Miami’s Museums Up the Ante for Basel Week

Art Basel Miami Beach Museums

Art Basel Miami Beach Galleries

Cardboard Guns and Plant People Light Up Galleries During Basel

Navigating Art Basel Miami Beach: From Melting Snowmen to Arty Cocktails, These Are the Can’t-Miss Shows

Best Shows at Art Basel Miami Beach

With Her First Basel Exhibit, Agustina Woodgate Is Poised for a Global Breakout

Basel Tov!: Miami New Times‘ Guide to Art Basel

See also: Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 Art Fairs and Gallery Guide and Download a PDF of New Times‘ Basel 2012 map here.

MAM’s “New Work Miami 2013” Showcases Local Talent

Right in the middle of the sidewalk behind the Miami Art Museum sits a 15,000-pound block of granite. Afternoon shoppers and downtown workers rushing to lunch stop dead in their tracks, staring at the tombstone-esque block inscribed on both sides with the word Centrust. For anyone who survived the ’80s…

Florida’s Seminole Indians earned historical distinction among the southeastern tribes through their bitter resistance to the removal policies of the federal government during the first half of the 19th Century. They waged three turbulent campaigns known as the “Seminole Wars” between 1814 and 1958, fiercely fighting invading U.S. forces, and…

The clock is ticking. The countdown to Miami Art Museum’s transformation into PAMM has officially begun. This time next year, when you visit the cultural institution relocated to a snazzy bayfront Herzog & de Meuron-designed building in Museum Park, it will be known as the Pérez Art Museum Miami. To…

It takes a truly gifted artist to knock viewers on their tails. But during Art Basel Miami Beach 2006, Ivan Navarro accomplished the feat with a pair of beautiful purple neon chairs. The works were on exhibit in “Artificial Light,” a group show organized by North Miami’s Museum of Contemporary…

Few photographers captured the toil and turmoil of everyday survival that Parisians faced in the aftermath of World War II like Willy Ronis. The French lensman’s work, on display in a retrospective at the Dina Mitrani Gallery, is one of a number of shows worth catching at this weekend’s Second…

Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes is a chameleon-like master of blending into her surroundings. The photographer explores issues of migration or relocation in her eye-popping oeuvre, creating what she calls “photo performances” in which she employs makeup and body paint to transform herself into part of the flora, fauna, or celestial…

Wynwood Second Saturday Art Walk Features Big Names Before Art Basel

With upwards of fifty individual artists, artist collaboratives, performance ensembles, dancers, musicians and writers, this year’s dynamic lineup at the Art Live Fair promises a three-day immersion into the creative process fairgoers will long remember. Beginning Friday at 5:30 p.m. and running through Sunday at the Coconut Grove Convention Center…

With upwards of 50 individual artists, artist collaboratives, performance ensembles, dancers, musicians, and writers, this year’s dynamic lineup at the Art Live Fair promises a three-day immersion into the creative process that fairgoers will long remember. Beginning Friday at 5:30 p.m. and running through Sunday at the Coconut Grove Convention…

Art Basel Miami Beach Keeps Booming

“American Sculpture in the Tropics” unveils ten new monumental sculptures made with materials ranging from rubber tires to steel, cast fiberglass, and wood. Created by artists such as John Henry, Verina Baxter, Chakaia Booker, John Clement, and Bret Price, the works reflect the divergent styles and technical approaches of the…

You won’t have to wait until Art Basel in early December to discover the zenith of the Frost Art Museum’s season. Unlike most of Miami’s other museums and cultural institutions that calibrate their winter programming to coincide with the arrival of the art fair, the Frost (10975 SW 17th St.,…

With Art Basel Miami Beach just a couple of months away from focusing the art world’s critical eye squarely on Wynwood, the standard move for area galleries is to showcase their biggest names during October’s art walk rather than rolling the dice on unknowns. But both Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art…

In 1963, the Coconut Grove Playhouse staged a bawdy musical production, and organizers were worried about attracting theatergoers to their event. An intrepid publicist came up with a solution that resulted in crowds pouncing on the play like a sardine at a cat show. It also sowed the seeds for…