Events on Friday, December 7
Friday 12/ 7 @ 66 Nightclub
Featuring four stages — each offering a dozen electronic artists spanning experimental, drum 'n bass, electro, and house — the Euphoria...
Friday 12/ 7 @ Studio A
Glass Candy singer Ida No and producer Johnny Jewel spin lovelorn techno tales with operatic tendencies on Mike Simonetti's cosmic-disco imprint...
Friday 12/ 7 @ BAR
Italians Do It Better label founder Mike Simonetti schools PS14 in the ways of New Jersey disco. Getting love everywhere from...
Friday 12/ 7 @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
Need may have replaced greed as Havana's driving force, but that hasn't diminished the Cuban capital's mystique — or its darkness....
Friday 12/ 7 @ Pawn Shop Lounge
Canada's MSTRKRFT administer punishing, pulsing dance music the world over by keeping up a relentless touring schedule, issuing sick, sick singles,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 12/ 7 @ Dorsch Gallery
Curator Nikki Beem brings together more than 20 artists whose works express a desire for change. Most impressive here are Arnold...
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ The Ice Palace
Granted, there's a surplus of satellite fairs this year, but NADA is one of the originals — a free, welcoming event...
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ Norton Museum of Art
For many, California embodies a particular Arcadian ideal. The state's rural splendor was the main source of inspiration for early 20th-century...
Friday 12/ 7 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
Grammy-winning soprano Ana María Martínez stars in the Florida Grand Opera's staging of Mozart's comedic battle of the sexes. When a...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ The Moore Building
Design
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
We're not sure why trumpeter Wallace Roney doesn't get more mainstream attention. He's got the pedigree: he was a child prodigy...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Abbey Brewing Company
There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this...
The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ Miami Improv
Impressionist and sound-effects comedian Pablo Francisco has been making the rounds on the US comedy circuit, hitting up every mic from...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Roberto Clemente Park
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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 —...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Sushi Square
Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ Culture Room
This year makes it a decade since Perpetual Groove first ventured out of Savannah, Georgia, toting run-on jams and off-the-wall rhythms...
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Friday 12/ 7 @ 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/ 7 @ 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...
