For most Miami residents, Art Basel is a week of horrific traffic. For some, it’s a chance to engage in a multitude of cultural offerings bubbling up all over the city. For fewer, it’s a chance to buy art offered by a selection of international galleries. According to statistics from…
It’s no secret the arts have a major economic impact in Miami and have directly contributed to the city’s rapid growth. Yet this cultural activity inevitably triggers a speedy gentrification process that displaces locals, as well as the artists who set a neighborhood’s revision in motion. While there’s currently…
Are you the ideal Real World housemate? Bring your A-game this weekend.
To Neil Hall, “Black Art Matters” is as timely as it gets. An established architect and founder of Art Africa Miami, Hall reveals how the meaningful theme for this year’s fair was inspired by Kanye West. “Kanye West made a comment concerning slavery, that ‘slavery is a choice.’ We…
At the Magic City Studio, the current home of the controversial “Art of Banksy” exhibit, a scruffy man in board shorts uses his smartphone to snap a picture of the artist’s Rude Copper piece. He observes the walls of the exhibit before taking successive shots of Gangsta Rat, Barcode, and…
“Darker Gods in The Garden of The Low Hanging Heavens” is acclaimed post-disciplinary artist Damon Davis’ gift to his culture and his people. In his latest Afro-surrealism project, the objective was to turn a crippling idea into power. “I was trying to dissect the idea that black people are not…
The arrival of the international art dealing behemoth known as Basel draws many Magic City residents to a slew of festivals, fairs, and public art displays in early December. And while much of Miami Art Week is geared toward billions of dollars of spending, we plebeians can still enjoy the…
The anchor of The Litany is a display of Collins’s latest artist book, titled America: A Hymnal. The book features 100 reworked versions of American proto-anthem “My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” originally written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831. From the 18th through 20th Centuries, its melody was used as a template for songwriters who crafted reworked versions in support of different causes throughout the course of American history.
Thursday The artsiest time of the year is upon us. Art Basel is back, boasting more than 200 galleries by 4,000-plus modern and contemporary artists from across the globe. This year’s fair features work in six distinct sections, including the collaborative Edition sector and the historical Survey sector. And beyond…
Did you wait too long to get tickets to this month’s run of Hamilton at the Broward Center? The box office sold out quickly, but you still have one more shot to see the show. A lottery of tickets cheekily named #Ham4Ham will offer 40 tickets to each show of…
Today, I’m still awed by the film’s scope and scale, by its relentless energy and attention to detail, by its interest in faces and names and coats and belongings
Millions of women participate in household labor, and the majority of them are underappreciated, underpaid, overlooked, or all of the above. This year during Art Basel, at a time when glitz and glamour are at an all-time peak, Miami Girls Foundation, in partnership with Miami Workers Center and Advocacy…
Miami’s art scene wouldn’t be the same without Locust Projects, one of the city’s most prominent arts organizations and its longest-running alternative nonprofit art space. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Locust Projects is releasing a book, fittingly titled The Twentieth Anniversary Retrospective, that documents the many thought-provoking, intense, and zany…
Art Basel is back. The bad traffic and free wine, the star-studded afterparties and weird warehouse gettys, the artwork that’s stunning and stimulating or provocative or incomprehensible or simply bullshit — all of it will make its annual landfall in South Florida this week. The Swiss are coming, and they’re…
This time, though, the lessons are urgent, the jungle threatened by man, the wicked tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) a true terror vowing to one day taste that boy’s blood
During Miami Art Week, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to see some art. You just have to go outside. Here’s our guide to the free-to-see, public art around town during Art Basel this year. Audemars Piguet and Tomás Saraceno: Albedo. Swiss watch company Audemars Piguet and Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno are…
Miami Art Week is a time when adults gather to peruse art, sip champagne, and dance at wild parties. But what about the kids? “Wonder,” billed as the first art exhibit for and by kids to show during Art Basel, will compete with the grown-up shows December 5 through 8.
The writer-director shot Roma in chronological order, without showing the cast the script, unveiling it to the actors the same way it is for the audience, piece by piece, a chance to marinate in each moment as it plays out
With all of the events and parties happening over the next week, it might be easy to forget what Art Basel is all about: the art. And while art galleries will be doing what they do best, local museums will also be debuting all new installations with works that touch…
Aqua Art Miami. Wednesday, December 5, through Sunday, December 9, at the Aqua Hotel, 1530 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 800-376-5850; aquaartmiami.com. Tickets cost $20 to $275. Art Africa Miami Arts Fair. Wednesday, December 5 to Sunday, December 9 at the 920 Building, 920 NW Second Ave., Miami; artafricamiamifair.com. Tickets cost…
Art Basel, Miracle pop-up bars, and more of the best free events happening in South Florida this week, December 3 through 9.
Probing the painter’s senses as he tramps about the south of France, Schnabel’s film is drunk with light, a little touched in the head itself, giving over to van Gogh’s perspective through gorgeously disorienting POV shots …
