Remember the good old days of rave when the only thing fluorescent was your glow stick? Today’s youth aren’t content with a faint luminosity you have to keep in the freezer. They want to bathe in neon paint, which is why every stop on the DayGlow: The Fifth Element tour…
Anytime a movie involves fishermen, we’re on high alert for allegory. But Undertow (Contracorriente), the debut feature-length film from writer and director Javier Fuentes-León, is mum on moralizing and big on nuance. Most narratives that involve a love triangle — this time between fisherman Miguel, his pregnant wife, and a…
Are you a constant disappointment to your mother? Are your lady cojones bigger than the matzoth balls in your metaphoric soup? Then you might be a nice Jewish girl gone bad. And we have the perfect way for you to spend tomorrow night, the last night of Hanukkah. A new…
After roaming dozens of art fairs’ hundreds of rows, the whole Basel experience started to feel a little, well, manic. And it also started to feel a little alienating. The trade-show booth set-up only intensifies our estrangement from the art-world, a place where buying a Brillo-pad sculpture for 50,000 Euros…
For five days, the world treated Miami like it mattered. It bought us flowers and told us it liked our new haircut. It held open doors and called us at night just to say goodnight. But the smooth-talking world is shipping out today, and the only way we know to…
Wham, bam, thank you, mam? In the morning, the crowds will be gone, the pop-up shops and nightclubs will be empty storefronts again, and our city will have to reconcile the fact that it’s no longer an uber-chic, hipster Atlantis, but a metropolitan city with tons of stinking problems. What,…
Ready for another Basel day post-mortem? We’ll keep this quick as we have hangovers to nurse and art fairs to attend. The super secret The Island exhibit was either shut down by the city or they ran out of boats. We’re trying to find out. Artist Ryan McGinness turned Club…
In the words of Sailor Jerry, cheap work ain’t good and good work ain’t cheap. So you could be excused for feeling sheepish about the caliber of work coming out of the free Sanrio tattoo parlor, which opened at Small Art Miami yesterday. But one of our writers sent in…
Art Basel, AKA “hipster spring break,” continues. Your feet probably hurt, and you’re nearing your saturation point for all this pretentiousness. We say, enjoy it while you can. Come Monday, we’ll just be Miami again instead of the capital of the contemporary art world. It’s so quick, it almost feels…
With all its skulls and sparkles, Art Basel is dangerously close to resembling an Ed Hardy T-shirt. Those were two big trends we saw at yesterday’s Basel Vernissage as we gawked at 2,000 artists and weaved between celebrity land mines such as Isabella Rossellini and Michael Stipe. Thankfully, the fair’s…
How is everyone holding up? Eyesight blurring from too much art-looking? Ears aching from too much rocking? Art Basel festivities go through Sunday, so save some juice. Yesterday was a big day. Design Miami/ and Scope opened to the public. The fancy folk (including us) attended the Basel Vernissage (French…
This Thursday, nearly 15,000 people will queue up outside the Miami-Dade Main Library. What’s with this sudden surge in literacy? After all, Miami was recently ranked the ninth dumbest city in America – an honor partially based on our city’s fledging book sales. Yet every year, the 305’s voracious readers…
Imagine a late-night bonfire on the beach, everyone drunk on anarchy, and folks start burning cars and overturning trash cans as they howl. Now record that scene onto vinyl and you’d have King Corpse, the latest seven-inch from Miami garage psych band Lil Daggers. The music is lo-fi and dark,…
An art walk after Art Basel is like being offering a KFC Double Down sandwich after Thanksgiving. We get it – you’re art-full. But we’re guessing you spent most last week traipsing around art fairs showing international artists. It’s time to support the local scene once again. In conjunction with…
And just in time for Art Basel, The Standard Miami Beach is opening a bookstore within their existing shop teeming with glossy art books. Rafael de Cárdenas, the architect behind the igloo-like exhibition space at O.H.W.O.W., designed the new retail space. And this isn’t just another pop-up venue for Miami’s…
O Cinema attained a special permit to screen films during Art Basel. The interior is practically complete, according to one of the founders Kareem Tabsch, who also says they hope to open for good not too long after Basel in late December. This Wednesday, their inaugural film will be Scissors…
Thinking about skipping out on the Basel pretension by spending a few days submerged in mud at the Standard Spa? Well, look for an escape elsewhere, because the boutique hotel is just as infected with the Basel bug. And just in time for Art Basel, The Standard Miami Beach is…
Is it possible to be exhausted by Art Basel before it even begins? While most fairs and parties haven’t even opened yet (except for those annoying VIPs and press previews), yesterday might have been the unofficial start to this crazed week. Bruce Weber was at the Standard, and Calvin Klein…
Looks like we’re not the only art fans handing out money. The Knight Foundation, that benevolent overlord who makes most great art happen in Miami, announced the 27 winners of the 2010 Knights Art Challenge. Among the honorees are New Times favorites Borscht Film Festival and free Florida Grand Opera…
You can stop turning tricks to buy your resin and tempura paint. The Miami New Times wants to give deserving artists some cash. Yes, we’re still striving for that Utopian society where we all wear seashell brassieres and use the barter system. But in the meantime, making art ain’t easy…
Art Basel, like a muffin top peaking out of too-tight jeans, is spilling out beyond the convention center. It’s now like Fantastic Fest or Mardi Gras, a week-long madness that takes over an entire city. This year, it’s causing giant jellyfish to attack Lincoln Road, giving Hello Kitty a gas…
In honor of our Mastermind genius awards (we’re accepting submissions until January 7), Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.68. Spencer MorinThe next time you see a crowd at News Lounge, sipping on cocktails…
