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Thursday Fluorescent flamingos, bejeweled breasts, a dizzying swirl of palms: This is the opening to Miami Vice, which forever froze Miami in a pastel-colored time warp in the minds of cable consumers across the nation. It’s also the focus of David Reed’s exhibit at PAMM, which will benefit from a…
Thursday Have you ever wanted to know more about the work of German pop artist Thomas Bayrle? If so, you’re in luck! Critic Kirsty Bell is presenting a talk with an impressively long title: “The Massive Scale of Sameness Makes Everything Completely Different.” Bell knows a thing or two about…
If art nouveau sounds like something your great-grandmother liked, that’s because it is. But it’s also the art form that preceded the art deco-style buildings of South Beach and inspired a generation of acid-dropping hippies to make innovative and hallucinatory poster art in the ’60s and ’70s. Bet you…
At Henry Rollins’ last spoken-word show, in Fort Lauderdale in 2012, the former Black Flag frontman spoke his truths onstage, telling stories, such as the one about his adventures as a host on Nat Geo Wild’s Animal Underworld, and sharing his opinions on everything, like how American culture subjugates women…
Most of soft-spoken photographer Lazaro Rodriguez’s close friends don’t know his story of growing up in Hialeah. He was raised by his grandparents because his parents were incarcerated throughout most of his childhood. He says that although they were “kind of poor,” his relatives always stepped in to make sure he never noticed.
Each of us ascribes to a certain narrative about ourselves that helps us face the mirror each morning. Conceptual artist and writer Jason Handelsman is a man committed to experimenting with those narratives for art’s sake. The former Miami New Times clubs editor, current proud father of 2-year-old Timothy…
Though not native to Miami, 29-year-old Magnus Sodamin has taken to these southern swampy lands like a fish to water. And fishing is actually something that inspires him as an artist. From the time when his grandfather in Norway first brought him out on peaceful waters to the days he spends in nature today, he observes and processes the waking world around him.
In 2010, when things on the internet were actually fun, Ronnie Rivera made it even more of a virtual party as one half of online arts collective Bleeding Palm. He took paparazzi-style photos at live events at a time when everyone woke up bright and early the next afternoon, drenched in alcohol sweat and cigarette stink, to see if someone had snapped a cool pic of them the night before and posted it on a website.
A few years ago, artist and writer Cara Despain made the fairly dramatic move from her hometown of Salt Lake City to Miami. She didn’t just spin a globe and point; her childhood best friend had already dropped anchor here in a sea of artist friends. Though Despain always knew she would be an artist one day…
Nothing about Asif Farooq is simple. His work crafting complicated machinery out of paper or his time onstage performing as Main Manatee, singing the Platters’ “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” to a giant stuffed animal, are as complex as his personal story.
In West African dance, the rhythm of the drums and the movement of the dancer work together in unison, almost as one colorful, throbbing body. Other styles, from ballet to modern, disconnect the two; dancers move to recorded music or to the sounds of live musicians playing the same notes…
Artist Elizabeth Montealegre began crafting her seemingly macabre Happy Ever After coffin project after a trip to her homeland, Mexico. But, she explains, it wasn’t inspired only by the Día de los Muertos imagery she saw there; it was also prompted by tales of 16th-century Hungarian serial killer Countess Elizabeth…
In 1968, artist Ida Applebroog and her husband moved their four children from Chicago to California. Around that time, she became overwhelmingly depressed. “I took both my young sons, and I drove them, they helped me drive, to the zoo in San Diego. I didn’t know what I was doing,…
When Doug Blush was growing up in Detroit in the late ‘70s, there wasn’t a lot of movie-making going on there. “I was fascinated with films,” he says, naming Star Wars as a particularly inspiring flick. But, he laments, “they seemed so far away and impossible to be a part of.”…
The mythology surrounding R&B icon R. Kelly often eclipses his musical legacy. And the horror stories that surround the 49-year-old singer overshadow that powerful and expressive voice and those catchy songs that have roped in listeners for 29 years. Kelly’s Buffet Tour, which came to the at American Airlines…
Typically, getting a peek into the inner worlds of a pair of 20-year-old artists is a task for someone with the patience of the Virgin Mother and the cleverness of Oscar Wilde. But twin sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz of the sonic duo Ibeyi make interviewing easy. They speak excitedly…
In a poetry class, Liberty City third-grader Jane wrote this seemingly simple haiku: I am walking and my hair swinging. “You can tell she’s thinking all the time,” her poetry teacher and creator of the poetry project Sunroom, Laurel Nakanishi, says of her student. “I got this whole view into…
Biscayne Bay is lined with plenty of eye-popping structures fit for a sweet Architectural Digest spread, but none on that waterway is quite as impressive as Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. The Italian Renaissance-style former villa and estate of businessman and environmentalist James Deering was built on a seaside strip of mangrove forest…
Artist John Miller is a slender man with long hair and stylish thick-framed glasses. He is very thorough and detaile d as he explains the artwork he’s created over the past 35 years on display as “I Stand, I Fall” at ICA Miami. This is the first solo museum exhibition…
Miami Beach native and promoter Jose Pulido is all about passion. His enthusiasm is clear in the way his eyes light up when he remembers the “golden age” of Miami’s rock scene — of which he was a dedicated part — and the intensity with which they sadden when discussing…
