Steve Parker's Traffic Jam

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Highlighting a hot topic in Miami—ranked as 7th worst congestion in the nation— Steve Parker's Traffic Jam engages community to confront an aggravating topic with humor and creativity. 

MDC Live Arts and Parker confront invite all to make history and make noise in Miami’s first ever car orchestra with live compositions. The event will take place on Saturday, December 3 at the MDC parking lot on Biscayne Boulevard between NE 5 & 6th Street when a composition of cars, trucks, pedicabs, bicycles and conventional instruments come together for a live performance. 

The public is invited to participate – honk your horns, play your windshield wipers, tap your headlights and vent your frustrations in this vehicular flash mob. 

TRAFFIC JAM at MDC Live Arts
Saturday, Dec 3 from 3-5 pm
MDC Wolfson Campus Parking Lot 1, Biscayne & NE 5th St

Art Week: The Events to Attend

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Art Week is notorious for lavish secret dinners, invite-only soirees and parties that never end. For anyone who just wants to be a bit basic this year, these are the events to attend. You don't have to know anyone at the door, you might have to buy a ticket. 

Cashmere Cat | PAMM

PAMM Presents Cashmere Cat, Jillionaire + special guest Uncle Luke
PAMM presents a one-night-only event featuring a performance by electronic musician and producer Cashmere Cat. This special celebration features DJ sets by Jillionaire of Major Lazer and Miami’s own Uncle Luke. Open to PAMM Sustaining and above level members, and Art Basel Miami Beach, DesignMiami/ and Art Miami cardholders. 

Thursday, Dec 1, 9:00 pm – midnight, PAMM, Miami

Employees Only Pop-Up
The New York cocktail bar pops-up for two nights on the lawn of the Washington Park Hotel in advance of it's late 2016 opening for two nights. Cocktails will be served. 

Dec 1 and 2, 5:00 pm, at Washington Park Hotel, 1050 Washington Ave., Miami Beach

Art Basel at Soundscape Park
Starting on Wednesday, November 30, The New World Center’s projection wall and surround-sound system will be home to a selection of this year’s premiere program of films, videos and sound focused on artists whose works connect to music in some way. The lineup this year highlights international talents and is curated by Art Basel film and sound curator David Gryn, Director of Daata Editions. 

Nov 30, Dec 1 - 4, New World Center, 500 17th Street, Miami Beach

Ritz Rainbow
New York/Berlin-based artist Yvette Mattern creates a a large-scale public installation for art week using seven even beams of laser light to create a rainbow titled "The Global Rainbow". The piece will be visible, appearing in the night sky, from the Design District, across Biscayne Bay to Miami Beach. Not quite an event but worth noting. The piece was commissioned by The Ritz-Carlton Residences. 

Nov 28, Dec 1 - 3, 6 p.m. to midnight, Mid-Beach to Key Biscayne

Super 8 Free Art
That's right, the Super 8 hotel chain is currently re-doing their decor in North America and updating their art collection, so they'll be giving away 100 works on a first-come, first-served basis.  

Thursday, Dec 1, 8:00 – 10 p.m, 2213 NW 2nd Avenue, Wynwood

III Points at The Factory at Magic City Studios
III Points curates a trio of shows for the millennial crowd at Magic City Studios this week with musical acts spanning from Young Thug to Nick Murphy (Chet Faker). On Wednesday it's James Blake, on Thursday it's Young Thug and Shlomo. On Friday December 2, Todd Terje + Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs + Tim Sweeney take the stage, presented in collaboration with by Slap & Tickle MIAMI. On Saturday, Nick Murphy – who recently abandoned his stage name Chet Faker – plays alongside Mount Kimbie. 

Nov 30, Dec 1 - 4, Magic City Studios, 6301 NE Fourth Ave., Miami

Lazy Sunday BBQ at The Standard
The Standard closes out the week with a special Basel edition of Lazy Sunday with Jeremyville, the hotel's latest artist collaborator. In between booze, BBQ, tunes, and tarot reading, stop by the Jeremyville pop-up shop.

Sunday, Dec 4, 12 – 6pm, The Standard Spa Miami Beach, 40 Island Avenue

Art Week: The Exhibits to See

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Though Art Week is typically focused on the buzz of Art Basel and the numerous satellite art fairs that dot the city, there are a number of museums and local galleries with can't-miss exhibits. 

ugo rodinone neon mountain | bass museum 

Art in the Park at Bass Museum
This year, the 20 sculptures in the Art Public exhibition on the lawn of the Bass Museum this year are curated around the theme “Ground Control.” Among the works are a glow-in-the-dark lamppost by Wagner Malta Tavares, a pair of giant arrows by artist Tony Tasset and Ugo Rondinone’s you-can’t-miss-it neon “Miami Mountain,” a piece that was recently acquired by the museum. The museum, which meant to reopen this year after an extensive renovation, will open in the Spring of 2017. 

Bass Museum, 2100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Free tours at 2 p.m. daily. 

Miami Street Photography Festival
Now in it's fifth year, he Miami Street Photography Festival takes over a gallery at HistoryMiami Museum and features work from photographers of more than 50 countries. It's mission is to give exposure to up-and-coming photographers from around the globe while highlighting some of the best in street photography. Featured guests include legendary photographers Alex Webb, Rebbeca Norris-Webb, Jill Freedman and Matt Stuart.

HistoryMiami Museum, Festival, Dec 1 - 4, Galleries Open until Jan 15. 101 West Flagler Street, Miami

Thomas Bayrle at ICA Miami
German Pop artist Thomas Bayrle's first US solo museum exhibition, "One Day on Success Street" opens at the ICA Miami. The first museum presentation dedicated to the artist features over 75 works from the 1960s through the present day. Wire Madonna, the artist's largest sculpture to date, was commissioned by the ICA for the museum's unique Atrium Gallery, and depicts a madonna and child in steel. This will be the last exhibit in the museum's current location. 

ICA Miami, 4201 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami

Locust Projects, Alexis Gideon & the Glacier
Locust Projects hosts Alexis Gideon & the Glacier - a video opera by the Pittsburgh artist combines music, video, animation and paintings on glass. The non-profit also opens an installation from the Huffer Collective, including works by locals Ahol Sniffs Glue, Swamp Dog and Jason Handelsman.

Locust Projects, 4041 North Miami Avenue, Miami Design District

Desire at the Moore Building
Gallerists Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian join together for an exhibit titled Desire curated by Diana Widmaier Picasso. Located at the Moore building, “Desire” features approaches to eroticism by some 50 modern and contemporary artists, from Pablo Picasso to Marilyn Minter.

Nov 30, Dec 1 - 4, Moore Building, 3841 NE 2nd Ave, Miami

National YoungArts Foundation 
YoungArts partners with Rolls-Royce to present a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by José Parlá called "Roots. It was curated by Laurie Ann Farrell and takes place in the JewelBox.

Dec 1 - 4, Open until Dec 15, National YoungArts Foundation, 2100 Biscayne Blvd., Miami

Awol Erizku | Nina Johnson

Awol Erizku at Nina Johnson
For art week Nina Johnson opens Awol Erizku’s first solo exhibition at the gallery I Was Going to Call It Your Name But You Didn’t Let Me. Presenting a group of 20 paintings alongside a conceptual sound collage of music and sonic ephemera, Erizku traffics in the space between sound and sight. The works center around the same figure, a disembodied hand holding a rose. 

Nov 28 - Jan 14, Nina Johnson, 6315 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami

Julio Le Parc: Form Into Action
The Perez Art Museum Miami exhibits the largest survey of Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc’s work in North America. Featuring over 80 works, the comprehensive exhibit features large-scale installations and rare works on paper.

Perez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami

The Rubell Family Collection
The Rubell has three exhibitions up during Miami Art Week: "High Anxiety," featuring new acquisitions from 32 artists including Ryan Trecartin, Simon Denny, John Waters and Kathryn Andrews; "New Shamans/Novos Xamas" with 12 emerging and mid-career artists from Brazil; and "Video Art in Latin America," a preview of the upcoming Getty Research Institute's massive show "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA" that will run from September 2017 to December 2018 at over 70 cultural institutions across Southern California.

The Rubell Family Collection, 95 NW 29th Street, Miami

Spinello Projects Presents Naama Tsabar
Spinello Projects presents Naama Tsabar, in Transitions #3, the Miami debut solo exhibition for the artist. The gallery will show three evolving bodies of work that explore human behavior through the relation of body and space. 

Spinello Projects, 7221 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami

The Wolfsonian-FIU More is More
The Wolfsonian-FIU has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fun their largest work to date, titled "More is More" by artist Christie van der Haak. The piece will cover the facade and lobby of the building in Haak's batik-inspired patterns. At night her vision will be enlivened with nightly projections of additional geometric designs in vivid color. The museum is also currently has an exhibition of Dutch design and another focused on surrealism titled "The Pursuit of Abstraction." 

The Wolfsonian-FIU, 1301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach