Réquiem por un alcaraván (Requiem for a stone curlew) is the performative dance of the man-woman. The Zapotec culture, through muxheidad, lives homosexuality, gaycity and same-sex marriages with certain contradictions: a muxhe is a man who assumes roles culturally destined for women, both work and affective, emotional and sexual, muxheidad is a veiled social acceptance and at the same time the celebration ... +

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“Corporeal Decorum” is a multidisciplinary performance piece and investigation into the cultural erasure of Miami’s Art Deco District. The piece memorializes important features of the city’s surviving deco architecture; it concretizes elements in both scenography and the body itself. Drawing inspiration from earlier examples of architectural preservation in Miami Beach, the choreography reinterprets Miami’s urban and material past as a contemporary embodied ... +

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The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is pleased to announce an open call to South Florida artists for a commission opportunity as part of the 2022 Art on the Plaza initiative. This year, we are offering the opportunity for local artists to submit their work through an open call for Art on the Plaza 2022. We are requesting qualifications from professional ... +

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A journey about discovery and self-discovery, the value of friendships and taking risks, and the empowerment of young people.  In Slingsby’s signature intimate theatrical style, the story is told by two skilled actors combining the thrilling intrigue of a classic caper with an evocative film noir design, complete with smoke and mirrors, miniature worlds and a cinematic score. Recommended Ages:
 For everyone ... +

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The first major U.S. solo exhibition of influential Chilean-born artist Cecilia Vicuña “About to Happen” is on view at MoCA since last edition of Miami Art Week.  The exhibit traces Vicuña’s career-long commitment to exploring discarded and displaced materials, people and landscapes in a time of global climate change. “Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen” is comprised of Vicuña’s multidisciplinary work in performance, sculpture, drawing, ... +

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Max is known for his extraordinary skills as a magician and also for his ability to entertain adult audiences while keeping the little ones spellbound. Max combines magic and comedy, making objects appear and disappear and generally defying the laws of physics inches from theatergoer’s faces. This high-energy, interactive and all-around silly show is appropriate for audiences of all ages.

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Taylor grew up in Bedford, Ohio, where his interest in music was piqued. At 10 years old, he took up the trumpet and got involved with the school’s band program. Two years later Taylor really started showing promise on his instrument. One night after seeing a great concert featuring trumpeters Jon Faddis and Steve Enos, Taylor was so inspired that he decided ... +

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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of this beloved children’s book, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia reimagining of The Very Hungry Caterpillar follows the wonderful adventures of a very tiny and very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through an amazing variety of foods on his path to becoming a beautiful butterfly, a Little Cloud who playfully transforms himself into various creatures, and finally The Mixed-Up Chameleon who ... +

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The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami is pleased to launch the 2019 fall season with the South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition. Guest curated by Amy Galpin, chief curator of the Frost Art Museum, this  group exhibition presents the work of artists exclusively from South Florida. The South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) is the largest government-sponsored grant program in the U.S. for artists living in ... +

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The exhibit includes South Florida artist Adrienne Chadwick’s numerous fragile and intimate ceramic dwellings. Meditating on community, resources and accessibility. Late Miami/New York artist, Duane Hanson’s rare Polaroid highlighting the value in the “everyday” individual. South Florida artist, Ralph Provisero’s expansive geometric earth works speak to our contemporary situation not limited to Florida’s changing landscape. Los Angeles based artist, Sofia Cordova’s, no ... +

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Happy Ending [1] is a two-part exploration of late-night text messages, fantasy encounters, reaching out for help, searching inwards, searching outwards, ocean crossings, marine detritus and being lost in the sea of life. Pre-dating radio, International Code Signal Flags have traditionally been used to signal from one boat to another without any other means of communication between them. Raised as beacons, they ... +

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 is a 2011 documentary film, directed by Göran Olsson, that examines the evolution of the Black Power movement in American society from 1967 to 1975 as viewed through Swedish journalists and filmmakers. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in America between 1967–1975 with appearances by Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge ... +

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Grammy-nominated artists Ike and Val Woods have performed throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. The Miami based blues duo completed their most recent CD, “Movin’Up,” after returning from an eighteen city European Tour where they electrified their audiences with their high energy yet soulful Blues performances.Band leader and lead vocalist/guitarist Ike Woods has enjoyed a long and productive career, first ... +

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Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into the lives of black families, whose experiences and perspectives are often missing from the traditional historical canon. African Americans historically embraced the medium as a way to subvert popular stereotypes as far back as the Civil War era, with ... +

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The French Horn Collective is an energetic and progressive band that performs an eclectic variety of Gypsy Jazz, Swing, and modern original French music throughout South Florida. Led by Parisian musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and songwriter Vincent Raffard, the diverse group consists of anywhere from 3 to 8 highly talented musicians from a myriad of musical backgrounds, with instrumentation including trumpet, guitar, ... +

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Visual language, an experiential form and a revelation. When art successfully combines all of three of these characteristics, it speaks to and moves those who encounter it. The artist collective AFRICOBRA exemplifies these traits while defining for themselves how they want their art to function in the world. Founded in 1968, by Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu and Gerald ... +

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Hailing from all over the western hemisphere, the members of the MBSO are all veteran Miami musicians who have performed and toured with artists such as Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan, Issac Delgado, Jon Secada, Chayanne, Rey Ruiz, Tito Nieves, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Chaka Khan, and the Funk Brothers, to name a few The band’s repertoire, inspired by the music of ... +

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ICA  Internship  Descriptions The  Institute  of  Contemporary  Art,  Miami  (ICA  Miami)  is  dedicated  to  promoting  continuous experimentation  in  contemporary  art,  and  to  the  exchange  of  art  and  ideas  throughout  the  Miami region  and  internationally.  Launched  in  2014, The ICA  Miami  opened  its  new  permanent  home  in  Miami’s  Design  District  in  2017. The  ICA’s  internship  program  is  awarded  on  a  bi-annual  basis  and  ... +

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One of the most important female artists of the twentieth century, Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911, Paris; d. 2010, New York) critically engaged with the topics of gender, sexuality, and domesticity across mediums and tirelessly challenged social power and hierarchies. Especially in the last two decades of her nearly seventy-year career, the artist created numerous emotionally charged fabric works that unravel personal references ... +

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“Sondra Perry: Typhoon coming on” examines the artist’s innovative use of video, media, installation and performance to create powerful narratives that explore the intersection of black identity, digital culture and power. Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, computer-based media and performance to explore the digital abstraction of identity. Her videos and performances ... +

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This Cannes Film Festival award winning film, “The Golden Dream” (2013), directed by Diego Quemada-Diez, follows three young men as they make the journey from Mexico to California. Samuel, Sara and Juan, three teenagers from Guatemala, decide to leave poverty by going to the United States. After crossing the Mexican border by boat, they find another immigrant, a Tzotzil native called Chauk ... +

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In Greek Mythology, Ariadne’s Thread was a tool that helped Theseus make his way through a complex labyrinth guarded by a vicious minotaur. As Theseus entered the maze, he unraveled the red thread given to him by Ariadne, conquered the minotaur, and followed the thread back out to victory. The exhibition Tracing the Red Thread, a large-scale multi-media installation by Mira Lehr will ... +

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A+RC’s second Summer Intensive addresses ways in which urgent climate issues and anthropogenic effects apply pressure to contemporary cultural production. Seminars range from discussions related to Miami’s immediate conditions to more abstract probing around what it means to think and produce art on a planet that is rapidly changing. With guests as Jason W. Moore and Rozalinda Borcila. Jason W. Moore is an environmental ... +

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“Walter Darby Bannard: 1959-1962” is a focused presentation of a series of breakthrough paintings the artist produced over a period of several years, during which he abandoned gestural brushwork and developed a pared-down geometric vocabulary. The early works presented have rarely and only recently been exhibited. As was the case for other artists of his generation who aspired to advance abstraction, the ... +

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Saxophonist, composer, orchestrator, producer, scholar, professor, and leader Ed Calle is known for his extraordinary ability to sight-read, interpret, and perform vitally any musical style. Throughout the globe, his peers and colleagues often laud his versatility. Born in Caracas, Venezuela to Spanish parents, Calle can be heard on more than 1,200 albums, almost 9,000 singles, and countless movie and television soundtracks both ... +

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Julio Montalvo is one of the leading trombonists from the island of Cuba. Songwriter, producer, arranger and session musician, he also appears as a solo artist, directing his own project since 1998, in which he blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with elements of modern Jazz to achieve an ingenious style – New Latin Jazz. Julio has participated in various Jazz Festivals, with his own ... +

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Julio Montalvo is one of the leading trombonists from the island of Cuba. Songwriter, producer, arranger and session musician, he also appears as a solo artist, directing his own project since 1998, in which he blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with elements of modern Jazz to achieve an ingenious style – New Latin Jazz. Julio has participated in various Jazz Festivals, with his own ... +

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In artist Lionel Smit’ native country of South Africa, he observes the fluidity of race through the Cape Malay people of Cape Town. As a result of colonialism, African, European and South Asian bloodlines have been crossed over successive generations to create new identities, of which the Cape Malay people are a striking example. The physical attributes of Cape Malays challenge overly ... +

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This legendary story of good versus evil has been a source of enduring fascination and has been the subject of a best selling novel by author Isabel Allende and several major motion pictures. This new musical retells the dramatic tale of a romantic hero with extraordinary aerial acrobatics, spectacular sword-fighting, and dazzling illusions – all set to the famous red-hot Gipsy Kings ... +

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Locust Projects and ArtCenter/South Florida invite for a conversation with Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  During these intimate conversations, these art proffessionals will talk about their curatorial vision and practice, the art and artists that have shaped their careers, and how they support the work of artists whether ... +

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CONTRAPUNTO | COUNTERPOINT includes works by artists Clemencia Labin and  Alex Trimino. For both artists the materials, crafts and shapes acquire new meanings,  encompassing metaphors such as the pursuit of perfection or the connection between past, present and future through the use of technologies and techniques. For many years Labin’s work dealt with the interaction between color, form and space.  Just as ... +

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Locust Projects is proud to present Tropical Purgatory, an installation by the late Miami-born artist Michael Garland Clifford (1986 – 2016). This exhibition is constructed from renderings created for a proposal at the Locust Projects’ Project Room as well as through correspondence with family, friends and artistic partners. Known for his crude, process-based paintings, his work often appeared deliberately unrefined. He often ... +

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Night and Day, is a video installation by Los Angeles-based artist Fern Vargas Vargas. The work  is composed of 108 movie and television scenes, where each one of them includes a car;  a police officer, and the police officer says ‘license and registration” The scenes, though random in length, sync up at the exact moment each of the officers utter the words, ... +

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History in 50 minutes–seven actors, two feet off the ground, share 21 square feet of space to recreate the entire American fight for independence from Lexington to Yorktown. Using only the actor’s bodies, voices and (pantomimed) cannons, the show evokes an epic period in American history. Combining tongue-in-cheek humor with a dash of derring-do, The American Revolution displays Theatre Unspeakable’s rowdy brand ... +

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Locust Projects presents Man of the Night, an immersive solo installation by Miami-based artist Pepe Mar. The installation excavates the entirety of his practice; the artist collages and assembles images of artifacts, gay ephemera and his personal archive to create a self-portrait that mines his identity and further explores his interest in queer spaces. For this exhibition, Mar has collected images from ... +

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Locust Projects is proud to present p e r Sway, a multimedia installation by interdisciplinary artist Nancy Davidson. Referencing symbols of power and control, theater and performance, history and biophysics, per Sway finds Davidson holding a distorted mirror to our bizarre and horrifying political climate, a world turned upside down and gone topsy-turvy. Known for her anthropomorphic weather balloon sculptures in her ... +

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Over a decade of working process, the artist Jacob Felländer has forged a chain of time and perspective, which, helped him enter a new world of virtual reality and in this unknown world, Felländer reaches for his camera to depict what he sees inside. This exhibition shows the artist’s vision and trajectory in the photo-based art creation spectrum, starting with the traditional ... +

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Creative Arts 4 Kids happens the first Saturday of every month from 2 PM. Kids ages 6-12 are invited to tour MOCA exhibitions and learn about the elements of art by painting, drawing and sculpting in the style of renowned artists. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to stay and create with their children. There is a fee of $12 per class and ... +

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MOCA North Miami holds a Symposium around artist Edouard Duval-Carrié’ exhibition Metamorphosis. Including introduction, discussions and remarks in the context of Caribbean Arts and the curatorial process of this solo show, several invitees such as professors: Alfredo Rivera (Grinnell College);  Anthony Bogues, (Brown University);  Erica James  and  Jerry Philogene will be present during the symposium; as well as Edouard Duval-Carrié himself. Duval-Carrié ... +

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The young Finnish artist Reima Nevalainen has compared his work to the study of both anatomy and archeology. His dark and existentially loaded works fall somewhere between painting and collage. Using unconventional materials such as cardboard and sand, he depicts bodies twisted in impossible poses, with faces smudged and barely perceptible in a muted palette of gray, sepia, and dusty red. Nevalainen ... +

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Locust Projects will host the U.S. debut of Whithervanes, a Knight Foundation-funded project by the Detroit-based experimental design duo rootoftwo (Cezanne Charles and John Marshall). Unlike traditional weathervanes, these four-foot tall, internet-connected headless chickens change color and direction in response to the climate of fear propagated by the media. Mounted on the roofs of three local buildings across downtown, the Design District ... +

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Miami-based artist Franky Cruz is a polymath whose artistic practice borrows from a diversity of interdisciplinary media. For his installation at Locust Projects, Cruz will don the hat of entomologist, cultivating butterflies from egg to chrysalis in an enclosed, vegetal environment he will construct in the back project space. As the butterflies emerge from their chrysalis, the umber and ochre secretions they ... +

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Portland-based sculptor Aaron T. Stephan will exhibit Cement Houses and How to Build Them at Locust Projects. This exhibit dialogues around the American Dream of home ownership in the twentieth century, the collapse of the U.S. housing market at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and recent development booms across cities like Miami. With a one-man, concrete block-making device sold by Sears ... +

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The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) exhibits No black / No white (no and),  a show with CIFO’s 2017 Grants & Commissions Program Award recipients. It includes the work of the nine award recipients from six countries, divided into three categories: the Achievement Award, given to Mexican-American multi media artist Daniel Joseph Martinez; Mid-Career Artists—Richard Garet (Uruguay) and Fredy Alzate (Colombia); and Emerging ... +

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Lisanne’s career began immediately following high school as the featured vocalist for three Air Force bands. She has been featured with the Woody Herman Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson, Arturo Sandoval, Roanoke Symphony, Palm Beach Pops, XL Big Band in Sweden, Nantes Big Band, Los Alas Studio Orchestra, and various bands and orchestras across the country. She has produced two solo CD’s and two ... +

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Saturday, April 15, 2017 | 2:00–4:00 pm Based on traditional Russian fairy tales, children stories, and folk tales, the Soviet Union produced a stunning array of animated films which have been recognized as classic masterpieces of animation. This family friendly afternoon will feature storytelling and animation by masters such as Yuriy Norshteyn, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Lev Atavanov, Boris Dehzhkin, and others. Films will ... +

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The exhibition brings together paintings by Victor (1948–2015) and Ekaterina Khromin. Residents of Miami, the Russian-born husband and wife chart an artistic territory quite their own, painting on bas-reliefs that are, in fact, collages of found objects. Their works reveal pioneering approaches to art-making created by the synergy with the technologies of art conservation. Public Programs MOCA WORKSHOPS MATRYOSHKA (OR THE TREASURES ... +

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Hernan Bas (b. 1978, Miami, Florida) creates works born of literary intrigue and tinged with nihilistic romanticism and old world imagery. Influenced by the Aesthetic and Decadent writers of the 19th century, in particular Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysman, Bas’s works weave together stories of adolescent adventures and the paranormal with classical poetry, religious stories, mythology and literature. His work is part ... +

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Carlos Averhoff, Jr. is a Latin Grammy nominated Cuban tenor saxophonist, he is a contemporary Afro-Cuban Jazz composer and educator. His debut album iRESI released in April 2015 at Boston’s Scullers Jazz Club has been applauded by international critics and major jazz blogs. Carlos has also collaborated with Louis Hayes, Jimmy Cobb, Bob Moses, Cuban drummers Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez and Calixto ... +

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Theorist and professor Sven Lütticken will deliver the public lecture, “Producing Facts: Notes on the Politics of Concrete Abstraction.” As fake news and “alternative facts” triumph, the complexity of facticity is denied. However, ritualistic “fact checking” is in itself not a solution as the performativity of social media goes into overdrive. What is the potential of aesthetic and artifactual practices in this ... +

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Retiro by Natalia Lassalle is both documentary video and live performance, is a journey into the lives of women over 65 years of age across Miami, Puerto Rico and Québec. Retiro melds the autobiographical with the surreal to illustrate the volatility of time, the reconstruction of memories, and the process of aging in women. An exploration of what it means to be ... +

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UNBOUND, New World School of the Arts’ 2017 BFA final visual arts is a group exhibition highlighting a variety of works from 23 visual artists of divergent disciplines, professionally curated by NWSA dean of the visual arts program, Maggy Cuesta and gallerist Fredric Snitzer. It explores hybridity in various ways. Participating NWSA BFA college students include: Lady S. Abanto, Cindy Becerra, Thomas ... +

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The exhibition brings together paintings by Victor (1948–2015) and Ekaterina Khromin. Residents of Miami, the Russian-born husband and wife chart an artistic territory quite their own, painting on bas-reliefs that are, in fact, collages of found objects. Their works reveal pioneering approaches to art-making created by the synergy with the technologies of art conservation.  Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami 770 NE ... +

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Writer Kirsty Bell will present a new talk, “The massive scale of sameness makes everything completely different,” on the work of renowned German Pop artist Thomas Bayrle. This lecture will look at how Bayrle’s train of thought draws a line linking Gothic architecture, Fordian production lines, organized religion and the rise of the highway as the ultimate superstructure. Since his beginnings as ... +

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Exhibition Dancing in the Spinning Top’s House by Cuban artist Humberto Diaz aims to turn the everyday familiar to strange. The artist establishes a constant exercise of looking into a mirror that changes or distorts reality, working in between the “real” and the “simulated”. For him, art is a point of view where the object is not an end in itself, but ... +

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Conceived by Cuban-born guitarist/composer Eddy Balzola, Oriente’ signature sound features funky, guitar driven tumbaos, blazing harmonic brass, and explosive Afro-Latin percussion. Their first New Orleans concert at world famous Snug Harbor Jazz Club created a major buzz, attracting local musicians and world class audiences excited by their new Cuban roots fusion. All full time artists, Oriente’s band members have played, recorded and ... +

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Exhibition One Day on Success Street is a major survey and first American museum presentation dedicated to the renowned German artist Thomas Bayrle. The exhibition traces Bayrle’s exploration of the complex impact of technology on humans and their environments over the course of his nearly 50-year career and across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, video, collage, and installation. A centerpiece ... +

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The Comet and the Glacier is a video opera and immersive installation by artist Alexis Gideon. Originally trained as a musician and composer, Gideon is best known for his animated live video operas and related multidisciplinary artworks. A multi-media work combining music, video, performance, animation, clay reliefs, and paintings on glass. The show is accompanied by a publication specially designed by the ... +

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The exhibition The Other Dimension: Contemporary art practice as the existence of higher dimensions presents new works by Cuban-born Miami artist Antuan Rodriguez. Curated by Jorge Luis Gutierrez, this show presents the experience of an artist coming from a peripheral country (Cuba), who became a stranger to a historical Europe and pragmatic USA. This way his uprootedness has contributed to the building ... +

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A dónde va la furia? is a solo show by artist Graciela Sacco exploring poetry behind frustration and desintegration. Sacco is both a distinguished professor of theoretical issues in 20th century Latin-American art and an artist who has literally worked in the streets. She has done installations, mixed media (including sound and video), urban interferences, and postal actions. Manipulating light and shadow, ... +

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Toda percepción. . . is a retrospective look from the viewpoint of contemporary issues of art, culture, politics and economics. Including 39 artists from Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection the show is curated by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa & Katrin Steffen. It seeks to reflect on the successive reconfigurations of the art map in the last few decades, from Paris to New York, from Venice ... +

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One Day on Success Street is the first American museum presentation dedicated to the renowned German artist Thomas Bayrle. It traces Bayrle’s exploration of the complex impact of technology on humans and their environments over the course of his nearly 50-year career and across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, video, collage, and installation. Featuring some 75 works from 1960s through ... +

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Trumpet player, arranger, composer, producer, and educator, Melton has performed with some of the top names in jazz including the Count Basie Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Woody Herman Orchestra, Bobby Watson, Jaco Pastorius, George Cables, John Hicks, Charlie Mingus Dynasty, and Gunther Schuller, among many others. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami 770 NE 125th Street (Joan Lehman Building) North ... +

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MOCA North Miami holds the events An Evening with Rolando Peña: Creativity, Resistance and the Latin American Vanguard and Performance of “Fuego Sagrado/Sacred Fire” (Rolando Peña; Press Cartoonist Rayma Suprani; Emmy Award winner Jorge Heilpern) These will be host by Curator Jorge Luis Gutiérrez. This will be the closing day for Black Gold exhibition by Peña, considered an homage to the citizens ... +

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The Exhibition Series Uprooting Architecture reaches its end after a three-year program, with the site-specific project by Venezuelan artist Magdalena Fernández. The artist will present her installation 1i011 along with a selection of her moving drawings and paintings, staging an environment that discusses the way thru which natural and artificial landscapes are perceived. Uprooting Architectures is the first on-going exhibition series shown ... +

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Graciela Sacco is an Argentinian photographer, video and installation artist. The artist’s strong socio-political photographic images serve as metaphors for some of the most acute problems of contemporary society such as famine, homelessness, authoritarianism, poor education, corrupt governments and officials, gun violence and crime, among others. Born in Argentina in 1956. Sacco is graduated from Fine Arts, University of Rosario, Argentina. Sacco ... +

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As part of the Art + Research Center’s pilot semester, “New Social Abstractions,” arts theorist Evan Calder Williams will deliver a public lecture on analogy.This talk suggests a different history of analogy, seeing it not only as an abstraction used to think about historical breaks and continuities but also as a real structure materially constructed around us over recent centuries: that diffuse ... +

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ICA Miami and O Cinema present the South Florida premiere of Call Her Applebroog, a 2016 documentary film by Beth B about her mother, renowned painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Ida Applebroog. Through a series of intimate interviews and memories culled from journals, Applebroog reflects on her career defined by a fearless investigation of power, gender, politics, and mass media, as well as ... +

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In this exhibition, Peña explores oil as a substance that has marked the destiny of modern and contemporary life. The way in which black gold has infiltrated every area of modern life is expressed not only through dance, theater, cinema, video, photography, installation, architecture, and design, but also through interaction with viewers. Rolando Peña is a Venezuelan artist (b.1943)Considered one of the ... +

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Miami artist Antonia Wright’s immersive installation inverts day and night, surrounding the viewer with a maze of suspended Night Blooming Jasmine plants. During the day, the dark, jasmine-scented gallery will create a natural screening room for a video work featuring the artist falling through a frozen lake. As the day draws to an end, a timer will activate the lighting, deactivate the ... +

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Locust Projects is pleased to announce its fourth year of Locust Talks, a lecture series that hosts visiting directors and curators from innovative institutions across the country and internationally for public lectures at the gallery space followed by individual studio visits with local artists. In this occasion Mary Ceruti, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Sculpturecenter from New York is invited. She ... +

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The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) presents its annual exhibit featuring the awarded artists of this year’s Grants & Commissions Program. Representing five different countries the artists included are: Elena Damiani (Peru), Óscar Farfán (Mexico), Fidel García (Cuba), Felipe Meres (Brazil), Sandra Nakamura (Peru) and Fabián Peña (Cuba). In this edition, Colombia is well represented through the Mid-Career awarded artists; Jorge Julian ... +

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Diana Lowenstein Gallery exhibits El Espejo de Lidzie by Cuban artist Lidzie Alvisa, curated by Marilyn Sampera. Presenting the human body from different symbologies through the use of pins, needles, spurs, and the hands of clocks Alvisa creates an scenery through Photography as main media. Aiming to stablish a provocative dialogue with the espectator. Lidzie Alvisa b. 1969. Lives and works in ... +

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The Legend of the Pink Elephant conceived, directed & choreographed by Luckner Bruno, Jr. with music by Luciano Stazzone celebrate differences. Amid a spectacle of circus arts, music, dance, and theater, a young elephant takes a journey that changes his life – and encourages us all to value our diversity and individuality. Tuesdays & Thursdays at 10:30 AM Wednesdays & Fridays at ... +

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Dixieland is the name given to the style of jazz performed by early New Orleans jazz musicians. The name is a reference to the “Old South,” specifically anything south of the Mason-Dixon line. Dixieland is one of the earliest styles of jazz music. The Glyn Dryhurst Dixieland Band is South Florida’s leading band dedicated to this genre of music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Z18hSj680 Museum of ... +

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Susan Te Kahurangi King (b. 1951, Te Aroha, New Zealand) is an artist living in Auckland, New Zealand, whose work has begun to receive worldwide attention for its innovative and expressive approach to drawing. At the age of four King stopped speaking and has since been diagnosed as severely autistic. She ceased speaking and began to draw prolifically. She continued to draw ... +

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MOCA call for participants able to share true personal stories about a time when the intersection of your social identities challenged and changed you. Who we are is an intersection of identities: Age. Gender. Race. Class. Culture. Sexual orientation. Religion. Politics. Ethnicity. Language. Physical ability. Physical challenge. Sometimes, identity is what holds us together; other times it pulls us apart. Twelve readers ... +

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The 7th year of LAB (Locust Arts Builders) features 23 South Florida high school students selected to create at Locust Projects under the direction of Miami-based artists Monica Lopez de Victoria (TM Sisters) and Francesco Lo Castro. This initiative allows young artists to learn the practical aspects of creating a public exhibition. The LAB program extends Locust Projects’ commitment to innovate in ... +

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Locust Projects presents Colorado, a new project by this year’s LAB MFA artists, Beki Basch and Laura Hughes. The exhibition consists of imagery relating to cars and the American landscape, a sculptural interpretation of the experience of taking a cross-country roadtrip. Two podiums have been conceived as commemorative portraits of Michèle Mouton, the woman who won the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb in ... +

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The acclaimed Mad Cat Live Band returns with their performance of Neil Young’s fifth studio album On The Beach, released in 1974. The album is the third installment in Young’s self-proclaimed “Ditch Trilogy” and follows Young’s disenfranchisement with the record industry and the state of the country at large. An unparalleled album for die-hard Neil Young fans. Aug 12, 2016, 8 pm ... +

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Curated by Richard Haden and focusing on the works of South Florida artists this exhibition explores concepts and issues of intersectionality, namely the ways in which oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. It also includes key artists whose practice is based outside South Florida. Collectively, all work in the exhibition works in tandem, to activate localized ... +

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ICA Miami will have the Opening Reception of the three exhibition of the summer. Artists on view are Renaud Jerez, Susan Te Kahurangi King and Ida Applebroog. For his first solo exhibition in the US, Renaud Jerez (b. Berlin) presents a site-specific installation of new work that builds upon apocalyptic forms. New Zealand artist Susan Te Kahurangi King has her first museum ... +

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Diana Lowenstein gallery presents screening of The Rebound A Wheelchair Basketball Story, to experience the spirit of a sport in this true story of the Miami Heat Wheels quest for glory, and the journey of 3 adaptive athletes in search of new dreams. The gallery also invites to the walkthrough of the exhibition: To Seep and Bleed into the World by artist ... +

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The work is introspective to the psychology of the human, its fragility and powerfully instinctive strength, showcasing a worst-case scenario time endured through the simplicity of breath, focus, a good heart, love, and the inevitably rage against injustice. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 PM Miami Theater Center 9806 NE 2nd Avenue Miami FL 33138 305.751.9550 www.mtcmiami.org

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The Diana Lowenstein Gallery holds a one man exhibition: To Seep and Bleed into the World, by artist Daniel Domig curated by Ombretta Agró Andrúff. In this exhibition the artist’s installations attempt to lay bare the experience of looking at art as well as the conditions needed for immersing oneself in it. They also serve to bridge the gap that is left ... +

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The Inverse is the debut American solo museum exhibition for the renowned Brazilian artist Laura Lima. Working across mediums, the artist frequently subjects the body to surprising juxtapositions with objects and architectures. For this exhibition Lima will entangle the gridded support beams of ICA’s Atrium Gallery with industrial nylon rope. Laura Lima (b. 1971) has had solo exhibitions at the Migros Museum, ... +

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Curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff, Trilateration brings together the work of Austin-based Andy Coolquitt; Israeli-born and New York-based Tamar Ettun; and Miami-based Michael Loveland. While the artists share similarities in their art-making process and modus operandi, the artworks featured in the show all have strong individual personalities that set them apart, and yet are able to engage in a fascinating dialogue amongst ... +

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Ideobox Artspace opens exhibition 1.000.000 mm, the second of the 2016 Uprooting Architecture curatorial program with the first Miami solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura. This exhibition re-stages seven historical site-installations conceived in the decades of the 70s and 80s, in the frame of the Natinoal Biennial of Sao Paulo and the commissions of PS1, New York, among others. The title ... +

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As a part of 2015-2016 Sandbox Series Artists, the play Them Beaux by Joshua Jean-Baptiste and Lab 9 explores issues of race, sexual identity, and gender equality. All come to the fore when two con men mix a little too much pleasure with business. Hi-jinx and hilarity unfold both on stage and on film in this provocative, antebellum interpretation of a 16th ... +

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Ivan Toth Depeña is an artist currently living and working between Miami, FL and Charlotte, NC. With a Masters Degree in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Depeña’s production as an artist is informed by his experience in art, architecture, technology and design. His process combines traditional, hands on methodology layered with high tech output and fabrication. Depeña’s studio output ... +

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Ideobox Artspace and Saludarte Foundation are pleased to announce the first US solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Ana Mazzei. The exhibition Series that initiates with Move in Straight Lines, curated by Roc Laseca, presents the work produced by Ana Mazzei around the necessary performativity in the process of occupying the space, and the passive action as the only mode to make possible ... +

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MOCA exhibits Acta Non Verba by French-Guadeloupean artist Marielle Plaisir will include a carefully curated selection of drawings, portraits, paintings, tapestries and one video representative of the artist’s thematic narrative as well as an ethereal installation of paper mache dresses suspended in mid air. Her work interrogates the concept of domination coming from the time of slavery, becoming a critique of prejudice, ... +

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Mad Cat Theatre Company on its 16th season presents Tones on Tales: A Night of Samuel Beckett. The evening will include three pieces by Beckett: Not I, Eh Joe and Footfalls. These particular short plays showcase the workmanship of minimalism. The audience is led into a voyeuristic experience. Samuel Beckett was an avant-garde novelist, playwright, director and poet, who is regarded as ... +

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Miami Theater Center presents The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. Brother and sister actors wrestle personal demons and professional challenges as sanity slips through their fingers. Abandoned by their company while touring the country, the siblings cling to their art, hoping it will shield them from total destruction. Is their love for the theater – and each other – enough to save ... +

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This exhibition curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff, was triggered by re-reading Kundera’s masterwork and a series of encounters with artists in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as Cuba, over the last 18 months. The artworks featured in the show encompass a wide variety of media and approaches, yet they are all somehow connected to the dichotomy of lightness and weight. Artists ... +

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Seraphic Fire, conducted by Director Patrick Dupré Quigley is pleased to offer an encore presentation of Mozart’s signature opus, with a completion commissioned by Seraphic Fire featuring three newly-composed movements by young American composer Gregory Spears introducing a new Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei. Venues Feb 12, 2016, 7:30pm, All Saints Episcopal (Ft. Lauderdale) Feb 13, 2016, 8:00pm, Miami Shores Presbyterian Feb ... +

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Beneath Winter Skies, presented by Performing Arts Network celebrates the current season with a series of music and dance performances by some of South Florida’s dancers and musicians. Beneath Winter Skies features Ballet Flamenco La Rosa, Mime Artist Nina Martin, Singer-Songwriter Jacob George, Classical Guitarist Paul Martin and several emerging dancers and choreographers from South Florida’s community. PAN, Performing Arts Network 13124 ... +

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Presented by The Basement Project, Boom is a comedy that tells the story of two college students, Jo and Jules, who meet online then get together for an evening of “casual sex”, but are thwarted by the apocalypse. Playwright by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and directed by Oleg Kheyfets. Music composed by Miami Band Afrobeta. The world premiere for Boom was originally staged ... +

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The Diana Lowenstein Gallery is pleased to present a one man exhibition: Udo Nöger. Nöger’ paintings are more an investigation of what happens beneath the surface of the canvas than a process of fill them up with colors. It turns to be a seeking of meaning related to light itself. The significance of luminosity goes beyond the practical purpose of highlighting the ... +

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Carlos Salas has been engaged in a range of activities and initiatives in art-making and discoursing: painting, sculpting and writing to tackle head-on the sorry state of the human condition. His work is a site for exploration of the boundaries in which human subjectivity is located. Admission $30 Free for Members, North Miami Residents & Art Basel VIP Museum of Contemporary Art ... +

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These performances commemorate the 150th anniversary of the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, which was published in 1865. Time, space, and cultures collide in this adaptation of the classic English fairy tale where Alice tackles the challenges of her ever-changing world. Adapted by Stephanie Ansin and Fernando Calzadilla and directed by Stephanie Ansin. Oct 24, 2015 2:00 PM, 7:00 PM ... +

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Intersections (after Lautréamont) refers to the notion of beauty and how, during each era, art is responsible for reformulating, subverting, or proposing alternative ways of understanding beauty. Setting an initial point of convergence this exhibition questions the changes produced in the Miami scene in relation to Latin America; and also the wide range of concerns that occupy the award-winning artists of this ... +

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Mad Cat is closing its 15th season with a world premiere written and directed by company member Theo Reyna. Lazy Fair unravels the mystery of a heist unlike any other, the criminal adventure of the greediest man in the world. Perhaps money isn’t as material as you might think. A simple burglary turns mythic when money turns out be a lot more ... +

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Ashley Dawson’s free and public presentation, Extreme City, looks at attempts to build resilience in New York following Hurricane Sandy, asking what such efforts say not just for other cities such as Miami but about the shape of the urban future in general. As Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy demonstrated in New Orleans and New York, vulnerability to “natural” disasters is above all ... +

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Balalaika goes around the technological advancements in aviation of the 20th century. In the process of meticulously reconstructing a MiG-21 Interceptor from every day materials, high-speed flight becomes subject, object, and concept. The materials the artist uses and the message are quite often interchangeable. Currently employed making a full scale Soviet fighter, Asif chose paper to impart a sense of it’s fragility. ... +

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Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in ... +

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In this tense, psychological thriller based on the notorious true story, Billy Crudup stars as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and ... +

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Andrés Michelena’s Episode #1 takes place at Ideobox Artspace as the first solo project of the 2015 Saludarte Fopundation Exhibition Series. The exhibition features a group of 12 site-specific works specially commissioned for this occasion. The Series, and specially its first episode claims the necessary performativity in the process of occupying the space, and asks about the action as the only mode ... +

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A Miami native, Elliot Miller shared various studio spaces with Robert Thiele in Opa Locka, North Miami, and eventually Brooklyn, New York from 1976 until Miller’s untimely death in 2003. Miller’s medium was wood with which he worked with an unbridled energy, roughing out large blocks of wood with a chainsaw and finishing with chisels and other traditional wood working tools. He ... +

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Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania from her honeymoon. The reappearance of her husband’s academic rival, Eilert Lövborg, throws their lives into disarray. Lövborg, a writer, is also a recovered alcoholic who has wasted his talent until now. When Hedda and Eilert talk privately together, it becomes apparent that they are former ... +

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