Events on Friday, February 8

[CANCELLED] Lenore Raphael Trio
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Music: Jazz/Blues
Lenore Raphael Trio
@ Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
Lenore Raphael swings with the best of them — and while you could call her a jazz diva, that doesn't quite...  View details »
Canceled!
<em>Trading Women </em>(2003)
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Film: Documentary
Trading Women
@ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
Prostitution is a pretty lucrative business in Southeast Asia. According to a recent study, it accounts for 2-14 percent of the...  View details »
The Go-Go's
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Music: Rock/Pop
The Go-Go's
@ The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
Formed in the late '70s, the all-girl Go-Go's are probably best known for their Hot 100 hit "We Got the Beat"...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>Tiffany Studios: The Holtzman Collection </em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
Tiffany Studios
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Spyro
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
<em>The High Style of Dorothy Draper </em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
The High Style of Dorothy Draper
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Christine's Roti Shop
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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_02 Friday Day_08
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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
Farouk Hosni: <em>The Energy of Abstraction</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art
Farouk Hosni
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
Enoc Perez
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
<i>Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
<em>The Pearl Fishers</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Opera
The Pearl Fishers
@ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Few literary devices have been exploited more than the love triangle. This opera by Bizet, which debuted in Paris in 1863,...  View details »
Ongoing
W Wine Bistro
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
Jorge Pardo: <i>House</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art
Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Flamenco Festival Miami
Month_02 Friday Day_08
More Flavor: Festival
Flamenco Festival Miami
@ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
You don't find much Flamenco in Miami, and what is here tends to be on the glossy side, rather than melancholy...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Inspired by China: Contemporary Furniture-makers Explore Chinese Traditions</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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_02 Friday Day_08
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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
<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
Tuna's Garden Grille
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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Tuna's Garden Grille
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Great Age of American Automobiles</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
The Great Age of American Automobiles
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Captain Jim's Seafood
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
Lunch at Garden of Eatin'
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
<i>Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage, 1920-1938</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art
Agitated Images
@ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
<em>Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures </em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_09
Art
Degas in Bronze
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art
Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
@ Locust Projects
Locust Projects opens the New Year with two installations — work that's, yet again, neither easily digestible nor readily sellable, but...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Captain Crab's Take-Away
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
<em>Wilfredo Lam in North America</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art
Wilfredo Lam
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Vintage Pulp Illustration</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_09
Art
Vintage Pulp Illustration
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Sculpture: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
Phil Stein:<em> Streets </em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art: Photography
Phil Stein
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Casa Toscana
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project: Cristina Lei Rodriguez
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
<em>Beyond Picturopolis</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art
Beyond Picturopolis
@ ArtCenter / South Florida
United by a vivid, surreal aesthetic, three artists — Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon, and Michelle Weinberg (also the show's curator) —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mac's Club Deuce
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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Mac's Club Deuce
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Canela Caf&eacute;
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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Lighthouse Tour
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>French Kissin' in the U.S.A.</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
Spiegelworld presents <i>Absinthe</i>
Month_02 Saturday Day_09
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
<i>Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
@ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the...  View details »
Ongoing
Lawrence Murray Dixon:<em> Art Deco Master</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art: Architecture/Design
Lawrence Murray Dixon
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Charlie Murphy
Month_02 Saturday Day_09
Performing Arts: Comedy
Charlie Murphy
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Moonchine
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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
<em>Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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
<em>Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_08
Art
Fortunate Objects
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Sushi Square
Month_02 Friday Day_08
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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