‹ 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…
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…
Among the many art fairs that surround Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA always manages to stand out. The satellite fair is particularly focused on highlighting artists that are underexposed and looked over by the established art market. Unlike the commercial behemoths around them, these art fairs are less interested in…
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…
Firelei Báez is a Dominican artist interested in making work endemically tied to the sociological, cultural, and historical roots of her homeland and native region. In “Bloodlines,” her first solo museum show currently on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the artists has laid bare the aesthetic underpinnings…
With Art Basel and Miami Art Week a month away, Miami starts to take on a foreign feel. As gallerists and organizers start trickling in, year-round locals tend to be displaced by the seasonal art world crowd. The number of outsiders dwarf the Miami scene, making it easy to forget…
In many ways, Scope was the original satellite art fair. Founded by a Lower East Side artist looking to bring recognition to the work he and his fellow art-world ruffians were making, the fair has gradually taken its place as an Art Basel Miami Beach fixture. Last year, Scope Miami…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Local heroes are hard to come by in Miami. Whether born in South Florida or early transplants, those that make it big usually permanently migrate up north, leaving the city that raised them behind. But not internationally acclaimed artist Daniel Arsham. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Arsham moved to Miami at…
South Beach was a much different place than it is today. If you’re brave enough to trek it out across the MacArthur for a day trip, you’re likely to be greeted by an atmosphere that’s a cross between the Vegas Strip, Disney’s Epcot Center, and the Jersey Shore. It’s a…
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…
With ferry service between Miami and Havana scheduled to begin early next year, America prepares to reacquaint itself with Cuba, the shunned island nation. The over-50 year freeze of relations between the two countries brought about an estrangement. For Americans, the communist country is shrouded in a mysterious, tropical allure…
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…
The events surrounding an artist’s death are often steeped in ritual. In preparation for a posthumous retrospective, colleagues, family, friends, and at times the ailing artist himself collectively participate in the gradual cataloging of a life’s work. With each sketch unearthed from piles of studies and prints, the same petulant…
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…
The rap game has never been more competitive than it is today. Fueled by a flood of millennials and teens nostalgic for the OG beats that made-up their childhood soundtracks, rappers have never had to work harder to please evermore discerning audiences. A byproduct of all the competition is the…
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…
