Works by Anthony Lister at Robert Fontaine Gallery.

Anthony Lister first earned notoriety with his gritty canvases depicting decrepit comic book characters. Considered one of Australia's top contemporary artists, Lister has had solo shows in London, Milan and Los Angeles. In 2010, Lister was included in Beyond The Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, an encyclopedic tome featuring profiles on key players in the genre.

And not unlike many of his contemporaries these days hankering to visit the Magic City, Lister is in town to paint some street murals and rock a solo show in Wynwood. Lister's latest suite of ballerina paintings will be on view during this weekend's Second Saturday kicking-off at 6 p.m. at the Robert Fontaine Gallery.

Our other top draws for this edition of Art Walk features a rising Spanish talent's experiments with painting and sculpture, a Miami video virtuoso's largest showcase, a master Cuban painter's take on war and school violence, and an art instructor's student portraits. Here are five exhibits making noise this weekend.

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Courtesy of Red Bull Collective Art

Everything Red Bull does, it does big. From space jumps to Flugtags, they're all about the showmanship. And this Saturday, they're debuting one of their biggest (literally) projects to date -- a 4,265-foot long collective art project created by students across the globe. That's longer than the world's tallest building is high. Seriously.

You can check out the giant objet d'art at GAB Studio on Saturday night, free of charge. So grab a cocktail, walk the streets of Wynwood, and get to appreciating the magnitude of this massive project.

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David Rodriguez Caballero in action.

David Rodriguez Caballero moves with the grace of a jaguar through a Wynwood gallery. Sporting a trim beard, jeans, and a light blue shirt, the tall, slender, 42-year-old Spaniard stops before an aluminum wall sculpture that looks like a large piece of metal origami. The surface appears to have been raked with razor-sharp talons. Its surface, glowing with a crimson hue, refracts the overhead lights.

"I'm interested in painting without painting," he says.

The piece, simply titled 13.January.2013, is on display in "Reflections," Rodriguez Caballero's solo debut in Miami, which is on view during this weekend's Second Saturday Art Walk, beginning at 6 p.m. The work is part of a pop-up exhibit staged at O. Ascanio Gallery that features more than 30 aluminum, brass, and vinyl abstractions, wall installations, and free-standing sculptures.

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Orestes De La Paz's Making Soap, on display at the Frost Art Museum.

It's almost midnight and Miami hairstylist and performance artist Orestes De La Paz has spent the last few hours discussing human identity, preconceived notions of beauty, and the soap he made out of his own liposuctioned fat.

"I'm just your normal, typical, conceptual performance artist hairstylist. Just making a commentary on religion and identity over a blow dry," he joked, following a high kick.

Yep, Paz really puts himself into his work, as demonstrated in his latest piece, Making Soap. A combination of performance, video, and art installation, his senior art thesis is his way of bringing art and beauty together. Currently on display at the Frost Art Museum are 20 bars of Paz's fat soap and a video documenting its full creation process, from the videotaped surgical procedure, to the actual soap making, and finally, body washing. It's perhaps one of the most extreme, lengthy, and dangerous acts of performance art to be completed in Miami, requiring intense surgery, handling biohazard materials, and yes, boiling one's own fat for hours.

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It's nearly impossible to hear the name Nigel Barker without having the resounding voice of Tyra Banks saying "noted fashion photographer" come to mind.

But aside from his lengthy gig as a judge on America's Next Top Model, Barker is a jack-of-all-trades. He's host of The Face on the Oxygen Network, an author, humanitarian, filmmaker, and professional nice guy. He also has a cookbook in collaboration with his mother in the works, which means he's both a man who can cook and a guy who loves his mom. To top it all off, the tan Sri Lankan-Irish-Portuguese hunk has a suave British accent. Sorry, ladies. He's taken. He's been married to his beautiful model wife Cristen for nearly fifteen years.

Just because he's taken doesn't mean you can't admire him from afar, or even from near distance. Fans of Nigel Barker will have the chance to meet him this weekend.

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A still from Sussman's unforgettable film The Rape of the Sabine Women.

Peter Dinklage has earned global fame, not to mention Emmy and Golden Globe honors, playing the brilliant, conniving Tyrion Lannister on HBO's Game of Thrones. So it's a shock to walk into the Bass Museum of Art to find Dinklage's familiar face onscreen -- as a 17th-century courtier in drag.

Dinklage took the part -- as "Mari Barbola," a German dwarf made famous in Diego Velázquez's enigmatic opus Las Meninas, a scene from the Spanish court of King Philip IV in 1656 -- before he gained Hollywood stardom. It turned into one of the smartest casting decisions Eve Sussman made for 2004's 89 Seconds at Alcázar, a 12-minute film that's one of two works headlining her stunning new exhibit at the Bass, "Eve Sussman: Rufus Corporation."

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Photos all courtesy of T. Eliott Mansa

T. Eliott Mansa

Born in Miami, T. Eliott Mansa is a traveler of worlds. Not a jet-setting, train-hopping, vagabond of sorts, but he has lived within multiple realms of reality since childhood in the '80s.

At home, he watched his stepfather struggle with crack addiction, and would later in life battle depression following the death of his mother. Among his peers, he watched many of his friends, even his siblings, succumb to drugs and gang life. At New World School of the Arts, he learned how to paint in order to cope with his surrounding circumstances. Now, all of these experiences have helped him arrive at his latest destination, Yale's prestigious painting MFA program.

Unfortunately, Mansa lost his father to cancer on Easter Sunday, receiving his Yale acceptance letter the night before the funeral. Mansa would again turn to art for deliverance and to make sense of his human relationships.

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The recently sold 101/Exhibit building.

101/Exhibit, one of the premier contemporary art galleries in the Design District, has relocated its headquarters to Los Angeles and will be reducing its presence in Miami in the immediate future says Sloan Schaffer, the owner.

The 4,958 square-foot corner building at NE 1st Avenue and 40th Street that housed 101/Exhibit recently sold for $10.5 million--a whopping $,2117 per square-foot--setting a record in the area.

It's just another sign that the Design District, once a haven for the arts and creative types in South Florida, has reached the tipping point in its devolvement into a luxury brand ghetto, as the few remaining art galleries are priced out of the nabe.

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Photos by B. Caplan.

Say what you will about the drunken creeps lurking in the alleyway shadows of South Beach, but they are pretty well-read. Or at least they were this week when the O, Miami poetry festival hosted a poetry-themed edition of Bas Fisher Invitational's Weird Miami Bus Tour.

On Wednesday night, Nathaniel Sandler, founder of the Bookleggers mobile book exchange, led a couple dozen ambulatory readers on a safari of the beach's alleyways, showing off hidden passageways and levers that could cut off power to a city block with just one tug. He paired each stop with a poem that evoked some spirit of the place, a daring challenge given that there are only so many poems about sticky puddles or severed thumbs.

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Typoe's shoes, coming soon to The Webster.

Street artist and creative director Typoe has evolved. He's not just making pieces as a "fuck you" to society anymore. Now he's creating art that has a lot of personal meaning to him. As one of the co-founders of Primary Flight and a curator of many of the murals you see in Wynwood, he's helping to shape the city we live in.

"We have these young, motivated people," the New Times Mastermind Award finalist told Cultist recently. "We could've easily gone to New York or L.A. or everywhere else where everyone was going and make tons of money. But we're staying here and we're making it work and making Miami better."

And now Typoe's adding a new title to his resume: shoe designer. Typoe has teamed up with local shoe mogul Matthew Chevallard of Del Toro shoes for a limited edition (of 12, then of 50 in back order) wingtip exclusive to the Webster Miami. Though it might look festive, the design is really about death and the scene at a funeral. We caught up with him to discuss his inspiration, relationships, and fashion.

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- Mastermind Finalist 2013: Typoe
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