http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Arts & Culture 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:03:30 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344116.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344116.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Like a shiny toboggan wedged on wet snow, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular needs a little push. The traditional holiday revue, which runs in New York through Dec. 30, essentially repeats last year's program, which varied little from the show in 2007. It isn't just a return visitor who might feel that some of the old routines are indeed showing age. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344103.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344103.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection -- a 6th century reliquary containing purported fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified -- has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344104.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344104.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''I tried to write a book that would keep the pedal consistently to the metal,'' Stephen King writes in an afterword to Under the Dome, his massive new novel -- his 48th! -- an explanation for why you will carry this heavy, bulky book everywhere, eager to gobble up a few more pages whenever you can. The novel is a monster, but it moves like a short story, devoid of the bloat and wordiness that has plagued the beloved author's latter-period work. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344107.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344107.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST YoungArts of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts will honor the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Alberto Ibargüen, the foundation's president and CEO, at its An Affair of the Arts performance and gala on Jan. 16. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344112.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1344112.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Shaking off the cobwebs of recent history, a misunderstood artistic icon who lived through the Great Depression, two world wars and the civil-rights movement proves that he can still lift our sagging spirits with his poignant paintings of courageous Americans and his humorous view of daily life. http://www.miamiherald.com/1330/story/699734.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1330/story/699734.html Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:01 EST Our critics' picks of music, dance, theater, literary and visual arts events http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344104.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344104.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''I tried to write a book that would keep the pedal consistently to the metal,'' Stephen King writes in an afterword to Under the Dome, his massive new novel -- his 48th! -- an explanation for why you will carry this heavy, bulky book everywhere, eager to gobble up a few more pages whenever you can. The novel is a monster, but it moves like a short story, devoid of the bloat and wordiness that has plagued the beloved author's latter-period work. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344105.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344105.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST An Englishman's home used to be his castle, but these days it has become his makeover opportunity. The UK is in the grip of a housing frenzy, obsessed with the buying, doing-up and selling of property. So it was a shrewd decision of Penelope Lively to spin her latest and 16th novel -- in a long, distinguished career that includes a Booker Prize -- out from the central axis of a lovely home in need of a refurb. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344111.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1344111.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In late 2002, obscure Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama was eyeing a run in the 2004 Democratic Party primary for a U.S. Senate seat. He would be up against seemingly prohibitive favorites. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1339081.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1339081.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST There will be no Thanksgiving turkey at Jonathan Safran Foer's house. The author of the acclaimed novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close gave up eating animals in favor of writing Eating Animals (Little Brown, $25.99), a personal and philosophical exploration of food choices he discussed Tuesday in Miami Beach. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336812.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336812.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In Paula Froelich's winning debut novel, her overworked newspaper reporter heroine accidentally starts a fire in the newsroom after leaving a cigarette smoldering in the photo studio-slash-smoking hideout. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336803.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336803.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In Paul Auster's world, everybody writes. And those who don't write want to. Not surprising, then, that his latest novel is riddled with word-workers. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336805.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336805.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Looking forward to your turkey dinner? Think twice. It's time, argues Jonathan Safran Foer, to stop lying to ourselves. With all the studies on animal agriculture, pollution, toxic chemicals in factory-farmed animals and exposés of the appalling cruelty to animals in that industry, he writes in Eating Animals, ''We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, 'What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?' '' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336814.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336814.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''I love rereading, because it inserts you so deeply under a book's skin, and I've just reread two marvelous books. One is Famous Fathers, a story collection by Pia Z. Ehrhardt. She's masterful at stopping time at disturbing moments and then making us sit still with this ticking discomfort. . . . And I reread a debut poetry collection called What the Right Hand Knows by Tom Healy. It's alarming and beautiful and offers just enough framework for your imagination to race in and construct entire, sometimes devastating, narratives.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336808.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1336808.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST TUESDAY Susie Essman and ``What Would Susie Say?'' 6:30 p.m. The Bookstore in the Grove, 3399 Virginia St., #620, Coconut Grove. $25 includes a signed book, reserved seating, free parking and wine and cheese. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1334444.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1334444.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On a perfect sunny day -- clearly, the weather gods are readers, too -- thousands packed the streets and classrooms of Miami Dade College for the 26th edition of Miami Book Fair International's street fair. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1332924.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/books/story/1332924.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Miami is a town all too frequently -- some might say stupidly -- obsessed with celebrity. And yet, on a breezy Friday night at Miami Dade College, a Turkish novelist drew a bigger audience than a movie star who appeared the evening before him. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1326912.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1326912.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The earliest operas of the 17th century hymned the pastoral and retold mythic tales, but by the end of the 1800s, operatic stories had come much more down to a violent, sordid earth. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1285303.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1285303.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Banjoist Béla Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer both have countless colleagues who would sell body parts and firstborn for the opportunity to work with them. And yet, when the longtime collaborators were commissioned to compose a triple concerto for banjo and bass plus one -- and given free rein to pick the third musician -- one name topped both their lists: Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1263297.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1263297.html Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:22 EDT Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church has canceled its 2009-2010 concert series, following the departure of its organist, choir director, concert series director and much of its choir. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1217858.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1217858.html Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT David Teie, a cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra who also composes, is getting widespread attention for what may be, to date, his greatest hit. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1145962.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1145962.html Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Maybe those enormous wigs that sit atop the unsmiling faces and fussy court dress in portrait after portrait make us assume that there was something staid, stuffy and rigid about the music of the Baroque era. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1136597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1136597.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Few prominent conductors have such fleeting claims to greatness as has Eugene Ormandy -- but as the Japanese recording industry is proving, the moments are unquestionably there. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1135929.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1135929.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Contemporary Latin music and classical compositions by Vivaldi, Bach and Brahms are on the bill for Symphony of the Americas' Summerfest 2009 concerts this week in Miramar and Fort Lauderdale. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1105009.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1105009.html Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT Miami Symphony Orchestra sees an opening in South Florida's shifting classical music scene: arts groups that are struggling with uneven ticket sales and diminished donations are canceling concerts, paring down performances, and filing for bankruptcy. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1100832.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1100832.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT Jazz and classical-music fans, take note: The Coral Gables Congregational Church's Summer Concert Series is back for its 24th season. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1094224.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1094224.html Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT The 16 voices of the Anglican Chorale blend into a hollow, creamy sound that bounces off the church's tiled portraits of angels, delivering a praise song to a waning tradition. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1093468.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/classical/story/1093468.html Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT Only one word seems apt enough to characterize the musical artistry the members of Seraphic Fire demonstrated at Wednesday's summer-season opening concert: destiny. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1341287.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1341287.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The solo dance piece that Gregory Maqoma performs this weekend is called Beautiful Me, but when he was growing up in the slum township of Soweto in South Africa under apartheid, the 36-year-old dancer and choreographer did not feel particularly beautiful. He was inspired by, of all things, the King of Pop's Thriller. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1299053.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1299053.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Miami City Ballet opened its season Friday night with Allegro Brillante, the same piece that opened the company's first performance in 1986. Allegro is a condensed and fractured primer of George Balanchine's vision of classical ballet, and as such was a kind of linchpin for the company's development -- and in a different way, for this season as well. There are no new ballets slated this year, and so the pleasures of this first program at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts -- and the ones we have to look forward to -- are those already built into the repertory, the style and the dancers that are there. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1297769.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1297769.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Miami City Ballet opened its season Friday night with Allegro Brillante, the same piece that opened the company's first performance in 1986. Allegro is a condensed and fractured primer of George Balanchine's vision of classical ballet, and as such was a kind of linchpin for the company's development -- and in a different way, for this season as well. There are no new ballets slated this year, and so the pleasures of this first program at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts -- and the ones we have to look forward to -- are those already built into the repertory, the style and the dancers that are there. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1291100.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1291100.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:26 EDT Like much of the rest of the world, Miami City Ballet has been on a financial and professional roller coaster in the past year, including some artistic and career highs. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1258892.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1258892.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Choreographer Karen Peterson has been making pieces for disabled dancers, people whose ability to move has been changed by muscular dystrophy or other ailments, for 20 years. But when she met visual and video artist Maria Lino, Peterson discovered a collaborator who brought a new vision into her dancemaking -- insight that stemmed from the many years Lino lived with her quadriplegic brother, who had cerebral palsy. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1217291.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1217291.html Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT The 14th International Ballet Festival of Miami, presented by the Miami Hispanic Ballet, opens this weekend with its traditional mix of young dancers who have won international competitions, plus more experienced modern and contemporary ballet troupes. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1160227.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1160227.html Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:00 EDT Merce Cunningham, the endlessly inquisitive choreographer who revolutionized modern dance and helped change the course of modern art, died Sunday night at his Manhattan apartment. He was 90. A spokeswoman for the Cunningham Dance Foundation said Cunningham died in his sleep of natural causes. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1150262.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1150262.html Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:38 EDT When 13-year-old Gabrielle Verissimo talks about her neighborhood of Gardenia Azul, in Rio de Janeiro, her wide-eyed face, already stretched tight by hair pulled into a sleek bun, grows still more taut. In Gardenia Azul, drug gangs battle paramilitaries for control and most people can only aspire to jobs as maids or construction workers. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1125663.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1125663.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT The grand pillars and ornate interior of Baldwin Auditorium here on the oak-covered grounds of Duke University are a world away from Rosie Herrera's native Hialeah. And the polyglot group of earnest dancers assembled onstage for rehearsal this steamy Southern afternoon -- from Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Spain, Thailand, Russia, and the American heartland -- know nothing of the pulsing Latin clubs and drag queen extravaganzas that have shaped her as a performer and director. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1107960.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1107960.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT When Vitolio Jeune was 15, an orphan dancing for pennies on the streets of Port-au-Prince, his talent was just a way to stay alive. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1097956.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/dance/story/1097956.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT The daughter of Quakers, growing up on an organic farm, Heather Maloney has heard talk of sustainability her whole life. Maybe that's why she's puzzled by the current vogue for going green. 'Sometimes when you're thinking about being a good citizen, you say, `Oh, I must recycle,' '' she says, her hands fluttering so gracefully to illustrate her point that she is almost dancing in her seat. ``It's not always about conservation though. It's a question of how much do you need?'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1344116.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1344116.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Like a shiny toboggan wedged on wet snow, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular needs a little push. The traditional holiday revue, which runs in New York through Dec. 30, essentially repeats last year's program, which varied little from the show in 2007. It isn't just a return visitor who might feel that some of the old routines are indeed showing age. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1341298.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1341298.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Christopher Durang is at the height of his satirical powers in his newest play, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. If you think the title is weird, consider the family at the play's center: Dad (Dave Corey) collects butterflies and may be working for a shadow government; daughter Felicity (Sharon Kremen) discovers she has married a possible terrorist (Nick Duckart) while she was drunk; and Mom (Barbara Bradshaw) frequents the theater in a vain search for normalcy. Durang's riff on America's love affair with violence opens at 8 p.m. Friday at Mosaic Theatre in the American Heritage Center for the Arts, 12200 W. Broward Blvd., Bldg. 3000, Plantation. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday through Dec. 13. Tickets are $37 ($31 for seniors 65 and older, $15 for students). Call 954-577-8243 or visit www.mosaictheatre.com. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1341685.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1341685.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST 26 Miles by Pulitzer Prize finalist Quiara Alegría Hudes. Artistic director Ricky J. Martinez is staging the play, about a Cuban-American mom, her long-estranged Jewish daughter, and the bonds they forge as they head west together. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday- Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday (additional shows at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 29, Dec. 6 and Dec. 13). The play runs through Dec. 20 at New Theatre, 4120 Laguna St. in Coral Gables. Tickets are $40 Friday-Saturday and Sunday matinee, $35 other shows (student rush tickets $15). Call 305-443-5909 or visit www.new-theatre.org. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1335578.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1335578.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Beneath the elegant façade, obscured by the opulent trappings of wealth, a scandal is brewing. A respected, successful man known for his charitable works and his familial generosity has been using other people's money to buy a rich man's lifestyle. He has been found out by someone who trusted him, worked with him. And now the younger man, possessed of this ruinous knowledge, must decide whether to bring a carefully constructed house of cards tumbling down. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1335527.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1335527.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In his glowing review of Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, a New York Times critic last month wrote of the musical revival's ''satisfying pairing of a him and a her.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1334442.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1334442.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Marco Ramirez is a wildly imaginative playwright whose writing acknowledges a fundamental reality: If you want to entice the under-30 crowd into experiencing theater, you'd better give 'em something exciting in a form that really speaks to them. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1329242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1329242.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Macon City: A Comic Book Play, a new work getting its first production by The Naked Stage. Jasmine Fluker and Hugh Murphy are in the play, along with Naja Corbett, Jason DeWitt and Giordan Diaz. David Hemphill, Scott Genn and Alyn Darnay round out the cast. They portray citizens of an American metropolis, folks just trying to survive after their decaying city is abandoned by its crime-fighting superheroes. The play opens Friday in the Pelican Theatre on the Barry University campus, 11300 NE Second Ave., Miami Shores. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday (no Thanksgiving performance), and the play runs 'til Nov. 29. Tickets are $25 (seniors 60 and older pay $18, students $12). Call 866-811-4111 or visit www.nakedstage.org. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1328393.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1328393.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00 EST How much you enjoy Legally Blonde the Musical -- and loads of people do -- will probably depend on your tolerance for things kitschy and adorable. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1324960.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1324960.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Becky Gulsvig has been awash in pink, onstage anyway, since she began playing various roles in the cast of the musical Legally Blonde during its Broadway run from mid-2007 until the fall of 2008. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1322569.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1322569.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Her face has, hmmm, changed over the years, but the way she talks is vintage Joan Rivers. ''Someone told me -- and I hate the term -- stars have very distinct voices. You know Cher, immediately. You know Liza, immediately,'' says Rivers, who performs Wednesday night in Miami. ''When I was a little girl, I picked up the phone and someone said, 'Little boy, put your mother on.' I almost died. Now, Chastity Bono would have loved that!'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1322692.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/theater/story/1322692.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play of a certain era: early Mamet, post-sexual revolution, pre-AIDS.<p/> Written in 1974, the play flits from one short scene to the next, providing a snapshot of twentysomething big city ``romance'' and serving as a window into the younger Mamet's mind. This is a work that is funny, foul-mouthed and more than a little misogynistic; still enjoyable, but a harbinger of better things to come from a talented playwright. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1344112.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1344112.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Shaking off the cobwebs of recent history, a misunderstood artistic icon who lived through the Great Depression, two world wars and the civil-rights movement proves that he can still lift our sagging spirits with his poignant paintings of courageous Americans and his humorous view of daily life. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1336809.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1336809.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''People sometimes run out of our exhibitions,'' photographer Mirta Gómez says. ''They don't want to see what's being shown.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1331836.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1331836.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST For any number of anonymous winters, the Swiss architect Jacques Herzog vacationed in Miami Beach -- walking around, looking around, taking in everything. To me this is one of the more interesting and salient points to be made in looking ahead to the two Herzog & de Meuron buildings we are getting. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1320494.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1320494.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The inspiration for the upcoming A Very Wolfsonian Weekend Gala -- which includes visits to classic-car museums, a talk by renowned car designer Chris Bangle and Mitchell ``Micky'' Wolfson's 70th birthday party -- began, of course, with the art of design at the Wolfsonian-FIU on Miami Beach, founded by Wolfson. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1308415.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1308415.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT New York poet Frank O'Hara once wrote that he could not delight in a simple patch of grass if there were not some evidence of his beloved city nearby: a record shop, a train, or ``some other sign that people do not totally regret life.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1300907.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1300907.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT As Terrence Riley steps down as director of Miami Art Museum, there are a few things he will not miss. The endless commission meetings. The begging for money. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1296948.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1296948.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Sex. Payback. Success. Tracey Emin's video Why I Never Became a Dancer packs in all those elements and more, a disarming work that begins with shocking revelations of how the British artist used sex as a distraction when she was 13 and 14 and living in the seaside resort town of Margate. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1286137.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1286137.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Prodded by a photographer seeking to frame a portrait of him, Guillermo Kuitca finds himself boxed in the middle of one of his installations at the Miami Art Museum. He's closed in by 20 gray mattresses perilously propped on tiny white-wood legs. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1286141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1286141.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT No that the new, live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak's durable children's classic Where the Wild Things Are has opened in movie theaters nationwide, it seemed a fine moment to drop in at the Rosenbach Museum. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1285300.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1285300.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Amid the stacks of books and the students on the computers, amid the hushed buzz of learning at the Miami-Dade Main Library, four mannequins varnished in red form a provocative exhibit about domestic violence. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1274616.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1274616.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Art doesn't just happen, but in the right environment, creativity can blossom in many forms -- painting, sculpture, photography, video, light, words, food, sound, dance and other performance.