How convenient for the rest of us that when Bob Bonis embarked on the Beatles’ and Rolling Stones’ first U.S. tours from 1964-66, he thought to toss his modest Leica M3 camera in his suitcase. Bonis, who served as the bands’ tour manager during these crucial first U.S. appearances, captured…
As if your Basel schedule weren’t already tight enough, OHWOW’s It Ain’t Fair has announced a seriously buzz-worthy lineup that just might make you rethink your seemingly important schmoozing sessions at the other fairs. See also: – Ultra Violet’s Giant Laser Beam Is Canceled – Local Art Students to Show…
Pet spas. Puppy training camp where they actually come pick up your pooch in a bone-printed school bus. Poodles with hot pink nail polish wearing Dolphins jerseys.There are few things this reporter hasn’t seen when it comes to what animal enthusiasts will do to their pets, especially in Miami. However,…
“Will you mention my mom?” asks the 6-foot-and-1-inch tall Asif Farooq with a broad smile. He wears a black baseball cap on the back of his head, the lip pointing skyward at an angle, adding even more height to his massive build. Farooq, 33, exudes a playful energy, which belies…
Art Basel (and its satellite fairs, public art projects, high profile parties, and general cultural mayhem) is known for bringing the art world’s biggest names to Miami. Think Warhol, Banksy, David Lynch. But plenty of lesser-known artists — and Miami artists in particular — take advantage of the increased cultural…
Miami could easily be described as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. What with the drugs, the sex, the booze, the corruption — need we go on? And the fact that we’re all such depraved sinners makes the upcoming appearance of Peter Anton’s Sugar & Gomorrah roller coaster installation particularly apt…
Seven years ago, Miami-based architect Luis Pons unveiled the “Fabulous Floating Inflatable Villa” at Art Basel 2005. Floating proudly offshore in Miami, the over-the-top, gargantuan inflated pavilion aimed to critique the McMansion culture of the day, arguing that the real estate bubble had caused Miamians to lose sight of detail…
Things you’ll see at Art Basel: Tight dresses. Flamboyant suits. Artsy types speaking theatrically. Sinister-looking dudes with goatees.Things you’ll see at Club Silencio, the freaky nightspot in David Lynch’s 2001 film Mulholland Drive: pretty much those same things.So it’s only natural that Silencio, the real-life Paris nightclub version of that…
As Art Basel looms for the 10th year in Miami Beach, WLRN will air an hour-long documentary on its influence on the Miami art scene. Through the eyes of several local artists and art scene movers and shakers, Rising Tide: A Story of Miami Artists presents a brisk, hour-long overview…
Wynwood Walls, the fascinating “outdoor museum” imagined into reality by the late Tony Goldman, will honor the visionary with its Art Basel program this year, entitled “Come and Dream.” A host of new elements, including a new exhibition of works, the debut of an augmented reality application, and a new…
An evening many assumed would be a run of the mill art showcase turned out to be anything but, as the curators of the Bass Museum of Art had attendees marching around the building grounds, into the streets, and finally depositing the group at a gas pump.The museum’s Temporary Contemporary exhibit,…
It wasn’t long ago that Miami didn’t have much of an art scene. That was before Art Basel took root, before Rebeca Raney left Miami in 1999 to go to college. By the time the scene got going in earnest, Raney was off living in New England.But in all that…
During Art Basel, Miamians take great pride in the art flying in from all parts of the world. It’s a chance for us to show up everyone who thinks we’re just a place for the Kardashians and Jersey Shore to capitalize on our nightlife and say, “Hey, we’re cultured too.”…
There aren’t many people who could pull off a Transformers-style switcharoo of a South Beach hotel into a big, black dog. But avant-garde artist Desi Santiago is about to do just that for this year’s Art Basel extravaganza. See also: – Giant Psychic Dog to Take Over Lords South Beach…
Art Basel is less than two months away, and the 2012 edition is on course to turn Miami into a living museum of publicly accessible art. In what may be the wildest installation of the year, Lords South Beach hotel will be turning into a massive, macabre pet. The LGBT…
During Art Basel week in Miami each year, one exhibit or art project is so eye-catching, so intriguing, or so visible that it becomes emblematic of that year’s cultural festivities. Think Miru Kim’s naked stint in a Primary Projects pigsty in 2011, or the giant pink snails of 2010.In 2012,…
Studio Acconci, the architecture and design firm run by 72-year-old New York designer and artist Vito Acconci, was named last night as Design Miami’s Designer of the Year for its 2012 edition coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach in December.See also:- Design Miami 2012 Visitors Will Enter Beneath a Giant…
As Mitt Romney and Barack Obama spar week after week over unemployment rates and job creation, maybe they should both look to the Miami art market as a model for economic revitalization.Consider this year’s looming Art Basel Miami Beach, which will bring another rush of new events, new jobs, and…
It’s a cutthroat game, this art business. Especially in Miami’s increasingly busy art scene during the increasingly crowded annual Art Basel week. And according to The Art Newspaper, the drama has already begun.TAN reports that NADA Miami Beach sent a letter to its exhibitors earlier this month asking for exclusivity…
In 2011, Design Miami attendees who tired of wandering around Fendi’s cloth furniture and scoping out the Audi on the light-up flooring congregated outside the fair’s entrance inside a giant wooden structure, sort of an open-air cave for artsy hipsters.In 2012, we predict, they’ll mostly just stand around outside and…
They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. But rubies, opals, sapphires, emeralds and platinum will do in a pinch. So if you’ve got big bucks and a special lady in your life, the International Contemporary Jewelry Fair (ICJF) is the perfect place to score big points.See also:- MIA’s Seafair…
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s….Well, it’s a plane. But it’s also a work of art.That’s the idea behind “Plane Text,” an art project headed to Miami Beach during Art Basel this year, in which the planes that usually fly banners promoting cheap drinks…
