Events on Wednesday, January 2

<i>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Film
Sweeney Todd
@ Various locations
Even if you don't care for the self-important saccharine of composer Stephen Sondheim; even if you claim a chemical aversion to...  View details »

Ongoing Events

José Bedia: <i>First Hand</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
José Bedia
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Spiegelworld presents <i>Absinthe</i>
Month_01 Thursday Day_03
Performing Arts
Spiegelworld
@ Collins Park
Part Cirque du Soleil and part bawdy burlesque show, Spiegelworld creates a surreal and wicked wonderland where strength and sexuality rule...  View details »
Ongoing
Jorge Pardo: <i>House</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Jorge Pardo
@ MOCA North Miami
Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
@ 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 —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Georges LeBar: <i>Microwave of Mascara</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Georges LeBar
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Casa Toscana
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
More Flavor: City Gem
Casa Toscana
@ Casa Toscana
Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Inspired by China: Contemporary Furniture-makers Explore Chinese Traditions</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art: Architecture/Design
Inspired by China
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Lichtenstein at Fairchild
@ 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....  View details »
Ongoing
Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Enoc Perez
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Enoc Perez
@ MOCA 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Enrique Martínez Celaya: <i>Nomad</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Milk Crown and Mushroom Cloud</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Milk Crown and Mushroom Cloud
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>French Kissin' in the U.S.A.</I>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
French Kissin' in the U.S.A.
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jason Middlebrook: <i>One Man's Treasure Is Another Man's Trash</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Jason Middlebrook
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Sweeney Todd</i>
Month_01 Thursday Day_03
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sweeney Todd
@ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Exiled to Australia for a crime he didn't commit, Sweeney Todd returns to London to punish his jailers,...  View details »
Ongoing
Captain Crab's Take-Away
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Captain Crab's
@ Captain Crab's Take-Away
You'd think there'd be more crab shacks like this one all over Miami, but it seems as if California's the only...  View details »
Ongoing
Maurizio Pellegrin: <em>Once Upon a Time There Was Venice</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Maurizio Pellegrin
@ Sacco Gallery
Italian artist Maurizio Pellegrin has a distinct vision and a highly poetic sensibility. His last big show in Miami was more...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth's Late Paintings of Lancaster</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Chimneys and Towers
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Sushi Square
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Sushi Square
@ Sushi Square
Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Sculpture: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
@ The Warehouse
The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project: Cristina Lei Rodriguez
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Spyro
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Spyro
@ Spyro
Biscayne Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the northern end of this fair city, is a complete and utter mess thanks to...  View details »
Ongoing
Lunch at Garden of Eatin'
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Garden of Eatin'
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Canela Caf&eacute;
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Canela Café
@ Canela Cafe
There are tons of Latin-American restaurants to be found around greater Miami, but Canela has this stretch of Biscayne Boulevard on...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Modern Urban Expressionism: The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Leonel Matheu: <i>Definitions</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Leonel Matheu
@ Dot Fiftyone
Leonel Matheu's work seems deceptively simple and naïve upon first glance, but each piece is ultimately underlain with a deeper, philosophical...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Hernan Bas
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Promises of Paradise
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Miami Contemporary Artists: Creating a Scene</i>
Month_01 Thursday Day_03
Art
Creating a Scene
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Moonchine
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Moonchine
@ Moonchine
Miami's Upper Eastside isn't lacking in cozy restaurants that feature both Japanese and Thai cuisine, but new eatery Moonchine trumps them...  View details »
Ongoing
Peter Sarkisian
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Peter Sarkisian
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Art Students League of New York: Highlights from the Permanent Collection</em>
Month_01 Thursday Day_03
Art
Art Students League of New York
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>The Brush That Never Rests</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
The Brush That Never Rests
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Peter Coffin
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Peter Coffin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art: Photography
The Hunter Gifts
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
The Room
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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The Room
@ The Room
Miami might be one of the only places in America where you recover from a weekend of partying and drinking by...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Christine's Roti Shop
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Christine's Roti Shop
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Abbey Brewing Company
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Abbey Brewing Company
@ Abbey Brewing Company
There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Captain Jim's Seafood
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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Captain Jim's Seafood
@ Captain Jim's Seafood
For years, Captain Jim's has been the fish market of choice for many North Miami residents, but not everyone takes the...  View details »
Ongoing
Yui Kugimiya: <i>Purrfect</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Yui Kugimiya
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Gods and Heroes: The Painting and Sculpture of Sandro Chia</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art
Sandro Chia
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum</i>
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
Art: Architecture/Design
Work in Progress
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: <i>The Killing Machine and Other Stories 1995-2007</i>
Month_01 Thursday Day_03
Art
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
W Wine Bistro
Month_01 Wednesday Day_02
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W Wine Bistro
@ W Wine Bistro
Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of...  View details »
Ongoing