Now that Art Basel is a mere three weeks away, we should all link up in a human centipede chain and get protective of our local art scene. We’re all for the hoity-toity art fair and the strange spin-off events, which follow it around like a piece of TP stuck…
Brace yourselves: We’re about to broach a topic rarely, if ever, discussed on a culture blog: rugs. And we’re not talking double entendres here, but the actually floor coverings bought and walked on. Caught up in the whirlwind of Art Basel is a traveling rug exhibit that involves the late,…
Sad news, guys. One of our favorite art shows during Art Basel is a no-go this year. A month shy of their press preview on November 30, Photo Miami has announced that the art fair has been canceled. Last year, we swooned over their “A Year of Magical Thinking,” and…
Photos by JipsySo Raw at NDSOh, Miami. We’ve been adulterous with our thoughts. We’ve been secretly pining for other cities, romanticizing their street markets. When the lights go off, we dream of going in and out of the aisles of London’s Spitalfields Market and running our fingers over smooth ceramic…
Design Miami/, one of the most seminal forums for international design, recently announced their coveted Designer of the Year Award. The winner, Munich-based Konstantin Grcic, will commission new work for the fair during Art Basel along with curating an exhibition of prominent work from his career.The Designer of the Year…
Flickr CC SwanksalotNot a Miami dumpster, hence the snow.Are you a broke, hungry, starving, artist? Then get money, fool. The 6th Street Container Project, in association with the Bakehouse Art Complex and General Hauling Service, are having a dumpster art contest. Submit any 2-D piece that you’d like to do…
Aleloop’s “Say Hello to My Little Friend”While most people leave their childhood fantasies of superheroes, cartoons, and comics at their 10th birthday party, artist Aleloop has made it her life’s work to create as many quirky characters as possible. Designing with a mixture of urban contemporary and pop surrealism, Alejandra…
The busy bees over at the University of Wynwood have been working nonstop to brighten this neon town with poetic radiance. Lately, they’ve brought the word to the streets, from the Miami Art Museum to Sweat Records. These pseudo-collegiate bastards are fully committed to making our lives less boring and…
Courtesy of FriendsWithYouThe Rainbow King.We were sort of jealous when local art collective FriendsWithYou put on its interactive display “Rainbow City” at Toronto’s Queen’s Park during the Luminato Festival. Sam Borkson and Arturo “Tury” Sandoval really haven’t done an interactive display in Miami since “Fun House” debuted at Scope Art…
Courtesy of Design Miami/With Art Basel Miami Beach rolling into town soon, news is coming hard and fast of everything that will be happening that week. Already revealed: Design Miami/’s new home for this year’s edition, which will not be taking place in Miami’s Design District. Instead, it will move…
We hope some gallery with primo real estate at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach will take the cover of W’s upcoming art issue, which features a naked Kim Kardashian with her more titillating bits covered by Barbara Kruger’s iconic but increasingly tired, word-art aesthetic, and blow it up so…
Originally a manufacturing plant for the RC Cola company, the abandoned building visible from I-95 has served as a concrete canvas for graffiti artists over the past two decades. The walls surrounding the plant have displayed some of Miami’s (and the world’s) most notorious graffiti artists, including Crook and Crome…
Greg Haberny, The Wanker’s BallWe have a confession. We basically launched this culture blog just to have somewhere to write about all the cool shit that happens during Art Basel. And most of it has nothing to do with the official mega art show in the convention center, but with…
Because Art Basel Miami Beach is only a few months away, we jumped at the chance to speak with the new director of Design Miami/, Wava Carpenter. The Design Miami team, who, interestingly, are mostly women, seek out the best in contemporary and historically influential design and house it under…
The list of galleries participating in the 2010 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach has just been released and there are no surprises when it comes to which local spaces made the cut. The Fredric Snitzer Gallery will return while Alejandra von Hartz Fine Arts in Wywnwood, the only other…
Each December, Design Miami/ is one of the biggest and most distinct Art Basel satellite fairs on the west side of the bridge, but The Herald reports that the fair is looking to move from its annual and appropriate home in the Design District to a parking lot across from…
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Updated: I received an awful lot of e-mails from interested people, but it looks like it will go to the first to contact me: Nelson from Urban Real Estate in the Warehouse Distrrict. Thanks for playing! For Art Basel, Brooklyn photographers James and Karla Murray brought to Miami an awesome…
We know Art Basel wrapped up five days ago, which translates to approximately two decades in “blog time,” but that’s one of the problems with covering an event like Art Basel for a blog isn’t it? The pressures of a non-stop deadline doesn’t give you the luxury of digesting what…
If you’re not afraid of a little color, and we mean that in almost all senses of the word, Pulse Art Fair was for you. With a strong commitment to new works and contemporary artists, Pulse gives you a window into the mind of young artists. And what you’ll find,…
There was plenty of imported NY snatch traipsing around Miami for Basel, but perhaps the most famous receptacle of naughty body parts designed to give you pleasure was the aptly named The Box. Straight from the Lower East Side and towing a reputation for providing some of the most naughty,…
Congratulations, Miami, you’ve survived another Art Basel. Riptide dropped by the main fair one final time late yesterday afternoon. Galleries had put out some new works since opening day, while some gallerists were literally counting their revenue, reportedly up from last year. That’s not surprising, considering much of the work…
