Here’s a look at what’s coming up in the Miami Beach Arts scene…
Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
Wednesday, January 14, 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.
Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Hispanola Way
305.673.4567 http://www.mbcinema.com
$10 General, $7 Members
Visually breathtaking and crafted with riveting detail by documentary filmmaker (and childhood friend of the survivors) Gonzalo Arijón with a masterful combination of on-location interviews, archival footage and reenactments, Stranded is by turns hauntingly powerful and spiritually moving. In Spanish with English subtitles.
youngARTS Week 2009 Theater Performances FREE
Wednesday, January 14, 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road
305.674.1040 http://www.youngarts.org
Come see youngARTS Finalists in Theater and Performing Arts. These exceptional artists are identified as those with extraordinary skill and are selected to travel to Miami each year for youngARTS Week.
Mike Levine Quartet
Wednesday, January 14, 9:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.
Upstairs at The Van Dyke Café, 846 Lincoln Road
305.534.3600 http://www.thevandykecafe.com.
KCC Productions and the Van Dyke Cafe present the Mike Levine Quartet. No cover.
Art Deco in Shanghai and Miami Beach
Thursday, January 15, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive
305. 673.7256 http://www.mbgarden.org
Miami Beach Botanical Garden and the Miami Beach Historical Association present a book reading & signing, photo presentation by Miami Beach authors Don and Nina Worth. The Miami Beach Author Series presents monthly book readings, discussion and author signing of recently published and classic books focusing on Miami Beach history and lifestyle.
Art Deco Lecture Series: 2009 Down Argentine Way; Setting the Stage for Art Deco Architecture FREE
Thursday, January 15, 7:00 p.m.
Art Deco Welcome Center, 1001 Washington Avenue
305.672.2014 http://www.mdpl.org
Mark D. Szuchman, professor and chair of Department of History at Florida International University, sets the stage for this year’s Art Deco Weekend focus on Argentina as he explores the social, economic, and political currents at work there leading into the 1920s. Co-presented by The Wolfsonian-FIU.
youngARTS Week 2009 Cinematic Arts Screenings
Thursday, January 15, 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road
305.674.1040 http://www.youngarts.org
Come see youngARTS Finalists in Cinematic Arts Screenings. These exceptional artists are identified as those with extraordinary skill and are selected to travel to Miami each year for youngARTS Week.
youngARTS Week 2009 Jazz Performances with Nicole Henry FREE
Thursday, January 15, 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Upstairs at the Van Dyke, 846 Lincoln Road
Jazz fans take note! youngARTS Jazz Finalists will perform with special guest jazz vocalist, the accomplished, award winning, Nicole Henry. This is a must see event, but if you can’t make it, all you have to do is go online. Van Dyke will be broadcasting these performances live via webcam at http://www.thevandykecafe.com/upstairs.
youngARTS Week 2009 Dance Performances
Thursday, January 15, 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road
305.674.1040 http://www.youngarts.org
Come see youngARTS Finalists in Dance Performances. These exceptional artists are identified as those with extraordinary skill and are selected to travel to Miami each year for youngARTS Week.
The Brilliant Light of Carlos Reygadas: Battle in Heaven
Thursday, January 15, 8:30 p.m.
Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Espanola Way
305.673.4567 http://www.mbcinema.com
$10 General, $7 Members
A master at turning ugliness into beauty and morphing the banal into the mystical, Reygadas tackles serious themes – guilt, class, religion – through elliptic narratives and breathtaking cinematic sleights of hand. For mature audiences only.
Art Deco Weekend: Down Argentine Way: Deco, Vino, Tango FREE
Friday, January 16, 12:00 p.m., Saturday, January 17, Sunday, January 18, 10:00 a.m.
Ocean Drive, from 5th to 14th Streets
305.672.2014 http://www.artdecoweekend.com
Art Deco Weekend is back for its 32nd year, with the theme Down Argentine Way: Deco · Vino · Tango. Come enjoy art and antique vendors, films, lectures, classic cars, performances, tours, and more, including a look at all those Ocean Drive hotels! Many of the festival’s events are tied to an exploration of Argentinean culture and Art Deco heritage.
Art Deco Weekend Parade FREE
Saturday, January 17, 11:00 a.m.
Ocean Drive, between 6th and 14th Streets
Expect to see lots of classic automobiles, marching bands, tango dancers from the Tango Times Tango Company, the South Florida firemen’s calendar guys, and lots more. The Parade begins in the 600 block of Ocean Drive and travels north to 14th Street.
SoBe Music Institute Student and Faculty Winter Gala and Picnic FREE
Saturday, January 17, 4:00 p.m.
SoBe Music Institute, 2100 Washington Avenue (Carl Fisher Clubhouse)
305.674.9220 http://www.sobemusic.org
Art Deco Weekend: Classic Cars FREE
Saturday, January 17 – Sunday, January 18, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Ocean Drive, between 6th and 14th Streets
The classic car show will start at 10:00 am, presented by the South Florida Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America. All cars are true “classics”-no modified or custom cars are allowed. Cars compete for trophies in many different categories. A Best in Show trophy is presented to the best Pre-War and Post-War cars.
Art Deco Weekend: Saludos Amigos FREE
Saturday, January 17, 2:00 p.m.; Sunday, January 18, 4:00 p.m.
Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue
305.535.4219 http://www.artdecoweekend.com
In the summer of 1941, Walt Disney and 18 artists departed for various stops in South America, including Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Using the thousands of sketches and miles of 16-mm film they created, four short cartoons were eventually animated that were combined with live-action footage to create Saludos Amigos.
Symphony with a Splash
Saturday, January 17, 7:30 p.m.
Lincoln Theatre, 541 Lincoln Road
305.673.3331 http://www.nws.edu
Tickets: $25
This sizzling program will have you dancing in the aisles! Alondra de la Parra, the dynamic 28-year-old Mexican maestro who launched her own orchestra in 2004 leads the New World Symphony in a program of rhythmically infectious works based on dances of Latin America.
Lost Embrace (El Abrazo partido)
Saturday, January 17, 8:30 p.m.
Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Espanola Way
305.673.4567 http://www.mbcinema.com
$10 General, $7 Members
Ariel and his mother run a lingerie shop located in downtown Buenos Aires. It’s a comfortable, cloistered world, but many young people there still search for their immigrant roots. Ariel, however, wants more than that; he yearns to understand why his father left the family shortly after his birth to fight a war in Israel… and why he never returned. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Dances in the Key of Love Sneak Peak FREE
Sunday, January 18
Art Deco Festival, 7th Street and Ocean Drive
305.672.2014 http://www.artdecoweekend.com
Under the co-direction on choreographers, Hannah Baumgarten and Diego Salterini, The Dance Now! Ensemble honors Miami Beach, the city it calls home, with an outdoor, sneak peak of the February premiere of its newest production, “Dances in the Key of Love”.
Quirino Cristiani: The Mystery of the First Animated Movies FREE
Sunday, January 18, 12:00 p.m.
Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Avenue
305.535.4219 http://www.artdecoweekend.com
Virtually forgotten today, Argentinean film pioneer Quirino Cristiani discovered the craft of animation on his own, far from the experimental artists of Europe or the commercial constraints and glamour of Hollywood. He created the world’s first animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound-two decades before Walt Disney’s first full-length animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937.
Aaron Davidson Short Films
Sunday, January 18, 3:00 p.m.
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Avenue
305.672.5044 http://www.jewishmuseum.com
Series of short films on Jewish life on Miami Beach, presented as part of the Florida Jewish History Month, celebrating Floridian Jews in the Arts.
The New Deal in America, 1933-43
Continues through January 19, 2009
The Wolfsonian Museum, 1001 Washington Avenue
305.531.1001 http://www.wolfsonian.org
This exhibition, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, considers the impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s programs on American culture and explores how the government’s patronage of art, design, and architecture were integral parts of the larger project of the New Deal, which aimed to spur recovery from the Great Depression and change American society.
Crawford
Monday, January 19, 8:30 p.m.
Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Espanola Way
305.673.4567 http://www.mbcinema.com
$5 General, Free for Members
“Small Town Values” is big time politics’ winning slogan, but does the political machine, so desirous of this wholesome image, actually value the small town itself? Say goodbye to “W” at the official FLORIDA screening of “Crawford,” a new documentary being screened in every state of the union.
Annual Judges and Lawyers Event
Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Ave.
305.672.5044 http://www.jewishmuseum.com
Andrew Hall speaks at this annual event as part of the Florida Jewish History Month, celebrating Floridian Jews in the Arts.
South Beach Comedy Festival: Marga Gomez
Wednesday, January 21, 7:30 p.m.
Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road
http://www.southbeachcomedyfestival.com
Marga Gomez is known as one of the first openly gay comediennes in the country as well as an acclaimed playwright. She has appeared on HBO’s Comic Relief, Showtime’s Latino Laugh Festival, Comedy Central’s Out There and the PBS series In The Life.
South Beach Comedy Festival: Cheech and Chong
Wednesday, January 21, 8:00 p.m.
Filmore at the Jackie Gleason Theatre, 1700 Washington Avenue
http://www.southbeachcomedyfestival.com
Successful beyond their wildest dreams, the iconic comedy duo Cheech & Chong defined an era with their hilariously irreverent, satirical, counter-culture, no-holds-barred comedy routines.
South Beach Comedy Festival: Lewis Black
Wednesday, January 21, 8:00 p.m.
Lincoln Theatre, 541 Lincoln Road
http://www.southbeachcomedyfestival.com
Jim Norton is a regular on-air personality on satellite radio’s The Opie and Anthony Show. The 40 year-old standup comedian, author and actor is a noted prankster once arrested along with fellow comic Lewis Black for a stunt involving a naked young woman, a transparent bus and the streets of Manhattan.
Cine-Kink: The Short Films of Richard Kern, with live performance by Belaxis Buil
Wednesday, January 21, 8:30 p.m.
Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Espanola Way
305.673.4567 http://www.mbcinema.com
$10 General, $7 Members
MBC’s “Cine-Kink” night, a new semi-monthly tribute to the artistic side of kinky subjects, opens with a compilation of short films by the bad boy of underground film: Richard Kern. Warning: these are experimental, alternative, explicit creations, and not for sissies. Coming soon: Kinky classics, with surprise shorts! You must be 18 or older to be admitted.
South Beach Comedy Festival: FREE Comedy
Wednesday, January 21 through Saturday, January 24, 9:00 p.m.
Lincoln Road Free Stage
http://www.southbeachcomedyfestival.com
Comics Joe DeRosa and Amy Schumer presented in this FREE Comedy event at the Lincoln Road Free Stage.
The Eye of the Collector: Jewish Vision of Sigmund Balka
Continues through January 25
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Avenue
305.672.5044 http://www.jewishmuseum.com
These paintings, drawings, prints and photographs by renowned and emerging artists offer a panoramic impression of Jewish life and Jewish cultural production during a golden era of creativity in Europe and America.
Love Cures FREE
Continues through Sunday, February 1
ArtCenter / South Florida, 800 Lincoln Road
305.674.8278 http://www.artcentersf.org
ArtCenter / South Florida hosts a preview of work from as many as 50 artists, with work based on the theme of love. The exhibit is part of a fundraising effort to raise awareness for Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer of the sympathetic nervous system.
Russian Dreams
Continues through Sunday, February 8, 2009
Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue
305.673.7530 http://www.bassmuseum.org
The exhibition juxtaposes the work of modern Russian artists: icons like AES+F Group, Alexander Ponomarev, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Dmitri Gutov, Alexei Kostroma, and the new generation of young artists – Julia Milner, Rostan Tavasiev, Haim Sokol, and MishMash Project.
Pedro Reyes: 47 Undertakings
Continues through March 1, 2009
Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue
305.673.7530 http://www.bassmuseum.org
Sculptures, drawings, models, props, and video footage reveal the progression of the artist’s conceptual strategies that precede the final product. These works serve as a non-hierarchical collection of fragments, illustrating ideas related to social psychology, economy, structural engineering, and architecture.
Gridnik: Wim Crouwel and Modern Typography
Continues through March 10, 2009
Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave.
305.535.1001 http://www.wolfsonian.org
The graphic works of contemporary Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel will be examined within the context of design, and specifically typography, innovations of the early twentieth-century, especially within The Netherlands.
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow
Continues through May 17, 2009
Wolfsonian, 1001 Washington Avenue
305.531.1001 http://www.wolfsonian.org
This exploration of the streamlined style in America is arranged thematically according to the spheres of life – the office, manual labor, home, and recreation.
Florida Jews in Sports
Continues through August 23
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Avenue
305.672.5044 http://www.jewishmuseum.com
A true symbol of the acculturation of Floridian Jews can be seen in
their involvement in dozens of sports, from playing fields to pool
halls over 100 years. This exhibit highlights the influence of 150
Floridian Jews on the sports industry, including players, coaches,
owners and journalists.
The Sacred and Sublime: Renaissance and Baroque Art from the Collection
Ongoing
Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue
305.673.7530 http://www.bassmuseum.org
This ongoing exhibit highlights important examples of Northern European Renaissance and Baroque art. Works on view span three centuries and include religious paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Gerard Seghers (1591-1651) and Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562-1638).
Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from the Wolfsonian Collection
Ongoing
Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave.
305.531.1001 http://www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu
The nearly 300 works on display, 1885 to 1945, provide insight into the ways design has influenced and adapted to the modern world. The installation explores the many focal points of The Wolfsonian’s collection, including design-reform movements, architecture, urbanism, industrial design, transportation, world’s fairs, advertising, political propaganda, and labor iconography.
Artcenter/South Florida Artists-In-Residence FREE
Ongoing
Artcenter/South Florida, 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road
305.674.2728 http://www.artcentersf.org
ArtCenter/South Florida (“ACSF”) announces the arrival of four new Artists-in-Residence and welcomes visitors to their working studios.
Treasures from the Bass Museum of Art
Ongoing
Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Avenue
305.673.7530 http://www.bassmuseum.org
Monumental 16th and 19th-century tapestries are on permanent display, as well as a stunning altarpiece by Italian Renaissance masters Botticelli and Ghirlandaio.
Reflections of the Renaissance and Antiquity
Ongoing
The Bass Museum, 2121 Park Avenue
305.673.7530 http://www.bassmuseum.org
This ongoing exhibit showcases works such as Benjamin West’s Anne, Countess of Northampton, and Her Daughter and Eduard Veith’s The Holy Family (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) which are direct references to Italian Renaissance compositions.
MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida
Ongoing
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Ave.
305.672.5044 http://www.jewishmuseum.com
More than 500 photos and artifacts that depict the Jewish experience in Florida since 1763. The exhibit includes three films and a timeline wall of Jewish history.
Espanola Way Tours FREE
Ongoing
Clay Hotel, 1438 Washington Ave.
305.532.5322 http://www.livetheespanolaway.com
Discover Espanola Way’s historic “Spanish Village,” built in 1924 by Robert Taylor and featuring Mediterranean Revival Architecture. FREE 20-minute walking tours are available by appointment.
Jazid
Nightly — Varying Times
1342 Washington Avenue
305.673.9372 http://www.jazid.net
Jazid is proud to be the longest-running nightclub on Miami Beach, this year celebrating 11 years of live music every night of the week. Jazid’s diverse music includes a multi-cultural mix of Latin and American jazz, funk, cumbia, reggae, rock, and more.
Guided, Private and Self-Guided Tours of the Art Deco Historic District
Ongoing
Art Deco Gift Shop, 12th Street just west of Ocean Drive
305.672.2014 http://www.mdpl.org
All tours take approximately 90 minutes. Prices vary.
Spoken Word at the Bohemia Room
Wednesdays, 8:00 p.m.
Yuca Lounge, 501 Lincoln Road
305.987.3033
$10
Arts at St John’s Writers’ Group FREE
Thursdays, 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Arts at St. Johns, 4760 Pinetree Drive
305.613.2325 http://www.artsatstjohns.com
Group includes all types of writing: Fiction, nonfiction, short stories, novels, poetry, memoirs. Free & open to the public.
Lanzallamas Monofonica FREE
Thursdays, 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Tapas y Tintos, 448 Espanola Way
305.538.8272 http://www.lanzamusica.com
A seven-piece ensemble charged with melodic fire and global rhythmic chemistry.
Fridays at the Wolfsonian-FIU FREE
Fridays, 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Wolfsonian-FIU, 1001 Washington Ave.
305.535.1001 http://www.wolfsonian.org
FREE gallery admission with the support of The Miami Herald. Tours at 6:00 p.m.
Kevin and Caruso’s Magic and Comedy Show
Saturdays, 8:00 p.m.
Deauville Beach Resort, 6701 Collins Ave.
800.600.6244 http://www.bestshowmiami.com
A Las Vegas-style illusionist magic show with incredible special effects, sexy showgirls, amazing costumes, modern music, comedy and dance.
Art Deco Bike Tours
Ongoing
Bike and Roll, 1661 James Avenue
305.905.2055 http://www.bikeandroll.com/locations/miami-deco.aspx
$39 adults/$29 kids and students
