Events on Sunday, December 16

Alex Daoud: <i>Sins of South Beach</i>

Books: Reading

Alex Daoud

Sunday 12/16 @ Books & Books - Coral Gables

Former Miami Beach mayor Alex Daoud may not have presided over South Beach's tremendous growth, but he certainly... 

<i>The Music of Led Zeppelin: A Rock Symphony</i>

Music

The Music of Led Zeppelin

Sunday 12/16 @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts

Typically, we don't care much for cover bands, especially Zeppelin cover bands. But here we'll make an exception, because "Stairway to... 

Café Tacuba

Music: Global

Café Tacuba

Sunday 12/16 @ Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts

Café Tacuba have been rocking en Español since a group of graphic-design students got together to jam in Mexico City in... 

Ongoing Events

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Sunday 12/16 @ Tap Tap

Those who've passed a lazy evening in the rocking chairs on Tap Tap's front porch, sipping Miami's best mojitos while listening... 

<em>Art Students League of New York: Highlights from the Permanent Collection</em>

Art

Art Students League of New York

Sunday 12/16 @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami

One of the country's oldest art schools, the Art Students League of New York has been around since 1875, is still... 

<i>Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage, 1920-1938</i>

Art

Agitated Images

Sunday 12/16 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium... 

<i>Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s</i>

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Sunday 12/16 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the... 

<em>Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection</em>

Art

Fortunate Objects

Sunday 12/16 @ Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation

The CIFO flexes its conceptual muscle with this wide-ranging multimedia exhibition culled from its permanent collection. These Fortunate Objects aren't always... 

<i>Miami Contemporary Artists: Creating a Scene</i>

Art

Creating a Scene

Sunday 12/16 @ Various locations

A hefty, eye-popping 256-page hardcover volume, Miami Contemporary Artists is a testament to the international relevance (and interest in) the Miami... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Sunday 12/16 @ Abbey Brewing Company

There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this... 

Enrique Martínez Celaya: <i>Nomad</i>

Art

Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad

Sunday 12/16 @ Miami Art Museum -

A quiet, spiritual solitude inhabits Enrique Martínez Celaya's work, especially in his dark, ethereal oil-and-tar paintings. The Cuban-born artist makes effective... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Sunday 12/16 @ Moonchine

Miami's Upper Eastside isn't lacking in cozy restaurants that feature both Japanese and Thai cuisine, but new eatery Moonchine trumps them... 

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Sunday 12/16 @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Drawing from popular advertisements, mainstream comic books, and industrial production techniques, Roy Lichtenstein's primary-colored works are now iconic deconstructions of Americana.... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Sunday 12/16 @ The Room

Miami might be one of the only places in America where you recover from a weekend of partying and drinking by... 

<i>Romance & Cigarettes</i>

Film

Romance & Cigarettes

Sunday 12/16 @ Cinema Paradiso

If Tennessee Williams had written a pulp musical based in working-class Queens during the '60s, he might've come up with... 

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Sunday 12/16 @ Norton Museum of Art

Adding to its already-expansive collection of more than 2,200 photographs (including works by Man Ray, Walker Evans, and Henri Cartier-Bresson), the... 

<i>Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum</i>

Art

Work in Progress

Sunday 12/16 @ Miami Art Museum -

Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron have envisioned an ambitious future for the Miami Art Museum's new bay-front home. The... 

<em>Inspired by China: Contemporary Furniture-makers Explore Chinese Traditions</em>

Art

Inspired by China

Sunday 12/16 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale

For centuries now, European and American artisans have used Chinese art and culture as a source of inspiration. Back in June... 

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: <i>The Killing Machine and Other Stories 1995-2007</i>

Art

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Sunday 12/16 @ Miami Art Museum -

The Miami Art Museum's MAC@MAM program launches its first much-anticipated exhibit: 11 installations by husband-and-wife team Janet Cardiff and George Bures... 

La Scala Opera Series presents <i>Aida</i>

Film

Aida

Sunday 12/16 @ Bill Cosford Cinema - University of Miami

For modern audiences, opera tends to be a bit inaccessible as a form and expensive to attend. La Scala, Italy's famed... 

Jorge Pardo: <i>House</i>

Art

Jorge Pardo

Sunday 12/16 @ MOCA North Miami

Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles... 

Georges LeBar: <i>Microwave of Mascara</i>

Art

Georges LeBar

Sunday 12/16 @ Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

Postmodern mishmashes of consumer society, Georges LeBar's paintings are vivid metaphors lambasting a culture of wantonness, image obsession, and gluttonous gratification.... 

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project: Cristina Lei Rodriguez

Art

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project

Sunday 12/16 @ Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Visiting the opulent Vizcaya estate is an experience in itself, so hitting it up for the unveiling of a new art... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Sunday 12/16 @ Sushi Square

Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it... 

Eddie Gossling

Comedy

Eddie Gossling

Sunday 12/16 @ Miami Improv

Eddie Gossling is that perfect comedy cocktail of smarts and zaniness, overactive imagination and improvisational bravado. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel... 

<i>Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster</i>

Art

Chimneys and Towers

Sunday 12/16 @ Norton Museum of Art

A pioneer of American precisionism and modernism, Charles Demuth was also involved in Paris' early 20th-century avant-garde scene, where he hung... 

<i>Gods and Heroes: The Painting and Sculpture of Sandro Chia</i>

Art

Sandro Chia

Sunday 12/16 @ Boca Raton Museum of Art

A medley of influences and art-historical references appear in Sandro Chia's oeuvre, but most important is his affinity for mythic symbolism... 

<i>Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami</i>

Art

Promises of Paradise

Sunday 12/16 @ Bass Museum of Art

Curated by Allan Shulman, one of Miami's most prominent architects, Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami delineates the potential of this... 

Pablo Cano: <i>Viva Vaudeville</i>

Theatre

Pablo Cano

Sunday 12/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

A Dadaist sensibility and a refined knowledge of bricolage inform Pablo Cano's inventive, found-object marionettes. For his new production — the...