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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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It’s a few minutes before noon, and I’ve just emerged from the theater. The Playground Theatre, that is. There’s nothing like watching a full-length play on a weekday morning to make you feel like the city is alive with culture. No matter how many Sleepless Nights we spend, we just can’t pack all the art [...]
Carson Kievman in his office. (Photo by Greg Stepanich) Carson Kievman never thought he’d be running an arts school. But one request to find a violin teacher for a friend ultimately led to music teachers and students using his Miami Beach apartment for lessons, and before too long, he was renting out a studio apartment [...]
Need more arts funding? Vent via verse at Knight Arts during November. Express your inner poet – and critic – with KnightArts.org’s first haiku contest. 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 [...]