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Susan Te Kahurangi King (b. 1951, Te Aroha, New Zealand) is an artist living in Auckland, New Zealand, whose work has begun to receive worldwide attention for its innovative and expressive approach to drawing. At the age of four King stopped speaking and has since been diagnosed as severely autistic. She ceased speaking and began to draw prolifically. She continued to draw … +

MOCA call for participants able to share true personal stories about a time when the intersection of your social identities challenged and changed you. Who we are is an intersection of identities: Age. Gender. Race. Class. Culture. Sexual orientation. Religion. Politics. Ethnicity. Language. Physical ability. Physical challenge. Sometimes, identity is what holds us together; other times it pulls us apart. Twelve readers … +

The 7th year of LAB (Locust Arts Builders) features 23 South Florida high school students selected to create at Locust Projects under the direction of Miami-based artists Monica Lopez de Victoria (TM Sisters) and Francesco Lo Castro. This initiative allows young artists to learn the practical aspects of creating a public exhibition. The LAB program extends Locust Projects’ commitment to innovate in … +

Locust Projects presents Colorado, a new project by this year’s LAB MFA artists, Beki Basch and Laura Hughes. The exhibition consists of imagery relating to cars and the American landscape, a sculptural interpretation of the experience of taking a cross-country roadtrip. Two podiums have been conceived as commemorative portraits of Michèle Mouton, the woman who won the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb in … +

The acclaimed Mad Cat Live Band returns with their performance of Neil Young’s fifth studio album On The Beach, released in 1974. The album is the third installment in Young’s self-proclaimed “Ditch Trilogy” and follows Young’s disenfranchisement with the record industry and the state of the country at large. An unparalleled album for die-hard Neil Young fans. Aug 12, 2016, 8 pm … +

Curated by Richard Haden and focusing on the works of South Florida artists this exhibition explores concepts and issues of intersectionality, namely the ways in which oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another. It also includes key artists whose practice is based outside South Florida. Collectively, all work in the exhibition works in tandem, to activate localized … +

ICA Miami will have the Opening Reception of the three exhibition of the summer. Artists on view are Renaud Jerez, Susan Te Kahurangi King and Ida Applebroog. For his first solo exhibition in the US, Renaud Jerez (b. Berlin) presents a site-specific installation of new work that builds upon apocalyptic forms. New Zealand artist Susan Te Kahurangi King has her first museum … +

Diana Lowenstein gallery presents screening of The Rebound A Wheelchair Basketball Story, to experience the spirit of a sport in this true story of the Miami Heat Wheels quest for glory, and the journey of 3 adaptive athletes in search of new dreams. The gallery also invites to the walkthrough of the exhibition: To Seep and Bleed into the World by artist … +

The work is introspective to the psychology of the human, its fragility and powerfully instinctive strength, showcasing a worst-case scenario time endured through the simplicity of breath, focus, a good heart, love, and the inevitably rage against injustice. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 PM Miami Theater Center 9806 NE 2nd Avenue Miami FL 33138 305.751.9550 www.mtcmiami.org

The Diana Lowenstein Gallery holds a one man exhibition: To Seep and Bleed into the World, by artist Daniel Domig curated by Ombretta Agró Andrúff. In this exhibition the artist’s installations attempt to lay bare the experience of looking at art as well as the conditions needed for immersing oneself in it. They also serve to bridge the gap that is left … +

The Inverse is the debut American solo museum exhibition for the renowned Brazilian artist Laura Lima. Working across mediums, the artist frequently subjects the body to surprising juxtapositions with objects and architectures. For this exhibition Lima will entangle the gridded support beams of ICA’s Atrium Gallery with industrial nylon rope. Laura Lima (b. 1971) has had solo exhibitions at the Migros Museum, … +

Curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff, Trilateration brings together the work of Austin-based Andy Coolquitt; Israeli-born and New York-based Tamar Ettun; and Miami-based Michael Loveland. While the artists share similarities in their art-making process and modus operandi, the artworks featured in the show all have strong individual personalities that set them apart, and yet are able to engage in a fascinating dialogue amongst … +

Ideobox Artspace opens exhibition 1.000.000 mm, the second of the 2016 Uprooting Architecture curatorial program with the first Miami solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura. This exhibition re-stages seven historical site-installations conceived in the decades of the 70s and 80s, in the frame of the Natinoal Biennial of Sao Paulo and the commissions of PS1, New York, among others. The title … +

As a part of 2015-2016 Sandbox Series Artists, the play Them Beaux by Joshua Jean-Baptiste and Lab 9 explores issues of race, sexual identity, and gender equality. All come to the fore when two con men mix a little too much pleasure with business. Hi-jinx and hilarity unfold both on stage and on film in this provocative, antebellum interpretation of a 16th … +

Ivan Toth Depeña is an artist currently living and working between Miami, FL and Charlotte, NC. With a Masters Degree in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Depeña’s production as an artist is informed by his experience in art, architecture, technology and design. His process combines traditional, hands on methodology layered with high tech output and fabrication. Depeña’s studio output … +

Ideobox Artspace and Saludarte Foundation are pleased to announce the first US solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Ana Mazzei. The exhibition Series that initiates with Move in Straight Lines, curated by Roc Laseca, presents the work produced by Ana Mazzei around the necessary performativity in the process of occupying the space, and the passive action as the only mode to make possible … +

MOCA exhibits Acta Non Verba by French-Guadeloupean artist Marielle Plaisir will include a carefully curated selection of drawings, portraits, paintings, tapestries and one video representative of the artist’s thematic narrative as well as an ethereal installation of paper mache dresses suspended in mid air. Her work interrogates the concept of domination coming from the time of slavery, becoming a critique of prejudice, … +

Mad Cat Theatre Company on its 16th season presents Tones on Tales: A Night of Samuel Beckett. The evening will include three pieces by Beckett: Not I, Eh Joe and Footfalls. These particular short plays showcase the workmanship of minimalism. The audience is led into a voyeuristic experience. Samuel Beckett was an avant-garde novelist, playwright, director and poet, who is regarded as … +

Miami Theater Center presents The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams. Brother and sister actors wrestle personal demons and professional challenges as sanity slips through their fingers. Abandoned by their company while touring the country, the siblings cling to their art, hoping it will shield them from total destruction. Is their love for the theater – and each other – enough to save … +

This exhibition curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff, was triggered by re-reading Kundera’s masterwork and a series of encounters with artists in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as Cuba, over the last 18 months. The artworks featured in the show encompass a wide variety of media and approaches, yet they are all somehow connected to the dichotomy of lightness and weight. Artists … +

Seraphic Fire, conducted by Director Patrick Dupré Quigley is pleased to offer an encore presentation of Mozart’s signature opus, with a completion commissioned by Seraphic Fire featuring three newly-composed movements by young American composer Gregory Spears introducing a new Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei. Venues Feb 12, 2016, 7:30pm, All Saints Episcopal (Ft. Lauderdale) Feb 13, 2016, 8:00pm, Miami Shores Presbyterian Feb … +