The popular DWNTWN Miami Concert Series returned last month with an eclectic taste of a rich season to come. The 2008 KAC winners checked in with an update & preview of the 2009 season…
Last Saturday saw the opening of LITTLEST SISTER 09 at Spinello Gallery, which runs through Art Basel to December 10. The idea is simple. LITTLEST SISTER sets itself up as a mini mock-art fair, with 8 booths, all 4′ x 8′ in size, and a size restriction on all the work of 9″ x 12″ [...]
Sometimes I feel like I’m having the same conversation over and over. Whether I’m talking to artists, journalists, or social service types, the theme is always the same: If we’re going to survive — if we’re going to give the public what it wants — we need to pool our limited resources. Artists and other [...]
If there’s a must-see art event for Saturday’s upcoming Sleepless Night, it’s Night Shift at the Bass Museum’s Collins Park. Curated by Jerome Sans, co-director of Paris’ Palais de Tokyo and current director of Beijing’s, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, it features outdoor installations and performances by local Miami talent such as Jim Drain and [...]
As promised on Tuesday, I’ll be shelling out for a professional Thai massage for two lucky winners: the best review of a Sleepless Night event and the most reviews of Sleepless Night events by a single person.
Alette Simmons-Jimenez of Artformz checks in with a Sleepless Night preview, artist interview and more… This weekend on Saturday Nov. 7th, Artformz will make an appearance at Sleepless Nights on Miami Beach. Three artist’s giant inflatable sculptures from the 2008 Knight Arts Challenge winning project “Giants in the City” will be on view at the [...]
Earlier in the year, I spent some time listening to two newer recordings with good South Florida connections, and I don’t know that they got a lot of attention at the time, so here’s my effort at redressing that. The first was a Naxos disc called Reflections of wind band music by the American composers [...]
By Victor Barrenechea, Visual Arts Blogger One of the advantages [NAME] art books have over the average art object is their ability for wide-spread dissemination (1,000 copies of each book printed) and their tactile nature. You can hold them in your hands, flip through the pages at your leisure. Much in the same way one [...]
The program for Sleepless Night is ready for download — and it’s a doozy! There are 150 events on offer all over Miami Beach next Saturday night and into the wee hours of Sunday morning. That got me thinking about how tired I’m going to be when I write this blog the following Monday. And [...]