For more than two decades now, the South Florida Cultural Consortium has served as sort of a trend guru, recognizing artists from Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties who are leaving deep footprints across the region. Each year, the alliance of local arts agencies representing all points from…
In God, his 2007 video installation, Ragnar Kjartansson channels the spirit of a Vegas lounge lizard, warbling “sorrow conquers happiness” over and over until he shatters your nerves and rattles your brain. The work is on view in “At Capacity: Large-Scale Works From the Permanent Collection” at the Museum of…
The progenitors of Art Basel Miami Beach have long tentacles. So long that you can trace their suck marks all across town this week, where more than a dozen ancillary fairs have latched like remoras onto the underbelly of a bloated whale. But it’s at the Octopus’ garden at the…
One thing that must be said about these Bushes is they refuse to be licked. And right now the Texas political dynasty is engaged in a full-court-press tour to restore its tainted legacy. Their first move in tackling this daunting challenge is the release of Laura Bush’s personal account of…
Luis Gonzalez Palma is a myth weaver whose sumptuous, gilded photographs echo inexorably across time. The Guatemalan artist creates baroque imagery of mysterious characters in opulent theatrical garb shanghaied from a faraway place and delivered unexpectedly to tenebrous shores. His subjects often appear trapped in small, ornate, antique cases exuding…
For his swan dive into Jungian archetypes, local performance artist David Rohn is channeling more personalities than Sybil. During his solo show “In Characters” at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art (158 NW 91st St., Miami) at 7 p.m. Saturday, the quick chameleon will unveil a suite of photographs and a series…
Leave it to someone named Jeff Wack to make art you’ll want to reach out and stroke until you sprout hair on those palms. The California-based artist uses a camera and digital airbrush painting to create fetching imagery of nubile nymphs in exotic poses that leave little to the imagination…
What happens when graffiti rats abandon the streets for a gallery show exploring the underground movement? Find out Friday at Art Center/South Florida (800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach), which has linked up with Primary Flight to mainline some street cred into its white cube setting. “Blue Print for Space” features…
For the next seven days, Miami transforms itself into the vortex of the international art world with an around-the-clock, sensory-numbing menu of stellar events scattered across town, AKA Art Basel Miami Week. Only the foolhardy would risk scheduling invasive surgery or a drug or alcohol intervention this week — it’s…
Few people can boast the success Joan Rivers has achieved during her half-century on the stage. Since reaching stardom on The Tonight Show in the Sixties, the raspy-voiced fossil has gone on to become a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer, and syndicated radio host,…
Walk into Pip and Duane Brant’s new exhibit at ArtCenter/South Florida, and you might feel as if you’ve just stepped into a classic Steppenwolf tune — off on a magic carpet ride, whisking through clouds of sound. “The Flying Carpet” will unfurl this Saturday night at 7 and features a…
Following their six-week skinny-dip into skull-staving retro-kitsch, the TM Sisters will unleash their highly anticipated Hilger Artist Project Award exhibition at Miami’s vaunted alt space, Locust Projects. Over the summer, the talented homegrown collaborative, comprising Monica and Tasha Lopez De Victoria, has been busy decking out Locust in a kooky…
British fashion photographer Rankin made a name for himself conjuring edgy images of Kylie Minogue, the Spice Girls, and Queen Elizabeth II. Now he has turned his lens toward Scotland for the Macallan Masters of Photography collection. True to its name, Rankin’s exhibit is an intoxicating suite of Polaroid snaps…
Carol Prusa’s celestial Aporia is a two-foot-wide acrylic hemisphere housing a matrix of fiber optics currently casting twinkling star patterns upon the walls of the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. The Boca Raton artist’s enchanting globe is covered in gorgeous undulating abstract patterns created from a labor-intensive process. Prusa sandblasts her surfaces…
If you’ve been itching to tap your tootsies down memory lane, hoof it to the Mayfair Antique Market, where you might score some classic vinyl LPs. The monthly confab is a virtual fortune hunter’s paradise and features dozens of vendors with unusual items for the serious collector or weekend browser…
When Norelkys Blazekovic founded Irreversible Magazine in 2005, she had little notion her publication would evolve into a global arts project. “It has become a portal for cultural exchange and projects from Miami to Switzerland, Spain and Japan,” the arts activist says. This Saturday at CiFo, Blazekovic will host “Irreversible…
Dangerous, written by Michael McKeever. Directed by Clove Cholerton. Run time, approximately 90 minutes. Presented through March 29 at the Caldwell Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. Visit caldwelltheatre.com, or call 561-241-7432. For his first adaptation, SoFla playwright Michael McKeever reimagines an 18th-century classic, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les…
What do Ted Bundy, Slick Willie, and Dubya have in common? They were all born the same year. 1946 also delivered one of our few remaining hardcore saloons. Fox’s Lounge is home to the city’s best martinis and a jukebox that rocks this town. Inside, you can imagine Johnny Wadd…
Avant theater icon Roger Wilson has raised the curtain on the future of portraiture in his skull-staving series of works at the Bass Museum of Art (2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach). “VOOM Portraits” features 25 high-def images of people and animals presented on large-scale HD plasma flat screens. In Wilson’s…
Not unlike blues legend Robert Johnson, considered by many to be the granddaddy of rock and roll, Dominic Molon must have found himself tempted by a Faustian deal. Five years ago, the curator was at the crossroads between rockers and artists, confronting the daunting task of exploring the deep-rooted and…
Visit the world of Karen Kilimnik and you’ll find a gothic landscape cloaked in a gossamer web of memory. Her trove of imagery flits from ballet, childhood, pop music, film and fashion icons, romantic painting, witchcraft, murder, melodrama and even time travel in scenes that upend the historic and recent…
As a teen, R. Grimes was initiated into the local punk scene after taking a thrashing from a group of skinheads. Undeterred, the skateboard rat would frequently travel to the hardcore South Beach club scene from his home in the Keys, eager to absorb the lumps and quaky imagery that…
