Every year during Art Basel and Miami Art Week, there’s one exhibit, performance, or item that goes viral. Last year, it was Jeffrey Deitch mistaking Diddy for Kanye West. In 2011, it was Miru Kim’s performance art piece, “I Like Pigs and Pigs Like Me (104 hours),” for Primary Projects…
Inside a storefront with blacked out windows on Collins Avenue and 6th Street, footwear designer to the hip-hop elite Jon Buscemi is chatting up a tall man with dreadlocks past his shoulders dressed in all black, including a black Canadian Mountie-style hat and a fresh pair of black old school…
This time last year, the biggest thing on everybody’s Art Basel agenda was getting a peek inside the newly opened Perez Art Museum Miami. One year later, traffic and unpredictable rainstorms did their best to spoil the downtown institution’s first birthday party. But hundreds still flocked to the museum’s hanging…
Once upon time, in another world, Karen Finley gave the people what they did not yet know they wanted. She got a lot of flack for it, and a lot of praise, too. Yet neither could stop her from doing whatever it was she decided to do. Had Finley come…
Known as a venue friendly to local artists, Primary Projects doesn’t disappoint with its Art Basel gathering of Miami creatives. The “International Friendship Exhibition”, a group show of 19 artists, including Autumn Casey, Jim Drain, Gavin Perry, Asif Farooq, Magnus Sodamin, Cole Sternberg, Cody Hudson, and Michael Vasquez, is titled…
It feels lazy to call Miami-based artist Jorge Enrique a mixed media artist. He blends image and sculpture so thoroughly it confounds the mind. Look deeper at his three-dimensional works hanging off of walls or stretching up from the ground and you will find elements of photography hidden beneath brush…
As Miley Cyrus twerked and crooned at the Raleigh Hotel last night, on the other side of the beach Brooke Candy tore up the stage at the second annual 2014 Celebration of Women in Art at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa. The event was produced by longtime Lady Gaga…
The name “Peter Marino” was on the well-moisturized lips of every privileged attendee at the New York Times-hosted International Luxury Conference at the Mandarin Oriental in Miami this week. And why wouldn’t it be? Of all the people on display during the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, the architect, art…
While other artists fight for space in Wynwood, the notorious MSG Crew have a 340,000 square foot building to paint however they want. The former Biscayne Plaza, a main site of the Michael Bay action flick Pain & Gain, is now called Midpoint, and as part of its renovation and…
Every year there’s always the ridiculous cry that Art Basel’s Miami Beach incarnation (and Miami’s entire art scene) is all fluff and no substance, and that the art world is ready to pack up and leave. (For example: see Brett Sokol’s hilarious piece for the New York Times.) Fact is,…
Amidst the Basel craze where out-of-towners look admiringly at works by artists from across the globe, the Historic Lyric Theater in Overtown is keeping it local. The recently renovated landmark debuted “A Man Among the People: Purvis Young,” a retrospective celebrating the life and work of the Overtown native and…
If you were a kid with an affinity for anything artistic, you definitely visited a Pearl Paint Art Supply Store. Heck, you could have even bought watercolors or a brush at the South Miami location as recently as a few months ago. But like library card catalogs and VCRs, Pearl…
Amid the chaos at the Miami Beach Convention Center, the noise of dozens of side fairs, and all the museums with their gala exhibits, how does an individual gallery possibly get noticed during Art Week? Just ask Locust Projects, which has made a habit of hijacking headlines and making a…
As far as new museums go, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is unique in that it’s currently setting up shop within the Moore Building in the Design District. Oh, yeah, and it was forged out of a dispute from the people behind the board of directors over at North…
Last night Art Basel kicked off with the official opening reception at Collins Park. The manicured patch of greenery located in front of the Bass Museum is a part of Basel’s Public Sector, featuring large sculptures, installations and performances accessible to the general public. Tuesday night’s event, however, was anything…
Arts and music education are often the first things to get eliminated when budget cuts come a-rolling. Educators certainly know the impact that arts have on kids even though administrators overlook it. So in the times of budget cutbacks and disinterest in arts funding, it’s now up to outside organizations…
Scope Miami Beach opens its doors the to the general public today and festival goers are about to get a taste of some of the best contemporary art around the globe. Where else but in this billowy white tent on 9th and Ocean Drive can work from Havana, Seoul, New…
At last night’s Vernissage, Design Miami celebrated 10 years of forward-thinking design in furniture, jewelry, and more. But many Miamians who came out to sip champagne and browse the booths were more interested in celebrating the local institutions who’d gained access to the tent for the first time. See also:…
Don’t tell the fine-art world, but college kids and the glitterati have more in common than they care to admit. After spending all fall working hard to make sure exhibits and shows are ready for the big week, it’s only natural that there’s a need to blow off some steam…
Ask AholSniffsGlue what he has planned for this year’s Art Basel, and Miami’s favorite gold-grilled, eyeball-painting street-art genius admits the truth: He can’t fully wrap his head around all the murals, gallery and museum shows, parties, and film projects he has lined up. “I don’t even know where to start,”…
Are you feeling sad? Lonely? Has Art Basel got you down? You’re not alone — and the Institute of Contemporary Art is here to help. “I mean, who doesn’t need free therapy?” laughs Tommy Pace, associate director of the new museum setting up shop in the Design District’s Moore Building…
In 2011, Miami celebrated ten years of Art Basel Miami Beach with Picassos, parties galore, and one pigpen featuring a naked artist that was decidedly NSFW. Three years later, a pair of its satellite fairs is entering the double digits, bringing work and programming that’s just as exciting (and probably…
