Arts & Culture

So often, diseases and the attempts to cure them are framed in military terms. We battle diabetes. We survive cancer. We fight HIV. And then many societal problems are framed as diseases. We have social ills. So we suppose it isn’t too much of a metaphorical crime to wage a…

The creative nerve centers of art production in the Southern half of the hemisphere are hotter than a mouthful of wasabi right now. Last year, Puerto Rico-based conceptual duo Allora & Calzadilla represented the United States at the Venice Biennale; there is currently a blockbuster exhibit of Diego Rivera’s murals…

Oceana is an enormous conservation org trying to save the world from the collapse of aquatic ecosystems. It’s good at it — Charity Navigator gives it four stars — and it needs your help. Saturday night, at the glamorous W. (401 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale), you can…

The Scottish people are much more than haggis, kilts, and accents as silky as milk chocolate. They’re a group of people with culture as thick as their red beards and as rich as blood pudding. Help the local Scottish community celebrate the aforementioned culture on Saturday for the 29th-annual Southeast…

Arts and craft fairs are certainly nothing new around these parts. Everyone seems to imagine himself an artist in these DIY times, but just because you dab some paint onto something doesn’t make it art (sorry). The Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, now in its ninth year, is a bastion…

For centuries, the history of human portraiture in Western art was all about likeness. Subjects sat for their portraits, and artists were expected to deliver respectable reproductions of their sitters, who were often portrayed surrounded by the trappings of their success in life. There was also an expectation that a…

It’s the opening scene of The Pitmen Painters, and a group of British miners is listening to a wannabe art professor lecture them on Renaissance paintings. To art scholars, the man’s words and the visual references he brings on an old slide projector are the building blocks of art history…

Sideshow freaks? (Freak is a word we use endearingly.) First thing we think of is the lady who can grow a beard. No doubt she exists. We see gals with killer ’staches all the time. But she’s not a sideshow performer; she’s the eye candy. These folks  perform. Check out…

Submission is the only fetish party in South Beach — and it doesn’t submit to SoBe protocol when it comes to drink prices. Lucifer, bless them: There’s an open bar from 11 p.m. to midnight, and after that, well drinks are $7 and beers $6. Relax, it’s just a fetish…

Submission is the only fetish party in South Beach — and it doesn’t submit to SoBe protocol when it comes to drink prices. Lucifer, bless them: There’s an open bar from 11 p.m. to midnight, and after that, well drinks are $7 and beers $6. Relax, it’s just a fetish…

Sorry, kids; watching beautiful women gyrate ever-so-subtly on the raised platform stage at Respectable Street (518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach) is for the 21-and-older crowd this Friday. What that means: You can’t drink beers and look at boobs without necessary clearance. On a usual night, this would be the…

It’s still a good eight months until the Stick Rock, but in South Florida, the indie craft scene never rests. The Bubble (810 NE Fourth Ave., Fort Lauderdale) puts its own bohemian spin on the indie market with the “Handmade Souk: Indie Craft Emporium & After Party” from noon to…

In the heart of South Florida, there’s a little community of men and women who don’t care much for spending their time shopping at Dillard’s. Instead, they spend their days hunched over sewing machines, crafting adorable trinkets in the shapes of owls and bears, adorning necklaces with wire frame faces,…

If you missed the quirky Chinese import The Piano in a Factory when it premiered at last year’s Miami Film Festival, you’ll have another chance at 7 tonight when it screens at the Aventura Arts and Cultural Center. With a divorce looming from his estranged wife, a street musician attempts…

Studs Terkel, like James Agee and John Steinbeck, was a celebrant of the American working class. Unlike Agee and Steinbeck, he was neither a poet nor a mythmaker. Mostly he was a documentarian. On his radio show and in his writings — and especially in  Working: People Talk About What They…

A pilot sits in his makeshift “plane” — a repurposed wheelbarrow papered with a sparkly, hand-drawn military insignia. It’s the opening scene of Top Gun! The Musical at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale, and the barrow-plane is being rolled clunkily across the small stage by a standing copilot. Meanwhile, the…