Driving during Art Basel is literally the worst thing. The roads are clogged with outsiders who don’t understand Miami’s rules of the road (there aren’t any, duh), and the congestion is exacerbated by the ceaseless road construction along major connectors like I-95, the Palmetto Expressway, and the Venetian Causeway. So…
Imagine that you’re on your way to see some art, you are only a few miles away from the next gallery on your list — so close you can almost feel it. But, instead of being surrounded by art aficionados and walls of work, you find yourself immersed in a flood…
You’ve made it to Thursday — the weekend is almost in sight and it’s technically only day two of Basel. With all the events taking place, it can be an overwhelming task to try and narrow down the ones worthwhile. That’s what we’re here for. Here are the nine events…
“Make me something I can sell,” berated the disheveled, full-grown man to the prepubescent child before him. “Paint whatever you want, as long as it looks like this,” he instructed to another young protege. It is a ridiculous picture of the art world, but as with any joke, it’s only…
For years, Pulse was relegated to second tier status among the various satellite fairs that flock to Miami Beach during Art Basel. Two years ago, newly appointed director Helen Toomer looked to turn things around for the struggling enterprise. Last year, with a move to Indian Creek Beach on 46th…
Today marks the official start of Miami Art Week as many pop-up fairs around town open to the public and Art Basel invites the press to the convention center a day early. With all the events taking place, it can be an overwhelming task to try and narrow down the…
Longtime friends Tina Paul and Keni Valenti have joined forces to create a Back to the Future Basel experience called “Beyond the Limelight.” At the duo’s exhibit, opening tomorrow at the Museum of Fashion, visitors will journey back to New York City’s nightlife scene from the ’80s and ’90s through…
The YouTube comment section, your Facebook feed, and even just world news headlines can be a scary thing. Sometimes, the Internet doesn’t paint a rosy picture of the world, and though it connects us all, it doesn’t always help us feel closer. That’s where Miami-based online magazine HGAB comes in…
Miami Art Week packs a lot into the first week of December. For locals and visitors alike, it can be pretty overwhelming to shepherd between the different tents and pop-up fairs strewn along Miami Beach, Midtown, Wynwood, Downtown, and Brickell. Here to help you put together an air tight Art…
Thousands of art lovers and party animals from around the globe flock to Miami and Miami Beach this week for the year’s biggest bacchanal. There will be parties on the beach, concerts on every corner, and restaurants opened especially for the event. Millions will be spent on the work of…
“Tattoos have always carried an air of rebellion with them. Throughout history, they have been both demonized and romanticized, and that polarizing effect is what’s so attractive about them,” says Javier Betancourt. A world-renown tattooer and owner of Ocho Placas Tattoo Co., the young man is passionate about tattoos. “The…
During Miami Art Week, anything goes. And despite the artistic free-for-all during the week, ordinary patrons don’t necessarily get to participate. Gawk, drink, and party — sure. But actually make art? Not so much. A new sound art experiment, however, wants the public to get intimately involved. Fordistas is an…
Jenny Brillhart gestures around the stark industrial interior of her Little River studio to explain the visual inspiration for her paintings of cool, dark shapes and empty urban scenes. “My previous work was much more insular within this space only,” Brillhart says, calling the works “pretty abstract.” Fairgoers at Pulse…
Between the selfie sticks, the paparazzi, and the endless Instagram hashtags, Art Basel Miami Beach might be the most narcissistic place on Earth this week. Which is why it’s appropriate that among the highlights at the fair’s 14th edition is a trippy piece by Tomás Saraceno. Titled One Module Cloud…
Firelei Báez’s whole identity is a political tug-of-war. Born to a Dominican mother and a father of Haitian descent, the 34-year-old artist and self-described “Caribbean hybrid” was raised in Dajabón, a market city on the Dominican Republic’s border with Haiti. As a child, Báez recalls seeing the landscapes of both…
Devonté Hynes has a fraught relationship with Miami. The last time the London-born singer, better known as Blood Orange, was in town in 2013, he was outside the Electric Pickle when police raided the club over a liquor license issue. When he tried to retrieve his equipment inside, an officer…
Chickens poke around in the grass as cars fly down NW Second Avenue past a bustling laundromat, botanicas packed with votive candles and cascarilla, and — just near 63rd Street — the neon-purple ampersand in a window that marks the contemporary art gallery on the corner. The gallery is the…
With projections putting significant swathes of South Florida underwater within the next 100 years, MDC Live Arts’ presentation of “Holoscenes” seems particularly prescient. Taking place on the Wolfson Campus’ Kyriakides Plaza over the course of Miami Art Week, the exhibition is a performance installation that explores life underwater. Spanning the…
Every year, it seems the “art” of Art Basel becomes ever more eclipsed by parties, but what if the art was the party? Such is the mission of Basel House, a one-stop shop for day-to-night action in the form of live mural painting, live music, good food, friends, and fun…
In typical big city fashion, Miami isn’t giving anybody a breather between all the holiday happenings. Hydrate and flush out that Thanksgiving tryptophan, ’cause it’s Miami Art Week. Whether you keep it all museums all the time or bounce from fair to fair, the annual Art Basel madness is officially…
Move over Basel, there’s a new art fair in town. The brainchild of New York creative collective FAME, Superfine! House of Art & Design will showcase a curated line-up of independent designers and visual artists who blur the lines between art and design. With a goal of fostering accessibility while…
Art Basel Miami Beach eclipses most of the events surrounding the first week in December. Yet, despite the financial heft carried on by the behemoth, the satellite art fairs, gallery and museum shows, and various other functions that surround ABMB actually fall under the auspices of Miami Art Week. At…
