Every year, toward the end of November, the streets of Wynwood start crawling with dudes carrying ladders and ladies driving scissor lifts. The back alleys ring with the rattle of spray paint cans. Paint-splattered figures crouch and assess the walls, eyes squinting above kerchief-masked faces. Miami Art Week ushers in…
Glitz, gluttony, and great art: That’s Miami Art Week, where thousands of collectors, curators, critics, and fans flock to dozens of art fairs throughout the city. In the 15 years since Art Basel launched its first Miami Beach convention, satellite fairs in standalone tents, swanky hotels, and echoing warehouses have…
Oh, you thought you had a few more days before Baselmania sets in? You thought wrong. Though the main fair at the Miami Beach Convention Center doesn’t begin until Thursday, plenty of other arts events are taking advantage of the relative calm around town to host their own exhibits, parties, and more. If you want a taste of Miami Art Week with minimal traffic, today is your chance.
It’s only the beginning of Miami Art Week, and already there’s big news: after 23 years, the Rubell Family Collection is moving out of Wynwood. The RFC announced today its plans to move to a new museum in Allapattah in 2018. Director Juan Valadez said the decision to leave its…
Every year, Art Basel Miami Beach descends upon the Magic City, bringing along with it a host of satellite fairs and an invading army of well-dressed tourists. Swanky parties hosted by luxury fashion houses, overwhelmingly branded VIP events and crowded pushing among partygoers is par for the course at Miami…
Last weekend, as local Cubans celebrated the death of Fidel Castro, construction workers at Museum Park built a symbolic link between Miami and Havana. Artist Juan Garaizabal’s 69-foot stainless-steel sculpture, titled Havana’s Balcony, or Balcón de la Habana, had already been in the works for weeks. But when the piece lights up for the first time this evening, there’ll be an added layer of resonance.
Feeling a little nostalgic about the eight-year tenure President Barak Obama is about to complete? Trying to get your mind off the pumpkin-colored, foulmouthed Twitter troll that’s set to take his place in office? Beginning this week, Miami has just the thing to bring back a smile, if even temporary, to your face.
Art Basel is almost upon us. However, if you think the art hubbub stays contained to the Miami Beach Convention Center, you couldn’t be more wrong. In addition to the prestigious Swiss import, Miami and Miami Beach will host over 20 satellite fairs including stalwart like Art Miami, Design Miami,…
Drive by the Wolfsonian on Washington Avenue in South Beach, and you’ll see something unusual. The typically plain, sleek façade of the Mediterranean-revival-style building is covered with colorful patterns that are nearly psychedelic but ordered with geometries, representative of Dutch artist Christie van der Haak’s signature tapestry and batik-style work…
Every year, New Times’ MasterMind Awards reward Miami’s best creative talent with cash grants and citywide exposure. Once again, we’re preparing to show three creatives some spendable and shareable love by announcing the winners at our annual shindig, Artopia.
Want to see the best art in town for Basel this year? Get ready to log some miles. Local galleries are bringing their A-game for Miami Art Week, and now that most of them have been priced out of Wynwood, you’ll have to do some traveling if you want to hit all the top spots.
As Art Basel week approaches, Miami’s museums are gearing up for their most ambitious exhibits and programs of the year. Don’t let the tents, the parties, and the traffic distract you from the work on view at the institutions that serve culture in the Magic City year-round. Here’s your guide to Miami’s museum programming during Miami Art Week.
America’s greatest art fair is entering its 15th year with a host of challenges. The Miami Beach Convention Center is still undergoing renovations. The CDC labeled Miami Beach a Zika hot spot.
The term flotsam and jetsam usually refers to useless, discarded debris. But soon, it’ll also be the name of the Guinness World Record’s largest 3D printed structure. Printed using biodegradable bamboo, the 1,781 square foot structure will serve as a public plaza at the entrance to this year’s Design Miami…
Art Basel Miami Beach and the slate of art fairs and events that make up Miami Art Week always bring celebrities to South Florida. Madonna’s already made her 2016 Art Basel plans public. According to an announcement from Art Miami LLC, she could be rubbing elbows with actor Adrian Brody…
Some locals flee during Miami Art Week. Can you blame them? The normally just-bearable highway traffic becomes impossible gridlock. A neurotic mass of migratory New Yorkers, here just for Basel, baby, just for Basel, takes up every available restaurant reservation. Favorite bars are suddenly full of good-looking tourists seeking local…
Since 2001 Art Basel has slowly transformed Miami Beach from a vacation spot for well-to-do snow birds into an art world mecca. The fair has also driven the local art scene, inspiring the community to rally around artists, gallery owners, and museums. Though Art Basel 2016 will make Miami the…
The Bass Museum, Miami Beach’s only major art museum, has been under renovation for over a year in a remodel that plans to drastically expand the building’s programmable space without altering its footprint. Recently, the museum announced a massive reopening for Art Basel 2016, with three new shows from contemporary…
If you’re heading to Art Basel Miami Beach 2016, don’t miss the building decked out in rainbow tapestries. That would be the Wolfsonian’s largest Art Week exhibition, “Modern Dutch Design.” The exterior of the museum will sport the work of contemporary Dutch artist Christie van der Haak, while the interior…
Miami during Art Basel is the ultimate material world. So it’s no wonder that the Material Girl plans to stage an appearance during this year’s Miami Art Week. Madonna announced via Twitter yesterday that she’s up for a chill hang with one superfan while she’s visiting the Art Basel madness…
South Florida’s community of local artists, collectors, gallery owners, and art fans goes into a state of hibernation during the summer, quietly awaiting the upcoming season. While they lie in wait, many begin plotting and predicting the next big trends. Last year saw big moves in figurative painting; a renewed…
The brand new Satellite Show legitimized artists and musicians of the more unconventional sort this Art Basel week. It reached its funny fingers all through the North Beach neighborhood, not quite used to the bizarre noise that comes along with innovative art gatherings. Taking place at a variety of quirky…
