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Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: B-52s monkey around, channelling Marina Abramović and the Pérez gets its funk on Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 blog Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: B-52s monkey around, channelling Marina Abramović and the Pérez gets its funk on Plus: Scope gets in a pickle(ball), Perrotin says do look up and Elberto Muller takes the slow train The Art Newspaper 9 December 2023 Share Kate Pierson, singer with the 1980s band the B-52s, with one of the works on show at the Spectrum Miami art fair that were jointly created by band members and a group of chimps...
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Political art stays peripheral at Art Basel in Miami Beach Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Political art stays peripheral at Art Basel in Miami Beach Fair’s stands largely remain neutral despite multiple hot-topic issues in the world today Gareth Harris and Tim Schneider 9 December 2023 Share Julie Buffalohead’s Our Bodies Our Choice , in the Meridians section, references wide-ranging injustices against Native Americans Photo: Liliana Mora Should art engage with politics or offer an escape from politics? This is the question dealers, artists and collectors have tended to face in the run-up to Art Basel in Miami Beach from its very first outing...
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Delayed gratification for Miami’s new Museum of Sex Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Museums & Heritage news Delayed gratification for Miami’s new Museum of Sex Postponed until January, the Florida outpost of the beloved New York institution will open with wet, wild and scholarly exhibits Elena Goukassian 9 December 2023 Share Hajime Sorayama, Untitled ( 2020) © Hajime Sorayama, courtesy Nanzuka Whether you are looking for a live, underwater “mermaid” show or just want to learn what the history of sex toy packaging can tell us about changing sexual mores, Miami’s forthcoming Museum of Sex aims to satisfy...
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In pictures: Art Basel in Miami Beach's Meridians section features big works tackling big topics Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature In pictures: Art Basel in Miami Beach's Meridians section features big works tackling big topics Curator Magalí Arriola picks out some highlights from the fair's large-scale presentation Elena Goukassian 9 December 2023 Share Lee Mullican, Entrance of the Entertainers (1984-85) Liliana Mora Although this year’s Meridians section at Art Basel in Miami Beach lacks an official theme, many of its large-scale works reference some sort of metaphorical largeness—whether global connectivity, the environment or the universal language of music...
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In pictures: focus on Caribbean artists Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature In pictures: focus on Caribbean artists María Elena Ortiz, curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, picks her favourite works at Art Basel in Miami Beach Alexander Morrison 9 December 2023 Share April Bey, COLONIAL SWAG: Not Conceited, CONVINCED! (2023) © Liliana Mora María Elena Ortiz is a trailblazing curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (the Modern), but she also has close ties to South Florida...
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‘Silence is unacceptable’: artists gather outside Art Basel in Miami Beach to protest ongoing war in Gaza Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news ‘Silence is unacceptable’: artists gather outside Art Basel in Miami Beach to protest ongoing war in Gaza Art community joins South Florida Coalition for Palestine's demonstration outside the fair Anny Shaw 9 December 2023 Share Activists protesting outside the convention centre on Friday were closely watched by dozens of police officers © Liliana Mora More than 100 Miami-based artists and members of the South Florida Coalition for Palestine, which includes groups such as the Jewish Voice for Peace, gathered outside Art Basel in Miami Beach on Friday afternoon to protest what they describe as “Israel’s genocidal campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza...
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Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling makes a Miami Beach cameo Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling makes a Miami Beach cameo A self-portrait by Jesse Darling, who won the prestigious British award this week, is on sale at Chapter NY gallery Gareth Harris 9 December 2023 Share Jesse Darling, O Cowardly Word , 2022 Courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY, New York A self-portrait by the Turner prize winner Jesse Darling is available with Chapter NY gallery at Art Basel in Miami Beach...
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In pictures: Design Miami makes a stand Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature In pictures: Design Miami makes a stand Furniture clad in shingles, a tiger with a ceramic coat and a chair made of chains are some of the highlights of Design Miami 2023 Carlie Porterfield 9 December 2023 Share Visitors to Design Miami at one of the 50-plus stands at this year's edition Photo: Liliana Mora The 19th iteration of Design Miami, the city’s leading design fair, kicked off on Tuesday with more than 50 stands dedicated to furniture, homewares, ceramics and more...
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Sallisa Rosa: ‘The audience can remember what the earth feels like’ Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 interview Sallisa Rosa: ‘The audience can remember what the earth feels like’ The Brazilian artist’s first solo US project, an Audemars Piguet Contemporary commission, turns the Collins Park Rotunda into a cavern of clay Gabriella Angeleti 9 December 2023 Share Sallisa Rosa's Miami installation will be part of next year's inaugural programming at the Pina Contemporânea in São Paulo Courtesy the artist and Audemars Piguet In her first solo presentation in the US, the Brazilian artist Sallisa Rosa has created an immersive installation made from ceramics concocted from raw materials gathered in Rio de Janeiro, where she is based...
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Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach The purchase is part of the city’s annual programme to acquire a work from Art Basel in Miami Beach Elena Goukassian 9 December 2023 Share A visitor to Art Basel in Miami Beach looks at Anneke Eussen’s It’s Alright (2023) on Document's stand Liliana Mora The citizens of Miami Beach have spoken, and the annual municipal Legacy Purchase Program selection from this year’s Art Basel in Miami Beach fair is Anneke Eussen’s It’s Alright (2023), a wall-mounted sculpture that will join previously acquired works on permanent display at the Miami Beach Convention Center...
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Marcela Cantuária: ‘I want to make life from the painting’ Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 interview Marcela Cantuária: ‘I want to make life from the painting’ For her first solo show in North America, the Brazilian artist has created fantastical portraits of heroic women, from the Amazon to Florida Theo Belci 9 December 2023 Share Marcela Cantuária's first solo show in North America is at the Pérez Art Museum Miami Photo: Priscilla Haefeli/CLAUDIA/Courtesy of the artist and A Gentil Carioca In The South American Dream , Marcela Cantuária takes the opportunity to view her native continent from afar, painting familiar subjects for a new US audience...
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Ron DeSantis’s ‘war on woke’ goes to college Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature Ron DeSantis’s ‘war on woke’ goes to college The Florida governor’s recent education reforms are damaging arts and humanities programmes across the state—but educators and students are fighting back Carolina Ana Drake 9 December 2023 Share Art student Annie Dong’s mural at the New College of Florida was one of five that were painted over by a new politicised college administration Courtesy of the artist Colleges and universities throughout Florida have been feeling the weight of Governor Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke,” a politically conservative plan to reform the state’s public education system that many see as an assault on academic freedom...
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about 10 months ago (12/08/2023)
Art Basel serves up a croc of gold with its reptile-themed art Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Art Basel serves up a croc of gold with its reptile-themed art Mind your step: in true Floridian style, a number of works at this year’s fair take crocodiles or alligators as their subjects Alexander Morrison 8 December 2023 Share Florian Krewer, winding (2023) © Liliana Mora Florian Krewer, winding (2023), Michael Werner Gallery The New York-based artist Florian Krewer uses animal motifs to “convey emotions he could not physically put into people”, says Michael Werner Gallery’s Birte Kleemann...
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'Collecting art by women is an integral component of my process': Darlene Pérez on why she waited for a Lee Krasner work Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 interview 'Collecting art by women is an integral component of my process': Darlene Pérez on why she waited for a Lee Krasner work One-half of the couple behind the Pérez Art Museum Miami will never tire of Monet's Water Lilies Benjamin Sutton 8 December 2023 Share As well as providing the Pérez Art Museum Miami with $75m and 200 works from their collection, Darlene and Jorge Pérez support many local arts organisations Darlene Pérez, together with her real-estate developer husband Jorge, is a major force in Miami’s cultural scene...
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After the boom and bust, an era of ‘greater maturity’ for art and the blockchain? Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature After the boom and bust, an era of ‘greater maturity’ for art and the blockchain? Despite the collapse of the NFT market and scandals involving cryptocurrency exchanges, experts still see potential in the technologies’ potential art world applications Daniel Grant 8 December 2023 Share Arcual CEO Bernadine Bröcker Wieder in conversation with the artist Simon Denny for Arcual Reflections Photo: Gloria Soverini Not that long ago, early adopters of cryptocurrencies and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) were riding high....
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Space race fakery, a CIA manual and a 10ft man: group show in Florida reveals the art of deception Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 review Space race fakery, a CIA manual and a 10ft man: group show in Florida reveals the art of deception Boca Raton Museum of Art exhibition explores the evolution of illusion through a contemporary lens Torey Akers 8 December 2023 Share A fibreglass Merma (2022), incorporating a video projection performance by Dominique Bousquet, is part of Tony Oursler’s Creature Features installation Tony Oursler As Miami Art Week winds down, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is keeping the magic going with an enchanted offering: Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art , a thematic exhibition that seeks truth through the lens of deception...
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Miami-based artists and arts organisations grapple with gentrification Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature Miami-based artists and arts organisations grapple with gentrification Those responsible for building Miami's vibrant art scene are struggling to pay for housing and workspaces Carolina Ana Drake 8 December 2023 Share Charles Humes Jr.'s Pork & Beans Please (2021) Courtesy of the artist Between 2020 to 2022, the population of Florida grew by 707,000, according to US Census data ...
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Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres wins French art prize Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres wins French art prize CPGA-Etant donnés Prize is awarded to artists either from or working in France Carlie Porterfield 8 December 2023 Share Mor Charpentier’s Alex Mor and Philippe Charpentier (fourth and fifth from left) collect Otero Torres’s prize Courtesy French Professional Committee of Art Galleries (CPGA) and Villa Albertine The Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres, who lives and works in Paris, has been named the winner of this year’s CPGA-Etant donnés Prize, awarded by two French art bodies to promote France’s art scene to international audiences at Art Basel in Miami Beach, among other venues...
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Girls on top: wrestling smackdown draws the Art Week Miami crowds Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Girls on top: wrestling smackdown draws the Art Week Miami crowds Sukeban, a group of Japanese women wrestlers, drew the crowds to a skatepark under an overpass at one of Art Week Miami’s more unusual events Gareth Harris 8 December 2023 Share Dressed to kill: Bingo, one of the competitors in the Sukeban Collective wrestling tournament on Wednesday night Deonté Lee/BFA.com It was a first for Art Week Miami: a Japanese women’s wrestling event held in a skatepark in the city’s downtown area...
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Miami Advice: Shantelle Rodriguez on Isamu Noguchi’s Slide Mantra Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 interview Miami Advice: Shantelle Rodriguez on Isamu Noguchi’s Slide Mantra Superblue's director of experiential art centres explains why the playful bayfront sculpture holds a special place in her heart Tim Schneider 8 December 2023 Share Slide Mantra featured in Noguchi’s US Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale—the first by a single US artist © Phillip Pessar Isamu Noguchi created Slide Mantra (1986) as the centrepiece of his solo exhibition in the US Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale, the first edition of the event at which the Americans had devoted their space to a single artist...
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Surrealist Leonor Fini makes a Miami Beach splash Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Surrealist Leonor Fini makes a Miami Beach splash Amid surging interest in women Surrealists, Galerie Minsky and Weinstein Gallery devoted their joint stand to the Argentine painter Carlie Porterfield 8 December 2023 Share Leonor Fini, Portrait of Lady Diana Cooper , 1941 Courtesy Galerie Minsky, Paris One of the buzziest stands at this year’s Art Basel in Miami Beach is dedicated to Leonor Fini ...
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Philanthropy reinvented for a new generation of collectors—now with financial perks Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Philanthropy reinvented for a new generation of collectors—now with financial perks New charitable schemes mirror shifts in attitudes to collecting and giving among younger art buyers Anny Shaw 8 December 2023 Share Mark Handworth’s Harlequin Star (2023) sold for $135,000 through Access by Art Basel with a $13,500 donation Photo: Liliana Mora The art market is not famed for its conscience, but new initiatives being launched at Art Basel in Miami Beach and beyond signal a shift in behaviour and attitudes towards philanthropic and socially-driven finance models, particularly among younger collectors...
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about 10 months ago (12/07/2023)
Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: George Clinton is in the pink, Alex Israel chills out, and life models draw a (drawing) crowd Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 blog Art Basel in Miami Beach Diary: George Clinton is in the pink, Alex Israel chills out, and life models draw a (drawing) crowd Plus: a million reasons to score at basketball, Hew Locke's golden opportunity, and your chance to win a koala The Art Newspaper 7 December 2023 Share Reasons to be cheerful: George Clinton in front of his work Evolutionary Directory: Which way do you want to be “what”? at Jeffrey Deitch’s stand...
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Art history meets Lego in two of Ai Weiwei’s latest works Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Art history meets Lego in two of Ai Weiwei’s latest works Chinese artist recreates two famous historic paintings using the hundreds of thousands of Lego bricks Alexander Morrison 7 December 2023 Share Ai Weiwei’s version of Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus is at Galleria Continua Photo: © Liliana Mora Visitors to Art Basel in Miami Beach making their way past Galleria Continua’s stand this week may find themselves doing a double take, as they encounter what looks like the Renaissance painter Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus (1510) made supersize...
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Stars come out for Art Basel in Miami Beach's VIP day Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Stars come out for Art Basel in Miami Beach's VIP day The fair's preview draws a celebrity crowd including Shakira and Jared Leto Gareth Harris 7 December 2023 Share Shakira was one of the celebrities spotted at Art Basel’s VIP preview © Liliana Mora The celebrity count was high at the VIP preview of Art Basel in Miami Beach yesterday, with the pop star Shakira, the supermodel Cindy Crawford and the tennis star Serena Williams all making an appearance at the fair...
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Miami Advice: Nina Johnson on the Spear House of North Bayshore Drive Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 interview Miami Advice: Nina Johnson on the Spear House of North Bayshore Drive The gallerist says that the pretty-in-pink property exudes the quintessential 1980s South Florida vibe that still resonates today Tim Schneider 7 December 2023 Share Laurinda Spear’s original plan, created with Rem Koolhaas, was rejected by the client: her parents Photo: Elizabeth Whiting Located at 9325 North Bayshore Drive, in the Miami Shores neighbourhood, the Spear House (aka the Pink House) looms large in the cultural imagination of South Florida...
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'It takes an entire year to produce a fair and then it’s over': Jeffrey Lawson on the post-Art Week blues Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 interview 'It takes an entire year to produce a fair and then it’s over': Jeffrey Lawson on the post-Art Week blues The founder of Untitled Art Fair is guided by his wife's less impulsive approach to buying Benjamin Sutton 7 December 2023 Share Jeff Lawson launched Untitled Art Fair in 2012 Image courtesy Jeff Lawson Although his primary home is in Connecticut, Jeff Lawson, the founder of the Untitled Art fair, is something of an honorary Miamian...
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How does art survive a hurricane? Behind the measures Florida museums are taking to withstand extreme weather Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 feature How does art survive a hurricane? Behind the measures Florida museums are taking to withstand extreme weather With Florida’s rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms, the art world is waking up to the need to plan for the worst Aimee Dawson 7 December 2023 Share In 2022 Hurricane Ian caused severe flooding in Key Largo....
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First-time exhibitors praise Art Basel in Miami Beach, saying the expense and effort pays dividends Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news First-time exhibitors praise Art Basel in Miami Beach, saying the expense and effort pays dividends Most agree that, for US galleries at least, the Florida fair is an unmissable destination Tim Schneider 7 December 2023 Share Norberto Roldan’s 100 Altars for Roberto Chabet / NO...
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Pérez Art Museum Miami acquires Colombian trans activist’s portrait at Nada Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023 news Pérez Art Museum Miami acquires Colombian trans activist’s portrait at Nada Photograph by Camila Falquez shows coffee picker Samantha Siagama Benjamin Sutton 7 December 2023 Share Samantha Siagama advocates for a group of trans women exiled from the Emberá Indigenous community Courtesy the artist and Hannah Traore Gallery The Pérez Art Museum Miami has acquired a work for its permanent collection from the New Art Dealers Alliance’s (Nada) Miami fair ...