Miami could easily be described as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. What with the drugs, the sex, the booze, the corruption — need we go on? And the fact that we’re all such depraved sinners makes the upcoming appearance of Peter Anton’s Sugar & Gomorrah roller coaster installation particularly apt…
Seven years ago, Miami-based architect Luis Pons unveiled the “Fabulous Floating Inflatable Villa” at Art Basel 2005. Floating proudly offshore in Miami, the over-the-top, gargantuan inflated pavilion aimed to critique the McMansion culture of the day, arguing that the real estate bubble had caused Miamians to lose sight of detail…
Things you’ll see at Art Basel: Tight dresses. Flamboyant suits. Artsy types speaking theatrically. Sinister-looking dudes with goatees.Things you’ll see at Club Silencio, the freaky nightspot in David Lynch’s 2001 film Mulholland Drive: pretty much those same things.So it’s only natural that Silencio, the real-life Paris nightclub version of that…
As Art Basel looms for the 10th year in Miami Beach, WLRN will air an hour-long documentary on its influence on the Miami art scene. Through the eyes of several local artists and art scene movers and shakers, Rising Tide: A Story of Miami Artists presents a brisk, hour-long overview…
Wynwood Walls, the fascinating “outdoor museum” imagined into reality by the late Tony Goldman, will honor the visionary with its Art Basel program this year, entitled “Come and Dream.” A host of new elements, including a new exhibition of works, the debut of an augmented reality application, and a new…
An evening many assumed would be a run of the mill art showcase turned out to be anything but, as the curators of the Bass Museum of Art had attendees marching around the building grounds, into the streets, and finally depositing the group at a gas pump.The museum’s Temporary Contemporary exhibit,…
It wasn’t long ago that Miami didn’t have much of an art scene. That was before Art Basel took root, before Rebeca Raney left Miami in 1999 to go to college. By the time the scene got going in earnest, Raney was off living in New England.But in all that…
During Art Basel, Miamians take great pride in the art flying in from all parts of the world. It’s a chance for us to show up everyone who thinks we’re just a place for the Kardashians and Jersey Shore to capitalize on our nightlife and say, “Hey, we’re cultured too.”…
There aren’t many people who could pull off a Transformers-style switcharoo of a South Beach hotel into a big, black dog. But avant-garde artist Desi Santiago is about to do just that for this year’s Art Basel extravaganza. See also: – Giant Psychic Dog to Take Over Lords South Beach…
Art Basel is less than two months away, and the 2012 edition is on course to turn Miami into a living museum of publicly accessible art. In what may be the wildest installation of the year, Lords South Beach hotel will be turning into a massive, macabre pet. The LGBT…
During Art Basel week in Miami each year, one exhibit or art project is so eye-catching, so intriguing, or so visible that it becomes emblematic of that year’s cultural festivities. Think Miru Kim’s naked stint in a Primary Projects pigsty in 2011, or the giant pink snails of 2010.In 2012,…
Studio Acconci, the architecture and design firm run by 72-year-old New York designer and artist Vito Acconci, was named last night as Design Miami’s Designer of the Year for its 2012 edition coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach in December.See also:- Design Miami 2012 Visitors Will Enter Beneath a Giant…
As Mitt Romney and Barack Obama spar week after week over unemployment rates and job creation, maybe they should both look to the Miami art market as a model for economic revitalization.Consider this year’s looming Art Basel Miami Beach, which will bring another rush of new events, new jobs, and…
It’s a cutthroat game, this art business. Especially in Miami’s increasingly busy art scene during the increasingly crowded annual Art Basel week. And according to The Art Newspaper, the drama has already begun.TAN reports that NADA Miami Beach sent a letter to its exhibitors earlier this month asking for exclusivity…
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…
They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. But rubies, opals, sapphires, emeralds and platinum will do in a pinch. So if you’ve got big bucks and a special lady in your life, the International Contemporary Jewelry Fair (ICJF) is the perfect place to score big points.See also:- MIA’s Seafair…
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s….Well, it’s a plane. But it’s also a work of art.That’s the idea behind “Plane Text,” an art project headed to Miami Beach during Art Basel this year, in which the planes that usually fly banners promoting cheap drinks…
This morning, Art Basel Miami Beach announced its gallery selections for the fair coming up this December. Amid scores of art spaces from New York, London, Paris, and beyond, just one Miami gallery made the most exclusive cut.Of the 201 exhibitors selected to show at Art Basel’s main gallery sector…
See New Art Basel Satellite Fair to Install Swimming Pool in the Miami River.Public art installations during Art Basel are nothing new. (Think: pink snails; pop-up pianos.) But this year, perhaps more than any edition of the art fest in the past, those installations are literally diving right into the…
During the first week of December each year, Scope art fair ranks among the most prestigious of the Art Basel satellite events. And this year, thanks to a new partnership with cable TV station VH1, it’ll also be the most musical.When the giant tent that houses Scope goes up in…
Conception of Miami River Pool by artist Dr. Petra Liebl-OsborneSee Art Basel 2011’s winners and losers.As Art Basel, the crown jewel of all South Florida art events since 2002, continues to gain notoriety worldwide, it only makes sense that the event’s influence continues to spread its tendrils to every reach…
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…
