As we creep into October, news of Art Basel Miami Beach, everyone’s favorite Swiss art fair, is slowly rolling in. While it’s clearly our favorite week of the year, we’re aware that most Miamians find it a smidge too high brow, a touch too elitist. But hey, this your free…
Despite what you read on Yelp, Wynwood Walls is not any painted wall west of North Miami Avenue and south of 34th Street. It’s a specific urban art park sandwiched between Joey’s and Wynwood Kitchen on NW Second Ave. It began with 12 murals in 2009 under the direction of…
David Castillo is no stranger to the Art Basel election committee. The Wynwood art dealer has been applying for a booth at the December arts confab every year since 2007.In 2008 his eponymous space was one of a select few Miami galleries to gain entrance to the prestigious international fair…
Back in February, London’s Financial Times reported that Steve Lazarides, the art dealer and Sleaze editor credited with discovering Banksy, was planning a huge art/music/film event in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach. They even called it his “most audacious move yet.”Paper Magazine also reported that he was indeed sniffing…
If you were disappointed by the lack of James Franco at the James Franco event during O Miami, you may finally get to hear the mega star read prose aloud. And you can even do it in the privacy of your own bedroom — right there next to your Freaks…
Art Basel Fort Lauderdale? Yuck. But if the rumors are true, art snobs from around the globe will have to familiarize themselves with the 9-5-4. Basel organizers are close to inking a multimillion dollar deal with the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center, which could land the popular art fair some 31…
While working as an editor for Sleaze Nation magazine, Steve Lazarides discovered street artist Banksy on a photo shoot in Bristol in 2001. In the years that followed, he brought Banksy’s iconic images (and others from the urban art scene) off the sides of buildings and into galleries and private…
Art Basel brought Miami’s art scene to national and international prominence over the past decade. But really, what does that mean for the local museums? It has to be positive, right? The publicity, excitement, and sheer number of visitors with a cultured palette bodes well for the arts in general…
Art Basel is long gone, but we’ve been wondering if W magazine ever got a glance at our Bert Rodriguez spoof of its Kim Kardashian cover. The magazine hosted various talks at Design Miami/, so there was a very good chance that someone from the publication saw it.Well, we finally…
That five-day art bender, better known as Art Basel, is slowly vacating the recesses of our brains. But if you’re feeling a little blue that we’ll have to wait a whole year to see that depth of art again, take solace in the following: You won’t have to see a…
At some point during Art Basel every year, we have a moment of clarity, where we look into the silvery-pink sky above Miami Beach and say out loud, “Miami, will you marry us?” She always says yes, and the wedding takes place right there on the beach as waves crash…
Images from the free tattoo parlor at Small Art Miami (AKA the Hello Kitty Basel pop-up shop) keep rolling in. Here’s Dokidoki Burger, the fresh tatt of Sean Ashworth. By the second day of the pop-up shop, it was no small chore to get one of the Sanrio tattoos. Ashworth…
Another Art Basel Miami Beach is in the books. And with that, we wanted to take some time to look back at who actually made big strides last week, and those who, despite their best intentions, just fell flat on their faces. Here are the winners and losers during this…
So the traffic’s thinned, the pavilions are gone, and the folks in red pants have returned to the freezing temperatures of New York or London or wherever. You might think: “Whew, I was getting so sick of all of this insanity. Screw Art Basel!” Many locals looked at the roaming…
Art Basel is like the Olympics of people-watching, because rich people buy special licenses to dress funny. But there’s also a lot of great fashion sashaying around Miami’s sidewalks for Miami Art Week. Here’s a few pages of the best dressed from last week. The big trends? Red, fur, busy…
After roaming dozens of art fairs’ hundreds of rows, the whole Basel experience started to feel a little, well, manic. And it also started to feel a little alienating. The trade-show booth set-up only intensifies our estrangement from the art-world, a place where buying a Brillo-pad sculpture for 50,000 Euros…
For five days, the world treated Miami like it mattered. It bought us flowers and told us it liked our new haircut. It held open doors and called us at night just to say goodnight. But the smooth-talking world is shipping out today, and the only way we know to…
Wham, bam, thank you, mam? In the morning, the crowds will be gone, the pop-up shops and nightclubs will be empty storefronts again, and our city will have to reconcile the fact that it’s no longer an uber-chic, hipster Atlantis, but a metropolitan city with tons of stinking problems. What,…
Because this is Miami, you would likely be inclined to think that any event related to Art Basel Miami Beach is one with a slew of loafer-wearing, bespectacled artsy folk trying to converse over a pounding soundtrack from a guest DJ. But this was not the case last night when…
Ready for another Basel day post-mortem? We’ll keep this quick as we have hangovers to nurse and art fairs to attend. The super secret The Island exhibit was either shut down by the city or they ran out of boats. We’re trying to find out. Artist Ryan McGinness turned Club…
In the words of Sailor Jerry, cheap work ain’t good and good work ain’t cheap. So you could be excused for feeling sheepish about the caliber of work coming out of the free Sanrio tattoo parlor, which opened at Small Art Miami yesterday. But one of our writers sent in…
The Aqua Art Fair made its way back to the ocean (actually, just a block away from the Atlantic on Collins Avenue), coming back to the Aqua Hotel where it all began in 2005. It’s a good move, because the Aqua Hotel is about as cool a place as you…
