Downtown Miami

Eugenio Espinoza’s current show features over 50 exceptional works including paintings, photographs, sculptures, postcards and documentation of performances and interventions by the Venezuelan artist. The exhibition focuses on his practice during the decade of the 1970s, highlighting his significance within the Latin American avant-garde of that period. Currently living in Florida, Espinoza is known for his nonfigurative, humorous and irreverent manipulations of … +

Since 2012, the artist Shana Lutker has been researching the Surrealist movement. Among the most important European avant-garde groups of the 20th century, the Surrealists explored the unconscious mind and creative expressions that were tied to the irrational. Growing out of the artist’s previous work focused on psychoanalysis, this ongoing project, The History of the Fistfights of the Surrealists (2012–), presents a … +

Argentinian artist Diego Bianchi has produced a new large-scale installation for PAMM’s project gallery adjacent to the museum’s main entrance. With an underlying sense of loss and an unusual beauty, his dynamic assemblages involve binding, burning, or cementing together these worn objects, creating textured surfaces that dialogue with the work of Antoni Tàpies, concurrently on view at PAMM. Bianchi is known for … +

Dimensions Variable presents Sounds Like, a group exhibition including the work of Mike Calway-Fagen, Nicholas des Cognets, Janelle Iglesias and Tom Scicluna. There is value in not knowing, in being unsure. When you can’t name something, can you still know what it looks like, what it smells like, feels like, sounds like? With this question in mind the exhibition’s four artists deploy … +

This opera won so many awards during its run of 250 performances on Broadway it was even dubbed the Top 10 Musical Events for 2015 by The Miami Herald! This opera is perfect for anyone who loves great theater and great music. In an unnamed totalitarian state, a desperate Magda Sorel struggles to obtain visas for her family to emigrate and join … +

The 2014-15 Cleveland Orchestra Miami season closes with Carl Orff’s masterpiece, Carmina Burana – a giant cantata about love, lust, the pleasures of drinking, and the heightened moods evoked by springtime – conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. Share in an amazing evening of music with The Cleveland Orchestra at the Arsht Center. The Cleveland Orchestra Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Nadine Sierra, soprano Anthony Roth … +

Rising Stars Showcase, a professionally staged, energy packed, one-of-a-kind performance, presents the extraordinary talent of high school and college students from New World School of the Arts, Florida’s premier arts institution. The showcase begins at the New World Gallery with a juried visual arts exhibition featuring impressive student artworks. The show, as diverse as the school population, includes painting, drawing, design, sculpture, … +

Now in its 32nd year, the Miami International Film Festival is 10 days of provocative cinema and fabulous parties attended by guests from around the globe. Love the red carpet? See a CINEDWNTWN gala screening . Like films about food? Sink your teeth into one of our mouth-watering Culinary Cinema pairings. Can’t get enough of the Oscars? Attend a master class with … +

Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design presents Object of my Affection: San Pedro Nos Ve, an interactive multi-media installation by Alma Leiva. Leiva, an alumnus of New World School of the Arts, will create an interactive installation titled Object of My affection: San Pedro Nos Ve (St. Peter Watches Over Us). Born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, now living in … +

Margrethe Aanestad explores spacial relationships through form, color, material and space. She uses various techniques on paper and a careful orchestration of found objects to reveal a sublime balance. Her compositions are not only a relationship between drawings and three dimensional panels, but a response to the space and place itself. Aanestad has been working in Miami for several weeks and has … +

The Miami Dade College (MDC) Museum of Art + Design in partnership with The Center for Writing & Literature at MDC presents Fountains & Galaxies, recent works by Bernard Cooper in conjunction with the release of his new memoir (W.W. Norton & Company). Cooper (b.1951) was born in Hollywood, California, and attended the California Institute of the Arts where he received his … +

Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design (MOA+D) will present an exhibition and new body of work titled Arrhythmic Suite by Venezuelan-born, Miami-based artist, Odalis Valdivieso. The exhibition comprises paintings and photographs made from 2014 to the present. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication of an artist’s book containing images and an essay of writer Federica Bueti and … +

A major historical survey that features a selection of more than 50 large-scale paintings and sculptures, representing diverse moments from throughout Antoni Tàpies’ career. These include early examples from 1945 through to recent works created in 2011—the year prior to his death. The exhibition explores the Spanish artist’s use of unusual materials and forms and the development of his unique visual language, … +

HistoryMiami announces The Complete Audubon: The Birds of America exhibition, on view at the Museum’s expanded facility, which now includes the former Miami Art Museum (now Perez Art Museum Miami) building at the Miami-Dade Cultural Center. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view for the first time all 435 prints at HistoryMiami. John James Audubon’s The Birds of America (1826–1838), considered a masterpiece of early … +

Put on your dancing shoes! Miami Dade College will present its fourth annual Artistry in Rhythm: Engaging the Community (AIR Dance Conference) in an effort to create an innovative training program for dance artists and a laboratory for choreographers. The scholarly dance conference will explore the significance of community engagement through the vernacular of dance, encourage community growth and development, and enhance … +

Founded in 1974, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo are a critical and audience favorite and have appeared in more than 30 countries and 500 cities around the world. The company of professional male dancers perform the full range of the ballet and modern dance repertoire, including classical and original works in faithful renditions of the manners and conceits of those dance … +

One of the oldest musical institutions in Russia, the Mariinsky Orchestra enjoys a long and distinguished history. Founded during 18th century under the reign of Peter the Great, the Orchestra has established its reputation as one of the finest orchestras in Europe. Through the leadership of Valery Gergiev and extensive touring, Mariinsky is often referred to as “the world’s first global orchestra.” … +

New World School of the Arts college music program presents A Little Night Music, a musical adaptation composed by Stephen Sondheim and based on the book by Hugh Wheeler. Directed by NWSA dean of theater, Patrice Bailey, the musical highlights the talents of music theater college junior and seniors while sharing the stage with an 18-member NWSA Symphony Orchestra, led by Alfred … +

DreamCatcher Theatre’s beautiful new production of INTO THE WOODS takes place in the fairytale kingdom of the Brothers Grimm where, once upon a time, a baker (J.J. Caruncho) and his wife (Arielle Jacobs) were sent on a quest into the woods by a mysterious witch (Tituss Burgess). Thrust into a world of magic and adventure, they find their story intertwined with a … +

The Miami International Map Fair, the longest continuously running map fair in the world, returns to HistoryMiami February 6-8, 2015. The 22nd Annual Miami International Map Fair will feature over 40 national and international antiquarian map dealers from all over the world, exhibiting over thousands of rare, authentic antique maps within the museum’s exhibition galleries. For $20 daily admission fee, visitors will … +

The exhibition will consist on a display of paintings inspired by the trip the artist took to the cave called Qyaqpuma. The selection compiles pieces that want to show the myths of the tribes, the ethnographic expressions, the rituals and the oral stories. Joaquin G. has always been interested by the Amazonian customs which he uses to interpret them on his personal … +