Events on Saturday, December 29
Saturday 12/29 @ Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut takes a seat behind the Bösendorfer tonight at Arturo's. Chestnut has done everything from popular outings with...
Saturday 12/29 @ Cinema Paradiso
Indonesian director Garin Nugroho's Of Love and Eggs might feel like a made-for-Muslim-TV movie, but that's only because its rendering...
Saturday 12/29 @ White Room
Modular's newest pickup, LA's Mellowdrone swing through Poplife this Saturday. The trio caught the Aussie powerhouse label's attention with its offbeat...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/29 @ Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Nestled on the far end of Key Biscayne — a world away from the razzle dazzle of South Beach — is...
Saturday 12/29 @ Dorsch Gallery
Curator Nikki Beem brings together more than 20 artists whose works express a desire for change. Most impressive here are Arnold...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ Cinema Paradiso
Ever since the birth of abstract art, naysayers have claimed that a child could create its equivalent — that is, until...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ Sacco Gallery
Italian artist Maurizio Pellegrin has a distinct vision and a highly poetic sensibility. His last big show in Miami was more...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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....
Saturday 12/29 @ W Wine Bistro
Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ Casa Toscana
Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Art Students League of New York
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ Abbey Brewing Company
There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
Saturday 12/29 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ MOCA North Miami
Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles...
Saturday 12/29 @ Collins Park
Part Cirque du Soleil and part bawdy burlesque show, Spiegelworld creates a surreal and wicked wonderland where strength and sexuality rule...
The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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
Saturday 12/29 @ The Warehouse
The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),...
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Saturday 12/29 @ Cinema Paradiso
Most folks know Pete Seeger from classic tunes like "Turn! Turn! Turn!," "If I Had a Hammer," and "Where Have All...
The Jewish Princesses of Comedy
Saturday 12/29 @ Collins Park
This bunch must be having a ball. Defying and toying with stereotypes every time they hit the stage, the...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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....
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
