Art Basel is long gone, but we’ve been wondering if W magazine ever got a glance at our Bert Rodriguez spoof of its Kim Kardashian cover. The magazine hosted various talks at Design Miami/, so there was a very good chance that someone from the publication saw it.Well, we finally…
That five-day art bender, better known as Art Basel, is slowly vacating the recesses of our brains. But if you’re feeling a little blue that we’ll have to wait a whole year to see that depth of art again, take solace in the following: You won’t have to see a…
At some point during Art Basel every year, we have a moment of clarity, where we look into the silvery-pink sky above Miami Beach and say out loud, “Miami, will you marry us?” She always says yes, and the wedding takes place right there on the beach as waves crash…
Images from the free tattoo parlor at Small Art Miami (AKA the Hello Kitty Basel pop-up shop) keep rolling in. Here’s Dokidoki Burger, the fresh tatt of Sean Ashworth. By the second day of the pop-up shop, it was no small chore to get one of the Sanrio tattoos. Ashworth…
Another Art Basel Miami Beach is in the books. And with that, we wanted to take some time to look back at who actually made big strides last week, and those who, despite their best intentions, just fell flat on their faces. Here are the winners and losers during this…
So the traffic’s thinned, the pavilions are gone, and the folks in red pants have returned to the freezing temperatures of New York or London or wherever. You might think: “Whew, I was getting so sick of all of this insanity. Screw Art Basel!” Many locals looked at the roaming…
Art Basel is like the Olympics of people-watching, because rich people buy special licenses to dress funny. But there’s also a lot of great fashion sashaying around Miami’s sidewalks for Miami Art Week. Here’s a few pages of the best dressed from last week. The big trends? Red, fur, busy…
After roaming dozens of art fairs’ hundreds of rows, the whole Basel experience started to feel a little, well, manic. And it also started to feel a little alienating. The trade-show booth set-up only intensifies our estrangement from the art-world, a place where buying a Brillo-pad sculpture for 50,000 Euros…
For five days, the world treated Miami like it mattered. It bought us flowers and told us it liked our new haircut. It held open doors and called us at night just to say goodnight. But the smooth-talking world is shipping out today, and the only way we know to…
Wham, bam, thank you, mam? In the morning, the crowds will be gone, the pop-up shops and nightclubs will be empty storefronts again, and our city will have to reconcile the fact that it’s no longer an uber-chic, hipster Atlantis, but a metropolitan city with tons of stinking problems. What,…
Because this is Miami, you would likely be inclined to think that any event related to Art Basel Miami Beach is one with a slew of loafer-wearing, bespectacled artsy folk trying to converse over a pounding soundtrack from a guest DJ. But this was not the case last night when…
Ready for another Basel day post-mortem? We’ll keep this quick as we have hangovers to nurse and art fairs to attend. The super secret The Island exhibit was either shut down by the city or they ran out of boats. We’re trying to find out. Artist Ryan McGinness turned Club…
In the words of Sailor Jerry, cheap work ain’t good and good work ain’t cheap. So you could be excused for feeling sheepish about the caliber of work coming out of the free Sanrio tattoo parlor, which opened at Small Art Miami yesterday. But one of our writers sent in…
The Aqua Art Fair made its way back to the ocean (actually, just a block away from the Atlantic on Collins Avenue), coming back to the Aqua Hotel where it all began in 2005. It’s a good move, because the Aqua Hotel is about as cool a place as you…
Now in its fifth incarnation and featuring 25 spaces, the Fountain Fair draws the type of unruly installations and unsettling performances that make it an unpredictable must-see attraction during this week’s chaotic art muddle.It’s perfect for jaded art lovers wondering where they can stumble across fresh, anti-corporate, stick-it-to-the-man hijinks in…
Even though artist and designer Barbara Hulanicki calls exhibiting her work in galleries “a new career for me,” she’s been bringing beauty into the world for years and years. Hulanicki began working as an illustrator for fashion magazines like Vogue and Women’s Wear Daily in the swinging 1960s. She then…
Artist Maria Builes wants to make sure you are tuned in to Twitter today. The location for her Art Basel pop-up exhibit, “Satiation,” will be announced only on the day of and only through tweets. Builes’s “Satiation” is a commentary on our obsession with food, weight loss, and appearance. She…
Art Basel, AKA “hipster spring break,” continues. Your feet probably hurt, and you’re nearing your saturation point for all this pretentiousness. We say, enjoy it while you can. Come Monday, we’ll just be Miami again instead of the capital of the contemporary art world. It’s so quick, it almost feels…
Tonight is the opening reception of Hyperbolic Aerosolic: The Roots of New York City Underground Art 1972-1975 at 2501 NW Second Ave. A couple of days ago, Miami native, gallery owner and show curator Eric Firestone gave us a brief tour and introduced us to the exhibition’s stars, P.H.A.S.E. 2…
In its sixth year, Pulse has carved a niche as one of Art Basel’s largest satellite fairs, encompassing more than 80 galleries inside Wynwood’s sprawling Ice Palace, and one of the best for sculpture, contemporary photography and performance art. But who knew it would be so damn comfortable?Fair-goers lounged on…
With all its skulls and sparkles, Art Basel is dangerously close to resembling an Ed Hardy T-shirt. Those were two big trends we saw at yesterday’s Basel Vernissage as we gawked at 2,000 artists and weaved between celebrity land mines such as Isabella Rossellini and Michael Stipe. Thankfully, the fair’s…
You came for the art. But art can’t scratch that itch. You can’t spoon with art. And you definitely can’t fuck art. But you know what you can screw around with? Hoity toity Basel, er, “beaver,” and there will be plenty of it this week.But these highly-literate, ego-driven creatures won’t…
