Events on Saturday, February 23
Saturday 2/23 @ North Shore Park
Not to be confused with the same-named Christian pop group, this Fred Thomas Band derives its power from a far funkier...
Saturday 2/23 @ Culture Room
To say that raspy troubadour Leon Russell has "been around" would be a bit of an understatement. As a teen in...
Saturday 2/23 @ BAR
In the world of glitchy electronic experimentalism, Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, and Autechre tend to garner the lion's share of accolades....
Saturday 2/23 @ Upper Eastside Garden
With a sound that conjures up a way-too-stoned evening on an almost-tropical beach, quirky psych-rock band Aunt Dracula probably feel more...
Saturday 2/23 @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
The concept is simple: Submit a story according to three guidelines. The story must be true; it must involve you, the...
Saturday 2/23 @ White Room
With the return of Miami's best party in town, Poplife, Saturdays have been resurrected. The promoters always give local rock bands...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Harold Golen Gallery
Pulp-novel and magazine covers were crucial marketing tools of the '60s and '70s, sending the careers of small-time artists and illustrators...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ Chelsea Galleria
Early in his career, Florida's John Westmark found inspiration in the abstracted landscape paintings of Richard Diebenkorn. But in the past...
Saturday 2/23 @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
In addition to Luis Cruz Azaceta's solo show, Bernice Steinbaum is exhibiting Jill Cannady's dramatic and stirring works. Titled Women of...
Saturday 2/23 @ MOCA North Miami
Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles...
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Sushi Square
Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it...
The Great Age of American Automobiles
Saturday 2/23 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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...
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Spinello Gallery
Blackbooks is the the Fort Lauderdale-based artist duo Andy Black and Books IIII. They've already made a name for themselves by...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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,...
South Beach Wine & Food Festival
Saturday 2/23 @ Various locations
Winter in Miami is a beautiful time. We get the art crowds in December and the electronic-music heads in March, but...
Saturday 2/23 @ Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art
Sadly, what begins as a utopia often ends in one hot mess. Such was the case with ancient Mesopotamia's capital city...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami
To increase attention to American women in contemporary art, the Lowe's Women Only! show gives props to 20 notable ladies in...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
Kenny Carnes specializes in documentary theater, a genre that mixes high drama with actual testimony. In Last Words, his main characters...
Saturday 2/23 @ Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery
Highly regarded for his scores — most notably for Wes Anderson's films — Mark Mothersbaugh is also an eccentric visual artist....
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Galerie Bertin-Toublanc
As gallery shows pop up all over the country and a new slate of stars makes its way to Miami, there's...
Saturday 2/23 @ Kevin Bruk Gallery
New York-based artist Gina Ruggeri displays an obsessive interest in accumulated masses, from cloud buildups, rockpiles, and leaves to otherwordly heaps...
Saturday 2/23 @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery
If you swing by Snitzer's, you'll notice two peculiar, orange-hued figures, standing tall in the grassy area adjacent to the gallery;...
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Saturday 2/23 @ The Warehouse
The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Casa Toscana
Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your...
Saturday 2/23 @ Gallery Diet
Once, Charley Friedman walked into New York's Jack Tilton Gallery as one of his alter egos, "art dealer" Betsey Geffen, and...
Saturday 2/23 @ Cinema Paradiso
Hitler's quest for world domination was aimed not just at nation states, but also at other cultures — and he...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ 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...
Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
Saturday 2/23 @ Locust Projects
Locust Projects opens the New Year with two installations — work that's, yet again, neither easily digestible nor readily sellable, but...
Saturday 2/23 @ Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
Evincing a cubist's predilection for deconstruction, Pennsylvania-based photographer Phil Stein also possesses a keen sense for detail. After printing several digital...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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 2/23 @ Norton Museum of Art
Throughout his prolific career, American sculptor Alexander Calder created a variety of objects — from inventive children's toys and 1927's miniature...
Saturday 2/23 @ Seminole Hard Rock Casino
Whether singing with the Four Seasons or solo, Frankie Valli has racked up dozens of Top 40 hits. His piercing falsetto...
The High Style of Dorothy Draper
Saturday 2/23 @ 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...
Saturday 2/23 @ 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...
