Daniel Chimowitz is an internationally renowned artist and fashion designer. He creates walking canvases of painted images on hand-sewn as well as up-cycled clothing, essentially combining fine art with the excitement of the fashion industry. Chimowitz has shown his designs in Paris, London, Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Miami and worked with famed designer Patricia Field. In ... +

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Bringing attention to the historical interdependence between art and fashion and its influences, the Miami Fashion Film Festival adds to the “fashion is art” narrative with local and international films that highlight fashion design through storytelling, graphics, sound, and motion, in real and digitally imagined environments. The MFFF will bring Screenings, Workshops, Panels also parties! 2018 Filmmakers are:  Laia Gil, Adriana Naranjo, ... +

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Onyejuruwa is the founder of Ankara Miami, an events company that focuses on fashion from Africa and the African diaspora. While Ankara organizes networking opportunities and pop-up shops year-round, its largest event since its inception in 2012 has been African Fashion Week, a four-day showcase that includes two runway shows and a fashion market. By featuring both emerging and established designers from ... +

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The DESTEFASHIONCOLLECTION is an incremental project conceived by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art to consider and trouble the boundaries between art and fashion. Each year from 2007 through 2014, DESTE commissione­d an artist to survey that season’s international fashion offerings and to select five related items with which to execute a capsule project, reflecting on the formal, representational, material and social ... +

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It was a packed house recently when the internationally renowned experimental composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson spoke at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU. Anderson spoke as part of the Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series. The room broke out in rousing applause as Anderson, with her hair in a small bun atop her head and dressed ... +

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Art and Fashion join together in an expo-sale that offers clothing, costume jewelry, accesories, and makeup. The second edition of the Arts Fashion Weekend includes twenty-two designers and artists presenting their proposals during the event. Under the curatorship of the Venezuelan artist Adriana Barrios Mendoza, this edition of the Art Fashion Weekend 2017 has been called The Trunk Show, a huge collection of visual experiences and ... +

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Best-selling author Susana Martínez Vidal, whose book “Frida Kahlo: Fashion as the Art of Being,” was recently published by Assouline will give a presentation prior to the conversation titled “Frida, The Great Visionary: Why is she more alive today than before she died? 20 Fashion (and life) Lessons that Mrs. Kahlo left Us.” Her gorgeously illustrated book focuses on the unparalleled influence ... +

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The biggest little orchestra around – Pink Martini featuring lead singer China Forbes – returns to the Arsht Center with their new album, Je dis oui! Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world, crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop – Thomas Lauderdale founded Pink Martini to provide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers for causes ... +

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Following the spectacular success of the first MISO-CHIC dedicated to fashion, this season MISO-CHIC will be presenting a visual arts extravaganza. Painting, sculpture, and urban street art with live performances on stage. Music and Color will be combined as paint for the soul. The program will include from Marturet-Mikesell: Pictures of an Exhibition (World Premiere); from LeFrak: Variations on work by Sandra ... +

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Lillian Bassman’ Elegance will present a significant collection of signed silver gelatin prints by American artist Lillian Bassman (1917-2012). Bassman’s unique graphic style of photography blurs the boundaries between fashion photography and fine art. In the 1970’s, frustrated with the formulaic trends of fashion photography, Bassman destroyed nearly her entire archive save for a bag of negatives stowed away in a closet. ... +

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The Desert and the Cities Sing: Discovering Today’s Israel is a unique treasure box including photographs by Neil Folberg, films, books and more. is an exploration of Israel by two intrepid travelers, Lin Arison and Diana C. Stoll. Through encounters with world-renowned artists, educators and innovators, they reveal the richness of a country many know only through front-page headlines. Free Event Includes: ... +

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This exhibition showcases the Spring/Summer 2016 collection of Fashion designer duo Abdul Abasi and Greg Rosborough inspired by East-West/West-East, a public art installation of bronze monoliths by Richard Serra in the Qatari desert. As colors and textures in the garments communicate this unique life experience, their collection is a perfect embodiment of public art inspiring the creative economy. In a recent New ... +

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Torn is composed of a a series of new mixed of media collage works and styles, textures, and motivations by artist Derek Gores. Derek Gores usually recycles magazines, labels, data, and assorted found analog and digital materials to create the works on canvas. His work displays an interest in the beauty of the figure, the angular and abstract design aesthetics of fashion, ... +

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Markowicz Fine Art is partnering with award-winning, international fashion and celebrity photographer and director Markus Klinko for the grand reveal of never-before-seen photos of the beloved, international pop culture legend and fashion icon, David Bowie. The photographs are limited editions autographed by the contemporary photographer. Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation funds the nation’s best and brightest scientific investigators whose research focuses on finding less ... +

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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, ... +

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Holly Hunt in partnership with Edward Cella Art & Architecture, presents new works by Los Angeles-based artist Mara De Luca in Vice City . The installation, opening the first week of December during Art Basel Miami, was created in response to the showroom’s design context in collaboration with Walker Art Center curatorial fellow Mary Coyne. Inspired by the pastel palette and glamour ... +

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Now the landscape leads me It’s difficult to imagine a landscape that perceives us. It’s difficult to summarize which landscape inhabits our memory. It’s difficult to find such dissociated archetypes in our experience. It’s difficult to go beyond the imagination standardized for over half a century by a pre-formatted cinema. Pattern Recognition, the new installation by Fernando Velazquez helps us escape these ... +

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This exhibition opens questions to the viewers around contemporary art world repetitions interpreted as critical appropriations of previous aesthetic models in the name of a genuine avant-garde tradition. Also questioning if art today has finally succumbed to the ongoing recycling of fashions and style. TUB Gallery Miami 171 NW 23 Street Miami FL 33127 305.573.0610 www.tubgallerymiami.com

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The Spoken Soul Festival, named the “Best Place To Meet Intelligent Women” by the Miami New Times, is back and better than ever. The three-day festival, inspired by SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day, explodes with performances and art exhibits during the SWAN Spoken Soul Showcase on Saturday, March 28. Thirteen artists will be presenting their work at this year’s event, making ... +

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Art Wynwood 2015 will feature 70 international galleries presenting emerging, cutting edge, contemporary and modern works and will have its own distinct identity and design. A unique feature is the highlight of street art, murals, pop surrealism and other genres from the contemporary underground movement. Art Wynwood is perfectly positioned to further the growing worldwide recognition of this movement by providing the ... +

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Blake Emory, one of today’s newest thought-provoking abstract artists will debut his highly anticipated trademark collection of works in Optic Modernism at this year’s Spectrum Miami art show in Midtown Miami, December 3–7. Emory’s Zebra Love series represents the artist’s inspired discovery of what he refers to as “nature’s grand design” that encapsulates an artistic expression of retro fashion with love, passion ... +

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Death of a Printed Story is a comment and personal reaction to the inexorable massive presence of printed propaganda in our everyday existence. In a predominantly visual culture that overproduces printed material, the piece explores the relationship between reality and simulacra, creating a scenario where media begin to reign in contradictory and conflicting rivalry with themselves. Reality has been frozen and stopped ... +

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THE EXHIBIT "PAMM, UNDER CONSTRUCTION" features photographs by Daniel Azoulay of the recently completed Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), when it was under construction. The museum was designed by the architecture firm, Herzog & de Meuron from Switzerland with the intention to convey a fluent connection between the subtropical site and its architecture. The photographs by Daniel will tell the story of ... +

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This exhibition explores the life and work of the pre-eminent American photographer, Lee Miller, from several perspectives: as the favored fashion model in the 1920s for photographers such as Edward Steichen and Arnold Genthe; as the assistant, collaborator, and muse of surrealist photographer Man Ray in the 1930s; as a heralded art and fashion photographer, and as a combat photographer during World ... +

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Spinello Projects presents Let It Slide, Johnny Robles’ first gallery solo exhibition. Robles’ sculptures and installations ignite a new kind of conversation: he invites his audience to revisit the infinite, faded world of childhood, challenging them to redefine its potency in the present. A live DJ set by Electronica act Washed Out will accompany the opening reception, as a satellite to the ... +

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Vinci’s artistic production dialogues with historical modernist and avant-garde movements in Brazil in which the experiential and materiality of the work is given a privileged position in its conceptual and formal make up. The artist enters into dialogue with these traditions by using a variety of materials that enhance the work’s structural dimension and aesthetic potentiality. Her penchant for the juxtaposition of ... +

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Sunday, June 8, 2014 from 1:00pm to 6:00pm Swimwear Fashion Show, Designers, Artists, Stylists and More. A live art exhibit, a swimwear fashion show, and a pop-up shop are just a few of the attractions during Modrian Market, a special event at the Mondrian South Beach. F1RST SURF SHOP will present new swimwear and a pop-up shop, a live art exhibit will ... +

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Friday, June 6th and Saturday, June 7th. 8:00pm The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts proudly presents, direct from New York City, BALLET HISPANICO, the nation’s leading Latino dance organization since 1970 , as it makes its first visit to Miami under the artistic leadership of EDUARDO VILARO. The program includes the world premiere of Show.Girl. by Miami-based choreographer ROSIE HERRERA, ... +

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April 18 through July 6, 2014 The ground-breaking work of Kenyan-born, New York based-artist Wangechi Mutu combines poetic symbolism with profound sociopolitical critique to explore issues of gender, race and war. With over 50 works from the mid-1990s to the present, this first major solo museum exhibition for Mutu includes her collages, drawings, installations, sculptures, performances and videos. Combining found materials and ... +

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February 17, 2014 at 8:00pm. Rosenthal will discuss how motivated, caring and well-connected people can make a huge impact on charities.  Together let’s enrich our understanding of nonprofit governance, management and strategy – for greatest effect on our most urgent contemporary problems.  Her presentation will be energetic, artistic and engaging, using illustrations from the recent, enormously successful redevelopment of Lincoln Center in ... +

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February 13 – 17, 2014 As Art Wynwood prepares to mount its third edition February 13-17, 2014, the distinctive contemporary art fair produced by Art Miami LLC is strengthening its commitment to the growing street art movement that has brought international renown to its namesake neighborhood. The fair’s run will once again span the long holiday weekend of Presidents Day and coincide ... +

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January 24th – 26th | noon – 7:00 p.m. January 27th | noon – 6:00 p.m. From January 23th to 27th, 2014, the Contemporary Art Projects USA directed by Miami-based art marketing consultant Tata Fernandez will be individually showcasing the work of Chinese conceptual photographer Fu Wenjun at Art Palm Beach following a solo exhibition at MIA. ArtPalmBeach, 17th Anniversary is considered ... +

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Video by The New York Times Intersection: Isis Miller, a 27-year-old barista in the Wynwood neighborhood in Miami, looks to Katharine Hepburn’s style for her fashion inspiration. Subscribe on … Watch on Youtube

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An accumulation of new works fashioned under the strain of metamorphosisNow thru January 19th. Shows Thursday to Sunday at 8:00 p.m. After the contagious success of Blow Me by Jessica Farr at their new home at the Miami Theater Center, Mad Cat Theatre Company is pleased to present MIXTAPE 2: UMMAGUMMA FORZA ZUMA! a collection of new works by various local artists ... +

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January 17 – 19, 2014. Ladies, gentlemen and children of all ages, let the games begin! It’s all fun and games at the 2014 Art Deco Weekend, January 17th through 19th on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. Designated “Art Deco at Play,” this year’s message is clear: Bring the kids – and be a kid! The event takes place on Friday, January ... +

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My trip to Bologna and Reggio Emilia was officially inaugurating the fall. The weather forecast said cold and rain, and after a long and hot summer in the Mediterranean and a trip to warm Rio de Janeiro (with some rainy days as well), I was kind of longing for some fall climate. Bologna welcomed me with its cosy medieval city centre, amazing ... +

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Through January 25, 2014. When daily gestures are repeated endlessly, aesthetic monotony all around assails you, the dress you wear for the upcoming party is visually trite and your dreams are in the hands of the most trashy commercial product packaging; it’s time to get a move on and find crumbs of authenticity. In a world where ideals have gone down the ... +

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Opening Reception: November 16, 2013, 4:00 – 8:00 p.m.On View: November 16, 2013 through January 25, 2014. Renowned Cuban artist Manuel Mendive Hoyo brings his exhibition, Things that Cannot be Seen Any Other Way: The Art of Manuel Mendive and a unique performance procession, Water (Homage to the Waters), to the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU. The exhibition, which ... +

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From October 24 through November 21, 2013. The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. November 1, 2013, 6:30 p.m. At a time when fashion and decoration set the tone and absorbed the attention of society more than politics and economics, it isn’t surprising that the first priority of Marie Antoinette was to be queen of fashion. The controversial wife of Louis XVI was often resented for her interference in politics, her ... +

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Opening night: August 16, 2013, 7:00 p.m.From August 15 through September 1, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Mad Cat Theatre Company, recently named Best Theatre Company by the Miami New Times for 2013 is back with a world premiere play Blow Me written by company member Jessica Farr and directed by Mad Cat’s founder and Artistic Director, Paul Tei. Blow Me is an unbridled ... +

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Opening reception: June 27, 2013, 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.From June 27 through August 23, 2013. CU-1 Gallery, a new contemporary photo space in downtown Miami, opens its doors with Look at Me, a group show on view through the summer. Look at Me features work by five international artists – Simon Emmett, Billy & Hells, Tina Luther, Christopher Thomas, and Roger Weber ... +

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June 2013. Creative Jessy Nite is opening the Nite Writer, a typographic studio dedicated to hand-lettering, type and illustration. Launching at NiteWriter.co, Nite has produced an interactive pan and scan portfolio that allows viewers to explore the gamut of her hand-drawn typeface and design capabilities. Best known for her fine and public art projects, Nite Writer was conceived as an extension of ... +

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O Cinema Miami Shores. From June 7 through 9, 2013. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman’s iconic history in Matthew Miele’s Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s. The legend, the parties, the fashion idols, the windows, the women, the buyers and ... +

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June 8, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. FrostArt (The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU) introduces two new exhibitions, both of which feature art as a tool to establish identity: How we see ourselves and how we perceive others, now and in the past. The two exhibitions, Six Degrees of Separate Nations: Ebony G. Patterson and Peterson Kamwathi, and Borders ... +

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  Madrid, Paris, New York City, Sarasota, Mexico City, Cuernavaca, New York City, San José (Costa Rica), my head gets kind of dizzy thinking of my art traveling in the last four months. I will keep it short and nice. I am writing it from Playa Flamingo, Costa Rica, the ideal place to reflect on these trips, being totally disconnected from the ... +

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Books & Books at Temple Judea. June 18, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Andrew Yancy – late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office – has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of ... +

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May 29 through 31, 2013. Join educators of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s acclaimed Women on the Rise! program and noted girls’ scholars, activists and educators, for a three-day intensive conference on innovative approaches to education and empowerment for young women. Designed for educators, artists, counselors, therapists and anyone who works with girls and young women, the second annual Girls Summit will ... +

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From April 26 through May 5, 2013. The Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) commemorates its quince this year by celebrating fifteen years of fierce and fabulous queer cinema. As the first, major LGBT film festival of the calendar year, MGLFF sets the tone for the entire LGBT film festival circuit and this year will prove to be no exception, said ... +

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March 2013. Just in time for spring, Village of Merrick Park, Coral Gables’ premier fashion and lifestyle destination, welcomes the arrival of a new public art installation – bright pink bunnies now appearing throughout the center’s courtyard and public spaces. The over-sized, fuchsia rabbits, which have previously appeared in Paris, France, are part of the REgeneration ART Project by the Cracking Art ... +

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From April 17 through 21, 2013. South Beach Comedy Festival returns to Miami Beach for another comedy showcase featuring some of the world’s most favorite entertainers. Now in its eighth year, the South Beach Comedy Festival continues to grow and remains one of the premiere comedy festivals for top comedic talent and fans across the country. This year’s event features Bill Burr, ... +

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Backstage at the Fillmore. April 17, 2013, 7:00 & 9:30 p.m. For the third time, and yes it’s the charm, Miami’s own Mad Cat Theatre Company will open the South Beach Comedy Festival! This time the troupe is back with an eccentric cast of characters in Charming Acts of Misery, a new comedy written by company member Jessica Farr and directed by ... +

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March 15, 2013. Rising Stars, 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 extraordinary student artworks. Curated by Grela Orihuela, of Wet Heat Project, the show is as ... +

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Coral Gables Congregational Church. March 13, 2013, 7:30 p.m. For Jessica Alba becoming a mom was the most profound, life-changing and eye-opening experience of her life. Upon becoming pregnant with her daughter Honor (now four), Alba set out to create a healthy environment for her family and herself. However, what she found was a marketplace filled with products that worked well but ... +

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Opening reception: March 8, 2013.From March 8 through June 23, 2013. In partnership with the 2013 Year of Italian Culture, the Coral Gables Museum has several exhibitions and events planned including a beautiful new exhibit, Italy in Motion, which features Italian designed modes of transportation including Ferraris, Vespas, Fiats, Ducatis and custom made bicycles. The 2013 Year of Italian Culture is a ... +

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Opening reception: March 5, 2013, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Unique and beautiful imagery captured by internationally acclaimed French photographer and artist, Arno Elias, is making its debut in Miami this March. Markowicz Fine Art Gallery in Miami’s Design District is hosting an exclusive exhibit and cocktail event of Arno Elias’ The Lost Series. The “Lost Series” is a crystallization of Elias’ mixed-media ... +

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From February 6 through March 9, 2013. The Industrial Revolution generated a dialogue between artist and technology, which continues in La Maison du Désir/The House of Desire, a collaborative installation by artists Lea Nickless and Conrad Hamather. A pop-up boutique features atelier garment collections, “glitter bomb” objects referencing the luxury goods industry, monoprints and a video time-lapse drawing continuing the exchange between ... +

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February 14 through 24, 2013. A romantic moonlit Valentine’s concert kicks off the Deering Estate Festival of the Arts at the historic Estate with events and programs from February 14th through 24th. A curated exhibition Speak Now, places artistic interjections throughout the grounds, one-night only art events, classical and chamber ensemble concerts, walk and talk Curator’s tour, and a spectacular closing Red ... +

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From February 14 through 18, 2013. Following its successful inaugural edition, the Art Wynwood Fair, enthusiastically embraced by the international art dealer community, Miami and the Wynwood Arts District returns for its second year during Presidents Weekend. Art Wynwood takes place in the spacious 100,000-square-foot Art Miami Pavilion, which welcomed more than 60,000 attendees during the 2012 edition of Art Miami.   Showcasing ... +

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Opening reception: January 29, 2013, 7:00 p.m. From January 30 through February 28, 2013. The “4th Annual Middle School Art Festival” at Archbishop Curley Notre Dame 6 to 12 Prep gives young artists the chance to experience life as professional artists. More than 30 pieces of work from Miami-Dade Catholic middle school students will be on view through February 18, 2013. The ... +

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From February 14 through 24, 2013. A romantic moonlit Valentine’s concert kicks off the Deering Estate Festival of the Arts – a ten-day celebration of literary, visual and performing art at the historic Estate with events and programs from February 14 – 24, 2013. A curated exhibition Speak Now, places artistic interjections throughout the grounds, one-night only art events, classical and chamber ... +

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January 25 and 26, 2013. 8:00 p.m. Miami Light Project is presenting the Miami premiere of acclaimed Japanese choreographer, Kota Yamazaki in the dance theater work (glowing). Bodies emerge, float, and then disappear into the shadows of a dimly lit architecture. In (glowing), Kota Yamazaki draws inspiration from the great modern writer Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s essay In’ei Raisan (In Praise of Shadows), which ... +

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I have to admit: I am embarrassingly delayed. I am writing this short column on my flight to Los Angeles months after visiting Berlin and Rome. But, even if most of the visited exhibitions are over already, the heart of the impressions and experiences still remains the same. It is still worthwhile experiencing both cities, in summer, fall, winter or springtime! I ... +

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From January 17 through 20, 2013. Monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, futuristic sex fantasia… Holy Motors is all of these and, then again, none of these. It is a ravishing, shape-shifting, fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. From celluloid magic to the digital data stream, this epic journey of the soul is all of ... +

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Miami Beach. From January 18 through 20, 2013. Art Deco Weekend, presented by the Miami Design Preservation League, sees world-famous Ocean Drive even more energized with 300,000 visitors, checking out the local establishments and hundreds of vendors exhibiting their wares. Whether artists, craftsmen, chefs, bartenders, car collectors, or any variety of Art Deco retailers, all showing the best they have to offer. ... +

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Louise O. Gerrits Theater. From December 20 through 22, 2012. Ten graduating seniors from New World School of the Arts’ College Theater Program present One-Person Shows as their B.F.A. Senior Project. Writing, acting and producing their own 20-30 minute piece requires “verve and an abundance of creativity and self-reliance” stated David Kwiat, coordinator of the project at NWSA. The three programs, A,B,C ... +

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Books & Books, Coral Gables. December 8, 2012. 2:00 p.m. She’s excited us with her magnetism as a Bond Girl in the film Live and Let Die; she’s made us cheer for her dance moves on the Emmy-nominated program Dancing with the Stars; she’s made us laugh as the sexually charged wife of Christopher Walken in New Line Cinema’s feature film Wedding ... +

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From December 5 through 9, 2012. Join emerging artist Rina Dweck from December 5th through 9th, for her Miami Art Week debut at a Breakwater Hotel pop up gallery (940 Ocean Drive), and outdoor exhibition space at Espanola Way (1444 Drexel). The Brooklyn based artist presents Project Face, a yearlong social media exercise in which she diligently shot 365 self-portraits for her ... +

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Looks, as always, are deceiving. A relatively simple warehouse space littered with Pulp Fiction film posters and postmodern street-level photographs acts as the hub for Lombardi Properties, the signature source of real estate in Wynwood. Amidst the countless family photos, community accolades and appreciation plaques, founder David Lombardi runs a sophisticated, high-volume business. Still, multi-million dollar deals and a formidable degree of ... +

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Opening reception: December 6, 2012, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.From December 6 through 9, 2012. Primary Projects presents Raneytown, a transformative and joyful show by Miami native, New York-based artist Rebeca Raney. With a world depicted in more than 250 ink and gouache drawings and works on panel, present in the artist’s playful imagery of hybrid animals, flora and fantastical people is the ... +

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Exploring the Boundaries Between Art, Interior Design, Industrial Design, and FashionFrom November 29 through December 8, 2012. Glottman continues its tradition of celebrating the relationship between the arts and design in our contemporary lifestyle. This year he is featuring an installation in collaboration with trendsetting German/Swedish, textile firm Kinnasand (kinnasand.de) and vanguard Italian lighting company Viabizzuno (viabizzuno.com) “The Manichini Dance” is an ... +

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Opening November 2012. The James Royal Palm has announced the opening of a new “Cultural Collection” in partnership with New World Symphony, YoungArts, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and public school fashion design house, which will unite some of Miami’s best organizations and will provide a new approach to Miami hospitality. The Cultural Collection will present guests and locals inspired ... +

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By Andrea Arnold / UK / 2012 / 129 minsMiami Beach Cinematheque. From November 16 through 25, 2012. Wuthering Heights is Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrea Arnold’s third feature following the BAFTA® award winning Fish Tank and Cannes Jury Prize winning Red Road, an excitingly fresh and distinct take on the classic novel by Emily Brontë. An epic love story that spans childhood ... +

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Catalina Hotel. From December 6 through 9, 2012. During four consecutive days in December, The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club on Collins Avenue in South Beach, will receive its first ever complete transformation for the creation of this independent art fair taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach. The fair will feature 64 collections of art, installations and performances, presented by some ... +

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From November 2, 2012 through April 12, 2013. The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Larry Rosen, together with presenting sponsor TotalBank, present the Fifth Anniversary Season of the acclaimed Jazz Roots Series, which originated at the Arsht Center and is now presented in five U.S. cities. The extraordinary 2012-13 season begins in November 2012 and runs ... +

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The Works of Isabel Toledo and Ruben ToledoFrom November 9, 2012 through January 26, 2013. Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design and Terra Group in partnership with Bacardi present an evocative retrospective exhibition of the unique three-decade creative collaboration of award-winning fashion designer Isabel Toledo and her husband, artist Ruben Toledo at the Freedom Tower, the landmark Mediterranean Revival ... +

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From October 11 through November 2, 2012. After Some Twisted Lines, is Quisqueya Henríquez’s third solo show with David Castillo Gallery. With this works, Henríquez deepens her investigation into appropriation, architectural form and Art History with new works in collage, fabric, video, and Rorschach technique. After Some Twisted Lines grapples with the Lacanian condition, which asserts that entrance into language and visual ... +

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Readings, Author signings and Topical DiscussionsFrom November 11 through 18, 2012. The 29th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International, presented by The Center for Literature and Theatre @ Miami Dade College (MDC), is taking place November 11 through 18, 2012, at Miami Dade MDC’s Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami. The always-popular Street Fair runs Friday ... +

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Opening reception: September 22, 2012. 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.From September 22 through October 31, 2012. No Kill represents the next generation of charity. Distinctions between a commercial gallery setting and a non-profit organization fall away, allowing all involved to make a change in their community. The situation that homeless and displaced animals face nationwide is startling; locally, it is devastating. The economic ... +

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Opening reception: September 22, 2012. 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.From September 22 through June 16, 2013. Teen Miami is a cross-decade exploration of teen history and culture in Miami. Visitors will learn how Miami adolescents were impacted by World War II and the Vietnam War, listen to the sounds created by local teen garage bands and R&B stars of the 1960s, examine the ... +

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Opening reception: September 14, 2012. 8:00 p.m.September 13 through November 11, 2012. In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami launched an experimental program called Trading Places in which South Florida artists swapped their studio spaces for space in the museum’s galleries for the period of two months. From September 13 through November 11, 2012, MOCA has invited five Miami ... +

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September 6, 2012. 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Emporio dei Giovani, a luxury brand bringing designs from Italy, sets the artistic trend in Miami celebrating a Fashion’s Night Out event at LMNT Gallery located in Wynwood Art District. The best showpieces of Emporio dei Giovani’s autumn collection from awarded emerging designers, spanning the peninsula from Lake Garda to Sicily, will be presented at ... +

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From November 15, 2012 through March 31, 2013. The Wolfsonian – Florida International University presents Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, the first major museum exhibition in the U.S. devoted exclusively to the postcards produced by the Wiener Werkstätte. The exhibition was organized by the Neue Galerie New York and curated by Christian Witt-Dörring. “These postcards ... +

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From August 16 through September 20, 2012. Marilyn Monroe died on August 5, 1962. Fifty years later, throughout August and September of 2012, the Miami Beach Cinematheque – in collaboration with Taschen, Harold Golen Gallery, and the World Erotic Art Museum – is celebrating her life with an exhibition and retrospective of the Miami theatrical premieres of the new anniversary digital restorations ... +

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July 2012. This summer, Arts for Learning (A4L) launched its newest initiative “ArtWorks” made possible through a recent $75,000.00 grant awarded by UBS, the global financial services firm. ArtWorks is a paid internship program in the arts for high school students who live in the surrounding neighborhoods of Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, namely, Overtown, Wynwood, Little Haiti, and Liberty City. tudents must ... +

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July 18 and 25, 2012. 7:00 p.m. In 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami launched an experimental program called Trading Places in which South Florida artists swapped their studio spaces for the museum’s galleries for the period of two months. From September 13 through November 11, 2012, MOCA has invited five South Florida artists: Dona Altemus, Onajide Shabaka, Magnus ... +

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Opening reception: July 14, 2012. 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.Through July 31, 2012. Robert Fontaine Gallery is opening the exhibition Warhol is Over? A group exhibition composed of eleven local and international, emerging and established artists who explore the after effect left on the art world by one extravagant persona and attention grabbing artist named Andy Warhol. For better or for the worst ... +

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Three artist collaboratives explore the city’s solild waste.  On a sweltering summer afternoon last month, a City of Miami fireman hosed down dozens of inner city kids trying to cool off during a raucous back to school party, from the ladder of his fire engine. A few yards away, at the Athalie Range Park on NW 5th Avenue and 62nd Street, a ... +

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From June 28, 2012 through January 13, 2013. The Guayabera: A Shirt’s Story explores the changing uses and significance of the guayabera, a traditional piece of menswear worn by Latin American and Caribbean populations. Recognized for its functionality and style, the garment’s best-known characteristics are its four pockets and two vertical stripes of decorative pleating and/or embroidery. The precise origin of the ... +

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Mar 19th through 22nd, 2009.  The Miami Fashion Week is considered by many the largest event in the country spotlighting Latin American and international fashion. The show artfully blends global culture and style, attracting designers, entertainers, celebrity jet setters and fashion royalty from throughout North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, The Middle East and Asia. For the third consecutive year, ... +

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From Dec 2nd through Dec 7th, 2008.  The week of Art Basel Miami 2008 will play host to a number of independent expositions and exhibits to capture the hearts and minds of today’s most discerning enthusiasts of classic and contemporary art, literature and film. Two of this year’s independent exhibits include In Fashion Photo by Art Photo Expo Miami and the Empire ... +

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From Mar 26th through Mar 29th, 2008. Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach celebrates its 10th season with one of the most impressive line-ups in recent years. The state of the art fashion pod will be built on the sand at 11th Street and Ocean Drive in Lummus Park in Miami Beach. The venue will feature three venues with a large court yard ... +

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