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Fairchild Gardens’ outdoor exhibitions (Botero, Chihuly, Lichtenstein, etc) have become a Basel tradition – this year is no exception with the Dec 5 debut of its presentation of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Miami can expect dramatic, hand-worked repetition & bold patterning from Kusama – think 5 to 16-foot cast flowers and water-immersed fire-engine red and white […]

University of Wynwood founder & director Scott Cunningham checks in with an update on the project… “Welcome to the University of Wynwood. We’re not a real university, but we do a lot of things that universities do, like organize lectures and panels, host visiting speakers and poets, and publish local writers. This summer, thanks to […]

Head to Lincoln Road tonight or Saturday night as the Miami Lyric Opera presents Carmen. Set in Seville around 1830, the three-act opera follows the Carmen, a beautiful Gypsy with a fiery temper, through the highs, lows and shocking consequences of love. Carmen @ the Colony Theater: Sept 24 & 26 8-10:45pm; Tickets: $25-$30; 1040 Lincoln […]

Melissa Wagner Telford, director of development at Young at Art Children’s Museum, checks in… Young At Art Children’s Museum has received a prestigious one-year Museums for America “Engaging Communities” research grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to prototype exhibits for its new, 55,000 square-foot museum and children’s reading center. The project, […]

UEG, Inc, the parent organization of the Upper Eastside Garden has had a busy summer of engaging the community, adding new designs and making plans. Director Peter Rozek checks in with a few updates… Free admission. The Upper Eastside Garden is open to the public the last Saturday of every month.  Putt putt is complimentary and […]

Scheduled to launch next spring, youngARTS/Miami will provide 17-18-year-old students with professional development opportunities in nine disciplines, master classes with world-renowned artists, the chance to perform and exhibit at professional venues and the possibility to receive grants and college scholarship assistance. Local Opa Locka student Ernest Felton Baker, a national youngARTS participant, is one such […]

The South Florida Youth Symphony has been nurturing the classical music talents of local kids aged 5-21 for 45 consecutive seasons. Today musical & executive director Marjorie Gould Hahn passes along a favorite video clip… This video features the South Florida Youth Symphony students with guest artists… Joe Donato on sax, Chuck Bergeron on bass, […]

Arts critic Janet Batet reviews Layden Rodriguez-Casanova’s latest exhibition, currently on display at the David Castillo Gallery through October 3. You might sleep, but you will never dream is the title of the Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova solo show currently opened at the David Castillo Gallery. The show explores in a logical continuity the surroundings as a […]

Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist, founder and director of ArtFormz Alternative, checks in with a summer update… To present Year 1 of “Giants in the City” was a hectic race to the finish line.  But finish we did, and to our great surprise on time – on budget – and to loud sound of a big hoorah. […]

Despite what feels like near-record heat & humidity, the calendar is marching resolutely into fall – October is two weeks away (crazy, we know). An event for your calendar – Lotus Project’s Fifth Annual Hope Blossoms Art Happening on Oct 16. Come 8pm on that Friday, over 30 internationally renowned performance artists will gather at […]