I’m actually sort of on vacation this week, so not much posting today, but here are a few worthy art events coming up this weekend and I may post more later.
NETWORKING @ THE RABBIT
Network with local artists and musicians at The Art of Networking which will feature performances by Renda Writer, Bonus Beats and Brian Poem, live art by Niki Lopez, music by DJ Sensitive Side, and finger food and drinks available all night, 8 p.m. to midnight Friday at 18 Rabbit Gallery, 16 N.W. First Ave., in Fort Lauderdale. Cost: $10 to help 18 Rabbit Gallery become a non-profit organization. Call 828-279-1481.
THE WORLD IS YOURS
In Drew Heitzler’s new installation, The World is Yours, the Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker explores the 1932 film Scarface in a two-channel video projection. Heitzler edits an original version of Scarface, produced by Howard Hughes and directed by Howard Hawkes, to exclude dialog and create an abstract narrative that switches the focus from street crime to white-collar crime.
According to Locust, Heitzler’s installation includes appropriated photographs from Howard Hughes, His Life and Madness, a book that explores how the Howard Hughes Medical Center, initially based in Miami, was a tax dodge enabled by a collaboration with Richard Nixon’s brother. Locust Projects’ windows will be lined with images from the cover of a 1974 Playgirl magazine that contained an article about Hughes and Richard Nixon.
The show opens 7-10 p.m. Saturday and runs through April 30 at Locust Projects, 155 N.E. 38th St., Miami. Call 305-576-8570.
KAPONE
Kapone will do some live painting at an event that will raise money for affordable lodging options for families of pediatric heart transplant and critically ill patients. The event will feature wine, cosmos and appetizers 5-7 p.m. Saturday at Hollywood Vine, 2035 Harrison St., in Hollywood. Cost $40. Call 954-445-2028.
TRI
Federico Nessi, a Miami visual artist represented by Spinello Gallery and Miami dancer and performance artist Ana Mendez: Psychic Youth Inc. will join forces to create a living ritual environment in the first of three improvised collaborative installments of TRI, 7-10 p.m. Saturday at De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami. Each of the three installments will have a different third member of Psychic Youth Inc. joining in the installation. The first will feature Ricardo Guerrero a.k.a. This Heart Electric. Get the details right here. After the show members of Psychic Youth Inc. will play their favorite music at Black Bar, 28 N.E. 14th St., Miami.
BLACK N BLEU
Bring lawn chairs or a blanket to the Black n Bleu Art and Music Festival which will feature 78 artists and music by Grey & Orange, Uproot Hootenanny, Last Phone Booth and Dirty Gill, as well as food from Mississippi Sweets BBQ and drinks from Southern Wine and Spirits, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at old School Square in Delray Beach. Cost: $7 to benefit The Artists of the Palm Beaches, free for kids under 12.
