Naomi Fisher checks in with an update from Bas Fisher Invitational… “The Bas Fisher Invitational is having a holiday fundraiser of artist modified python clutches to match their Knight Arts Challenge Grant! We teamed up with New York based, Miami raised handbag designer Katherine Fleming, and invited 16 artists to reinterpret her signature Jane python [...]
Cuddle Fish vol. 1 is out, a zine “created, compiled, and completed” by local artist Bhakti Baxter, and served up in a small edition of 160 copies.
It’s oft been said that Miami lacks a social problem novel. Something about this town just makes it hard for writers to tackle our poverty, race relations, immigration issues, and political corruption without turning the whole thing into a sexy crime story. Talk about loving your symptom. If anyone could be expected to break that [...]
Now that Art Basel has come and gone, you’ve probably seen all the art you can stomach for just one month. And Second Saturday seemed to have come a week earlier this December with countless strings of opening receptions from Wynwood across to the Design District. Doubtlessly, every gallery put its best foot forward in [...]
You cannot save yourself to health. That came as welcome news to the Florida arts managers, educators, and artists gathered at the Arsht Center this morning to hear super-manager Michael Kaiser. The sitting president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shared the wisdom he has gleaned rescuing arts organizations on the brink from [...]
Since 1918, when the dean of King’s College in Cambridge, England, put together a “lesson” of carols for Christmastime, the idea of a special music service for the big holiday has established itself all over the English-speaking world. Although it’s done holiday-themed programs in the past, this week the Seraphic Fire concert choir introduces its [...]
As its 2009 season comes to an end, Raffaele Cardone, general and artistic of the Miami Lyric Opera, checks in with a preview and some musings on the company’s 2010 season… We are very exited about the opening of the season with Don Pasquale of Donizetti having as Title role one of the best interpreter [...]
Art Basel week is a golden opportunity for Miamians to experience important work that they may never get a chance to see otherwise in their own backyard. Strolling around the Convention Center all you have to do is blink to miss an original Donald Judd staring you right in the face. But what of the [...]
Richard Harris, executive director of the Miami Music Project, checks in with a winter update… “This fall the Miami Music Project began its journey to bring classical music to the public schools of Miami-Dade. In five days the ensemble performed to over 2,100 children and ten days presented 24 educational and interactive concerts. The response was overwhelming. [...]
The consensus is in: sales at Art Basel Miami Beach and her many sister fairs were grim, but not as bad as last year. Over at ABMB proper, a performance piece by Regina José Galindo captured the mood. The artist submerged herself in a bathtub until she could no longer breathe. She came up for [...]
