Art Basel Miami Beach 2012: Winners and Losers

Congratulations, reader. If you’re seeing these words, you made it through Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, the event’s biggest, glitziest, and most spectacle-packed edition yet. There were dozens of fairs to check off your list. There were parties galore each night, with free-flowing booze and D-list celebrities in abundance. If…

Art Basel: The Best Celebrity Art Spotted in Miami

Celebrities, the ultimate in public commodities, are common fodder for the creative set. Whether it’s a garbage painting of Honey Boo Boo or a velvet recreation of the King, the A list, B list and D list are all over the art world. See also: – Miami Art Museum Receives…

Laurina Paperina’s “Shitman” Destroys the World at Miami Project

Art has the power to give voice to the voiceless, and few among us have struggled to find a place in society more than Shitman has. Fortunately, Italian artist Laurina Paperina explores the existential plight of her own sociopathic anthropomorphic cartoon feces in her video piece, “Shitman and the End…

Artist Lee Materazzi Will Turn Your Laundry Into Art

Formerly Miami-based photographer Lee Materazzi is back home for Basel, or at least some of her art is. Images from her new series “Finding Myself at Home,” at Quint Contemporary Art’s Miami Project booth, show Materazzi embracing peeled sheets of wallpaper; buried, her legs and head stick out of the…

“Mestizo City” Creator Henry Muñoz Talks Art, Politics and Robert Rodriguez

Jarritos, art, Breakfast Tacos at Tiffani’s, and Robert Rodriguez’s Chingon. Can Basel week get any better? Representing the “vibrant and varied” influence Latino culture has played in the United States, Henry Muñoz’s 6,700-square-foot, site-specific interactive art instillation, Mestizo City, opens tonight in Miami’s Design District. But the San Antonio-based CEO…

Randy Polumbo’s Love Stream Isn’t Just a Trailer Full of Dildos (Photos)

Randy Polumbo describes his work, Love Stream, like this: “[It] can be a giant kaleidescope, or upon penetrating the interior, a libidinally stimulating reflecting pool,” says the artist.And here we thought it was just an Airstream trailer decorated with pastel-colored glass dildos.Those fortunate enough to have attended Art Public’s opening night…