Miami Beach

Forever contains more than four thousand second-hand romance novels collected from thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets over a period of years. With yellowed pages, worn covers and bent spines, Forever has the unmistakable patina of human use. John Salvest’s mixed-media objects and installations have been shown throughout the United States, including one-person exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; New … +

WordSpeak, a Tigertail project for teens, includes workshops and performances led by nationally recognized writers who come to Miami for weeklong residencies. Each residency culminates in a slam event, from which are selected team members who then travel to the BNV competition.This year it will take place in Washington D.C. 2016 team members are: Stephanie Casio and Sophya Giudici-Juarez from Miami Arts … +

Now in its seventh edition FUNDarte’s Out in the Tropics performance series will feature artists who address gender, sexuality and issues of interest to the art community and their allies. Bailografía by Juan Carlos Lerida & Romnia by Belén Maya will be part of this Double bill flamenco night. In “Bailografia” Juan Carlos Lerdia offers a work composed by looking back at … +

Now in its seventh edition FUNDarte’s Out in the Tropics performance series will feature artists who address gender, sexuality and issues of interest to the art community and their allies. Bailar en Hombre by Queer Flamenco Artist/Scholar Fernando LR Parra brings a unique performance and conference based on his staged work “Bailar en hombre” (Madrid 2015). The work is the culmination of … +

Now in its seventh edition FUNDarte’s Out in the Tropics performance series will feature artists who address gender, sexuality and issues of interest to the art community and their allies. Toshi Reagon and her band BIGLovely, based in New York, will be in a one-night-only concert. The New York Times has described her blend as “…a love of mixing things up…[her] vocal … +

Comprising of small watercolor studies, Michael Williams transforms singular expressions into a communal dialogue.The use of light and the implication of line it creates has always been an essential part of Williams’ work. Combined with the delicacy of watercolor, it creates an intimacy and acts to further enhance the audience’s role in the interpretation of the work’s narrative. ArtCenter/South Florida 924 Lincoln … +

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present It’s a pleasure (not) to meet you by Susan Lee-Chun and Day Off by Jillian Mayer. The two solo shows present new work in sculpture, installation, photography, and video. By interrogating subject-object relationships both off- and online, Lee-Chun and Mayer insist upon the primacy of material culture in the politics of representation. A collection of … +

This 2000 horror/thriller directed by Robert Zemeckis stars Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Claire Spencer (Pfeiffer) lives on a lake in Vermont with her husband, renowned scientist Dr. Norman Spencer (Ford). A couple has just moved in next door and are heard to frequently engage in loud arguments. Overhearing Mary Feur sobbing one day, Claire becomes concerned. When she sees Mary’s husband … +

Mad Cat Theater Company will present new work from local companies. “The Have-Nots” with comedy show collaborations already with Viacom, MTV, South Beach Comedy Festival & Live Nation, among others. “Sound Bite: South Beach” by Stephen Kaiser and Gladys Ramirez presenting a different story every night about the hottest club on South Beach. “The Miami Noise Machine” by Villain Theater takes a … +

L’elisir d’amore is a comic opera (melodramma giocoso) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe’s libretto for Daniel Auber’s Le philtre (1831). The opera premiered was on 12 May 1832 at Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan. From Miami Lyric Opera the singers David Pereira, Joy Berta, Alexander Adams-Leytes, Daniel Snodgrass and … +

Known for his innovative programming, conductor Stefan Asbury presents a program of musical pioneers and their groundbreaking knockouts. Diving into Helen Grimes’ A Cold Spring one could find a boisterous duet for clarinets, a singing lullaby-like mini-concerto for horn and much more. This Orchestra Concert will have Stefan Asbury and Christian Reif as conductors and Anthony Marwood in violin. The Program includes … +

Examining US-Cuba relations in the early 20th Century, this installation traces American foreign policy from Roosevelt’s “big stick” diplomacy and push for American involvement in the Cuban War of Independence in 1898 to the more conciliatory approach of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy in 1933. Works selected by FIU undergraduate students will be drawn from The Wolfsonian–FIU Library’s collection—illustrated sheet music … +

From the Jane Gershon Weitzman Collection, Art & Sole: Fantasy Shoes features over 150 of the most inventive examples of these fantasy art shoes, remarkable for their imaginative construction and elaborate adornment. Art & Sole exhibition was curated by Jane Gershon Weitzman. Shoes are constructed of unexpected materials such as bronze, ceramic, wire, Plexiglas or in the case of Robert Steele, corrugated … +

Enxuto and Love’s institutionally focused work forms the basis of Beacons. The exhibition builds upon their interest in the role technology plays in mediating the power dynamics between institutions and their publics. The beacons used in this exhibition—small wireless sensors that can be attached to objects to produce data on their movement—are “smart” technology that allow for user interactivity to be monitored … +

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Love ’em, Leave ’em, new and recent artworks by Kate Gilmore. Working across performance, video, and sculpture, the artist orientates her practice of self-imposed physical trials toward Love as a concept. Kate Gilmore was born in Washington D.C., received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and lives and works in New … +

New World School of the Arts college music theater program will present the award-winning musical Evita, one of the most successful productions by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The Broadway production has almost 3200 performances, with a number of revivals in both, the UK and USA, and numerous award and accolades including Tony Awards and Oliver Award. The performance about one … +

Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation will present a 2 piano Latin Jazz and Classical Music Concert. Featuring Edward and Anne Turgeon playing Lecuona, Piazzolla, Guastavino, and the world premier of Latin Grammy, the 2016 “Bacardi Choice” Jazz Commission for 2 pianos. Gold medal winners of the 1997 Dranoff International 2 Piano Competition, Edward and Anne Turgeon have been critically acclaimed as one the … +

Miami City Ballet’s Open Barre events take place at the MCB Studios on South Beach. Watch performance excerpts with the MCB Dancers, meet Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez, and go behind the scenes with special guests in a fun, intimate setting! Friday, February 5, 2016 | 7:00pm Saturday, February 6, 2016 | 2:30pm Saturday, February 6, 2016 | 7:00pm MCB’s new production of … +

Jérémy Gobé who lives and works in Paris, draws his inspiration from chance encounters with objects from nature, building materials or abandoned pieces of fabric. In the room-sized installation, Freedom Leading Wool, Gobé uses fabric and mesh to create a dramatic enveloping space. The red jacquard wool, claimed from a shuttered factory in rural France, recalls a dying industry and its craftsmen. … +

The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be examines violence and man-made atrocities in general and reflects how the future before us looks bleak and far from what we envisioned the 21st century to be. Without explicit and violent scenes, the works in the exhibition challenge the viewer to think about the violence that we humans have triggered and continue to inflict … +

The orchestra concert Zarathustra will present James Gaffigan as conductor and Jeffrey Kahane in piano. The program includes by Franck : The Accursed Huntsman; by Mozart : Piano Concerto No. 22 and by R. Strauss : Thus Spoke Zarathustra. James Gaffigan, hailed for the natural ease of his conducting and the insight of his musicianship, continues to attract international attention and is … +