Six Miami artists will live in the LegalArt residency this year: Carlos Ascurra, Pachi Giustinian, Jiae Hwang, Alvaro Lizarbe, Manny Prieres, and Jen Stark.
Founded in 1984 as an artists’ colony, Artcenter/South Florida has been a Lincoln Road favorite of tourists and locals for decades. The 2008 Knight Arts Challenge Winner was awarded $150,000 to develop it computer lab and digital programming, bringing classes & facilities to artists. Step inside the project with executive director Jeremy Chestler and resident [...]
Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and former Broadway producer (Angels in America, The Producers), recently visited the Magic City during a national tour of urban arts site. On his hit list? The Bass Museum (where he’s pictured below playing pool on Gabriel Orozco’s ‘Oval Billiard Table with Pendulum’), DASH, Wynwood, the [...]
Three new major works were added and unveiled last Saturday to the de la Cruz Collection in the Design District. The works were by Carlos Alfonzo, the Cuban-born artist who came to the United States on the Mariel boatlift in 1980. Alfonzo started out as a state-sanctioned artist in Cuba, but when he came to [...]
While the Miami Herald exposed the lack of use of the Little Haiti Cultural Center yesterday, the center’s resident dance companies were busy belying the news. Yesterday evening at least, the Center’s lobby was bustling with fans sampling snacks before the gorgeous 270-seat theater was filled with dance enthusiasts and the stage electrified with movement. [...]
I’ll Cross that Bridge When I Get to It is the latest exhibition by Miami artist Bert Rodriquez, opening tonight at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery. No works will have been created by the time the show opens. Instead, Rodriguez plans to fill the space over the next 25 consecutive days of the exhibition with a [...]
The Upper Eastside Garden is one of Miami’s great hidden gems. Equal parts community hub, native garden center, events locale and mini golf course, the UEG aims to increase accessibility to the arts and boost artistic expression. In 2008, the Garden became a Knight Arts Challenge winner, securing $25,000 for operating costs and program expansion. [...]
“C’mon Adrienne Arsht Center, make some noise!” Somehow that old hip-hop chestnut sounded like an oxymoron when host DJ Cynic shouted out from the stage of the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center during the Nas show last Friday night.
Renée Fleming. The soprano Renée Fleming doesn’t have a lot of local performances on her list this season, but in tandem with her appearance at a Boca Raton winter festival she’ll be doing a master class at the University of Miami. Her appearance is set for 2 p.m. Friday, March 5, at the Gusman Concert [...]
Oh, The Tangled Webs We Weave… opens this Saturday at the David Castillo Gallery. It is a solo exhibition by Karelle Levy Parisian-born and Miami-based founder and operator of local fashion line, KRELwear.