This Sunday March 9th, the Blastmaster MC himself KRS One will be blessing Montreal’s Le Nationale with a quintessential Hip Hop show. He’ll spit some of his classic songs along with his more recent material. A ferocious lyricist whose conscious words have punctuated the world of Hip Hop for the past 20 years, Lawrence Krisna Parker aka The Teacha aka KRS One, is promoting his newest release Adventures in Emceein, on which he’s collaborated with Nas, Rakim , Chuck and MC Lyte, just to name a few. A one of a kind of event not to be missed! Get your tickets here.

The last half of the 20th Century saw an influx of urban nomads, migrants from the suburbs or places far, far away who uprooted and replanted themselves in the world’s metropolises, intent to change the way they live. So it went for British painter Melanie Smith, who moved to Mexico City, the world’s third largest megalopolis, in 1989. In her paintings, Smith reveals how the migration and development unfold and converge in Parres, a small town within Mexico City. Collaborating with filmmaker Rafael Ortega, with whom she has worked since 1997, Smith created Parres Trilogy, which has its U.S. debut at the Miami Art Museum this week.

Parres Trilogy, based on the concepts of sight and obscurity, captures a scene that is either hidden or uncovered by one of Smith’s paintings. According to the Tate Britain, which first exhibited Parres Trilogy last year, the exhibit “crystallizes the artist’s concerns with the city - the defining setting of contemporary life - and our shared attempts to make sense of the world around us.”

Exhibit runs March 6 - June 29
Miami Art Museum