Downtown Miami

Rapture, Blister, Burn is a South Florida Premiere by Gina Gionfriddo and is a part on the 5th Season of Theater Up Close. Gionfriddo’s answer to the Wendy Wasserstein masterwork, The Heidi Chronicles, introduces three generations of women as they debate the ultimate question: is the grass always greener?, initiating a dangerous game of “what-if?”. This play could be considered a look … +

ViolaFest includes activities exploring this instrument through master classes and Special Viola Topics with NWSA Professor Richard Fleischman, guest Master teacher Dr. Jesus Alfonzo, performances, and even a Viola Ensemble and Faculty Recital. Free event and open to students Grades 6-12, also College-age students Participants must bring their viola Check in and registration at NWSA Lobby 8:30 AM – 7:30 PM New … +

The exhibition features a series of Photostats produced by Bearden in the 1960s. Bearden created approximately two dozen small collages, which he subsequently converted into large works on paper using a Photostat machine—the precursor of the Xerox copier. The imagery comprises some of the first experimental, artistic representations of black popular culture from an African-American perspective. Recognized as one of the most … +

Nari Ward: Sun Splashed, will be the largest survey of the artist’s work to date and will offer a close consideration of his diverse production. Sun Splashed will examine Ward’s career through interrelated frameworks that reveal the ongoing investigations, both material and intellectual, that have guided his practice across more than 20 years. This exhibition will be organized around vital points of … +

Mary Queen of the Universe is a solo exhibition of works by Steven and William Ladd. The exhibition features crafted sculpture, drawings, and prints by the fraternal collaborative team. For more than ten years, Steven and William have explored the blurred boundaries between design and fashion, fine art and craft. In a decade of working together, with fascination for materials and process, … +

Sheela Gowda artistic practice engages a diverse range of media and materials. Her vocabulary of materials are drawn from both the rural and urban contexts in which she works and are characterized by their interest in texture, color, and socio-political references related to India. Gowda began as a figurative painter and studied in London, where she received a master’s degree in painting … +

Carlos Alfonzo’s prolific works in clay and painted ceramics are inextricably connected to the formal evolution of his large paintings and sculptures. This exhibition presents his works with clay and ceramics in the context of contemporaneous paintings, drawings and other small-scale works.The exhibition showcased the artist’s short but acclaimed career until his death at the age of 40 in 1991. Organized by … +

Celebrating its first Gala ever, Cleveland Orchestra Miami will perform with its music Director Franz Welser-Möst and Soprano Renée Fleming. The Gala will be an evening to celebrate ten seasons of relationship with the Miami-Dade community. Program includes works by Mozart and Ravel and Verdi. Franz Welser-Möst on his fourteenth year as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra and Soprano Renée Fleming, … +

This new project gallery presentation consists of three photographs by Canadian photographer and art historian Jeff Wall, one of which will be presented to the public for the first time. The pictures show individuals living on the streets, under highways, and in urban back alleys. Since the 1970s, Wall has been producing enigmatic, large-scale works that connect photography with a variety of … +

Speechless is a new work by the Rotterdam-based artistic duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol), is a multilayered exploration of how we speak about the precarious state of the natural world. The work consists of a custom-built aviary, which houses five parrots taught to mimic phrases from T.S. Elliot’s seminal 1922 poem, “The Waste Land.” The … +

Macchietta, Small Sketches by Karen Rifas, as a part of “Design Lab”, presents a retrospective of small scale maquettes. Representing over 19 years of artistic practice, this exhibition explores the artist’s process in creating plans and ideas for much larger and site specific installations. Miami-based artist, Karen Rifas, has a long history with site-specific installations and architectural interventions. Known for her minimal … +

Bloodlines is an exhibition by that traces the history of social movements in the Unites States and the Caribbean, inspired by lineages of black resistance. Best known for her large-scale works on paper, Báez makes connections of diasporic experiences by interweaving the lives of 18th century black women in Louisiana and the Cuban roots of the Latin American azabache, with symbols used … +

The photographic series Childhood Memories from the Other Side of the Water by Eduardo del Valle, includes certain aspects of the artist’ memories. For 40 years, Del Valle have worked focusing his practice on subjects in states of transformation. Over the past nine years, the artist has worked on a visual autobiography of his experiences related to his childhood, his recollections of … +

For the first time, HistoryMiami Museum will host the Miami Street Photography Festival (MSPF) during Art Basel Week (Dec 3-6, 2015). In conjunction with the festival, the Museum will exhibit the finalists of MSPF’s international street photography competition through January 2016. The MSPF is an international photography festival showcasing the best of contemporary street photography, and featuring the work of professional and … +

Standing in contrast to the experience at the fairs and museums, Open Studios at Cannonball will provide a behind-the-scenes view of ideas still looking for their material form and reveal how the artists negotiate the constraints of media, the slipperiness of ideas, and the demand for novel visual vocabularies. Local artists in residence Sofia Bastidas, Guillermo Leon Gomez, and Matthew Evan Taylor … +

PAMM has been chosen as the Florida Collection site for Ai Weiwei’s new international art project, Lego Collection Point. This project is part of Ai Weiwei’s ongoing efforts to challenge censorship and discrimination from LEGO who refused Ai Weiwei’s order to make a piece. Ai decided to make a new work to defend freedom of speech and political art with LEGOs from … +

“It’s hard to think of a more perfect operatic comedy than The Barber of Seville” National Public Radio That’s not our quote…that’s National Public Radio raving about The Barber of Seville. And it’s no wonder! The Barber of Seville is one of the greatest comic operas ever composed. Everyone is calling for opera’s favorite barber, Figaro–and Florida Grand Opera is pleased to … +

Jazz Roots on its 8th edition presents Kenny G and his Christmas disc “Miracles: The Holiday Album” with more than 8 million units sold. Kenny G is the biggest selling instrumental musician of the modern era with more than 75 million records. He has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the business including Michael Bolton, Weezer or Whitney Houston. Knight … +

Presented in collaboration with the Frost School of Music’s Festival Miami, Jazz Roots on its 8th season, invites the jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who has over 50 film scores to his credit and is a multiple Grammy Award winner. The evening will also feature a montage of classic scenes from Spike Lee movies performed by a star-studded lineup with Blanchard and his … +

The MSPF is an international photography festival showcasing the best of contemporary Street Photography viewed through the eyes of emerging photographers in this genre capting the world around us. The featured artists of the present edition are Bruce Davidson, David Alan Harvey, Peter Turnley, Maggie Steber and Larry Towell. The 2015 MSPF Street Photography Festival holds its usual contest open to participants … +

In reference to “A Day In the Life of the Coral” newly commissioned public artwork in Museum Park on the occasion of Fringe Projects, artist David Brooks will discuss how artistic inquiries, fieldwork, and research-based practice contribute to a broader living characteristic of his work and projects. This talk will be directly followed by a site visit with the artist and Fringe … +