Events on Friday, March 14

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: <em>The Palace of  Illusions</em>

Books: Reading

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Friday 3/14 @ Books & Books - Coral Gables

Her name might not roll so easily off the average Western tongue, but Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's tales — featured in esteemed... 

Peter Greenaway: <em>The Belly of an Architect </em>(1987)

Film

The Belly of an Architect

Friday 3/14 @ Miami Beach Cinematheque

Brian Dennehy plays Stourley Kracklite, an American curator brought to Italy to assemble an exhibition honoring the work of French architect... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Cloudless</em>

Dance

Cloudless

Friday 3/14 @ Colony Theater

Presented by the ever-fearless Tigertail, Susan Marshall & Company's Cloudless is composed of 18 modern-dance episodes performed by five dancers. The... 

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

Art

Farouk Hosni

Friday 3/14 @ 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,... 

<em>Wicked</em>

Performing Arts

Wicked

Friday 3/14 @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts

Panned by New York critics when it premiered, Wicked has proven its detractors wrong, or at least irrelevant — this hugely... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Friday 3/14 @ Spyro

Biscayne Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the northern end of this fair city, is a complete and utter mess thanks to... 

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

Art

Promises of Paradise

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Enoc Perez

Art

Enoc Perez

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Gina Ruggeri: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Gina Ruggeri

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Friday 3/14 @ Moonchine

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

Alex Sweet

Art

Alex Sweet

Friday 3/14 @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery

As one of Snitzer's younger artists, Alex Sweet is poised to create some buzz in the local scene, especially with this... 

Mark Mothersbaugh: <em>Beautiful Mutants</em>

Art

Mark Mothersbaugh

Friday 3/14 @ 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.... 

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Friday 3/14 @ Sushi Square

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

Captain Jim's Seafood

City Gems

Captain Jim's Seafood

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Friday 3/14 @ 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>Wilfredo Lam in North America</em>

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Blackbooks: <em>Ask Us About Our Free Stabbings</em>

Art

Blackbooks

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

<em>20 Years of Rhythm</em> <em> </em>

Art

20 Years of Rhythm

Friday 3/14 @ Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation

For 20 years now, the good people at the Rhythm Foundation have brought Miami some of the best Latin and world... 

<i>Sculpture: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection</i>

Art

Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Friday 3/14 @ The Warehouse

The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),... 

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

Art

Tiffany Studios

Friday 3/14 @ 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>Here & Now</em>:<em> </em>Program A

Performing Arts

Here & Now: Program A

Friday 3/14 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Miami Light Project's Here & Now is one of the city's premier showcases for local performance artists. This year's edition sees... 

Jean-Michel Othoniel: <em>Diary of Happiness</em> and Johan Creten: <em>Strange Fruit</em>

Art

Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten

Friday 3/14 @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin

Gearing up for the spring season, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin opens two heavy-hitting shows, one by Belgian artist Johan Creten and the... 

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

Art

Degas in Bronze

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Friday 3/14 @ The Room

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

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

Art

Work in Progress

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Jen Stark: <em>Place in Space</em>

Art

Jen Stark

Friday 3/14 @ Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

Jen Stark's art is endlessly mysterious. In addition to her explosive, painstakingly detailed drawings, the young artist builds wondrous sculptures out... 

Phil Stein:<em> Streets </em>

Art: Photography

Phil Stein

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Friday 3/14 @ W Wine Bistro

Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of... 

Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega:<em> Parres Trilogy</em>

Art

Melanie Smith

Friday 3/14 @ Miami Art Museum -

British-born artist Melanie Smith examines contemporary life in the big city — and injects her work with a dose of turn-of-the-century... 

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

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

<em>Here & Now</em>: Program B

Performing Arts

Here & Now: Program B

Friday 3/14 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

The Arsht Center hosts the second part of the Miami Light Project's Here & Now, an annual showcase of local performance... 

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour

City Gems

Lighthouse Tour

Friday 3/14 @ 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

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Friday 3/14 @ 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>Women Only! In Their Studios</em>

Art

Women Only!

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Bin No. 18

City Gems

Bin No. 18

Friday 3/14 @ Bin No. 18

Miami's midtown crowd has really caught on to wining, thanks to bars like the much-missed Stop Miami, which closed earlier this... 

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Art

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Friday 3/14 @ 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,... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Casa Toscana

City Gems

Casa Toscana

Friday 3/14 @ Casa Toscana

Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your... 

Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Friday 3/14 @ Abbey Brewing Company

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

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Art

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

Wendy Wischer: <em>N-S-E-W</em>

Art

Wendy Wischer

Friday 3/14 @ David Castillo Gallery

Local artist Wendy Wischer has a gift for re-interpreting nature's uncanny elements, often with the aid of technology. She once projected... 

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

Inspired by China

Friday 3/14 @ 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... 

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Friday 3/14 @ 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....