Design Miami 2012 Visitors Will Enter Beneath A Giant Inflatable Canopy

In 2011, Design Miami attendees who tired of wandering around Fendi’s cloth furniture and scoping out the Audi on the light-up flooring congregated outside the fair’s entrance inside a giant wooden structure, sort of an open-air cave for artsy hipsters.In 2012, we predict, they’ll mostly just stand around outside and…

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011: A Week of Fashion

Another season of Art Basel raged through the streets of Miami and South Beach and the fashions, once again, were on another level. The silhouettes were classic for both men and women, but splashes of color seemed to pop everywhere we looked. Black continued being the superior shade on the…

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011: Winners & Losers

That’s it, folks! The tenth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach and all the events and sideshows that surround it are done. Now we are left to pick up the discarded canvases and paint cans left behind.But Basel did leave something worthwhile behind  — and we’re not talking about the…

Sunday’s Best Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Events

Goodbye, Nazi spaceships. Goodbye, freaky soundsuits. Goodbye, Andy Warhol, in all your many forms. It’s the final day of Art Basel, and the peak of Miami’s collective culture hangover. But you do know what cures a hangover, right? A little hair of the dog — aka another dose of the…

Saturday’s Best Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Events

Can you feel it? It’s in the very back of your mind, but it’s there — that half-disappointed, half-relieved feeling that always hits you on Basel Saturday. It’s the realization that the annual Basel bacchanal will be over in just a couple days. Maybe you’re already Baseled out, ready for…

Art Asia, Primary Projects, and Lunchbox Gallery in Pictures

Oye, Miami, you hot, wet, beautiful, lady. Thank you for attracting all the art world with your charms. There is no shortage of great work to experience and the atmosphere is unparalleled. We rolled through the city yesterday and had a lot of fun. Here is some of what we…

Nick Cave Comes to Miami with Beats by Dr. Dre and Fendi Casa

​This Art Basel, sound, art, and design are coming together in a fantastic way. Artist, dancer, performer Nick Cave is most well known for his Soundsuits, hypnotic creations that stimulate both visually and aurally. Cave is collaborating with Beats by Dr. Dre and Fendi Casa to showcase the power of…

Miami Beach Unveils 55-Foot Abstract Lighthouse, Traffic Eats Our Assignment

In the spirit of transparency, we’ll admit that behind-the-scenes at Cultist you’ll find a painstakingly detailed schedule of operations. Every move we make is calculated to best serve y’all, the reader. During Basel week, however, our daily itinerary is interrupted by greater Miami’s traffic nightmare. According to Google Maps’ suggested…

In Defense of Mr. Brainwash

Mr. Brainwash invaded South Beach Wednesday for his second annual “Under Construction” Basel beach bash. The night romped. The two story 25,000-square-foot gallery was filled with MBW’s latest works, as well as plenty of vodka, an appearance by the Art Angel, and as many free MBW posters as you could…

Friday’s Best Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Events

At long last, it’s Art Basel weekend: two glorious days when Miami’s poor nine-to-fivers finally get to fully experience the art, the parties and the insanity that the rest of us have been soaking up since Wednesday. But that’s not the only reason things are about to get even more…

Lenny Kravitz Does Yoga at Basel, and So Can You

Standing all day. Drinking all night. Roaming the streets for hours dressed in heels and strange getups. Art Basel is fun, but it can also take its toll. Still, a normal workout during Miami’s most faaahbulous week? It just doesn’t seem fitting. How can you relax knowing that you’re missing…

Human Testicles, Interactive Floors and Text Galore at Seven Miami

The front gallery space at Seven Miami is a room full of words. Walk in the doors, and you’ll naturally move from left to right to follow the text, from Bob and Roberta Smith’s corner, filled with colorfully painted signs telling a story, to William Powhida’s collection of notebook sketches…