curse our tanned...
"Concrete Paradise": The Past, Present, and Future of Miami Marine Stadium

By Travis Cohen
Oct 17, 2013

Tonight marks the grand opening of the Coral Gables Museum's new exhibition, "Concrete Paradise: The Miami Marine Stadium," which takes viewers through the history of the stadium, from its inception to the prospective renderings of its future renovations. The exhibition seamlessly interweaves the what curator Rosa Lowinger described as "the...
Almost Paradise

By Travis Cohen
Oct 17, 2013

Rarely do Miamians take the opportunity to revel in this city’s rich, textured history. But those itching for a bit of past-provided stimulation need look no further than the Coral Gables Museum (285 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables) and its special exhibit, “Concrete Paradise: Miami Marine Stadium,” a limited-run event that...
III Points: Photographer John Sevigny Makes His Miami Debut With "Wilderness of Mirrors"

By Travis Cohen
Oct 4, 2013

III Points kicked off last night, and that means different things for different attendees, depending on what you fancy for the weekend. Some of you will be cruising from barbecue to barbecue; some will be flailing about to the sounds of Miami Horror and XXYYXX; while others still will be...
III Points: Strangeways Zine Release Party Kicks Off the Festival

By Travis Cohen
Sep 30, 2013

The III Points festival is nearly upon us and soon, artistic happenings will spread from Midtown to Wynwood like a red tide taking over the culture of the night. For some of you, the interest will fall on the music; for others on the visual artists; and some of you...
Geto Boys' Willie D on Fighting Authority and FBI: "We Had Doors Kicked In, Been Set Up"

By Travis Cohen
Sep 17, 2013

The bands that last, they're the exceptions to the rule. The Geto Boys are that kind of long-lasting, exceptional group. And after 24 years, they're still going strong and they're headed to Miami this Thursday for a show at Blackbird Ordinary. Widely regarded as one of the greatest hip-hop crews...
Future Artist Foundry: "Party at the Future Hotspot in Wynwood Before It's Even Built"

By Travis Cohen
Sep 13, 2013

Have you found yourself wandering around Art Walk recently wondering where the party's at? You're mulling around on the sidewalk once the galleries have closed and Wood, Lester's, and Gramps have all reached capacity with overflowing lines a stretching nearly a block and all you think is, What is there...
Gloria Estefan on Miami Marine Stadium's Future: "I Envision a Drive-In Movie Theater for Boats"

By Travis Cohen
Sep 9, 2013

This Saturday, six teams of "Special Operations Warriors," a group of veterans from the US armed services, mounted a team of Kawasaki Jet Skis along the shoreline in front of Miami Marine Stadium in order to commemorate the "Never Quit Challenge," a private charity ride 1,600 miles up the East...
11M Project Portraits Put Immigration Reform Face to Face With Downtown Miami

By Travis Cohen
Sep 2, 2013

Over the last few days, you may have noticed an odd change spreading across the lower facade on the south side of the Freedom Tower. A constantly changing mosaic of faces fell over the mustard flanks of the building, arguably Miami's most famous historical landmark in regard to our city's...
The Ten Weirdest Landmarks in Miami

By Travis Cohen
Aug 20, 2013

Miami can be said to be the home of a lot of things: home of the torrential downpour, perhaps; home of the majestic likes of Trick Daddy and Rick Ross; even home of the Whopper (Burger King is headquartered here). This tropical wasteland is a vastly varied landscape, so much...
76hundred Motorcycles at Hyde Beach: A Weird and Wild Scene

By Travis Cohen
Aug 13, 2013

When you think of old school motorcycles, what comes to mind? Beards? Greasy boots and greasy jeans? Hard riders who keep themselves humble by finding meaning in the road and on their bikes? If any of these were part of the mental picture you painted, then this past weekend's event...
Freud on Film: John Menick Explores Sigmund Freud

By Travis Cohen
Jul 25, 2013

As famed medicine men go, few figures are more iconic than Sigmund Freud -- the man with the cigar, the snow-white beard, and the Viennese voice discussing sex, dreams, and the nature of man's unconscious mind. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, has in many ways remained more culturally relevant than...
Strangeways Zine Collective Launches Magazine, Group Show in Wynwood Tonight

By Travis Cohen
Jul 25, 2013

You know those little 4x6-inch booklets that you find along the wall next to the dart board at Lester's or in a neat pile sitting on the bar at Gramps? You know the ones -- they've always got those interesting pictures and some funky reading material stitched together in an...
Second Saturday at Spinello Projects: Rain and Reading

By Travis Cohen
Jul 15, 2013

Most of the time, a sudden rash of rain can be a death sentence for an event in this town; Miamians ain't about the soggy life. But lo and behold, this past Second Saturday proved to be an exception to that particular Miami rule, with a surprisingly activated turn out...
Miami Marine Stadium Restoration Plans Approved

By Travis Cohen
Jul 12, 2013

A little over five years ago, an organization called the Friends of Miami Marine Stadium was founded in order to champion the restoration and reopening of the long abandoned bayfront venue in Key Biscayne that had its doors closed by the city in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. It has...
Magic City Bicycle Collective Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

By Travis Cohen
Jul 1, 2013

This Saturday the skies opened up and let loose a torrent of gray water over Downtown. Despite the momentary monsoon, the slightly waterlogged lot on the corner of 11th and North Miami Avenue was abuzz with music and good vibes. People were celebrating and feeling good, rains be damned. The...
Pérez Art Museum Miami Presents Los Jaichackers in First Official Event

By Travis Cohen
Jun 25, 2013

Recently, one of Miami's cultural nerve centers, the Miami Art Museum in downtown Miami, closed its doors for the last time and was officially put to bed and laid to rest. But fear not - the museum will open a new set of doors in its reincarnated form as the...
Say Goodbye to the Miami Art Museum! Lights Out Closing Party This Weekend

By Travis Cohen
May 31, 2013

Soon, the Miami Art Museum as we know it will no longer exist. The Downtown mainstay that has stood as a cultural hub in the shadow of Government Center will be moving to its new home in Museum Park and will be rechristened as the Pérez Art Museum Miami in...