Miami’s newest innovative arts venue, Superblue, first opened its doors in May 2021 to invite in a new era of perception-shifting art. To honor this beginning, Superblue, alongside local community members and in partnership with NOWNESS, created a short film that honors the land and people the center aims to engage with and announces its inaugural program, Every Wall Is a Door.

The bold, erotic opening scene of Mango—the latest film directed by Scott Lazer and written by Juli Blachoviak—is a brilliant exposition of a woman who has long since grown tired of her long-term boyfriend. Before waking up Gabe with breakfast, she indulges in some hardcore bondage pornography on her phone, which is made only the more visceral by the sound of her vibrator under the sheets...

A virtuosic genius. A maverick. A Muse. It is difficult to find the words to describe the ground-breaking work of dancer and choreographer Michael Clark, whose transgressive stagecraft combined classical ballet with a strong punk aesthetic. Born in a village outside Aberdeen, Clark experienced—for lack of a better term—a Billy Elliot moment; first attending his sister's Scottish dance classes at the age of four and then moving to London to train at the Royal Ballet School. Instead of forging ahead with the rote career progression that most ballet dancers take, he abandoned the traditional institution in search of something more radical... continue reading on o6g7.app.link/OV7Mo3VmNfb

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Few artists can convey infinity in a brushstroke or can tease out presence from the void. The source of Korean artist Lee Ufan's work begins in childhood, where he was raised with strict Confucian ideals and schooled in poetry and calligraphy. In the early Sixties, having moved to Japan to study philosophy at Nihon University, he emerged from a creative milieu as a leader in the Mono-ha (“School of Things”) movement; an aesthetic theory that rejected Western modern art. The movement also explored the properties of natural and industrial materials to show their dismay at the rampant industrialization of Japan... Continue reading on o6g7.app.link/dfVsJy3QDfb

Mourning Country visits Noel Butler, a Budawang elder from the Yuin Nation, who lost his home and the aboriginal cultural center he founded with his wife Trish in one of the most destructive bushfire seasons in Australia’s history... Continue reading on o6g7.app.link/Yt25DjwXBfb