Subject: Basel

• Welcome to Miami

  December 8, 2006

• Ripe and Juicy

  December 8, 2006

• Basel Buzz: Diana Lowenstein's Out

  May 11, 2007

• Edible Basel

  December 5, 2007

• Over the Weekend - Basel, Busta, Riley and Chavez

  December 10, 2007

• Splendid Art at EdgeZones, Not So Splendid

  December 10, 2007

• Coconut Grove Arts Festival, a Poor Man’s Art Basel

  February 18, 2008

• The Second Wynwood Art Walk Still Holds Its Charms

  April 15, 2008

• We Can Has LolCat Art?

  September 5, 2008

• Art Basel Sticks with Miami Beach Until 2011

  September 10, 2008

• In Other Basel News: Art Miami Moves, SCOPE Expands

  September 16, 2008

• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone to Kick Off NADA Art Fair

  November 11, 2008

• ADULT.'s Ulterior Art Motive

  "Wrench", Nicola Kupersu, Color Print, 2007 Over at Crossfade we told you electro act ADULT. will be playing White Room during Art Basel week. Here at Riptide we're charged with covering the visual arts beat, and hence are providing you with the ulterior motive for ADULT.'s visit. One half of the band, Nicola Kuperus, will have her photography on display at Hernan Bas’s studio during Basel week's Wynwood Art Walk, according to The Moment. Kuperus is also responsible for the band's artwork, a

  November 14, 2008

• Art Basel Week: A.R.E. Weapons, J.D. Samson at O.H.W.O.W., Dec. 2

  Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band's noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream success in the U.K., where it scored a few singles in the low reaches of the national top-100 charts in the earlier part of this decade. Still, they've soldiered on, although it's been about a year si

  November 24, 2008

• Art Basel Week: Pink Reason and Times New Viking, Dec. 7

  The last of the Art Basel week shows at the Kill Your Idols space kicks off with a set from Brooklyn-based Pink Reason, currently a trio but really the brainchild of Kevin Failure, the band's frontman. It sounds a little like Joy Division or another post-punk act put through a shredder, churned in a drum machine, and tossed into a faraway field, where it still remains audible. Um, best heard rather than read about. The Columbus, Ohio-based Times New Viking, meanwhile, released one of the greates

  November 28, 2008

• Yelle Performing at Art Loves Music

  Yelle is coming back ya'll! We just called the Art Basel's Florida offices and they confirmed that the French electro-pop outfit is returning to the Magic City to kick off the Basel festivities at its Art Loves Music event Wednesday, December 3 at 10 p.m. The free concert will take place directly on the beach between 21st and 22nd Streets in Miami Beach.The band was here in October for its C'est l'Amerique tour which stopped at the Polish American Club. Check out our review and slideshow of the

  November 25, 2008

• Black Friday Alternatives

  Riptide does not understand this Black Friday nonsense, not one bit. We saw on the teevee news that people were camping out. What is this? Are the deals really all that much better? Personally we think the best way to spend black Friday is recovering from a hangover, but we have some other suggestions for you hear in a nice list format:Brush up on your modern art knowledge before Basel so you can impress that cute Parisian gallery assistant with your witty puns. "Buchheister? I barely knew her!

  November 28, 2008

• Will Art Basel Tank?

  The story of this year's Basel is the recession, as we noted in this week's cover story and in a follow up piece by Carlos Suarez De Jesus that hits stands tomorrow. Long story short, Basel organizers seem to think (or hope) that people who had a lot of money pre-market meltdown still have a lot of money, or at least enough to plunk down a couple hundred thousand for some art. But according to this piece out today on Bloomberg.com, returns at this year's Basel could be grim."The world's is a tru

  December 2, 2008

• Ice on the Decks, Non-Vanilla

  Ice has a bit of a bad musical rap ever sense its unfortunate connection with a certain early 90's caucasian rapper, but it's grown musically sense then. While listening to the Merzbox 20 times in a row, it realized there's more to creating sound than ripping of a Queen riff, so it teamed up with Ivan Abreau and took the decks last night at Pulse Miami's opening night. The Havana-born, Mexico City-based Abreau creates molds of ice, complete with grooves, and the needle actually picks up so

  December 3, 2008

• Mother Ducker

  We have not been to a single art fair this week yet where we haven't seen a duck inspired piece. I don't know what that's supposed to mean, or what it reflects, but if I had the money I'd buy up every waterfowl piece I came across. This is Richard Jackson, Dick's Ducks, 2008 at Art Basel. Two more after the cut.   ,

  December 3, 2008

• Mythical Creature Spotted in Miami Beach

  Art Basel's celeb quotient has been a little low this year, but look who the paps spotted on Miami Beach yesterday: America's sweat heart Mary-Kate Olsen! She's looking even more homeless than usual, as in she doesn't have on the trademarked fly-eyed sunglasses or Balenciaga shoes that would help differentiate her from all the other vagrants wondering around SoBe. It is a brave style statement about the state of the economy, surely, but we're kind of amazed the paparazzi was able to identify h

  December 4, 2008

• Where Are All The Famous Celebrity Photogapher Phenom-type People?

  Riptide kind of has a love/hate thing with the idea of blog based point and click photographers achieving notoriety. On one hand the whole phenomenon is just kind of shallow and vein, on the other, well, we love to look at oddly dressed people doing oddly drunk thing. Plus the psuedo-industry they've carved out, day after online party pix and street style shots, is undoubtedly here to stay. Usually the four kings -- the ridiculously refined Sartorialist, the adorably French Face Hunter, Cobra Sn

  December 5, 2008

• Over the Weekend - Art Basel, Vanguard, Panda Bear and MSTRKRFT

  If we don't see another piece of artwork any time soon, we can count ourselves lucky. Yes, our eyes are sore from the excessive visual stimulus. Art Basel brought with it plenty of fairs, celebrities and parties, so if you stayed home this weekend, what the hell were you thinking?But just in case you have a blurred memory of Basel, here is what you probably attended but don't remember over the weekend:Art Basel Miami Beach at Miami Beach Convention Center Miami Beach Convention Center played hos

  December 8, 2008

• Clive's Scores at Basel

  One of the unheralded winners of the recently concluded Art Basel was Clive's Café, (2880 No. Miami Ave. and 890 NW 2nd Ave.). The Wynwood location, generally closed for weekend nights, stayed open for the hipster crowd and was jammed. Best option was the jerk chicken ($7.50) - finest we've ever tasted in Miami and served fresh off the grill. At $8.50, the curry goat rocked, too.  So are they thinking about catering to the art walk crowd this weekend, too? "Things change fast around here,"

  December 8, 2008

• The Mother Of All Mother Duckers

  So Basel, Pulse, Design Miami/ and Scope all had duck inspired pieces, which sort of bewildered us, but that was hardly the biggest ducky art news of the week. Franca Sozzani, the editor of Vogue Italia, was in town to unveil, hey, guess what, a giant resin duck by British artist Stuart Semple at The Raleigh. The piece was an ode to luxury sportswear lable Moncler, and will be auctioned of in February for the kids. Fashionites including Bruce Weber, Roxanne Lowit, Bob Colacello, Thom Browne, and

  December 8, 2008

• Art Basel's Winners and Losers

  No more art, please! Our eyes have had enough. Really! Between the fairs, we were tempted to take naps in the car. But thankfully everything is back to normal and we can look back at the art orgy that is Art Basel Miami Beach and the satellite fairs. Yes, now it's time to assess the good, the bad, and the downright ugly things we observed last week. Warning: We aren't talking about only art here; the winners and losers extend far beyond the pieces on display.The Winners1. Chinese Artists: Seriou

  December 10, 2008

• Free #$%*! Ice Cream!!!

  The "Ice Cream Man" a.k.a. Matt Allen is a dude who rolls around the country in an old van named Mitch giving away free ice cream. We caught up with him at O.H.W.O.W Gallery (Our House West of Wynwood) on NW 7th Ave and 32 Street during a Basel week party. There were several hundred people there and free booze, but the people could not deny their hunger for gumball eyed pink panthers, or a cool, refreshing chipwich . Allen is from Long Beach and for the last four years he's given away ice cream

  December 11, 2008

• The Sweet Smell of Transsexual Glam

  Riptide continues to find out about exciting events during Art Basel that no one bothered to invite him to. So we are just completely and totally devastated that we weren't at the unveiling of the world's self-proclaimed number one transsexual Amanda Lepore's new signature fragrance.  It's supposed to smell like "Cristal champagne," "strong woods," and "red lipstick," but early reviews say it actuall

  December 12, 2008

• Miami Herald, Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

  Hanging around our newspaper shelf, where copies of every local publication for us to look through are kept, I picked up a copy of today's Miami Herald, because yes, I still enjoy reading things printed on paper -- plus, it's cool now because no else is doing it. Well, I happened to stumble on the paper's Weekend section with a cover teasing Winter Music Conference, announcing a "Sound Invasion."But wait. Where have I seen this cover before? I know I've seen it somewhere.

  March 20, 2009

• Art Basel to the Future

  December 11, 2008

• Basel Binge

  December 4, 2008

• Bone Up on Basel

  November 27, 2008

• Art Basel or Bust

  The unholy dollar just might kill the nation's top art fair.

  October 30, 2008

• You Are Here

  The Miami International Map Fair is where it’s at.

  January 31, 2008

• Miami’s Year in Art

  Judging from 2007, Miami is growing up as an art destination.

  December 27, 2007

• Baseled Out

  December 13, 2007

• Basel-tastic Bashes and Blowouts

  December 6, 2007

• Sippin’ on Liqueur

  December 6, 2007

• All Things Art Basel 2007

  December 6, 2007

• Hidden Treasure

  December 6, 2007

• Good to Go

  November 29, 2007

• All Politics Is Loco

  December 28, 2006

• Art Orphans

  December 7, 2006

• The Moon Is the First TV

  November 9, 2006

• The Agony and the Ecstasy

  January 19, 2006

• Lend Me Some Sugar

  December 1, 2005

• And a Child Shall Lead Them

  April 30, 2009

• So, There's Some Art You Should Look at in Wynwood This Weekend

  Is there seriously no blog who does a preview of Wynwood Second Saturdays anymore? Are we totally missing something? We searched around in the Miami Herald blog aggregator (so useful) and found nothing. We'll we're a "blog," we could do that. I guess.Deciding to do this at 3:00 pm on a Friday doesn't exactly guarantee a well curated, completely in the know round up, but maybe we'll get it together in the future. So yeah, it's June, six months away from our Basel, and the Base

  June 12, 2009

• Review: Death Print Movie Premiere and Afterparty, August 8

  Photo by JipsyNastie flanked by TM Sisters.Click here to view a full slideshow of photos from the event.Aiden Dillard's Death Print Movie PremiereThe Colony Theater, Miami BeachAfterparty at the Vagabond, MiamiSaturday, August 7, 2009Better Than: Whatever the leathery South Beach cliches at Segafredo next door were up to after they were done laughing and pointing at the amassed premiere crowd.The Review:A few minutes into the premiere this past Saturday night of Death Print, the latest full-leng

  August 11, 2009

• Mad About Miami: Artist Shepard Fairey is Coming Back for Basel

  Shepard FaireyClick here to read past installments of our occasional Crossfade series, Mad About Miami, in which celebs dish on their favorite local spots. Shepard Fairey, the man responsible for iconic imagery such as "Obey Giant" and Obama's "Hope" poster, made quite a splash during last year's Art Basel, especially when he got on the decks at The Red Room. And as the LA imagist tells New Times, this year his presence is sure to splash even larger.We caught up with one of the art world's

  October 14, 2009