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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Miami <br /> <br />(Continued/rom ~ 108) <br /> <br />In the sleek Design District, high-cnd <br />boutiques indudingTomas Maler's eclec- <br />tic boutique and 4141 Design, the first <br />Florida showroom to fcature Tom Dixon <br />(and other designers) as well as innovative <br />restaurants such as Michelle Bernstein's <br />AndaJusian-inspired Sra. Martinez-have <br />been joined by the new 30,000 square- <br />foot de'l:i Cruz space of contemporary <br />art It's the latest In a series of museums <br />that have been opened by eminent Miami <br />collectors. Nearby Wynwood now has <br />Wynwood Walls, a graffiti garden with a <br />restaurant arld bar created by Tony <br />Goldman, an early South Beach pioneer <br />who jumped from the bankable buzz of <br />Art Deco to street art. <br />Heading north on Biscayne.Boule- <br />yard, visitors discover a historic district <br />with row upon row of Miami Modern <br />motels that unfurl like a ribbon of joy- <br />all statues of cavorting sea nymphs and <br />trapezoid forms resembling 1955 Cadillac <br />fins, and bearing names like die South <br />Pacific and Seven Seas, Little Haiti- <br />centered around the whimsical Caribbean <br />Marketplace designed by Haitian archi- <br />teCt Charles Hamson' Pawley in 19?O-is <br />a few blOCks west. apd has positioned <br />itself as a new frontier'for ~ontempo.rary <br />art: the iltmospheric landscape is filled <br />\\ith artists' studios and fantastic street <br />murals by Serge Toussaint. The 'new <br />Little 'Haiti Cultural Center also show- <br />cases cutting-edge art exhibitions; dance <br />performances, and free concerts. Across <br />town, in the neon \vonderland ofEjghth <br />,Street, the heart QfLittle ijavana, music <br />and art take center stage: on the last <br />:iFriday night of every month, the Viernes <br />''1+ > ' <br />Culturales street parry includes late- <br />night gallery openings, local salsa bands, <br />and sophisticated Afro-Cuban' timba. <br />Only here can you witness such a Ii.vely <br />celebration of the city's cultur~l heri- <br />tage. If~ a party no traveler should miss. <br />In a city ~no.wn for reinventions. some- <br />times the classics of MiamI arc just as <br />alluring. + <br /> <br />Tom Austin is a T+L conrributingeditor, <br />