This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. “I’m that little girl whose mom put her in dance at age 3 and took…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. Andrew Vincent wants you to watch more things. The South Florida native and filmmaker makes…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. Imagine an enchanted triangular portal. White lights synced to ethereal beats illuminate the cavernous walls. As you…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. Juana Meneses and Leila A. Leder Kremer believe art isn’t something simply for the enjoyment…
Lew Fitz grew up in a rough area of Manchester, England, and couldn’t wait to get away. He earned a lacrosse scholarship and took it to the University of Florida. The 23-year-old brought his dark, British comedic sensibilities with him. “I think that guide dogs look at other dogs the…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. Allison Kotzig has been a local provocateur on the art scene for several years. Her…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners — chosen from a group of ten finalists — will be announced this Thursday, February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture at the Coral Gables Museum. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. Collaborations are all the rage these days. Designers…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. Sitting in an intimate café in Wynwood, the only thing that distinguishes Giovanni Profera and Josue Garcia from the rest of the hipster crowd…
There must be something in the water in South Florida, seeping into folks’ houses and making them long for one thing. No, not brains, but…well, maybe some blood and guts. It’s all about the cult classics and the horror here, and Morbid Movies is here to dish it out once…
This year’s three MasterMind Award winners will be announced February 18 at Artopia, our annual soirée celebrating Miami culture. For tickets and more information, visit newtimesartopia.com. As a young kid growing up in Darien, Connecticut, not far from New York City, Magnus Sodamin found his first artistic inspiration in places…
The Arts Garage in Delray Beach is in imminent danger of eviction. Supporters have put together a petition asking the public to help save them. This is not the first time the Arts Garage space has been under siege. In 2013, the city commission considered selling the space attached to…
In 1947, conservationist Marjorie Stoneman Douglas famously dubbed the Everglades “The River of Grass,” using that handle as the title for her iconic book about the wetlands that are synonymous with one of Florida’s great natural treasures. Despite her warnings about the need to fight for its preservation, those vast…
When curator Jane Hart left the Art & Culture Center of Hollywood last year, it came as quite a shock. Over almost a decade, Hart had brought sophisticated, cutting-edge contemporary art to the quaint, unassuming space near Hollywood’s Young Circle. Shows here always stood out in Broward County’s otherwise bland…
The feeling of when Disney’s Cinderella famously slid her foot into the glass slipper is how Rebecca Fell felt when she was told the Buckskin Declaration, an age-old document the Seminoles used to declare their sovereignty more than 50 years ago, was found after years of being lost. At the time,…
“It was early 2014 when we first started thinking about a children’s book,” says Cari Corene, co-creator of Floral Frolic. “We both were wishing to do work featuring our own intellectual property. At the time both of us were working a lot on projects belonging to other people and we…
When alternative arts collective Bedlam Lorenz Assembly (BLA) curates a show, viewers are in for a hip, well-thought-out, immersive experience that’s bold and, oftentimes, absurd. The latest and perhaps most ambitious endeavor to date is Saturday’s opening of “Attempts at Autonomy.” The group exhibition, curated by newcomer Jesse Firestone and…
Like many professional creatives, Kristen Holeman doesn’t like to define what she does. “I have a dilemma,” recounts the Venezuelan-born, Fort Lauderdale resident. “I don’t call myself a jeweler. I don’t call myself an artist.” Since 1974, Holeman has worked nonstop, handcrafting non-traditional jewelry in metals and enamel, which have…
In a sense, Andy Warhol was as much a symbol of the pop culture he celebrated as he was an artist whose work helped define it. With his pale complexion, white wig, and soft-spoken demeanor, he represented everything that was surprising and unusual about art and music in the ’50s,…
Rick Allen lost his left arm in a horrific Corvette wreck in 1984 — but that didn’t stop him from working as the drummer for English rock band Def Leppard. He carried on with a custom-made, cutting-edge drum kit and led the band through its most successful single, “Pour Some…
Maybe you’ve seen an Indian classical dance performance, and maybe you’ve heard Afro-Caribbean poetry spoken or read aloud. But there’s a really good chance you’ve never seen the two together, on the same stage. That’s because it’s never been done before. “I haven’t seen anything like this either, ” says…
The last time we spoke with Jacques de Beaufort he was shutting down a project that had been a large part of his life for two years, Unit 1. Located in his combination home and studio, Unit 1 was an attempt by the Lake Worth resident and associate professor of…
“I want to be really rich and live on a farm with a bunch of horses — which is my main best animal — and have three yachts or more and diamonds and jewels and all that stuff.” — Erin Blackwell, known as Tiny, from the 1984 documentary Streetwise Thirty-two…
