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Color + Geometry includes paintings, assemblage and sculpture by  artist Israel Guevara. His work, defined as a contemporary take on the long tradition of Latin American geometric abstraction and op art,  introduces innovative compositions that evolve from his years of experience as an architect. Guevara’s body of work is  sophisticated yet playful,  presenting a constant interaction that results in ever-changing colors, shapes, … +

Quality is timeless. Just ask The Hot Sardines. With their brassy horn arrangements, rollicking piano melodies, and silky vocals listeners are transported to an earlier time in music. Their self-titled debut album, named by iTunes as one of the best jazz albums of 2014, spent more than a year on the Billboard Jazz Chart, debuting in the top 10 alongside Michael Bublé, … +

At 18, artist Luiz Cruz Azaceta fled Cuba from the threat of compulsory military conscription under Fidel Castro’s newly formed regime. He moved to the U.S. and used his previous experience with the dictatorial regime to create his work. Azaceta explores the themes of terrorism, war and exiles in his 29-piece exhibition that spans from 1980 to the present. Oppression and the … +

Based on unbelievable but true events, I, TONYA is the darkly comedic tale of American figure skater Tonya Harding and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on … +

Locust Projects presents Man of the Night, an immersive solo installation by Miami-based artist Pepe Mar. The installation excavates the entirety of his practice; the artist collages and assembles images of artifacts, gay ephemera and his personal archive to create a self-portrait that mines his identity and further explores his interest in queer spaces. For this exhibition, Mar has collected images from … +

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) opens its new permanent home with a major group exhibition exploring the significance of the artist’s studio, from the post-war period to the present day. The Everywhere Studio exhibition aims to create intergenerational dialogues that enhance understanding of the most innovative artists working today, encompassing 100 works in painting, sculpture, video, and installation, it brings together … +

Thierry Goldberg Gallery inaugurated a new space with artist Tschabalala Self’s first solo show in Miami. Known for her sewn collage and assemblage paintings, which boldly examine contemporary perspectives on femininity, race and gender, Tschabalala Self’s new body of work further explores the environments of identity politics by focusing specifically on bodegas—public storefronts that serve as a hallmark of lower-income Black and … +

Nicole Henry is a NYC/Miami-based international recording artist specializing in jazz, Songbook, soul, and adult contemporary styles. Nicole Henry has established herself as one of the jazz world’s most acclaimed vocalists, possessing a potent combination of dynamic vocal abilities and powerful emotional resonance. Her passionate voice  has earned her a Soul Train Award for “Best Traditional Jazz Performance,” three Top-10 U.S. Billboard … +

With more than double the exhibition space in its new permanent home, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami presents a bold inaugural program that reflects the museum’s commitment to championing new narratives in contemporary art and to providing a platform for the exchange of art and ideas. Highlights of ICA Miami’s inaugural program include The Everywhere Studio, a thematic survey tracing the … +

Thirtysomething Greta Gerwig, iconic actress of her generation, ascends the ranks of America’s most celebrated filmmakers with her first directorial outing, the rage of this year’s Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals. Manohla Dargis writes in The New York Times: “Lady Bird is flat-out wonderful, as well as one of the best coming-of-age films since Amy Heckerling’s classic Fast Times at … +

PULSE Miami Beach returns marking the 13th edition of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Miami. The fair will bring over 75 local and international exhibitors. As one of the most anticipated events during Miami Art Week, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is a well-respected source for the discovery of emerging to mid-career artists offering a comprehensive overview of the contemporary art market today. … +

For the first time in Miami, audiences will be able to experience firsthand most of the artists that traditionally performed at past editions of Rotilla Festival in Cuba. For this edition, many Cuban-American artists will join Cuban artists from the Island and the Diaspora to consolidate an ALL-STARS roster of Cuban artists and performers. Since its beginnings, Rotilla Festival’s main goal was … +

There’s a reason the critics are fawning over Lucia. There’s a reason the audience is cheering with thunderous applause. It’s the same reason that you need to see this production of Donizetti’s Italian operatic masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor. Lucia is the unlucky Scottish girl who becomes a pawn in her family’s plot to revive its fortunes, is forced into a marriage against … +

Across a range of functional objects, the Brooklyn-based Stout has become one of the most talked about designers of her generation. Whether working within the functional logic of lighting, seating, or shelving, or with mirrored or textile surfaces, Stout recasts the domestic world in her own, singular way—the effects being both absurd and abject, playful and sinister. Stout’s recent work has engaged … +

Over a decade of working process, the artist Jacob Felländer has forged a chain of time and perspective, which, helped him enter a new world of virtual reality and in this unknown world, Felländer reaches for his camera to depict what he sees inside. This exhibition shows the artist’s vision and trajectory in the photo-based art creation spectrum, starting with the traditional … +

The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood celebrates the 10th anniversary of Girls’ Club with the exhibition Change Agents: Six South Florida Artists Making Things Happen. The show presents new works by artists from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz. The concurrent exhibit is Mottos, raising social awareness by challenging pre-existing stereotypes. Events at the Center: November 18, 12 – 8 … +

A Thread of Execution presents the work of artists who work primarily with textiles and attempts to link the threads of weaving and fabric to the threads of digital code. Artists Indira Allegra ; Samantha Bittman; Julia Bland; Pip Brant; Elaine Reichek; Carrie Sieh; Frances Trombly  and Margo Wolowiec are brought together to illustrate similarities in processes between two vastly different working … +

The young Finnish artist Reima Nevalainen has compared his work to the study of both anatomy and archeology. His dark and existentially loaded works fall somewhere between painting and collage. Using unconventional materials such as cardboard and sand, he depicts bodies twisted in impossible poses, with faces smudged and barely perceptible in a muted palette of gray, sepia, and dusty red. Nevalainen … +

In Lampworks, Fischer has returned to creating light sculptures, the subject which originally brought his work attention in the 1980’s. The new sculptures pull from decades of working as designer, sculptor, architect and social mediator. Mechano-like metal support structures form the basis of each lamp, around which Fischer wraps, bolts, sews and stretches their vinyl and fabric skins. The elegant, playful skins … +

After wealthy widow Araminte hires young and lusting Dorante, secrets and lies accumulate as Dorante and his accomplice, Araminte’s manservant Dubois (Yves Jacques), manipulate not only the good-hearted Araminte, but also her friend and confidante, Marton (Manon Combes). Dorante, by turns pitiable and proficient, but always deferential to his social better, walks a fine line in his quest to arouse an equal … +

The 24th edition of Subtropics, Miami’s experimental biennial of music and sound art, aims to nurture the act of attentive listening with a summer festival featuring live concerts, sound art installations, workshops and films as well as the classic Subtropics Marathon concert. This year’s festival will feature live performances by Olivia Block, John Driscoll, Richard Garet, Barbara Held, Gustavo Matamoros, Abbey Rader … +