Be sure to check out MAM’s latest Space as Medium exhibition, on view today through February 28.
Featuring artists like William Anastasi, Lynda Benglis, Tom Burr, Ryan Gander, Katharina Grosse, Wade Guyton, Nicolas Lobo, and Rachel Whiteread, the show highlights the development of artistic works and methods that critique, subvert, manipulate, or distort, conventions of physical space and how work is presented. The show builds upon the traditions of the 60’s and 70’s that spawned this sort of space-related art and exhibits work by current artists taking these ideas to their next logical conclusion. Continue reading ‘New Exhibitions at MAM’
You know the holidays are almost here when suddenly everything seems to be about the kids. This weekend you can take your tykes to see the first in the Orchestra Miami series of free children’s concerts or haul your inner child to a free show by Dan Zanes.
Continue reading ‘Kids Have All the Fun with Dan Zanes, Orchestra Miami’
December is days away, which means only one thing down here – BASEL. Economy aside, we’re still expecting parties, exhibits and fairs galore. That being said, those on a budget have a new lodging option this year courtesy of The Upper Eastside Garden – Camp Basel.
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Dollar bills slipping
through your hands like fish – three days
left to write haiku.
Send us your best 17 syllables for a chance at $500 with KnightArts.org’s first haiku contest. Just three more days to apply. We’re looking for prose addressing the Miami-Dade County Commission’s review of public arts funding. Feel free to be as political and provocative as you like – no limits.
What: KnightArts.org’s first haiku contest
When: Now through Nov 21 at KnightArts.org
Why: Cash prizes!
Who: Any & all budding & professional poets
How: Click here to apply & get additional details.
Rules: All haiku should be in the traditional format of 5-7-5: 5 syllables for the first line, 7 forthe second and 5 for the third. Rhyme is NOT a requirement. Submit as many as you like, as many times as you like (with each haiku entered separately). All entries will be reviewed by a blind panel of judges.
From left: Laszlo Pap, Mei-Mei Luo, Richard Fleischman and Claudio Jaffé.
It’s too early to call it in an invasion, but one Palm Beach County-based string quartet is expanding this season to venues in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
The Delray String Quartet, founded six years ago out of the collapse of the Florida Philharmonic, has played for the past five seasons on selected Sundays in the historic Colony Hotel in downtown Delray Beach. The hotel, which dates from the 1920s, has no air conditioning in its music room, so during concerts the windows are open to the streets outside, meaning that many a motorcycle has joined the quartet as a special guest artist in the middle of the music.
Managed by Don Thompson, who was co-producer of The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical of all time (42 years), the quartet has added All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale and St. Thomas Episcopal in Coral Gables to its performance spaces this season. The goal: to be a power on the South Florida chamber music scene.
Continue reading ‘Delray String Quartet Makes Bid for Regional Following’
If you haven’t seen the current group show at the Centro Cultural Español, do yourself a favor and check it out. The group show, Proyecto Habitar (featuring works by Raúl Cárdenas/Torolab, Santiago Cirugeda/Recetas Urbanas, Democracia, Gean Moreno, Ernesto Oroza, Juan Carlos Robles, and Todo por la Praxis), explores ideas of habitability drawing on everything from architecture to urban decay as subject matter.
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Think out of the (music) box this Friday night and get a taste of musical theater, chorus, jazz, dance, opera and more at the Miami Dade Public School’s Superintendent Benefit Concert Series. Featured performers include the Miami Shores and Norma Bossard Elementary school choruses, the New World & Miami Northwestern Sr High PAVAC Ensemble and the Coral Reef High opera.
Superintendent’s Benefit Concert Series: Fri, Nov 20, 8pm; $25 at ticketweb.com, proceeds benefit the Cultural Passport Program, which enables public school students to experience the arts.
Ana Menendez explores empire and betrayal
Used to be, Herald readers could get a steady fix of Ana Menéndez in lyrical writing and keen observations of her columns for the paper. That was before she set off on a long journey to older, if not necessarily more colorful, corners of our planet. Last weekend she touched down in MIA once again for a panel with fellow Herald-columnists past and present at the Miami Book Fair International.
Her latest novel, The Last War, is loosely based on Menéndez’s own experiences in and out of war zones. Set in Istanbul, a city poised between East and West, and between the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the novel follows a photojournalist as she comes to grips with the possible infidelity of her war correspondent husband. Continue reading ‘Ana Menendez on Love, War, and Poetry’
Locust Projects presents Decollage by New York-based artist Francesca DiMattio. DiMattio, once known for making paintings that create the illusion of collage, she now delves deep into the medium of actual collage for the first time. For this exhibition there’ll be ten foot high banners with layers upon layers of Xerox images, culled from found magazine sources, books, and the artists own paintings, which are peeled and torn into impressive strips and patterns with dashes of watercolor and acrylic added for emphasis. The artist has also created a site-specific mural collage, culled from clips of imagery evoking the scenery of Miami. Continue reading ‘Second Saturday Quick Picks’
Get intimately involved in this year’s Scope Art fair by bringing a custom-designed t-shirt to the Omnibot’s Pop-Up Shop Party tonight. From 7pm to midnight enjoy complimentary cocktails and mingle with fellow artists. 2411 Biscayne Blvd, #2; Miami. Can’t make it to the bash? Send your t-shirt via mail by Nov 20.
