North Miami

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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. … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +

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 … +