Mr. Brainwash invaded South Beach Wednesday for his second annual “Under Construction” Basel beach bash. The night romped. The two story 25,000-square-foot gallery was filled with MBW’s latest works, as well as plenty of vodka, an appearance by the Art Angel, and as many free MBW posters as you could…
At long last, it’s Art Basel weekend: two glorious days when Miami’s poor nine-to-fivers finally get to fully experience the art, the parties and the insanity that the rest of us have been soaking up since Wednesday. But that’s not the only reason things are about to get even more…
Standing all day. Drinking all night. Roaming the streets for hours dressed in heels and strange getups. Art Basel is fun, but it can also take its toll. Still, a normal workout during Miami’s most faaahbulous week? It just doesn’t seem fitting. How can you relax knowing that you’re missing…
Hotel art typically sucks–at least at the joints we’ve stayed at. Crap watercolored landscapes, generic photographs of generic stuff like clouds and hills, and tacky vases on formica nightstands often make us want to vomit. However there’s one hotel that really knows art–the Aqua. And each year during Basel, the…
The front gallery space at Seven Miami is a room full of words. Walk in the doors, and you’ll naturally move from left to right to follow the text, from Bob and Roberta Smith’s corner, filled with colorfully painted signs telling a story, to William Powhida’s collection of notebook sketches…
When Mac Premo, a D.C.-born, RISD-educated artist, was forced to move to a new, smaller studio space in Brooklyn, he came to a terrible realization: There was no way he could bring along the hundreds of objects he’d accumulated, from dusty baseball cards to antique cans to torn hats. Premo…
George Sanchez-Calderon is no stranger to Basel headlines. He made news during an early incarnation of ABMB installing a carnival midway at the Buena Vista rail yard replete with a soaring 60-foot Ferris wheel. Shit, long before the Swiss arrived in the Big Mango, homeboy George was craning the 305’s…
Artist and curator Jillian Hernandez is showing how women take the ordinary and make it extraordinary at her group show Everyday Charms screening at O Cinema. Though, she says there’s no specific gender component to the exhibition, all the artists happen to be women. The videos she’s chosen to screen will…
View more photos from Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 here.”I haven’t seen this much pussy all year,” we told our colleague as we were exiting the Miami Beach Convention Center for Art Basel Miami Beach’s Vernissage Wednesday night. There were enough uses of female genitalia to fill The Vagina Monologues.As…
If you happened to visit New York City last summer, you might have seen the street pianos, painted by New York artists, that popped up on the streets, free for all to play. The project, inspired by artist Luke Jerram and overseen by arts group Sing for Hope, inspired spin-off…
It’s technically day one, but the madness has already begun. We’ve seen buck naked supervillains. We’ve seen flashy disco flooring. We’ve even seen photo evidence of Andy Warhol looking relatively normal. It’s a lot to take in. Can you even handle any more Basel?Of course you can, especially with so…
Art Basel is back, bringing with it the same fancy faces and high art madness. An this week of culture isn’t all about graffiti or murals in Wynwood — the Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, made sure to put on a Basel bash with style. Last night, in cool weather…
Boasting a rainbow circle of brain toads, a coffin full of pharmaceuticals, cash money, bullets and condoms, not to mention a swami fortune teller greeting visitors at the entrance, the Scope Art Fair returns for its eleventh edition to remind us of the circus tent atmosphere we tropical culture vultures…
Cultist firmly believes in Occupy Movement–corporate greed and economic inequality are two things we absolutely abhor. Admittedly, however, we got down with the 1% last night at Art Miami. Don’t judge, if you heard there’d be free booze and finger foods you’d jump at the opportunity also. And quite frankly,…
This Art Basel Miami Beach promises to be the most fashionable yet, thanks in no small part to the pending arrival of fashion site Refinery29, which is due to open a Miami satellite next month. To celebrate, Refinery29 is throwing a fashionista bash at Cafeina in Wynwood on Thursday. The…
Maybe the gallerists at Design Miami/ had Don Drapper on their mind. What other way to explain the seemingly unending parade of mid-century style work on display at just about every other both? And if the booths didn’t seem like sets from Mad Men, many took cues from the arts…
It’s go time, Miami. The official Art Basel exhibits at the convention center may not open to the public until tomorrow, but with so many other fairs, galleries, public projects and more competing for your attention today, we’re calling it: Basel is back.Which, of course, means an overload of options…
Back in March, we debuted Ultra Bingo. The exploration of a subculture through a game of chance was more enjoyable that we thought it would be, so why not apply it to another major Miami event? So here you have it, Basel Bingo!Like its Ultra cousin, Basel Bingo is packed…
Sandwiched between Joey’s Italian Cafe and Wynwood Kitchen and Bar is a portal into the evolution of street art. What was once scribbles illegally spray-painted on the sides of buildings, trash bins, and newspaper racks is now fine, museum-quality art displayed proudly on the Wynwood Walls. Shepard Fairey, Ryan McGinness,…
Regardless of your approach, the sad truth is it’s impossible to catch every piece of art worth experiencing during Basel week. With 250 exhibitors at the Miami Beach Convention Center, not to mention hundreds of others operating at the more than a dozen satellite fairs, this year’s tenth edition is…
Father Alberto Cutie will lead a group of local luminaries — including Rabbie Shmuley Boteach (former Michael Jackson spiritual adviser) and CBS4 Morning Anchor Jawan Strader tonight at a fundraiser for a local nonprofit: Ax Sex Abusers Now. The group, which doesn’t advocate violence, sponsors a team of first responders…
Art Basel not only offers an overload of visual stimulation, it also presents a time to dredge up any tragic feelings of rejection you experienced in your youth. Sure, there are like 300 openings and parties each and every night of next week, but there are only like three you…
