Fashion Breakdown: Black bodysuit from American Apparel, American flag skirt — chopped up by Alexa, bought at Goodwill, shoes from Marshall’s Juicy Couture sale, necklace from Armordella Festival, jean jacket and purse from H&M, bracelets are gifts from great grand uncle, and others bought at Urban Outfitters, watches are Marc…
It was dusk and the fading twilight glistened purple and orange across the gentle ripples of Biscayne Bay. A mile from land a fishing boat dumped a bag of chum in the water and a crowd of hungry pelicans began to fight each other for food. It was the end…
He’s not the ultimate cliche, but he’s not totally novel either. That tawny-skinned, unwaveringly confident, effortlessly good-looking guy of unclear ethnicity, we mean. He tumbles around the planet appearing penniless, but his mysterious refusal to talk about his past gives the distinct impression that he’s no simple, carefree cosmopolitan vagabond.This…
Goodbye, Nazi spaceships. Goodbye, freaky soundsuits. Goodbye, Andy Warhol, in all your many forms. It’s the final day of Art Basel, and the peak of Miami’s collective culture hangover. But you do know what cures a hangover, right? A little hair of the dog — aka another dose of the…
Those passing by the Greenview Hotel this weekend might be alerted to the art show inside by the fact that there’s a bed cloaked in silver glitter sitting on the little outdoor patio. Then again, with all the deliciously nutty sights Art Basel brings to our sunny little town (including…
Can you feel it? It’s in the very back of your mind, but it’s there — that half-disappointed, half-relieved feeling that always hits you on Basel Saturday. It’s the realization that the annual Basel bacchanal will be over in just a couple days. Maybe you’re already Baseled out, ready for…
Oye, Miami, you hot, wet, beautiful, lady. Thank you for attracting all the art world with your charms. There is no shortage of great work to experience and the atmosphere is unparalleled. We rolled through the city yesterday and had a lot of fun. Here is some of what we…
This Art Basel, sound, art, and design are coming together in a fantastic way. Artist, dancer, performer Nick Cave is most well known for his Soundsuits, hypnotic creations that stimulate both visually and aurally. Cave is collaborating with Beats by Dr. Dre and Fendi Casa to showcase the power of…
Last year the Fountain Art Fair raised eyebrows when a crew of scruffy performance types rolled a car onto the lawn inside which a couple engaged in steamy sex acts before collaborators demolished the vehicle with sledgehammers and set it ablaze. The performance was presented by Brooklyn’s Grace Exhibition Space…
A dozen rows of 220 upright empty toilet paper rolls are lined up neatly against one another on a wood table. The center of the cardboard cylinders are stuffed with crumpled up pieces of even more empty toilet paper rolls. Los Angeles gallery owner Mihai Nicodim, a silver fox with…
In the spirit of transparency, we’ll admit that behind-the-scenes at Cultist you’ll find a painstakingly detailed schedule of operations. Every move we make is calculated to best serve y’all, the reader. During Basel week, however, our daily itinerary is interrupted by greater Miami’s traffic nightmare. According to Google Maps’ suggested…
Mr. Brainwash invaded South Beach Wednesday for his second annual “Under Construction” Basel beach bash. The night romped. The two story 25,000-square-foot gallery was filled with MBW’s latest works, as well as plenty of vodka, an appearance by the Art Angel, and as many free MBW posters as you could…
At long last, it’s Art Basel weekend: two glorious days when Miami’s poor nine-to-fivers finally get to fully experience the art, the parties and the insanity that the rest of us have been soaking up since Wednesday. But that’s not the only reason things are about to get even more…
Standing all day. Drinking all night. Roaming the streets for hours dressed in heels and strange getups. Art Basel is fun, but it can also take its toll. Still, a normal workout during Miami’s most faaahbulous week? It just doesn’t seem fitting. How can you relax knowing that you’re missing…
Hotel art typically sucks–at least at the joints we’ve stayed at. Crap watercolored landscapes, generic photographs of generic stuff like clouds and hills, and tacky vases on formica nightstands often make us want to vomit. However there’s one hotel that really knows art–the Aqua. And each year during Basel, the…
The front gallery space at Seven Miami is a room full of words. Walk in the doors, and you’ll naturally move from left to right to follow the text, from Bob and Roberta Smith’s corner, filled with colorfully painted signs telling a story, to William Powhida’s collection of notebook sketches…
When Mac Premo, a D.C.-born, RISD-educated artist, was forced to move to a new, smaller studio space in Brooklyn, he came to a terrible realization: There was no way he could bring along the hundreds of objects he’d accumulated, from dusty baseball cards to antique cans to torn hats. Premo…
George Sanchez-Calderon is no stranger to Basel headlines. He made news during an early incarnation of ABMB installing a carnival midway at the Buena Vista rail yard replete with a soaring 60-foot Ferris wheel. Shit, long before the Swiss arrived in the Big Mango, homeboy George was craning the 305’s…
Artist and curator Jillian Hernandez is showing how women take the ordinary and make it extraordinary at her group show Everyday Charms screening at O Cinema. Though, she says there’s no specific gender component to the exhibition, all the artists happen to be women. The videos she’s chosen to screen will…
View more photos from Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 here.”I haven’t seen this much pussy all year,” we told our colleague as we were exiting the Miami Beach Convention Center for Art Basel Miami Beach’s Vernissage Wednesday night. There were enough uses of female genitalia to fill The Vagina Monologues.As…
While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy’s in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on…
If you happened to visit New York City last summer, you might have seen the street pianos, painted by New York artists, that popped up on the streets, free for all to play. The project, inspired by artist Luke Jerram and overseen by arts group Sing for Hope, inspired spin-off…
