On Saturday, June 27, in a dark room with flashing lights and funk-laden instrumental tunes, on a round stage about 30 feet in diameter, 16 of the best b-boys in America threw down their gauntlets — or sweaty beanie caps — for the Red Bull BC One, a 12-year-old international…
Enter a room created by Leah Brown and you feel as if you have been swept away into a surrealistic realm where you’ll want to stay for a long while. The Fort Lauderdale-based artist has keenly pulled off a dream world in her first solo museum show, “Transformation of Echo:…
A decade ago, Edouard Duval-Carrie gathered a group of Broward high schoolers to talk about Haiti. The artist, who was born in Haiti, wanted to find out what the kids knew about his homeland. “I worked with 20 or 30 kids,” he recalls, “a lot of them Haitian and a…
“Discovered by Albert Hofmann in 1938, mass manufactured for use in psychiatry by the pharmaceutical manufacturer Sandoz from 1947 and utilized by the CIA in the 1950s, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, or LSD-25, was banned in 1967 after its widespread adoption by the counter culture” is the innocuous and somewhat to-the-point…
Female beauty, for as much as it has been celebrated and reviled through time, hit a commercial stride at the turn of the last century with a focused assault on the necessity of products to enhance and, well, ultimately perfect that which nature had given. And while “assault” might be…
Imagine a handmade sock puppet headed on a journey where it recounts a story about… anything you want it to. Or think of a gray shaggy-dog puppet interviewing your local barista amid sci-fi sound effects and dancing animated mythical characters, asking tough questions like “Where did you get those pants?”…
“I don’t look like someone who used to do anything,” John Mulaney told the crowd in his 2012 Comedy Central special New in Town. “I look like I was just sitting in a room on a chair eating saltines for, like, 28 years.” But though the baby-faced entertainer may not…
If just one image from the photo exhibit “Cuba: Contrasting Visions” can cause a pause in the drone of excited conversations and consistent media narrative of “vintage cars and fine cigars” that has occurred since proposed new rules were put in place to ease American travel to Cuba, then curator…
“It’s way more complex than just swamps and alligators,” Tim Wride says, offering what he knows to be a grand understatement with a soft chuckle while describing the knotty subject of his latest undertaking at the Norton Museum of Art: “Imaging Eden: Photographers Discover the Everglades.” As curator of photography…
The first two things you see in the Coral Springs Museum of Art’s “The Art of Pop & Comics” exhibit are blown-up, redrawn pages from Batman and the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine comic books. Not exactly what you’d expect to see…
“I think art essentially is this: the basic belief in the future. Because otherwise, why make it?” artist Jose Alvarez D.O.P.A. posits to New Times over the phone from his home in Plantation. He’s just arrived back from a couple of days in New York City, where he was promoting…
By Stassa Edwards Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s tumultuous marriage is the stuff of legend. In a relationship situated somewhere between codependent and abusive, the Mexican painters married in 1929, divorced in 1939, and remarried in 1940. Though deeply fraught and troubled, their relationship has an enduring appeal in large…
Sean McLelland’s scenic design for the Broward Center’s Fully Committed is a prop-heavy treasure box that begs for more scrutiny than most audiences will give it. Minor details and unexplained trinkets fill the space — a Goodfellas poster, a baseball in a Lucite cube, a woman’s purse, Christmas lights, and…
There’s nothing pretty about Jodi Della Ventura’s set design for Primal Forces’ production of Sunset Baby at Andrews Living Arts Studio. In a Brooklyn project, the dining table is collapsible, the door has a giant padlock for a reason, and the scuffed walls have probably been spattered with their share…
In 1974, decades before bullying became a national cause du jour, Stephen King created the issue’s avenging spokesperson: Carrie, the sheltered, ungainly high schooler who begins menstruation at the wrong place and wrong time, is tormented by her classmates, learns how to move things with her mind, and, when humiliated…
Since the beginning of live theater, women have gotten a raw deal. For an embarrassingly long time, from the ancient Greek to the English Renaissance period, women couldn’t even take the stage to play women. Cross-dressing men took those roles — a tradition that continues today in Japanese Kabuki theater…
Right before we spoke, Jacques de Beaufort had just read, for the first time, the amusing and somewhat accurate phrase: “D.C. is L.A. for ugly people.” This particularly struck a chord with the brains and brawn behind Lake Worth’s most daring art space, Unit 1. Starting out in the District,…
Before getting the chance to speak with Steve Martin, you start to really wonder who Steve Martin is. He’s King Tut, but he’s also The Jerk. He’s dueled banjos with Kermit the Frog and even pissed himself as Ruprecht in what is, safe to say, one of the best movies…
In the era of the megachurch, with its telegenic preacher, stadium-quality lighting and sound, and number of congregants ballooning into the thousands, there is something more than a little nostalgic about the tent revival, even for nonbelievers. This vanishing, primitive tradition of Pentecostalism — in which a limited number of…
It’s easy to forget, in our enlightened and accepting times, that until just 40 years ago, homosexuality was treated as a sexual disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the guidebook for mental health professionals. Back in 1974, the decision to remove it from the DSM was so controversial…
It’s easy to forget, in our enlightened and accepting times, that until just 40 years ago, homosexuality was treated as a sexual disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the guidebook for mental health professionals. Back in 1974, the decision to remove it from the DSM was so controversial…
