{"id":72625,"date":"2025-12-05T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72625\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:39:07","slug":"diana-ross-is-transcendent-during-miami-art-week-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72625\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Ross Is Transcendent During Miami Art Week Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAn elegant, all-green room, meant to evoke a garden party in Los Angeles\u2019s Griffith Park, was the setting for an intimate performance by the one and only Diana Ross<\/a>. In a glimmering red-and-silver gown, Ross, accompanied by two back-up singers, hit the stage on Wednesday night to \u201cI\u2019m Coming Out,\u201d one of the all-time gay anthems, and the room went wild.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the course of a roughly 20-minute set, Ross performed supercuts of some of her biggest hits, ranging from her days with the Supremes like \u201cBaby Love\u201d and \u201cStop! In the Name Love\u201d to her covers of \u201cI Will Survive\u201d and \u201cWhy Do Fools Fall in Love.\u201d Behind her glimmered a looped video of the LA skyline at night. Her energy throughout the performance was unmatched, moving about the stage with grace, and popping open her red feather fan.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe occasion was a dinner in celebration of Alex Prager<\/a>\u2019s Mirage Factory, an immersive installation located in the old Beach Theatre on Miami Beach\u2019s Lincoln Road. Commissioned via a partnership between Capital One and private art club the Cultivist, Mirage Factory presents three distinct slices of Los Angeles history, with the installation\u2019s centerpiece being a 1:12 scale miniature of Hollywood Boulevard. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanted\u00a0Mirage Factory\u00a0to be a kind of a visual poem, in a way, about certain movements that happened that were so significant to the city\u2019s creation,\u201d Prager told ARTnews in a recent interview<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a feeling of \u2018what if\u2019 that is just ever present\u2014it\u2019s addictive. If you dream big naturally, then you need to dream big there because everything is possible there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRoss performed between the first and second courses of a Los Angeles\u2013inspired menu, designed by Dave Beran, who runs Seline and Pasjoli in Santa Monica, California. Prior to dinner, which included a scallop topped with caviar and a short rib dish, guests could munch on a mustard leaf that was dipped in a passionfruit sauce and then dipped into dry ice so it would be almost freeze dried when you bit into the now crunchy leaf. Throughout the night, the drinks were flowing from the martini bar, which included six variations on the classic cocktail\u2014served up, of course.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in the evening, Prager had staged a performance in which the characters from her 2025 photograph Beverly Palms Hotel, hanging nearby, came to life. After a recording welcoming the attendees to \u201cthe Mirage Factory, where dreams are made\u2014and broken\u201d and asking them to take their seats, the characters processed out one by one.<\/p>\n

\n\tA mustachioed man in a tuxedo comes out with the hotel\u2019s pink telephone; on the phone the caller asks, \u201cWhat\u2019s your story? What\u2019s your script?\u201d to which he replies, \u201cThere is no story\u2014that\u2019s the beauty of it.\u201d \u00a0An elegantly dressed couple, whose relationship is seemingly on the rocks, comes next. She asks, \u201cWhat took you so long?\u201d He replies, only somewhat convincingly, \u201cTraffic was a bitch.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe movie theater is a shared space with stranger,\u201d Prager said of Mirage Factory\u2019s location. \u201cThe moment you cross that threshold, you\u2019re committed to the sense of imagination, magic, and suspension of disbelief. I wanted there to be that threshold that people could cross that meant something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the Beverly Palms Hotel performance and the evening\u2019s highlight, Diana Ross on stage, Prager had brought a slice of Hollywood\u2019s glitz and glamour to South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elegant, all-green room, meant to evoke a garden party in Los Angeles\u2019s Griffith Park, was the setting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41171,13359,1496,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-72625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-alex-prager","tag-art-basel-miami-beach-2025","tag-diana-ross","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}