It’s no secret that Miami is an international art hub, but this recognition usually only comes every December when Art Basel opens its doors to the public at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Attendance at the fair has grown steadily every year, and the countless satellite fairs and museum exhibits…
With an overwhelming number of artists, shows, and events flooding into Miami for this year’s Art Week, figuring out what to see is no easy task. While the most well-known names are sure to be the biggest draw, don’t forget to look out for up-and-coming talent to get a glimpse…
There goes the neighborhood? El Espacio 23 is the latest art space to announce it will move into Miami’s working-class Allapattah neighborhood.
Regardless of how you see Miami right now, its arts institutions this season will have you pondering a city we might not recognize in ten years.
Satellite Miami considered skipping Miami Art Week 2019. Instead, it’ll display in a prime Wynwood location.
Miami’s David Castillo Gallery, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, and Central Fine will display at the Miami Beach Convention Center during Art Basel.
Curator Gladys-Katherina Hernando returns from LA to reinvent the residential gallery in Miami Beach, giving experimental artists a residence and exhibit space.
Grant and Christina Bonnier opened Bonnier Gallery in Allapattah with a focus on international and local minimalist art.
While you were waiting in traffic and lusting after $30 glasses of champagne at the art fairs, celebrities touched down in Miami to party, perform, and yes, even look at some art. These are the famous faces spotted around town last week. Actor Tessa Thompson hosted Bombay Sapphire’s annual Artisan…
That’s a wrap, everyone. Miami Art Week has come and gone. And whether you were a 24-hour party person all last week or stayed home to avoid the crowds and traffic, you’re probably relieved that there’ll be no more fairs, fests, or flaky tourists clogging up the city. So who…
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 World Red Eye,…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
