This year, local fashion fiends can kick off Miami Art Week with the pop of a champagne and the sparkle of a runway. At Art Loves Fashion, the opening event for Spectrum Miami, waifish models will strut down the catwalk in garments made by international designers while artist Ian Lantz displays interactive artwork and Caribbean pop superstar Tebby provides the soundtrack.
Thanks to Bill Nye and Bio 101, we all know water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, so it’s not likely South Florida will see natural ice anytime soon. Festive winter fun isn’t off the table, though, thanks to the InterContinental.
Jimena Guijarro says she was “born into the art world.” The fresh-faced 26-year-old, tall and poised beyond her years, spent her early life watching her gallerist father grow his business into one of Mexico City’s most prominent institutions for discovering emerging Latin American talent. Moving to Miami in 2009, Guijarro…
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…
Look, Shia LaBeouf was approximately the 27th worst thing in that last Indiana Jones movie, and his intense-yet-distracted turns in the Transformers series aren’t legit strikes against him. Would you have turned down all that money to be posed by Michael Bay for a couple months every few years? Now,…
In a year dominated by distrust, outrage, and a widening gap between American people of differing ideologies, the art on view during Miami Art Week is more important now than ever. At galleries across Miami, artists are expressing their truths, inspiring discussions, and offering new perspectives — whether their work…
Amid the frenzied art-gazing and party-hopping of Art Basel Miami Beach, local artists have often felt forgotten. High-profile art fairs and museum exhibitions often import their headliners from abroad, leaving the Miami art scene struggling to draw moneyed spectators and the art-world elite. Jorge Luis Gutierrez has vowed to change…
Miss Sloane opens with a clever gambit: Jessica Chastain’s face fills the screen in a tight close-up as she talks about strategy, breaking the fourth wall. From its opening minutes, the audience is put at the mercy of a charismatic figure and forced to piece together what she might represent…
Every year, toward the end of November, the streets of Wynwood start crawling with dudes carrying ladders and ladies driving scissor lifts. The back alleys ring with the rattle of spray paint cans. Paint-splattered figures crouch and assess the walls, eyes squinting above kerchief-masked faces. Miami Art Week ushers in…
Glitz, gluttony, and great art: That’s Miami Art Week, where thousands of collectors, curators, critics, and fans flock to dozens of art fairs throughout the city. In the 15 years since Art Basel launched its first Miami Beach convention, satellite fairs in standalone tents, swanky hotels, and echoing warehouses have…
Eventually, there will be so many films about a sullen or damaged man returning to his provincial town to face the demons of his past that Netflix will make a separate category for them. At their worst, these movies are navel-gazing vanity projects for their writers and directors (Cameron Crowe,…
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…
It’s not easy having eyes all over the scene, being around to take in all the wild visuals at all the worthwhile places in the city. There are, however, those parties and gallery openings where a fortunate photographer can point and shoot. Every week, in collaboration with WorldRedEye, New Times…
Every year, Art Basel Miami Beach descends upon the Magic City, bringing along with it a host of satellite fairs and an invading army of well-dressed tourists. Swanky parties hosted by luxury fashion houses, overwhelmingly branded VIP events and crowded pushing among partygoers is par for the course at Miami…
Last weekend, as local Cubans celebrated the death of Fidel Castro, construction workers at Museum Park built a symbolic link between Miami and Havana. Artist Juan Garaizabal’s 69-foot stainless-steel sculpture, titled Havana’s Balcony, or Balcón de la Habana, had already been in the works for weeks. But when the piece lights up for the first time this evening, there’ll be an added layer of resonance.
Feeling a little nostalgic about the eight-year tenure President Barak Obama is about to complete? Trying to get your mind off the pumpkin-colored, foulmouthed Twitter troll that’s set to take his place in office? Beginning this week, Miami has just the thing to bring back a smile, if even temporary, to your face.
It’s been five years since multimedia artist/filmmaker Jillian Mayer went viral with the 63-second short film I Am Your Grandma. The video has screened at many respectable film festivals and exhibited at scores of notable art galleries. It will finally make its official Art Basel Miami Beach premiere during the annual fair’s 2016 outdoor short-films program, Best Dressed Chicken in Town.
Happy Monday, Miami. This week brings plenty of events, and the best part is they all cost less than $10. Grab a few bucks and enjoy what’s new in town, from “Lingerie Française,” an exhibit at the Sagamore showing 100 years of French lingerie, to an Art Basel-themed soiree at Canvas Miami and the launch of the Burger Beast Museum at Magic City Casino.
As Miami Cubans celebrated Fidel Castro’s death on Calle Ocho in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Cubans on the island remained in a vortex of silence. Danilo Maldonado Machado, known as “El Sexto,” reported live from la Habana Libre Hotel in el Vedado Saturday at 5 a.m….
Alia Shawkat’s great comic skill is for the continually fresh expression of a determined disgust. That eager face of hers, beneath its constellations of freckles and her great Harpo-frizzed curls, is forever souring up with disappointment, even as her characters strive not to let this on. To feel let down…
