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…
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…
Those passing by the Greenview Hotel this weekend might be alerted to the art show inside by the fact that there’s a bed cloaked in silver glitter sitting on the little outdoor patio. Then again, with all the deliciously nutty sights Art Basel brings to our sunny little town (including…
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…
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…
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…
Last year the Fountain Art Fair raised eyebrows when a crew of scruffy performance types rolled a car onto the lawn inside which a couple engaged in steamy sex acts before collaborators demolished the vehicle with sledgehammers and set it ablaze. The performance was presented by Brooklyn’s Grace Exhibition Space…
A dozen rows of 220 upright empty toilet paper rolls are lined up neatly against one another on a wood table. The center of the cardboard cylinders are stuffed with crumpled up pieces of even more empty toilet paper rolls. Los Angeles gallery owner Mihai Nicodim, a silver fox with…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hotel art typically sucks–at least at the joints we’ve stayed at. Crap watercolored landscapes, generic photographs of generic stuff like clouds and hills, and tacky vases on formica nightstands often make us want to vomit. However there’s one hotel that really knows art–the Aqua. And each year during Basel, the…
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…
When Mac Premo, a D.C.-born, RISD-educated artist, was forced to move to a new, smaller studio space in Brooklyn, he came to a terrible realization: There was no way he could bring along the hundreds of objects he’d accumulated, from dusty baseball cards to antique cans to torn hats. Premo…
George Sanchez-Calderon is no stranger to Basel headlines. He made news during an early incarnation of ABMB installing a carnival midway at the Buena Vista rail yard replete with a soaring 60-foot Ferris wheel. Shit, long before the Swiss arrived in the Big Mango, homeboy George was craning the 305’s…
Artist and curator Jillian Hernandez is showing how women take the ordinary and make it extraordinary at her group show Everyday Charms screening at O Cinema. Though, she says there’s no specific gender component to the exhibition, all the artists happen to be women. The videos she’s chosen to screen will…
View more photos from Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 here.”I haven’t seen this much pussy all year,” we told our colleague as we were exiting the Miami Beach Convention Center for Art Basel Miami Beach’s Vernissage Wednesday night. There were enough uses of female genitalia to fill The Vagina Monologues.As…
If you happened to visit New York City last summer, you might have seen the street pianos, painted by New York artists, that popped up on the streets, free for all to play. The project, inspired by artist Luke Jerram and overseen by arts group Sing for Hope, inspired spin-off…
It’s technically day one, but the madness has already begun. We’ve seen buck naked supervillains. We’ve seen flashy disco flooring. We’ve even seen photo evidence of Andy Warhol looking relatively normal. It’s a lot to take in. Can you even handle any more Basel?Of course you can, especially with so…
Art Basel is back, bringing with it the same fancy faces and high art madness. An this week of culture isn’t all about graffiti or murals in Wynwood — the Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, made sure to put on a Basel bash with style. Last night, in cool weather…
Boasting a rainbow circle of brain toads, a coffin full of pharmaceuticals, cash money, bullets and condoms, not to mention a swami fortune teller greeting visitors at the entrance, the Scope Art Fair returns for its eleventh edition to remind us of the circus tent atmosphere we tropical culture vultures…
