Every year there’s always the ridiculous cry that Art Basel’s Miami Beach incarnation (and Miami’s entire art scene) is all fluff and no substance, and that the art world is ready to pack up and leave. (For example: see Brett Sokol’s hilarious piece for the New York Times.) Fact is,…
Amidst the Basel craze where out-of-towners look admiringly at works by artists from across the globe, the Historic Lyric Theater in Overtown is keeping it local. The recently renovated landmark debuted “A Man Among the People: Purvis Young,” a retrospective celebrating the life and work of the Overtown native and…
If you were a kid with an affinity for anything artistic, you definitely visited a Pearl Paint Art Supply Store. Heck, you could have even bought watercolors or a brush at the South Miami location as recently as a few months ago. But like library card catalogs and VCRs, Pearl…
Amid the chaos at the Miami Beach Convention Center, the noise of dozens of side fairs, and all the museums with their gala exhibits, how does an individual gallery possibly get noticed during Art Week? Just ask Locust Projects, which has made a habit of hijacking headlines and making a…
As far as new museums go, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is unique in that it’s currently setting up shop within the Moore Building in the Design District. Oh, yeah, and it was forged out of a dispute from the people behind the board of directors over at North…
Last night Art Basel kicked off with the official opening reception at Collins Park. The manicured patch of greenery located in front of the Bass Museum is a part of Basel’s Public Sector, featuring large sculptures, installations and performances accessible to the general public. Tuesday night’s event, however, was anything…
Arts and music education are often the first things to get eliminated when budget cuts come a-rolling. Educators certainly know the impact that arts have on kids even though administrators overlook it. So in the times of budget cutbacks and disinterest in arts funding, it’s now up to outside organizations…
Scope Miami Beach opens its doors the to the general public today and festival goers are about to get a taste of some of the best contemporary art around the globe. Where else but in this billowy white tent on 9th and Ocean Drive can work from Havana, Seoul, New…
At last night’s Vernissage, Design Miami celebrated 10 years of forward-thinking design in furniture, jewelry, and more. But many Miamians who came out to sip champagne and browse the booths were more interested in celebrating the local institutions who’d gained access to the tent for the first time. See also:…
Don’t tell the fine-art world, but college kids and the glitterati have more in common than they care to admit. After spending all fall working hard to make sure exhibits and shows are ready for the big week, it’s only natural that there’s a need to blow off some steam…
Ask AholSniffsGlue what he has planned for this year’s Art Basel, and Miami’s favorite gold-grilled, eyeball-painting street-art genius admits the truth: He can’t fully wrap his head around all the murals, gallery and museum shows, parties, and film projects he has lined up. “I don’t even know where to start,”…
Are you feeling sad? Lonely? Has Art Basel got you down? You’re not alone — and the Institute of Contemporary Art is here to help. “I mean, who doesn’t need free therapy?” laughs Tommy Pace, associate director of the new museum setting up shop in the Design District’s Moore Building…
In 2011, Miami celebrated ten years of Art Basel Miami Beach with Picassos, parties galore, and one pigpen featuring a naked artist that was decidedly NSFW. Three years later, a pair of its satellite fairs is entering the double digits, bringing work and programming that’s just as exciting (and probably…
What could inspire a more terrifying nightmare of Hollywood excess than the garish façade of a Planet Hollywood restaurant? Perhaps the sum of its muscle-bound financial backing parts: Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now reduced to a miserable eight locations, the Planet Hollywood brand is synonymous with the…
If you’re intimidated by Miami Beach traffic during Basel week, plenty of art fairs on the mainland will keep you busy. Art Miami, which marks its 25th anniversary, and its sister fair, Context (3101 NE First Ave.; art-miami.com, contextartmiami.com), are the most significant of the Midtown big tops. Together, they…
How surreal has Art Basel Miami Beach become? This year, fairgoers at the main event inside the Miami Beach Convention Center will encounter both Lady Gaga and Barbie amid the billions of dollars in high-end fine art. No, really. Both the iconic divas are on the calendar this year. The…
Painted portraiture is almost a rarity these days. Sure, there are tons done in the abstract, but photo-realistic work done in a contemporary setting isn’t at all common. That exclusion isn’t surprising, considering contemporary art has always had a problem embracing portraiture outside of photography. And at the turn of…
Dance is the most ephemeral of the arts. You can buy a picture, a sculpture, a photograph, you can buy a CD and own a composition, and you can even buy and own a script. Dance, however, is an explosion of energy that exits in a finite space and time,…
Miami’s newest museum is set to get a permanent home. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami), currently housed in the Moore Building, will eventually become a three-story art museum with a 15,000-square-foot sculpture garden. If planning works out, the new space will open in time for Art Basel Miami…
Miami Art Week is here, and outside the gallery walls, graffiti artists are busy at work painting the streets of Wynwood, Midtown, and the Design District. The biggest mural project of the season, however, is going down at Jose de Diego Middle School, a formerly stark white space craving color…
December is upon us, which means hello Basel madness, goodbye any semblance of a normal life. The five straight days of art-related raucousness and aesthetic oddities you’ve been waiting for since 2013 have almost arrived, ready to shower you in champagne and questionable choices. And despite the fact that there…
It doesn’t take a genius to notice the strengthening ties between the art world and the entertainment industry. Late last year Lady Gaga released Artpop, an album suffused with joint efforts from art establishment giants like Jeff Koons and Marina Abramovic. For her latest album, Sia transformed promotional appearances into…
