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  ARTS

  The business behind the artist: Miami’s art gallery scene still evolving

  While Art Basel has helped transform Miami’s reputation from beach-and-party scene to arts destination, the region’s gallery identity is still coming into its own.

• ART BASEL

  Art Miami buys Aqua Miami

  One of the largest satellite art fairs buys a smaller one in South Beach to get a foothold in the lower end of the market.

• In My Opinion

  Fabiola Santiago: Art Basel visitors should chip in to Miami’s future

  Miami deserves an iconic Museum Park in its downtown.
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  Art week miami

  Art Week Miami gets off to a busy start

  At satellite fairs from Midtown to Miami Beach, art lovers started gorging early on a vibrant — and overwhelming — selection of work.
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  ART BASEL WEEK

  Miami real estate promoters target art patrons

  Developers and real estate agents see a beautiful opportunity for marketing to the affluent crowds at Art Basel and satellite art fairs.
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  Art Basel

  YogArt returns to Art Basel

  YogArt, one of Art Basel’s more popular events last year in its inaugural run, returns Thursday at a new setting, The Wynwood Walls, 167 NE 25th St., Miami
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  street art

  Five Banksy works in dispute and not for sale at Art Miami

  An exhibition of murals created by the enigmatic artist Banksy will go on exhibit in Art Miami. The artist says the gallery has no right to sell the works, which were once on public walls and signs. The gallerist says he can do as he pleases.
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  Satellite

  Satellite fairs booming during Art Basel Miami Beach

  Satellite fairs continue to boom during Basel week, with ambitious expansions at anchor fairs and the addition of more than half a dozen new offerings in Miami and Miami Beach.
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  art basel notebook

  An insider’s view of Art Week Miami

  Art Week Miami has kicked off as perhaps it always should but never has: with a tribute to the city’s arts-loving pioneers.
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  ART BASEL

  Miami company provides big, temporary spaces for events during Art Basel

  Miami’s Midtown is being transformed with huge tents that will house art fairs during Art Basel week, and some of those pavilions will stay in place afterward to lure additional events.
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  Miami

  In Miami, culture begets more culture with Art Basel arrival

  From YoungArts and Museum Park, to the Arsht Center and — of course — Art Basel, Miami continues to mature as a center for culture and creativity.
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  MIAMI

  Famed street artists turn Miami’s neglected Park West district into a brightly colored canvas

  Famed street artists such as Shepard Fairey and Los Angeles’ Risk are covering nine walls in Miami’s Park West neighborhood with graffiti-style murals.
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  Art Reviews

  Kicking it up a notch

  Impressive exhibits at Locust Projects, Vizcaya show how Art Basel has spurred local venues to up their game
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  Art meets the mall: shopping during Art Basel Week

  Worn out with art? Take a break with shopping of different sort.
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  Art and design showcased in the Design District

  A neighborhood buzzing with new retail and restaurants celebrates art, design and culture during Art Week.
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  IN MEMORIAM

  Tony Goldman transformed Wynwood, South Beach and New York’s SoHo

  Tony Goldman was a visionary developer and preservationist who saw bright futures for blighted neighborhoods.
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  CITY SCAPES

  Art Basel Miami Beach: All the town’s a canvas

  For South Floridians, the best thing about Art Basel Miami Beach and the events that surround it is that it is all right here. We need go no farther that a few miles to experience every aspect of the contemporary art world. In fact, no other art event worldwide offers such a plethora of opportunities to see the good, and yes the bad, the ugly and the simply bizarre.
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  Art Basel: Owning art isn’t just for the wealthy

  Miami art collector Dennis Scholl remembers his first purchase. It was 1978. He was 23 years old. And he was immediately smitten with a Robert Motherwell lithograph, ‘Brushstroke,’ which he negotiated down to $157.
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  305-ARTISTS

  Miami artists sometimes overlooked at Art Basel Miami Beach

  In the madness of Art Basel Miami Beach, work from Miami artists sometimes gets lost in the heap of art and the hype of it all. But a number of our most intriguing artists (along with several former residents) will pop up in a variety of venues this year. As you traipse through the fairs, galleries, centers and museums, make it a mission to scout out the latest creations from these artists.
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  PARTY SCENE

  Art Basel Week: Where performance art meets progress

  At times it seems that Art Basel Miami Beach is about the performance art of parties, with VIPs real and tenuous in a mad crush to be at the next hot party. The mad crush is kind of fun too, and this year’s sort-of-VIP line-up is promising, with soirees ranging from a Princess Alia Al Senussi reception at W South Beach Hotel to a cocktail party put on by the Christie’s art auction house at the SLS hotel on South Beach.
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  Global design forum grows program with new exhibitors, presentation

  Even as Marianne Goebl milled around her design fair last year, even as she chatted with the gallerists and worked the crowd, part of her was far, far away — in the fall of 2012.
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  Art Basel

  Young local artists focus on Art Basel crowd

  With Art Basel Miami Beach opening this week, Juan Fernando "Buddah Funk" Gomez is in overdrive. The artist has been busy affixing his gold and black oil-based butterflies, flowers and lizards onto galleries, restaurants, bars, carefully brushing them with wheat paste to stick to the high-profile walls.
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  ART BASEL

  Art Basel, satellite events gear up to take over Miami-Dade

  The art world descends on Miami-Dade in a matter of weeks for Art Basel Miami Beach and surrounding fairs.

• WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT

  Art Basel Miami Beach: Yogurt for breakfast at the Rubells'

  Every year during Art Basel Miami Beach, the Rubells, Miami's foremost art-collecting clan, invite guests to their 45,000-square-foot Wynwood home/museum for an artful breakfast. Last year the fare was oatmeal, and you served yourself through a ritualized process that featured mounds of spoons and sugar packets, stacks of bowls, rows of milk, and a phalanx of crock pots -- each component a dwindling sculpture.

• ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

  Andy Warhol at Art Basel Miami Beach (VIDEO)

  In the late '60s, Andy Warhol famously prophesied that, in the future, everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes. With reality television making, breaking, and forsaking "everyone"s with brutal speed, YouTube giving hope to anyone with the dream of landing a mention on Tosh.0, and Twitter putting celebrity/infamy a mere 140 characters away, Warhol's prediction was dead on.

• ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

  Miami graffiti artist: Art Basel leaves local artists in the cold

  Art Basel brings international artists, dealers and galleries to Miami by the thousands, but where does local art fit in?

• ART BASEL

  Art Basel satellite fairs: Design Miami presents Buckminster Fuller exhibition

  If you've passed through the Design District in the last week, you probably noticed a seemingly alien spacecraft in an open field at 39th Street and First Court.

• WYNWOOD

  Art Basel preview: 'American Exuberance' at the Rubell Family Collection

  "Exuberance" is one of the many "e"-words that aptly describe Art Basel Miami Beach, both the fair itself and the larger, enveloping phenomenon it encompasses. Indeed, "enveloping", "encompassing", "endless", and "exhibitionist" are also apt "e"s, as are "extravagant", "elephantine", and, ultimately, "exhausting".

• ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

  A blogger's guide to Art Basel

  Have you noticed the increasingly pungent smell of French perfume in the Miami breeze? The sudden proliferation of scarves and Bauhaus eyewear? Yes, Art Basel Week is underway. With art world jet-setters converging on Miami like a volley of exquisitely tailored arrows, there is more action coming our way than in a Bruce Willis movie co-starring Jackie Chan. For those of you still hammering out your ABMB plans, the following links may help out.

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