In-Depth Coverage By Miami's Top Arts Journalists
It could be said that Jay Jackson, also known as the drag queen Laganja Estranja, lives a dual existence. Before she re-invented herself and joined the drag world, she was a YoungArts winner in Dance and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 2007. Growing up in Dallas, Texas she moved to Los Angeles after graduating high school to attend
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Photo by Alberto Romeu As a 30-year veteran working with kids at Actors’ Playhouse, Earl Maulding is truly deserving of his most recent honor. The Children’s Trust named him as a
Saxophonist Jesse Jones Jr. and his quartet offered a potent, wake-up-the-dead serving of soul-jazz and hard bop at the historic Hampton House, in Miami, in his early set Friday, July 27, that honored the masters that once passed through the
Now in its ninth year, the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, again collaborating with Artsy — the online publication and marketplace for art — is the opportunity of a lifetime for artists. Regional winners from across the United States and Canada will have their work showcased at SCOPE Miami Beach, one of the premier art events of Miami Art Week during Art Basel Miami, running Dec. 4-9. It’s an opportunity for local artists to have their work viewed on a national and international level, both via the online voting on the Bombay Sapphire site and at SCOPE. The collaboration between Artisan and Artsy provides emerging artists with a powerful platform to share their work with some of the best curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts in the world. The regional finalists will compete in a juried exhibit at one of 13 Regional Gallery events, and one winner from each gallery event will
Keeping the success machine that is Viernes Culturales/Cultural Fridays, one of Miami’s longest running monthly arts events – it debuted in 2000 — going is a tough job and Pati Vargas has been handling it beautifully for the past eight years. Vargas however, is no stranger to arts event programming. As owner of Pati Vargas Entertainment, she has spent a bulk of her career in the arts in A&R, promotions and marketing, all key elements in the success of any
The site-specific performance series Grass Stains, returning this year, is such an undertaking that it takes a year of planning followed by a year of implementation. This allows Pioneer Winter, whose Pioneer Winter Collective puts on the series, to focus on decompressing from the previous year and also find funding. Joining Winter on the journey is mentor Stephan Koplowitz, a full-time choreographer, formerly with Cal Arts who was also in this role for the 2016
The City of Coral Gables is celebrating the completion of the Downtown Miracle Mile and Giralda Streetscape Project with an exciting art project, Venice in the Gables. Eight-foot-tall replicas of Venetian mooring posts (paline), resembling the picturesque canal posts for the gondolas of Venice, grace the streets of downtown Coral Gables for a temporary exhibit inviting visitors
Getting people to have serious fun is no easy business. But at the North Beach Bandshell on Miami Beach, June 10, the Colombian group Monsieur Periné got the near capacity crowd to sing along, dance, follow the dips and raises on stage and just have a grand time while listening to a mix of funk,