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Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Music Guide: All the Acts Announced So Far

​Right now, Miami is being swarmed by art fairs, galleries, and artists from across the globe. Of course, we're talking about Art Basel Miami Beach. A side benefit to all this arty international activity is the influx of awesome music to entertain all the jetsetters. And naturally, Crossfade is k ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach Parties You Are Not Invited To

FacebookIt's all about the Benjamins, baby. ​Whether you're an affluent jet setter or an artistic street kid, Art Basel Miami Beach and the plethora of satellite fairs, gallery exhibits, and public instillations attached to the four-day festival offer a little something for everyone. For Crossfade ... More >>

Sonic Purrs

You Are Not Invited to Spotify's Basel Concert Series With Nas, TV on the Radio, Sharon Jones

​Over the last couple weeks, we here at Crossfade have become total Spotify addicts. Our habit began last week after learning that the free on-demand music service had teamed up with Midtown's Ricochet Lounge to put together a Basel week concert lineup that's packed with more superstar names than ... More >>

Win Free Tickets to Scope Miami Art Fair

​Whether you're dropping mad bills on original pieces of contemporary art or simply admiring the work, Basel week can be relatively expensive. From admission fees to parking costs, mixed drinks and gourmet street food, Basel budgeting can be real a bitch. Lucky for y'all, we've teamed up with fo ... More >>

Hands Accross America

Tom Tom Magazine's Mindy Abovitz on Art Basel Showcase and Lady Drummers

Photo by Bex Wade​It's a proven fact that the hottest thing in rock 'n' roll is a woman on drums. So Crossfade is superstoked that Tom Tom Magazine, the only print publication focused on female percussionists, will be bringing a notable showcase of lady drummers to Churchill's Pub for Art Basel M ... More >>

Pass the Basel

Crosstown Rebels Announce Get Lost Art Basel Lineup at the Electric Pickle December 4

​If there's one WMC/Miami Music Week party that keeps locals and jetsetters buzzing year-round, it's Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost. Last March marked the party's sixth installment and third year at the Electric Pickle, a venue which has proven ideal for this marathon event, with its sunny patio sett ... More >>

No Age at Grand Central January 18

No Age Comes Back to Miami for the Third Time in Ten Months

Photo by Todd Cole​This is Miami and the local appetite for rock 'n' roll of all kinds (garage, punk, metal, etc.) is notoriously suspect. The standard wisdom says the people of South Florida have no stomach for churning squalls of guitar noise and skull-battering drums. But the simple fact that ... More >>

Wynwood Kitchen & Bar: artful and improving

Plentiful and Good

Art Basel: 25 Reasons We're Glad It's Over

Associated Press26. George Hamilton, who are you trying to fool?​Look, there's no denying that Art Basel is the best thing to happen to Miami since cocaine. The money, the buzz, the makeover to the city's image, blah blah blah. We know. We love it, and we'll be excited for it all over again next y ... More >>

Top Five Things Overheard While Watching a Band at Art Basel

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezThis FWY guy just watched, smirking, while people said stupid stuff.​Everyone who went to Basel should be able to agree that that it was great. (Or at the very least "interesting.") But sometimes all that art can make you feel dumb, like maybe you just don't get it. So ... More >>

Random Night at Arkadia During Basel Week

Victor Gonzalez iPhone picSunny Singh likes to bang on the drum all day.​The beauty of Art Basel week is the spontaneity of it. One minute you can be having tempura eggplant before a special indie-pop DJ set at Bardot, then all of a sudden you're in a Haitian man's cab listening to Creole talk-rad ... More >>

Art Basil

Three Art Basel club bashes December 2 to 4

A Better PlaceG

Standardize the Books

Fountain Miami artists make a splash

Def Jam Art

Hedge Funds and Arcade Games

UPDATE: Miami Museum of Science Now Open After Removing Asbestos

The Museum of Science will reopen Thurs. night for an Art Basel-related party​The Miami Museum of Science is open once again after closing for a week to remove asbestos uncovered by a New Times investigation.The museum is back up and running just in time for a party tomorrow night to celebrate Art ... More >>

Food For Art Basel: Where to Get The Best Chow

Courtesy of gastroPod​College students and those of us living on a budget have long known that art openings often provide an opportunity for gratis hors d'oeuvres and fancy drinks. Starving artists need to eat sometime, right?Art Basel week is an entirely different creature, of course, and it's on ... More >>

Jeremy Ellis (AKA Ayro) Bangs the Basel Gong at the Electric Pickle's Champion Sound Tonight

​While certain parts of the Beach, Design District, and downtown get an exclusive, private, and totally off-camera Basel cash injection tonight, the Electric Pickle will be hosting a cheaper, open-to-the-public art party alternative -- Champion Sound. Reupping in a big way, this weekly Wednesday ... More >>

Three Art Basel Miami Beach Club Bashes for the After-Dark Demographic

Photo by BronquesQuick licks and pearl necklaces at LastNightsParty.​Since you never even leave the house during daylight hours, there's zero chance you'll make it anywhere near Art Basel's actual exhibition sites. Your personal plan: Rubbing shoulders (and maybe other body parts) with the artsy e ... More >>

Panic Bomber Offering a Special Live Set at Transit During Basel Week

​With Art Basel looming, the masses are already buzzing with barely controlled excitement about the country's most enormous and important art event of the year. So we here at New Times have been ear-deep for weeks, gathering intel on both official and unofficial arty parties. Off-the-grid case i ... More >>

Vanity Affair

Aerosol Dreams

Locals Only

Art Basel preview in Wynwood

Frame by Frame

Design Miami/ May Move to Miami Beach

Photo by Ian Witlen​Each December, Design Miami/ is one of the biggest and most distinct Art Basel satellite fairs on the west side of the bridge, but The Herald reports that the fair is looking to move from its annual and appropriate home in the Design District to a parking lot across from the Mi ... More >>

Updated: Kevin Bruk Gallery Closing in Wynwood, Moving to Miami Beach

​Although many expected the economic downturn to topple Wynwood galleries like so many dominoes this season, few would have predicted that one of the area's flagship spaces, and one of only two Miami galleries to gain entrée to Art Basel's inner echelons over the past several years, would depart ... More >>

Old PS14/Max Fish Space Reopening January 18 as ... Bar!

Photo by JipsyAn interior view of the Max Fish pop-up bar during this past Art Basel Miami Beach.​Finally. A place to hang out in downtown Miami that's not a club or a "lounge" or a restaurant or a venue of any kind, just a bar, and one that's cheap but not depressing and full of bros. Okay, okay, ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Justice, Buzz Bake Sale, Mala Rodriguez and Golden Filter

Somehow, someway we survived Art Basel week. We are exhausted to say the least, so no witty comments. Here is what you missed over the weekend:Justice at MansionPhoto by Lex Hernandez​Electrohouse icons Justice made a long overdue Magic City appearance Friday night at Mansion. Their banger-filled ... More >>

Basel Brought The Box to Nikki Beach

​ There was plenty of imported NY snatch traipsing around Miami for Basel but perhaps the most famous receptacle of naughty body parts designed to give you pleasure was the aptly named, The Box. Straight from the Lower East Side and towing a reputation for providing some of the most naughty, ... More >>

News Roundup: Art Ladybug Terror

Michelle Spence-Jones pleaded not guilty to theft charges and, of course, plans to run for her city commission seat again. [CBS4]Police are on the hunt for someone who released thousands of ladybugs in the VIP room at Art Basel. [NBCMiami]A man stole a $1 million painting. Police caught the suspect ... More >>

Art Basel: Artpocalypse Now

A voyage into the art of darkness in an economy gone mad.

Masterpieces of Man’s Best Friend

Art Basel Music: Cucu Diamantes at Nikki Beach This Weekend

​With the countless musical offerings served up alongside delectable little slices of art around the city for Basel this weekend, it's hard picking exactly where to dive in and gorge. Luckily for you, chanteuse Cucu Diamantes, of Yerba Buena fame, is giving fans and art show goers three different ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Art Basel Gets Buzzing on Twitter

Art Log Live is a social site, bringing Art Basel to you one tweet at time.​Art Basel has swooped in along with those denizens of the art world, and there's a nifty way to keep up with it all in real time at Art Log Live (@artlog).  The site, which officially launches today, offers a hashtag ... More >>

Art Feast, Part Two

Free Pizza, New Blue Collar Food Blog

​Free Pizza With BaselLuna Corner Pizza (6815 Biscayne Blvd.) is throwing a grand opening bash this coming Saturday, December 5th, from noon to 6:00 p.m., right smack dab in the middle of the Taste of MiMo festival, right smack dab in the middle of Art Basel. Free tastings of gourmet Italian pizza ... More >>

Tired of Art Basel? Five Suggestions for a Culture-less Weekend Getaway!

​Art Basel has a funny way of making us feel like we're outsiders in our own town. Traffic is horrible. Parking even moreso. The line at your favorite Cuban restaurant (even if that happens to be Pollo Tropical) gets filled with hoity-toity Europeans trying to work in a little "authentic Miami exp ... More >>

Your Basel Guide to Basel Guides

T minus one until Turkey Day, but the true date of anticipation is still a week away, Art Basel's kickoff -- December 2! There are events popping off from the Gables all the way up to Aventura, and if you think your head is spinning from all the Facebook invites clogging up your inbox, imagine how w ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 Segafred ... More >>

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' ... More >>