Events on Sunday, February 10

Mavis Staples and the Blind Boys of Alabama

Music

Mavis Staples

Sunday 2/10 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Mavis Staples is nothing less than a national treasure. One of the lead singers of legendary '60s gospel-infused soul act the... 

Global Cuba feat. Tiempo Libre and Los Herederos

Music: Global

Los Herederos

Sunday 2/10 @ Spiegelworld at Collins Park

While Tiempo Libre may be the Grammy-nominated group here — and the band's clean, tight timba certainly justifies their nod —... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

Charlie Murphy

Comedy

Charlie Murphy

Sunday 2/10 @ Miami Improv

You may know him as the straight-man foil to Rick James in Dave Chappelle's wildly popular "True Hollywood Stories" skit; you... 

<em>Wilfredo Lam in North America</em>

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Sunday 2/10 @ Miami Art Museum -

This retrospective is the first large-scale Wilfredo Lam exhibition ever organized in a South Florida museum. Arguably the 20th century's most... 

Lawrence Murray Dixon:<em> Art Deco Master</em>

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Sunday 2/10 @ Bass Museum of Art

Back in the '30s, well-heeled New Yorkers migrated to the Florida tropics as a getaway from the cold, often staying in... 

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour

City Gems

Lighthouse Tour

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

Spiegelworld presents <i>Absinthe</i>

Performing Arts

Spiegelworld

Sunday 2/10 @ Collins Park

Part Cirque du Soleil and part bawdy burlesque show, Spiegelworld creates a surreal and wicked wonderland where strength and sexuality rule... 

Jorge Pardo: <i>House</i>

Art

Jorge Pardo

Sunday 2/10 @ MOCA North Miami

Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Sunday 2/10 @ Moonchine

Miami's Upper Eastside isn't lacking in cozy restaurants that feature both Japanese and Thai cuisine, but new eatery Moonchine trumps them... 

<em>Beyond Picturopolis</em>

Art

Beyond Picturopolis

Sunday 2/10 @ ArtCenter / South Florida

United by a vivid, surreal aesthetic, three artists — Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon, and Michelle Weinberg (also the show's curator) —... 

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project: Cristina Lei Rodriguez

Art

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Sunday 2/10 @ Abbey Brewing Company

There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this... 

<em>The Pearl Fishers</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

The Pearl Fishers

Sunday 2/10 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Few literary devices have been exploited more than the love triangle. This opera by Bizet, which debuted in Paris in 1863,... 

<i>Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s</i>

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Sunday 2/10 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the... 

<em>Inspired by China: Contemporary Furniture-makers Explore Chinese Traditions</em>

Art

Inspired by China

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

Farouk Hosni: <em>The Energy of Abstraction</em>

Art

Farouk Hosni

Sunday 2/10 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale

From his tenure as director of the Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris to his current position as Egypt's Minister of Culture,... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Sunday 2/10 @ The Room

Miami might be one of the only places in America where you recover from a weekend of partying and drinking by... 

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Sunday 2/10 @ Mac's Club Deuce

Freaks, geeks, drag queens, hipsters, club kids, and straight-up drunks commingle at South Beach's most notorious dive bar. The second-oldest watering... 

<i>Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage, 1920-1938</i>

Art

Agitated Images

Sunday 2/10 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium... 

<em>Tiffany Studios: The Holtzman Collection </em>

Art

Tiffany Studios

Sunday 2/10 @ Boca Raton Museum of Art

After art nouveau first emerged in Europe, the trend soon spread stateside, where American designer Louis Comfort Tiffany was particularly adept... 

<em>The High Style of Dorothy Draper </em>

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Sunday 2/10 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale

An illustrious American interior decorator from the Jazz Age through the '60s, Dorothy Draper lived to bedazzle, with a bold, unabashed... 

<em>Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection</em>

Art

Fortunate Objects

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Sunday 2/10 @ Tuna's Garden Grille

The original Tuna's was a charming waterfront eatery where you could sit on a rickety-but-romantic patio with plates of lobsters and... 

<em>Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures </em>

Art

Degas in Bronze

Sunday 2/10 @ Boca Raton Museum of Art

During his lifetime, French artist Edgar Degas was best known for his paintings of dancers, bathers, and racehorses. Though the 19th-century... 

<i>Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum</i>

Art

Work in Progress

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

<i>Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami</i>

Art

Promises of Paradise

Sunday 2/10 @ 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... 

<em>The Great Age of American Automobiles</em>

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Sunday 2/10 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale

Before American automobile design started becoming more and more homogenized, there was a time when cars actually had real presence, imagination,... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Sunday 2/10 @ Sushi Square

Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it... 

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Sunday 2/10 @ 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....