She calls herself the “godmother of performance art.” She has her own HBO special. She hangs out with the likes of Lady Gaga and Jeff Koons. And next month, you can see her in the flesh. Like, all the flesh. Artist and filmmaker Matthu Placek will screen the world premiere…
Marina Abramovic. Andy Warhol. Banksy. Dov Charney. One of these things is not like the others, and that thing is Charney, the provocative, perpetually molester-glasses wearing American Apparel founder and CEO. He’s known as much for the claims of sexual harassment against him as he is for fostering the modern…
Art and technology are no strangers. (Think of LED-spangled fashion shows, CGI special effects, or TM Sisters’ psychedelic video installations.) We’ve seen art and technology come together before, and we’ll see it again during Art Basel this year — in a whole new light. New York resident artist David Datuna…
So what did we learn from last year’s Banksy exhibit at CONTEXT Art Miami during Art Basel? Essentially, that commerce is king; though street art advocates blasted fair and the art owners for removing the pieces from their original homes, thousands of art lovers still flocked to CONTEXT to see…
For years, gallerists have complained that development in Wynwood has raised real estate prices and crowded the local marketplace, making it difficult for arts organizations to run a successful business in the area. Now, the problem has spread to Art Basel week fairs, too. That’s according to Joe Amrhein, owner…
The Ricart Gallery’s newest location is planted firmly in the heart of Wynwood’s Art District. The walls are a bright white, and positioned neatly at the front windows — as well as the roof of the building — are two Pinocchio statues painted by artist Carlito Dalceggio. Some might remember…
As city architecture goes, Miami’s pretty diverse, with buildings ranging from South Beach’s Art Deco hotels to ’80s-style, neon-lit buildings to Zaha Hadid’s upcoming condo tower with an exoskeleton. But we’re pretty sure that Kolkoz’s “Curiosity” installation, set to rise at the Miami Marine Stadium during Art Basel this year,…
We could all use a little more luminosity in our lives, so we’re pretty stoked about Heineken’s plans for Art Basel. The beer brand is bringing the glow this December with its “Light Your Night” installation at, you guessed it, Light Box at Goldman Warehouse. This epic lineup of fluorescent…
If you’re the kind of person who looks at a conceptual work of art and thinks, “I could do that,” Design Miami’s tent this year is going to piss you off. (Also, stop that. You’re annoying.) If, on the other hand, you’re big on inventive architecture, natural materials, and site-specific…
As the story goes, a teenager visiting a Florida tourist trap bought a baby alligator and flushed it down the toilet. Months later, it emerged from the sewers, as big as a school bus, to stalk unsuspecting humans. Well, Lloyd Goradesky’s gargantuan Gator in the Bay was never dropped into…
In the sea of impressive and eye-catching displays coming this winter to Miami during Art Basel, one country will make its overdue debut. Often described as an ethnic melting pot, Malaysia’s rich art culture will join Miami’s sweaty, glitzy stew for the first Malaysian art festival. South Florida resident and…
There are a lot of satellite art fairs in Miami during Art Basel Week, so many that you might even be one and not realize it. Are there people in weird glasses trying to talk their way into your colon’s VIP section? No? Safe for now, then. One of the…
Every year around this time, news begins filtering in about the biggest Art Basel art projects. We mean “biggest” in the physical sense; the giant projects that take months or even years to plan, such as last year’s 230-foot “Gator in the Bay” or giant inflatable psychic dog at Lords…
Nobody’s happy with Florida these days. And for good reason: the George Zimmerman verdict has convinced the better part of the country that there’s little more going on in the Sunshine State than a huge, ongoing, racist murder spree. A MoveOn.org petition urges travelers to boycott the state until Stand…
Bad news for mainland-based lovers of art and haters of causeway traffic: Scope Art Fair, which housed its Miami editions during Art Basel in the tents at Midtown up until last year, is moving to Miami Beach in 2013. “It is with tremendous enthusiasm that SCOPE announces its new location…
Art Basel Miami Beach gets bigger and bigger every year — and while December may seem like a long way away, the days of art-speak study and Basel boozing will be here before you know it. And this month, the powers that be announced the appointment of the illustrious Nicholas…
To say that Art Basel has become significant for Miami is a bit of an understatement. Do we even remember what Miami was like before this major event elevated it from vacation destination to cultural hot spot? Those of us that had never been exposed to million dollar art suddenly…
Just when you finally taught all your friends to pronounce the word Basel correctly, the ginormous art fair has news for you: It’s rebranding. Art Basel, which stages high-profile art fairs in Basel, Switzerland, and Hong Kong in addition to the long weekend of culture and shmoozy, boozy parties that…
Here we thought we knew everything there was to know about painter Kenny Scharf, and then he surprises us. He may not be a Miami native, but Scharf lived in the city during the ’90s, which during the time his pieces were exhibited at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale,…
Marko Mäetamm’s warped children’s book, Our Daddy is a Hunter, and paintings of houses with blood spewing made him one of the breakouts of this year’s NADA art fair. The Estonian multimedia artist has twice represented his country at the Venice Biennale, so he’s not exactly coming out of nowhere…
Artists in the 305 are a creative bunch. They find new and unique ways of creating and also performing art, not to mention displaying it. Multimedia artist Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez has done just that — projecting her avant garde film project onto the exteriors of houses during Art Basel.Says…
When Julian Lennon began photographing U2, he was granted unusually intimate access and took quite a few images. “Then I went to look at them,” Lennon told Cultist at the Morrison Hotel gallery’s Art Basel popup at the Dream Hotel. “And I went, ‘Shit. They look like fucking holiday photos.’…
