When artist Magnus Sodamin was young, his grandfather would take him fishing in Norway before sunrise. His grandmother would accompany him into the forest to hunt for mushrooms and into the mountains with a spike and hammer to look for cool rocks. Before flying home to Connecticut, he would fill…
In many ways, Scope was the original satellite art fair. Founded by a Lower East Side artist looking to bring recognition to the work he and his fellow art-world ruffians were making, the fair has gradually taken its place as an Art Basel Miami Beach fixture. Last year, Scope Miami…
Collaborations are what Basel is all about. This year the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is celebrating its second year as a Miami institution with something special: a performance by artist and choreographer Ryan McNamara, and new-age R&B musician Blood Orange (aka Devonte Hynes). While both are Miami outsiders, the…
Since she was appointed director of Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Helen Toomer has redefined the typical Basel exhibition. When she took the helm of the commercial behemoth, the fair was comprised of a long and disjointed selection of galleries and artists from around the world, held far afield on Miami’s…
Miami’s art climate is changing rapidly, fueled not by hydrocarbons but by an ever-expanding global market hungry for the Magic City’s scene. With last year’s messy birth of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) — which acrimoniously broke away from the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami — Miami now…
In anticipation of Miami Art Week, Pulse Miami Beach has announced its lineup for the 2015 season. The lineup looks promising, and it includes a number of founding galleries who have been with the fair since its beginning, as well as three Miami galleries. The local galleries showing are familiar…
Micol Hebron had a standout Art Basel. She performed Roll Call , a Carolee Schneemann-inspired performance during which Hebron read aloud the low percentages of women artists represented by art galleries, information written on scroll that she slowly unfurled from her vagina. Anyone familiar with Hebron’s work would have hardly…
Art Basel is finally over. The behemoth art fair that sweeps into our fair city every year has packed its bags and blown us a very European kiss goodbye. And in its wake, it’s inevitably left both the victorious and the conquered. We here at the Miami New Times have…
As if you needed more proof that many Art Basel attendees know little about art. Miami-Dade native, Miami Beach mayorial candidate, and comedian Steve Berke conducted a “social experiment” during Miami Art Week to see if he could go from zero to “artist” in less than 24 hours and sell…
The ubiquitous sounds of protest filled the intimate, transparently constructed exhibition space: people yell, groups chant, impatient drivers honk their horns, police blow their high-pitched whistles. These are the familiar noises that greet you when you enter YoungArts’ Basel exhibition, “Zero Tolerance.” Curated by MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach, the…
“Clap, bitches, clap! Clap, bitches, clap!” Just another night with Miami’s favorite fierce crew from the Garret. This time, the monthly Catwalk: A Night of Vogue moved to Little Haiti, all part of the big #IHAITIBASEL line-up that took over a part of town usually left out of the Art…
As a rapidly growing, highly desirable city to the stars, we’ve got plenty of art (Basel, anyone?), plenty of money and plenty of 1 percent’ers in our midst. But what about heart? Do we have enough of that? Wynwood Hearts, a brand new artist’s collective, would vote yes. The just-launched…
Every year during Art Basel and Miami Art Week, there’s one exhibit, performance, or item that goes viral. Last year, it was Jeffrey Deitch mistaking Diddy for Kanye West. In 2011, it was Miru Kim’s performance art piece, “I Like Pigs and Pigs Like Me (104 hours),” for Primary Projects…
Inside a storefront with blacked out windows on Collins Avenue and 6th Street, footwear designer to the hip-hop elite Jon Buscemi is chatting up a tall man with dreadlocks past his shoulders dressed in all black, including a black Canadian Mountie-style hat and a fresh pair of black old school…
This time last year, the biggest thing on everybody’s Art Basel agenda was getting a peek inside the newly opened Perez Art Museum Miami. One year later, traffic and unpredictable rainstorms did their best to spoil the downtown institution’s first birthday party. But hundreds still flocked to the museum’s hanging…
Once upon time, in another world, Karen Finley gave the people what they did not yet know they wanted. She got a lot of flack for it, and a lot of praise, too. Yet neither could stop her from doing whatever it was she decided to do. Had Finley come…
Known as a venue friendly to local artists, Primary Projects doesn’t disappoint with its Art Basel gathering of Miami creatives. The “International Friendship Exhibition”, a group show of 19 artists, including Autumn Casey, Jim Drain, Gavin Perry, Asif Farooq, Magnus Sodamin, Cole Sternberg, Cody Hudson, and Michael Vasquez, is titled…
It feels lazy to call Miami-based artist Jorge Enrique a mixed media artist. He blends image and sculpture so thoroughly it confounds the mind. Look deeper at his three-dimensional works hanging off of walls or stretching up from the ground and you will find elements of photography hidden beneath brush…
As Miley Cyrus twerked and crooned at the Raleigh Hotel last night, on the other side of the beach Brooke Candy tore up the stage at the second annual 2014 Celebration of Women in Art at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa. The event was produced by longtime Lady Gaga…
The name “Peter Marino” was on the well-moisturized lips of every privileged attendee at the New York Times-hosted International Luxury Conference at the Mandarin Oriental in Miami this week. And why wouldn’t it be? Of all the people on display during the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, the architect, art…
While other artists fight for space in Wynwood, the notorious MSG Crew have a 340,000 square foot building to paint however they want. The former Biscayne Plaza, a main site of the Michael Bay action flick Pain & Gain, is now called Midpoint, and as part of its renovation and…
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,…
