Trends to Expect for Art Basel Miami Beach 2015

‹ Left Center Right Resize Cancel Crop 745 x 593 ?i › Courtesy of the Rubell Family Collection, Miami Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #21, 1978 Gelatin silver print, ed. 2/3 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Every year gallery owners, fair organizers, artists, and attendees crowd around…

Nari Ward Looks Back at Two Decades of Work in “Sun Splashed” at PAMM

As more museums come into bloom, the challenge becomes how to retain an institution’s individual identity while speaking to the immediate environment. “Sun Splashed,” the latest exhibition at the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), goes a long way towards establishing a relationship with South Florida’s Caribbean roots while retaining a…

Gallery Diet Leading Charge Out of Wynwood With New Little Haiti Outpost

The cycle of gentrification can be harmful, if not closely monitored. Gallery Diet’s new outpost, far afield from the clamor of Wynwood, South Beach, and the Design District, marks the first foray into uncharted territory for the art world. A considerable schlep inland from Biscayne Boulevard, Nina Johnson’s move from…

PAMM Plans Major Basel Blow-Out With Blood Orange and Ryan McNamara

Collaborations are what Basel is all about. This year the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is celebrating its second year as a Miami institution with something special: a performance by artist and choreographer Ryan McNamara, and new-age R&B musician Blood Orange (aka Devonte Hynes). While both are Miami outsiders, the…

Art Basel Miami Beach 2015: Deitch and Gagosian Collaborate for Unrealism

Pulse Contemporary Art Fair Director Helen Toomer described Art Basel Miami Beach as a summer camp for the art world; an incubator week were community heavyweights are nestled together on a thin barrier island, traversing various parties, events, and exhibits. The whole experience has the capability of creating strange bedfellows,…

Picasso’s La Tauromaquia Elevates the Art of Bullfighting

There are very few artists that can quell the collective cynicism among niche aficionados. Picasso is one of the very few twentieth century masters that can unite all echelons of the art world, bringing connoisseurs, students, and novices together to collectively fawn over his work. La Tauromaquia o Arte de…

Under Renovation, Bass Museum Opens BassX at Miami Beach Regional Library

The Bass Museum is one of Miami’s most overlooked institutions. Located in a historic art deco building that formerly housed the Miami Beach Public Library, the museum opened its doors in 1964 propelled by a generous donation from eponymous benefactors. Yet, it wasn’t until 2002 that architect Arata Isozaki nearly…

Helen Toomer Gives Us the Inside Scoop on Pulse Miami Beach 2015

Since she was appointed director of Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Helen Toomer has redefined the typical Basel exhibition. When she took the helm of the commercial behemoth, the fair was comprised of a long and disjointed selection of galleries and artists from around the world, held far afield on Miami’s…

ArtCenter South Florida Opens Fall Season With a Bang

Miami’s artistic scene is in a bit of an upheaval. This year, the Perez Art Museum Miami, The Wolfsonian-FIU, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Frost Museum all fell under new curatorial leadership. And scared off by increasing rents in gentrified neighborhoods, galleries are quickly fleeing Downtown and Wynwood…

Institute of Contemporary Art Names Ellen Salpeter as New Director

Miami’s cultural renaissance is taking on physical manifestations. The city’s museum boom is in full force and last year ICA established itself a s one of the city’s cultural leaders. Today the museum announced that Ellen Salpeter, the current deputy director of external affairs at the Jewish Museum in New…

Knight Foundation Announces New Tech Scholarship Winners at Wyncode

For the past several years Miami has tried to claim a piece of the tech bubble. Flooded with developers, programers, and entrepreneurs the city is looking to create the initial foundation on which to launch the east coast’s take on Silicon Valley. While some institutions have lauded the move, others…

Dali Takes on Goya in Los Caprichos Exhibition at the Centro Cultural Español

Collaborations are all the rage these days. Taking a page from the burgeoning tech culture, artists are increasingly working on group projects in an attempt to  mutually boost their exposure, gain recognition, or simply learn from the experience of working closely with a colleague. This weekend the Centro Cultural Espanol (CCE) premiered…

Meet Some of the Talent Behind This Month’s Young Artist Initiative

As Miami continues to assert itself as a force in the international art world, a group of locally based up-and-comers are looking to shake things up. Planned as a blend of visual art and music, the Young Artist Initiative (YAI) reckons to subvert traditional art establishments and search for new ways…