If all you do during Art Basel Miami Beach is stick to the big fairs, you might as well call it a day and go back home. Seriously. Some of the best contemporary art we’ve seen during Art Basel has been away from the convention center and tents. Local galleries…
In the bowels of Craigslist, buried in the catacombs of ‘Community’ is an ad with a plaintive plea. “WE NEED A MURAL!” its title reads in all caps. “SHOW US WHAT YOU CAN DO!” It’s a pithy post, no longer than one sentence, with a photo of a long, single-story…
Lofty305 woke up at 9:40 a.m. in his Midtown Manhattan apartment. It was a Monday. He brushed his teeth with non-fluoride toothpaste and rinsed his XS afro with coconut oil. He ate two Butterfingers, worked out at the building’s gym, and snacked on hummus. Then he started painting. He painted…
The art fairs are coming! Seriously, last time we counted, almost 20 major art fairs are setting up shop in Miami and Miami Beach during the first week of December, hoping to make record-breaking sales thanks to the hoopla surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach. And though the Miami Beach Convention…
Wynwood acted as the artistic subject for 25 high school students from the Miami-Dade Public School System as they told their stories through photography last weekend’s Play To Win Foundation’s Through My Lens: Art is Life photography workshop. The teenagers, who came from Allapattah and Overtown, worked with photography mentors…
Tons of new acts come to town during Art Basel Miami Beach, but one returning favorite is the Film sector. This year, curators David Gryn, the director of London’s Artprojx, and Zurich collector, This Brunner, embrace the theme of playfulness. The sector will present more than 80 films and videos…
Since 2008, Design Miami has played with the idea of what makes a tent. Tapping inventive designers to create the entrance to its yearly Art Basel showings, recent entrances include 2012’s giant canopy made of inflatable white columns titled Drift, and 2013’s TENT PILE by formlessfinder, an enormous, pyramid-shaped sand…
This year, our fall Arts & Eats Guide lists all that’s timeless and fresh in Miami, from visual art to delicious food. Theater, dance, music, and drinks all make a much-needed appearance throughout the season as well. Pick up one of our printed guides Thursday, October 2, where you’ll find…
For Fredric Snitzer, the magic has vanished from Miami’s hottest cultural district. The pioneering gallery owner has launched the careers of homegrown talent such as Hernan Bas, Naomi Fisher, and Bert Rodriguez from the Wynwood emporium he opened in 2003. But the increasingly raucous art walk now keeps serious art…
Art Basel Miami Beach announced its 2014 exhibitors this morning, and two Miami players have made the list. No stranger to the Basel center stage, Fredric Snitzer Gallery will return to exhibit in this year’s main gallery section. Snitzer’s presence has come to be expected, as its owner is a…
Art Basel Miami Beach is facing yet another change of hands. Gallerist reports that longtime Basel figure Annette Schönholzer will step down as Director of New Initiatives to pursue other cultural projects. Show manager of the first Art Basel Miami Beach in 2002, and later co-director with Marc Spiegler of…
Mark Twain famously once said that reports of his demise were “greatly exaggerated.” The same could be said of recent reports that Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) is shunning being shoehorned into a smaller space at the Miami Beach Convention Center during its impending 2016-2018 construction. In fact, Art Basel,…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…
Money makes the world go ’round. Nowhere does that ring truer than the gross display of excess and wealth called Art Basel. So leave it to our art director Miche Ratto and photographer Stian Roenning to traverse Wynwood with stacks of (fake) money. Onlookers gawked, velvet ropes disappeared, and taxi…
You know how you spent the past week: the endless art fairs, the busy party schedule, the regrettable mornings waking up next to that guy who convinced your drunk ass he was Banksy the night before. But what was Art Basel like for the VIP set? Judging from these pics,…
The convention center has closed. The fairs are breaking down. This morning, Wynwood is a lot more colorful — and a lot quieter. Art Basel 2013 is officially over. And now it’s time for the rehash. This year’s mega arts fest was arguably the biggest in Miami history, with the…
An elderly art collector, her hair dyed and twisted into a J.M.W. Turner seascape, lowered her cell phone from her ear long enough to listen to the protestors gathered at the entryway to the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. “What is a Reefa?” Her companion, an aubergine-suited man with glossy…
You did it again, Miami. You survived yet another Art Basel — no easy feat in a year that surely was the biggest in the event’s Miami history. You witnessed the opening of PAMM, the highly anticipated anchor to downtown’s new cultural center. You partied with Kevin Spacey and Real…
Julian Charrière recently stood atop an iceberg and melted the whole thing with a blowtorch. The thing is, the photographs of that performance are not even the most arresting work he’s got on display at Dittrich & Schlechtriem’s booth in the Untitled art fair. What is? Probably the machine that…
Have you ever been to the nail spa to get a manicure and felt like you could have gained more from the whole experience other than just freshly polished nails? You could have probably started a new friendship with your manicurist, but maybe there was a language barrier or maybe…
Fashion photography is usually meant to have a lifespan of about a month. Once next month’s issue comes out and next season’s clothes debut the image loses its relevancy. Photography duo Hunter & Gatti, who have shot for Flaunt magazine and international editions of Vogue, decided to find a second…
“Beautiful Handwritten Letters, please hold.” We’ve arrived at the future in the film Her, where we no longer have the need to pen words on paper, but instead pay someone else to do it for us by speaking at a computer. The profession seems to pay well, however, since Joaquin…
