Events on Saturday, December 8
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
Leave it to sharp Design Matters host Debbie Millman to assemble some of the best and the brightest design minds in...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Colony Theater
As the singer/songwriter for the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed was instrumental in creating a visceral, avant-garde sound that many indie bands...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Transit Lounge
The Spam Allstars still pack them in wherever they go, be it at the weekly Little Havana residency or in parts...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Pawn Shop Lounge
Celebrating one year in Miami, Flavorpill jumps aboard Aquabooty's infamous F*ck Art Let's Dance party. And Flavorpill's enlisted two venerable house-music...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Gallery Diet
Following her stint as a curator at the esteemed Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Nina Johnson is now opening Gallery Diet, her very...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ The Moore Building
Design
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Miami Improv
Impressionist and sound-effects comedian Pablo Francisco has been making the rounds on the US comedy circuit, hitting up every mic from...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Roberto Clemente Park
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium...
The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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...
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Saturday 12/ 8 @ The Warehouse
The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ W Wine Bistro
Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of...
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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/ 8 @ Sushi Square
Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it...
Saturday 12/ 8 @ The Ice Palace
Granted, there's a surplus of satellite fairs this year, but NADA is one of the originals — a free, welcoming event...
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Saturday 12/ 8 @ 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...
