Events on Thursday, February 28
Thursday 2/28 @ Alligator Alley
David Liebman has the distinct honor of being one of the saxophonists on Miles Davis' eerily confounding and captivating electric jazz...
Thursday 2/28 @ Cinema Paradiso
A cellar door might not be the most unique device in horror filmdom, but it does remain one of the most...
Thursday 2/28 @ Jazid
It's mostly Colombians and Cubans who run things on Jazid's main stage, throwing down eclectic jams that fuse American funk and...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Miami International Film Festival
Thursday 2/28 @ Various locations
This annual cinephile powwow may not enjoy the prominence of Cannes or Sundance, but each year the Miami International Film Festival...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
Thursday 2/28 @ Locust Projects
Locust Projects opens the New Year with two installations — work that's, yet again, neither easily digestible nor readily sellable, but...
Thursday 2/28 @ Chelsea Galleria
Early in his career, Florida's John Westmark found inspiration in the abstracted landscape paintings of Richard Diebenkorn. But in the past...
Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
Thursday 2/28 @ 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 —...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
The Great Age of American Automobiles
Thursday 2/28 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Casa Toscana
Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Abbey Brewing Company
There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ W Wine Bistro
Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
Thursday 2/28 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ MOCA North Miami
Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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;...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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....
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Sushi Square
Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Thursday 2/28 @ The Warehouse
The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ Gallery Diet
Once, Charley Friedman walked into New York's Jack Tilton Gallery as one of his alter egos, "art dealer" Betsey Geffen, and...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
The High Style of Dorothy Draper
Thursday 2/28 @ 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...
Thursday 2/28 @ 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....
