Visual Arts

The “every-so-often” Grandma Party Bazaar showcases Orlando’s tight-knit community of artists

Orlando artists and arts professionals party down south at Art Basel Miami Beach

No divine intervention but plenty of powerhouse performances in this bleak Depression-era tale

Hollywood’s favorite sci-fi writer didn’t think it was all fiction

The best Dicks for you

Two shows at Cornell posit new theories of relativity

Twelve21 Gallery hosts auction to benefit Japanese tsunami and earthquake survivors

Eustis museum explores the common heritage and diverging paths of three former Research Studio members

Kerouac House resident writer Beth Raymer talks about betting, boxing and other forms of risky behavior

Expanding and evolving novel doesn’t quite take off

Guest editor Alison Bechdel rounds up the year’s best strips

From Michael Jackson’s origin story to Katrina shelters to ‘One Tree Hill,’ excavating America from the bottom up

Rollins hosts a weekend of good old-fashioned consciousness-raising featuring Gloria Steinem, Patricia Schroeder and the Guerrilla Girls

Mad Cow’s Drowsy Chaperone takes you to a Jazz Age Narnia

Orlando Shakes’ God of Carnage uncovers the raucous savagery beneath the veneer of civility

Memoirist Nick Flynn (“Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”) reads Oct. 18, Oct. 25 and Oct. 28

In 2001, Nickel and Dimed got rapturous reviews for its exposure of the invisible poor; 10 years later, the groundbreaking investigation feels like business as usual