The Knight Foundation and the University of Wynwood are pleased to announce their inaugural Haiku Contest. Beginning Nov. 1, we’ll begin accepting entries from all members of the Miami community via KnightArts.org. Traditionally, haiku is a Japanese verse form invoking the natural world, but we’re looking for a haiku that addresses a much more localized topic – the Miami-Dade County [...]
The Gold Coast Jazz Society recently had a brush with small screen fame. Eight of its students were invited to film a spot on BECON TV – executive director Pam Dearden gives a first-hand account of the experience…
This Saturday night, you can pay $25 to see the mischievous and mesmerizing Dutch drummer Han Bennink in the close quarters of the Byron Carlyle Theater. Or you can pay twice as much to sit even closer, along with “priority entrance.” Think of it as the presenter Tigertail‘s version of the velvet rope.
Allison Eldredge solos with the Miami Symphony on Sunday. How does one go about rebranding a symphony orchestra? If you’re the Miami Symphony Orchestra, you get this message across: We want to be a world-class orchestra, and we’re taking big steps to get there. The group has hired its first director of development, has a [...]
Yay! What can be said about the Miami-based artist collaborative that hasn’t been said before? They’ve been called everything from cute and magical, accessible as well as subversive, and even Miami’s answer to Takashi Murakami. The duo have been making art since 2002 and are still finding new and improved ways to infiltrate the [...]
The cold front did not arrive in time for the opening of “Into the Wild,” a wilderness-themed show at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art last Friday night. The art crowd sweat among the campfire paintings and Enrique Gomez de Molina’s bizarre churkendoose sculpture (okay, it was more like a peacock-crab-squirrel, but anyway it was disturbing) and [...]
Lincoln Road’s ArtCenter/South Florida rethinks the gallery walk this weekend as it debuts its 19 newly juried artists and showcase the new exhibit Splinter/Fuse. From 7-10pm, tour the space, visit the artists and explore the exhibit inspired by the process of evolution. A few sneak peaks… Artist Kevin Foltz explores evolution through Buddha Jules Lusson uses [...]
Tonight at Carol Jazzar gallery is Into The Wild a group show featuring works by local and national artists such as Ai Kijima, Elizabeth Condon, John DeFaro, Luis Garcia-Nerey, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Enrique Gomez De Molina, Juanita Meneses, and Michelle Weinberg.
Wearing extraordinary, elaborate hats to church has long been a cherished African American tradition. Knight Foundation has commissioned two local filmmakers to explore and document the rich tradition within Miami’s own fashionable black community. Sunday’s Best incorporates interviews, vintage and contemporary photography and local gospel music. Sunday’s Best from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
400 plus pages. 400 plus photos. 23 contributors. Seven years in the making. Miami Modern Metropolis is an insanely ambitious book. Architect and scholar Allan T. Shulman has a restless mind and relentless drive — and our understanding of the Magic City is the better for it. At the book launch at the Bass Museum [...]
