Events on Friday, December 21
Friday 12/21 @ Culture Room
Fort Lauderdale-based jam band the Heavy Pets introduced themselves to the South Florida masses at last year's Langerado Music Festival, where...
Friday 12/21 @ Transit Lounge
Every few months, arts collective Monkey Village drops a new compilation CD chock-full of tunes from some of Miami's best bands,...
Andy Warhol's The Nude Restaurant
Friday 12/21 @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
Warhol may have G-stringed his superstars for The Nude Restaurant, but that doesn't make the film's ambition any less naked. By...
Friday 12/21 @ BAR
Chi-town producer DJ Funk has rocked stages all over the world with Green Velvet, Detroit's DJ Assault, and more than a...
Friday 12/21 @ Circa28
It's been a good year for Miami party-starters Elastic Bond. After the release of their debut album, Madrugada, they took to...
Ongoing Events
The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen
Friday 12/21 @ Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
Despite the rather turgid genre title used to refer to his work ("modern urban expressionism"), Marcus Antonius Jansen's paintings are beautifully...
Art Students League of New York
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Dorsch Gallery
Curator Nikki Beem brings together more than 20 artists whose works express a desire for change. Most impressive here are Arnold...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Dot Fiftyone
Leonel Matheu's work seems deceptively simple and naïve upon first glance, but each piece is ultimately underlain with a deeper, philosophical...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Gallery Diet
Following her stint as a curator at the esteemed Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Nina Johnson is now opening Gallery Diet, her very...
Friday 12/21 @ 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....
Friday 12/21 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
G. Lacouture and P. Berthierm, the two clowns in tonight's show, are no mere buffoons of the balloon-animal, squirting-flower sort. No,...
Friday 12/21 @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Although some suspect Peter Coffin's work of hokey mysticism, the New York-based artist's sculptures and installations are actually clever deconstructions of...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
The Jewish Princesses of Comedy
Friday 12/21 @ Collins Park
This bunch must be having a ball. Defying and toying with stereotypes every time they hit the stage, the...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Kevin Bruk Gallery
The vast difference between urban and country life is essential to Jason Middlebrook's work, as is the world's supposed tendency towards...
Friday 12/21 @ David Castillo Gallery
In this three-person group show, curated by Berlin-based Manabi Murata, restraint is key, even as the artists — all of whom...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Art Rouge Gallery
Having recently relocated from Coral Gables to the ever-expanding Wynwood Art District, Art Rouge presents a four-person group show of contemporary...
Friday 12/21 @ Garden of Eatin'
With all the tropical flora found in Florida, you'd think the natives would be a bit more appreciative of fruits and...
Friday 12/21 @ Casa Toscana
Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Friday 12/21 @ Cinema Paradiso
Don Rickles is no joke. In fact, the cat won't even tell one. His nearly 60 years in showbiz have been...
Friday 12/21 @ Abbey Brewing Company
There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this...
Friday 12/21 @ The Moore Space
Taking its title from the 1986 Debbie Harry hit, the Moore Space's new exhibition gathers 18 contemporary French artists, including Adel...
Friday 12/21 @ Ingalls & Associates
Yui Kugimiya has a keen sense of nature's splendor and chaos. For her second solo show at Ingalls, the young, Tokyo-born...
Friday 12/21 @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
Santa Fe-based artist Peter Sarkisian liberates video from the traditional frame. One of the most salient features of his recent work...
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
Friday 12/21 @ ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries
Asian neo-pop art (encompassing South Korea, Japan, and China) is one of the hottest new trends on the contemporary market —...
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
Friday 12/21 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the...
Friday 12/21 @ 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....
Friday 12/21 @ MOCA North Miami
Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles...
Friday 12/21 @ Christine's Roti Shop
Christine's Roti Shop is a North Miami Beach institution. Just after Hurricane Wilma, when the power was out across the city...
Friday 12/21 @ Sushi Square
Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it...
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Friday 12/21 @ The Warehouse
The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),...
Friday 12/21 @ Collins Park
Part Cirque du Soleil and part bawdy burlesque show, Spiegelworld creates a surreal and wicked wonderland where strength and sexuality rule...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Rubell Family Collection
Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest art star, creating darkly poetic, romanticized works read as chapters in an epic, sometimes mythical, and...
Friday 12/21 @ The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse
Although primarily a painter, Enoc Perez engages in an assiduous, multi-leveled process involving photographs, color separation, drawing, and pigment transfers to...
Friday 12/21 @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery
José Bedia's new show at Snitzer has a decidedly African bent, its large-scale acrylics on canvas inspired by the artifacts Bedia...
Friday 12/21 @ W Wine Bistro
Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
Friday 12/21 @ Sacco Gallery
Italian artist Maurizio Pellegrin has a distinct vision and a highly poetic sensibility. His last big show in Miami was more...
Friday 12/21 @ 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...
