It’s May and though the pace is slowing down in Miami, there are plenty of doings worth putting on the calendar and a deal too, exclusive for readers. Here are my picks for the month:
People in the know have been giving high marks to the Ryan Sullivan show at the new ICA Miami , 4040 N.E. 2nd Avenue. The exhibition displays a group of large-scale works from the past two years, featuring non-compositional forms and an organic color palette that is alternatingly vivid, murky, and sublime. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the University of Chicago .
Summer heat calls for lighter fare but who wants to feel as if they’re in deprivation mode? To the rescue, wok cooking. And there’s no better teacher than Wok Star Eleanor Hoh. Mr. W and I took her class which, besides being as fun as being at a dinner party complete with wine with each course, we learned skills that resulted in every week having a wok night. Her next class is May 20 and she’s giving a special friends rate to readers, 20% off her standard rate of $85. You make three dishes and it’s 6:30 to 9:30. Address: Zonin, 8101 Biscayne Blvd. For more information click on the name: Eleanor Hoh Wok Cooking
Another show to put on your radar screen is that of Sebastian Spreng at the Kelley Roy gallery in Wynwood . A very talented colorist, Spreng’s work are abstract landscapes composed on the — would you believe this, iPad. The works are inspired by Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. The exhibit runs until May 16, 153 NW 24th Street.
Well worth the drive is the exhibit on the culture of tea at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S.Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach. Entitled, “High Tea: Glorious Manifestation East and West”, the exhibit featured 182 objects drawn from China, Korea, Japan, German, France, Russia, England and America. They reflect the influence of tea on health, social gatherings and art for the elite of the past 1,200 years. The display, on loan from several museums and private collections, includes ceramics, paintings, metalworks, fashion and tea-inspired paintings from Mary Cassatt, Paul Revere, Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Charles Frederick Worth. There are also ornate tea sets, pots, urns, cups, and saucers from design houses such as Fabergé, Meissen and Gorham. The exhibit runs until May 24.
In the deals department, one of the 2014 “hot” restaurants, Seaspice, formerly called Seasalt and Pepper now has what sounds like a fun and well priced happy hour. They’re calling it Sunset Cocktail Hour and it’s Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. They teamed up with Moet & Chandon and are offering raw bar specials including $2 oysters, $3 jumbo prawns and $10 stone crabs along with $7 crab sliders, pata negra croquettes and bottles of Moet et Chandon Imperial for $75 (specialty cocktails too). Seaspice is on the Miami River, 422 NW N.River Drive (T.305-440-4200).
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yummmmmm are the stone crabs fresh or frozen? if they are fresh , I could put them out of business !!