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…
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…
