Arts community battles through wrenching major changes
Shortly after the coronavirus pandemic forced closure across Miami-Dade in March, the county Department of Cultural Affairs began sending artists and organizations monthly surveys to gauge how deeply the sector…
Miami Beach, minus 80,000 Art Basel visitors, vows to save Art Week
The cancellation of Art Basel will cost the City of Miami Beach and Miami-Dade County millions in lost tax revenue and economic activity, but officials are working to ensure that…
Accessibility to historic Vizcaya under microscope
In March, just before the pandemic prompted closures and stay-at-home orders in South Florida, residents from Gran Via Apartments, an elderly housing community in Outer Westchester, took a trip to…
Miami City Ballet shuts down venue performances for season
Considering the well-being of the public and its artistic team, the Miami City Ballet has canceled all scheduled venue performances for its 2020-21 season. The organization plans to celebrate its…
Miami City Ballet offers store-window performances free
Heading back to its roots, the Miami City Ballet has transformed a vacant retail venue into a pop-up residency on Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road. Honoring its 35th anniversary, the ballet…
Two-building mural a tribute to Black US history
In tribute to the Black Lives Movement and Black US history, The Museum of Graffiti is presenting a large-scale mural on the walls of two buildings at Northwest 25th Street…
Westchester Cultural Arts Center on the way
West Miami-Dade residents will soon have a cultural arts center that will offer educational, recreational and community activities. At a groundbreaking June 26, the Westchester Cultural Arts Center continued a…
Florida Grand Opera shares home with aviation company
Florida Grand Opera’s search for a new headquarters has been temporary stalled due to the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. The opera sold its 35,000-square-foot Doral Center building at 8390 NW 25th…
How history will view Miami in pandemic
While 2020 will almost certainly be remembered as the year of the most devastating pandemic in modern times, today’s historians agree that there are too many unknowns to guess at…
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