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​Between the New Times Masterminds Awards, The Knight Foundation's art challenge, and The De La Cruz Collection's freshly announced Summer Workshop Series, there's more art money up for grabs in Miami than a big bank bailout.

So get off your tired ass and apply for it. Here are the details.
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It's hard out there for an artist, especially at this time of year. You have big dreams for your craft in the new year, but nearly no cash to make them come true, thanks to all the gifts you bought for those demanding loved ones of yours.

Miami New Times is here to help, with the MasterMind Awards, giving grants to the best artists in Miami. And all you have to do is show us your stuff.
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​Miami New Times has immediate openings for writers for the Night&Day calendar section and online culture blog, Cultist. For N&D, ideal candidates should be able to pen an event preview that is as enjoyable as the event itself. For the blog, we're looking for any cultural coverage that showcases quality writing: profiles, Q&As, reviews, funny lists, rants, and experimental fiction. We even pay this writer to pretend he's various local animals and this artist to tweak out some animated gifs.

To paraphrase that guy who wrote Fear and Loathing, it's a damned shame that (arts) journalism is overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks -- that's it's ripe with apathy and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If you share this sentiment, we'd like you to write for us.
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​Art Basel is over, and the 1% have all gone back to The Hamptons or Dubai or their secret "rich people only" underground compounds where they'll wait out the apocalypse. But don't worry, Miami artists -- New Times still loves you. We're handing out our annual MasterMind awards again this year, bestowing $1,000 grants upon Miami's most deserving artists.
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​For the past two years, we've supported the city's quickly evolving art scene with the MasterMind Awards, modest grants that honor the people and projects in the community that are making the biggest impact on visual arts, music, film, and beyond. This week, the submission period for the 2012 MasterMind Awards begins, with $3,000 to be doled out to three of the area's best and brightest.

Each year, the task of selecting a handful of artists from Miami's huge and ever-changing cadre of creatives becomes more difficult. But the recognition -- along with the cash -- has made a lasting impact on the winners' work, their careers in the arts, and by extension, the city itself.


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Lip Service co-producer Esther Martinez

​Whether you make people roll on the floor at every cocktail party, or have a trove of untold tales bubbling up inside your shy little throat, now's your chance to make your best story heard in a very public forum.More >>

​Miami New Times has immediate openings for writers for the Night&Day calendar section and online culture blog, Cultist. For N&D, ideal candidates should be able to pen an event preview that is as enjoyable as the event itself. For the blog, we're looking for any cultural coverage that showcases quality writing: profiles, Q&As, reviews, funny lists, rants, and experimental fiction. We even pay this writer to pretend he's various local animals and this artist to tweak out some animated gifs.

To paraphrase that guy who wrote Fear and Loathing, it's a damned shame that (arts) journalism is overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks -- that's it's ripe with apathy and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If you share this sentiment, we'd like you to write for us. More >>

​Can you smell that? It's the scent of European art collectors and New York City hipsters, an aroma so powerful that it lingers in the Miami air for four days each year in December. We call it Art Basel.

While we welcome the international bevy of fine, contemporary art, it's also a time for the Magic City to showcase its own talent. And for one "homegrown" organization, it's achieved through a collaborative multimedia art exhibition in Wynwood.

Miami's Independent Thinkers is dedicated to promoting Miami's "flourishing art community," including painters, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and sculptors. And they're currently holding their Miami's Independent Thinkers Art Basel 2011 Call-to-Artists.

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Robert Harbour

"Neraissance" by Juraj Kojs.

​Hitting its five-year anniversary, the Arsht Center is clearly exceeding expectations. Not only is it not in the red, it's thriving with packed houses and rigorous programming. But still, some criticize that the programming, which includes shows like Wicked and The Adams Family, is too mainstream. What's more, for the average Miamian (keep in mind median income here clocks in at about $33K), the $80-plus ticket prices are too damn high.

But then there's the Arsht Center's annual Miami Made program in which experimental, homegrown productions are commissioned and presented in their Carnival Studio Theater. The weekend showcase is even free -- we just wish it happened more than once a year. And heads up, South Florida artists: The Arsht Center is now accepting proposals for their 2012 Miami Made Weekend.
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​Just four years after Mad Men originally aired on AMC in 2007, the '50/'60s fetishism has finally peaked. This fall's new lineup includes Mid Century-based series like Pan Am and the Playboy Club, and chain store Banana Republic is even offering a new Mad Men line. But any mania about these two decades would be incomplete without a drama set in that era's popular playground -- Miami Beach.

Cue Magic City, a new series on Starz by Miami native Mitch Glazer. This Miami Beach Senior High grad began filming this 10-episode drama set in a glamorous Beach hotel earlier this summer. And this Saturday, there will be a casting call for paid extras and plenty of opportunities to get glammed up (and girdled) like Joan on Mad Men.More >>