It is almost impossible — well, it is impossible — to experience and absorb all of the art on display this week during Art Basel. Add together all of the other off-Basel exhibits and events and the task seems even more daunting. The smaller venues featured below offer the weary and overwhelmed art-goer a lower-key, […]
Article · December 1, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Marissa Alma Nick dares you to show your face and follow (or un-follow) your shadow to “The Shadow Projects,” a site-specific experimental performance inspired by Carl Jung’s shadow theory. Jung’s shadow theory posits the idea that the shadow contains “the disowned qualities of the consciousself.” In other words, the stuff — constructive and destructive — […]
Article · November 28, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Saturday night’s Literary Death Match (LDM) at Bardot did not end in a bloodbath. Instead, it ended with big laughs, hoots and hollers and a linguistic tongue-twister of a spelling bee. Hosted by Literary Death Match founder Todd Zuniga and the Miami Book Fair International, Literary Death Match proved that literature is not dead and that writers […]
Article · November 21, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
… is bursting at the coastline with an almost overwhelming supply of art and cultural events to experience. This is a great thing, so long as one has a plan. Here are a few tips on what to see around town this weekend and the coming week. This Friday, make sure you head over to […]
Article · November 17, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Inkub8‘s monthly Inkub8r Open-Studio Series continued last Saturday with a “wet” and “dry” performance of “To Do or Not To Do,” a multimedia, multidisciplinary collaboration with performer and choreographer Carlota Pradera and experimental electronic musician Nicole Martinez. The first hour of the “dry” performance took place inside Inkub8’s white box studio space. Illuminated by pink […]
Article · November 14, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
If you want to know how to get to heaven, get in line at The Stage in Miami’s Design District on Nov. 12 at 9 p.m. for David “LEBO” Le Batard’s “Three Steps Toward Heaven,” a live improvisational performance painting series staged in three parts. Described as “an artistic progression toward happiness,” which I assume […]
Article · November 10, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
The following post, written by Neil de la Flor, recounts the events of the Knight-funded Sleepless Night 2011, a 12-hour fete of cultural events on Miami Beach. The post orginally appeared on the Knight Arts Blog: Beneath the almost full moon at the North Shore Bandshell, Miami Lyric Opera’s breathtaking performance of “Marina,” a zarzuela by […]
Article · November 7, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Beneath the almost full moon at the North Shore Bandshell, Miami Lyric Opera’s breathtaking performance of “Marina,” a zarzuela by Spanish composer Emilio Arrieta set in Costa Brava, Spain, impressed the audience. Starring Hilda de Castillo, Jesse James Vargas, Diego Baner and Nelson Martinez, the cast, especially de Castillo and Martinez, powered through the performance […]
Article · November 7, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Almost everyone has written a haiku at some point in their life. Put one together with c’hai and we get a “Rooftop CHAIku” — the innovative new poetry series at Next@19th. Based on the grounds of the historic Temple Israel in downtown Miami, Next@19th has expanded its programmingto include monthly poetry readings, along with monthly […]
Article · November 4, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Featuring an almost overwhelming array of 150-plus performances, “Sleepless Night” (a Knight Arts grantee) returns to Miami Beach with 13 consecutive hours of cultural arts and entertainment scattered around the city at strategic locations from South Beach to North Shore. One of the best things about the cultural artsand entertainment festival, besides the breadth of […]
Article · October 31, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
When I was a student at the George Washington University, I would skip class to hang out at the Hirshhorn Museum, where I would stare at Mark Rothko’s “Blue, Orange, Red.” I didn’t “get” Rothko at the time, but I enjoyed this painting so much that I tried to copy it. I couldn’t, so I […]
Article · October 27, 2011 by Neil de la Flor