For weeks, we’ve heard stories of performers from Elton John to members of the Rockettes giving their invitations to perform at President-elect Trump’s January inauguration a hard pass. Now, reports indicate that many of those same performers could be headed to Miami instead, for a collaborative live concert designed to coincide…
The holiday season is a time of tradition: decorating the Christmas tree, taking stupid selfies at Santa’s Enchanted Forest, getting embarrassingly drunk at the annual office party. But a new tradition is emerging in Miami: the annual release of a holiday-themed music video from Otto Von Schirach, Juleisy y Karla, and the…
Is Fort Lauderdale the new hub for geek fanaticism in South Florida? After last weekend’s Paradise City Comic Con, the odds seem ever in Broward’s favor. The annual congregation formerly known as Magic City Comic Con took its talents to the Broward County Convention Center this year, following…
The next step on Moonlight’s road to the Oscars played out this morning when the Golden Globes announced its 2017 nominations. The film, based on a play by Miami native Tarell Alvin McCraney and directed by fellow Miamian Barry Jenkins, earned six nods from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, including…
Goddessphere, the strip club-themed art installation that was shut down by the city of Miami Beach, only to reopen in a different venue, was peak Art Basel madness. Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio are now and have always been peak Miami. So just imagine the scene when Gloria and…
The tents have emptied. The crowds have flown home. The roads have cleared — by Miami standards, at least. Another Miami Art Week has come and gone, and if you’re one of the thousands of frustrated South Florida commuters, you likely stayed far away from its epicenters in South Beach…
Art Basel’s celebrity scene gets more crowded each year, with club events, block parties, rooftop soirees, and everything in-between, all competing for the attention of the famous faces who flock to Miami’s biggest art week. From actors to musicians, models and more, here’s how the other half partied during Miami…
Looks like we made it. Another Art Basel week in the books. But the party’s not officially over yet. The fairs are still open, and plenty of events around town are hoping to lure stragglers in with promises of restoration and mimosas. If you can muster the strength to get…
You have just two more days to take in all the spectacles around the city. The Basel fatigue struggle is real, but now’s the time to chug a coffee and get over it — or resign yourself to waiting a whole year for redemption. Basel Saturday has the biggest crowds,…
Goddessphere, an art installation emulating a strip club scheduled to launch at the Shore Club tonight, has been canceled. According to Marina Fini, one of the collaborators on the project, code enforcement officers arrived at the door of the penthouse today and shut the project down, citing a lack of…
You won’t have to buy a ticket to the fairs or battle traffic to get to a gallery to witness new art this week. Chances are that you’ll run into a newly installed work of art just wandering around like you always do. Artists from all over have installed pieces…
It’s Friday, and Art Basel weekend is ready to kick off. All the fairs are open. The galleries and museums have put on their best faces. It’s go time. Here are a few places to start.
You might have been partying the past couple of nights, but today is the official kickoff of Art Basel. The RSVPs, the art overload, and, yes, the traffic are about to get real. Pop a Xanax for that road rage and get ready for today’s best events.
There’s always one work on display that defines each year’s Miami Art Week. In 2011, it was performance artist Miru Kim living in a literal pigsty at Primary Projects. In 2014, it was Spinello Projects’ woman-centric exhibit “Auto Body.” This year, the work on everyone’s mind…
Basel Wednesday is a day of openings. At fairs, museums, galleries, and hotels, the art exhibits that’ll entertain Miami Art Week browsers through the rest of the week are debuting — often with swanky parties. Here are a few you won’t want to miss.
Huffer Collective’s shrine to Miami will blow the lights out this Basel. Literally. At the opening of Save Your Selves, the group’s intricately stacked pile of personal detritus, found objects, lights, and video displays keeps blowing a fuse. As the lights dim, artist David Anasagasti, better known as Ahol Sniffs…
Oh, you thought you had a few more days before Baselmania sets in? You thought wrong. Though the main fair at the Miami Beach Convention Center doesn’t begin until Thursday, plenty of other arts events are taking advantage of the relative calm around town to host their own exhibits, parties, and more. If you want a taste of Miami Art Week with minimal traffic, today is your chance.
Right now, the eyes of the world’s art lovers are fixed upon Art Basel Miami Beach exhibits and parties. But when the crowds fly home and the tents come down, local creatives depend on funding from the Knight Foundation to keep their projects alive. Today the foundation announced the winners of its 2016 Knight Arts Challenge, which offers matching grants to fund arts projects by, for, and about South Florida.
It’s only the beginning of Miami Art Week, and already there’s big news: after 23 years, the Rubell Family Collection is moving out of Wynwood. The RFC announced today its plans to move to a new museum in Allapattah in 2018. Director Juan Valadez said the decision to leave its…
Every year, New Times’ MasterMind Awards reward Miami’s best creative talent with cash grants and citywide exposure. Once again, we’re preparing to show three creatives some spendable and shareable love by announcing the winners at our annual shindig, Artopia.
Want to see the best art in town for Basel this year? Get ready to log some miles. Local galleries are bringing their A-game for Miami Art Week, and now that most of them have been priced out of Wynwood, you’ll have to do some traveling if you want to hit all the top spots.
As Art Basel week approaches, Miami’s museums are gearing up for their most ambitious exhibits and programs of the year. Don’t let the tents, the parties, and the traffic distract you from the work on view at the institutions that serve culture in the Magic City year-round. Here’s your guide to Miami’s museum programming during Miami Art Week.
