Month: November 2013

Opening reception: November 23, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.November 23, 2013 – January 16, 2014. The mirror has been a frequently recurring signifier in Martínez Celaya’s work, functioning as a proxy subject, a site of uncanny reflexivity, and an object of philosophical inquiry. In Burning as it were a lamp, the mirror is again at the center of a dense web of … +

Opening reception: December 7, 2013, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.December 3 – December 29, 2013. Williams McCall Gallery South of Fifth and Gary Marotta Fine Art G-1 Gallery of Provincetown present Late Paintings and Drawings of Cuban-born, New York artist Manuel Pardo.

On view: December 6, 2013 – January 4, 2014. DEAN PROJECT is pleased to present Supernatural: Religious, Theological & Spiritual Leaders, an exhibition of new paintings by Bryan Drury. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery and features eight oil-on-wood paintings, consisting of seven portraits and one painting of the natural world Arising from a broad interest in the … +

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November 21, 2013 – January 2, 2013. Dina Mitrani Gallery presents Shen Chao-Liang: Stage, curated by Inez Suen, in collaboration with Aki Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan. This exhibition includes images from the artist’s recent series Stage, which explores stage trucks, the mobile “carriers” used by performing groups in Taiwan’s middle class.

November 22, 2013, 8:00 p.m. The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts), a non-profit organization that recognizes and supports the nation’s most talented budding professionals in the visual, literary, and performing arts, today announced its partnership with Universal Music Classics and Classical South Florida to launch Yellow Lounge at YoungArts.

November 18, 2013 – February 14, 2014. The Miami Dade College (MDC) Galleries of Art + Design (GOAD), in conjunction with the college’s 2013 Miami Book Fair International, presents Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage, an exhibition created by Boston-based artist Cathryn Griffith.

Opening reception: November 30, 2013.November 30, 2013 – February 2, 2014. The exhibit features dirty drawings from the series La pesadilla (The Nightmare) where, as the artist states, figures in the style of underground comics are howling asphyxiated by a chaotic and stressful world. Rabbit-headed figures, fallen angels, monsters with bulging eyes, buildings shaped like syringes stand out.

November 9 – 23, 2013. Robert Fontaine Gallery is presenting new works by London-based artist RYCA in a solo exhibition entitled “Refresh.” With influences ranging from Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein to Banksy and Shepard Fairey, RYCA brings a fresh, light-hearted approach to the easily reproduced aesthetic of pop and stencil art in the digital age.

December 8 – 15, 2013. Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida will, once again embark on a journey to the Land of the Sweets, as they perform the traditional annual audience favorite, The Nutcracker.  This is the most popular holiday story ever performed in the US. It tells the tale of a young girl, Clara, on Christmas Eve and the adventure she undertakes … +

November 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Kolie Crutcher, the award-winning author of Electric Living-The Science Behind the Law of Attraction, will be holding an author presentation and book signing at Books & Books Coral Gables. The Books & Books appearance is the last event of Crutcher’s week-long visit to South Florida. Crutcher will be in town to receive the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Gold … +

Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. November 21, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Chicago blues king, six-time Grammy Award winner, and Kennedy Center Honoree Buddy Guy plus the original Grammy Award-winning blues prodigy Jonny Lang will play thrilling back to back sets at a one-night-only Arsht Center event.

November 21, 2013, 6:30 p.m. One of the world’s leading art collectors and foremost figures in Miami’s art world, Margulies will share his experiences as a collector at the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. Martin Z. Margulies is consistently named to lists such as the ARTnews 200 The World’s Top Collectors, and the top 25 photography collectors in the world.

November 23, 2013, 7:00 p.m. The Barry University Department of Fine Arts and Institute for Hispanic/Latino Theology and Ministry pay tribute to famed Cuban Composer, Ernesto Lecuona with performances by Barry’s Brazilian Percussion Ensemble, Repertoire Dance Ensemble, and classical vocalists.

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Miami Beach Cinematheque. November 19, 2013, 6:00 p.m. Porfirio is a film about the remarkable real-life Porfirio Ramirez, a small-town Colombian bar owner who dabbled in connections with FARC in the ’90s but now lives as a paraplegic after being shot in the spinal cord during a police raid, and plays himself in Alejandro Landes’s unique fusion of bio-pic and cinéma vérité.

Coral Gables Art Cinema. November 22 – December 6, 2013. Dallas Buyers Club stars one of today’s true matinee idols, Matthew McConaughey, as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, tough-talking and loudly bigoted Texas electrician, rodeo cowboy and ladies man. Suddenly his life is turned upside-down when he is told he is HIV-positive, extremely ill, with just thirty days left to live.

Miami Beach Cinematheque. November 22 – 27, 2013, 7:00 p.m. It all began in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. A world-class contemporary art collection built by a postal clerk and a librarian that outgrew its modest home, has now spread throughout America.

Video by Pérez Art Museum Miami For the opening of Pérez Art Museum Miami, LOS JAICHACKERS are debuting a new project, Night Shade/Solanaceae. This work builds on their previous … Watch on Youtube

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November 13, 2013, 7:00 p.m. The nationally acclaimed Teatro Prometeo at Miami Dade College (MDC) will soon blow out candles in a star-studded birthday event, marking 40 years of theatrical excellence history as the only Spanish-language conservatory in the country.