By Elizabeth Shannon, Bass Museum of Art With Art Basel Miami Beach looming large, we’ve been very busy at the Bass Museum of Art of late, with the installation of Piotr Uklański’s exhibition ESL and Art Public in Collins Park. This all follows on from the opening of TIME, featuring projects by Hernan Bas, Manny […]
Article · December 3, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Neal Hecker, WPBT The new production at the Actor’s Playhouse is a twist on an American holiday tradition, offering the audience a chance to watch somebody else’s family meltdown around the dinner table. The play, making it’s South Florida Premiere, was written by Sean Grennan. The title, “Making God Laugh” according to Artistic Director […]
Article · November 27, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Robert P. Smith, Philadelphia Theatre Company Anna Deavere Smith is an internationally recognized artist, who is known for creating a groundbreaking new form a theatre employing both performance and journalism. The Pipeline Project, devised and implemented by Anna Deavere Smith, will explore the “school to prison pipeline,” a disturbing national trend wherein children are […]
Article · November 27, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
The Knight-funded and WPBT produced program “Artloft” won a 2013 Suncoast Emmy for Arts/Entertainment – Program Special. The lead piece of the winning episode, Artloft 117, is about the recent show at Locust Projects by community engagement artist Theaster Gates. Neal Hecker, Kandra Velez, Marlon Johnson, Dennis Scholl and Yoandy Vidal were awarded the Emmy […]
Article · November 25, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Spain is a land of poets more famous than its great musicians. Though at first sight Javier Perianes does not look the type, he is indeed a poet, and a good one. He is a pianist, and a good one. Javier Perianes Three seasons ago, Perianes made his […]
Article · November 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Alexys Taylor, Gantt Center The mood is set, the lights are dim, and the cool air reminds you of a movie theater. As the space draws you in, there is a sense of gravity but at the same time a feeling of comfort. To the right are three projectors with the faces of black […]
Article · November 22, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Gina M. Russo, Locust Projects 2013 marks Locust Projects’ 15th anniversary. As the only Miami representative at NADA this year, we will share our booth with a selection of Miami-based artists, and Locust Projects exhibiting artists past, present and future. All profits from this fundraiser initiative will be used in support of Locust Projects’ […]
Article · November 22, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Giselle Heraux, AIRE It’s the 1980s, and Bill Maxwell is taking his sister to Everglades National. As they drive down Krome Avenue, Maxwell’s sister catches a view of the distant pine forest. “I don’t want to go there,” his sister proclaims. “There’re too many trees. Maxwell tells this story to point out that many […]
Article · November 22, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Jodi Farrell, Adrienne Arsht Center Dropped off at the Dadeland South Metrorail station four hours before acclaimed dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt’s concert at the Arsht Center last Friday, Paule Jackson, an 18-year-old aspiring opera singer from Richmond Heights, decided to stop at a Starbucks in downtown Miami. “Going to be standing outside the Arsht […]
Article · November 19, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Emily Parkinson, Miami City Ballet Photo credit: Miami City Ballet dancers Tricia Albertson and Reyneris Reyes in Polyphonia. Photo © Daniel Azoulay. Miami City Ballet recently completed its first program of the 2013-2014 Season. Christopher Wheeldon’s breakthrough contemporary work Polyphonia was one of the featured ballets and also one of five company premieres that […]
Article · November 18, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer The columns frame neither a Greek palace nor an antebellum mansion, but a dollhouse. A more intricate dollhouse than Henrik Ibsen’s, but nevertheless a dollhouse – and a tomb as well – lies at the heart of the production of Mourning Becomes Electra with which the Florida Grand […]
Article · November 16, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad