“Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business” at the Bass Museum through March 4

Although the aerosol stench, peelers dangling on stripper poles jutting from food trucks and nude pig in a poke performances are long gone, this weekend’s Second Saturday art crawl still has plenty to intoxicate art-addicted crowds. Beginning at 6 p.m., offerings range from jumping brain circle jerks to a shutterbug’s…

How do you attract the peepers to your spanking-new 250,000-square-foot art and automobile museum during a whirlwind December when the eyes of the international art scene have been left glazed over by Basel? If you are mogul collector and developer Michael Dezer, the answer is simple. You fill the exhibition…

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011’s weirdest art: Balls in a jar and nude pig wrestling

Second Saturday Art Walk December 10, 2011

Part blockbuster, part narrative of the wide-open range of contemporary art over the past few decades, “American Exuberance,” opening at the Rubell Family Collection November 30th, seeks to deliver a sprawling summation on the state of our society today. Two years in the making, the expansive group offering features 190…

Some Art Baselites strive for 24/7 consciousness, relying on chemical aids to cram in every possible exhibit. Others limit themselves to the fresh rash of graffiti murals erupting around town. More, like me, seek out the immersive experiences where you can not only see world-class art but also engage with…

Ten years ago, organizer Samuel Keller persuaded Miami Beach to welcome a crowd of Swiss art freaks to town, transforming overnight a city derided as a cultural desert into the contemporary art world’s version of Vegas. It’s hard to believe Art Basel has already been landing in the Big Mango…

Erwin Wurm, Austria’s inimitable conceptual prankster, has fascinated us with work that plays at the margins of transformations and boundaries. He once wedged a single-family home into the façade of a Vienna museum, and last summer he presented his version of an anorexic house at the 54th Venice Biennale. He…

Faith Ringgold’s 1960s paintings at Miami Art Museum through January 1

In honor of our People Issue, which will hit newsstands and computer screens Thursday, Cultist presents “Miami Backstage,” where we feature some of the city’s behind-the-scenes culture makers. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys. Don and Mera Rubell There’s a reason the Rubell’s are…

Phillip Ross Munro is perhaps best known for his dynamic underwater photography portraying swimmers clad in flowing fabric evoking images of classical paintings. His technically masterful large-format photographs shot off the South Florida coast are sumptuous and operatic in nature. But in a new series marking a departure, Munro turns…

Years before Mark Handforth rocketed to international fame, in 1996 he was the first local artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art. As MOCA celebrates its 15th anniversary, the artist returns to the museum with a vengeance. And this time MOCA isn’t big enough to…

Part blockbuster, part narrative of the wide-open range of contemporary art over the past few decades, “American Exuberance,” opening at the Rubell Family Collection November 30th, seeks to deliver a sprawling summation on the state of our society today. Two years in the making, the expansive group offering features 190…

You don’t have to visit a tarot card reader to divine what Miami’s top dealers are planning for the contemporary art fire sale called Art Basel Miami Beach. Instead, stop by some of the local galleries dealing their aces, court cards, and show ponies during the November version of the…