Note: This isn’t just a calendar. But it’s attending from DTMHTA point of view. I also love the fun and sassiness of it all…..LOVE THIS STUFF
10 Things We’re Into This Week — August 19–23, 2026
Miami is doing what Miami does best: putting art, music, theater, performance and a little bit of beautiful chaos on the calendar. Here are ten things we think are worth getting out of the house for this week.
1. Masisi: Move Your Body — The Bass
Thursday, August 20 | Miami Beach
Masisi closes out its summer residency at The Bass with a Kiki Ball celebrating Black queer and trans culture, ballroom, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and radical self-expression. It’s part museum, part dance floor and part cultural happening—and admission is complimentary with RSVP. In other words, leave the sensible shoes at home.
2. John Baldessari: The End of the Line — PAMM
Thursday, August 20 | Pérez Art Museum Miami
Head to PAMM for a curator meet-and-greet exploring the work of John Baldessari, the California artist who spent a career challenging just about every conventional idea of what art was supposed to be. Come prepared to look, think and possibly wonder, “Wait…that’s art?” Exactly.
3. Inez Barlatier’s Sonic Caribbean — The Betsy
Friday, August 21 | Miami Beach
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, percussionist, dancer and actress Inez Barlatier brings her Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin influences to The Betsy’s long-running live music series. No cover and no minimum make this an especially easy Friday-night decision. Music, Miami Beach and no complicated game plan. We like it.
4. La muerte de un viajante — Arca Images
Friday, August 21–Sunday, August 23 | Westchester Cultural Arts Center
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz directs this Spanish-language adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, presented with English supertitles. It’s a classic American story filtered through Miami’s multilingual, multicultural lens. The American Dream gets a Miami makeover—and that alone is worth a look.
5. NMB 100: Centennial Concert
Saturday, August 22 | Julius Littman Performing Arts Theater
North Miami Beach turns 100, and the city is celebrating with a black-tie classical concert honoring a century of local history, culture and community. Admission is free for NMB
residents with advance registration. Yes, there is a dress code. No, your flip-flops are probably not going to make the cut.
6. La Oveja Blanca — Sandrell Rivers Theater
Saturday, August 22–Sunday, August 23 | Miami
A family of immigrants faces an emotional dilemma that could change the course of their lives in this Spanish-language production at Sandrell Rivers Theater. It’s intimate theater with a very Miami subject: family, identity, immigration and the complicated business of belonging. Bring an open mind—and maybe leave room for a post-show conversation.
7. Superblue Miami
All Weekend | Miami
If you haven’t experienced Superblue lately, this is your excuse. Instead of standing politely in front of art, you step inside it through large-scale, immersive and multisensory installations. Basically, somebody finally decided museums needed more “Whoa!”
8. Art of Language — ArtServe
Saturday, August 22 | Fort Lauderdale
ArtServe’s The Art of Language explores the intersection of visual art, writing, storytelling and poetry. It’s a reminder that sometimes the most powerful art doesn’t need to shout—it just needs to say something. And after spending enough time on social media, we could all use some better words.
9. Gigantic Improv Show — Villain Theater
Saturday, August 22 | Miami
Villain Theater brings its Saturday night Gigantic Improv Show back to the stage. Nothing is completely scripted, which means the performers have to make it up as they go—and sometimes the audience becomes part of the madness. It’s comedy without a safety net. What could possibly go wrong?
10. Classic Albums Live: Supertramp — Breakfast in America
Saturday, August 22 | Stage 954, Dania Beach
Take a musical trip back to 1979 as Classic Albums Live recreates Supertramp’s Breakfast in America live onstage. It’s the kind of show where you may arrive saying, “I haven’t heard that song in years,” and leave wondering why you ever stopped listening. Consider it musical time travel—with better parking than 1979 had.
DTMHTA Pick of the Week: If we had to choose just one, we’re heading to The Bass for Masisi. It’s exactly the kind of boundary-crossing, genre-bending, rule-breaking experience that Don’t Tell Me How to Art was created to celebrate.
Now get out there. Art doesn’t wait—and neither does Miami.
