If you were one of the chosen, here's how you experienced Friday morning's brunch to present The Prisoner's Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection at CIFO, an Art Basel highlight every year, and an out-of-the-ballpark experience this year.
Call it a tempest in a bikini top. When Olaf Breuning's sand sculpture of a reclining woman was first proposed for Art Basel's Art Projects series in September, Miami Beach officials were so concerned by the depiction of her ample and amply revealed upper body that they asked that she be covered up. With a bikini top.
CasaLin is a private house in Wynwood, but during Art Basel its yard becomes an outdoor art gallery. (The place is owned by Miami collector Lin Lougheed, who rents it to an amenable family.) During the Basel hullabaloo, the yard offers a welcome respite.
There's art aplenty inside the Miami Art Museum: the Objects of Value exhibition exploring how society assigns worth; the maze-like Chantal Akerman video installation and Yinke Shonibare's joyous A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child, featuring bright Victorian- inspired sculptures of bicyle-powered flying machines invoking the potential of flight, the promise of immigration and the magic of Miami. Thursday night, the thousands at MAM's Art Basel party were also treated to art outside on...
Life stylist Jennifer Rubell, along with domino mag, hosted a breakfast for art fans at the Rubell Family Collection on Thursday that brought back childhood memories of school mornings.
Marilyn Manson's shock tactics worked again. With art, this time. Manson, real name Brian Hugh Warner, showed up at the media preview of Trismegistus at 101 Exhibit in Miami's Design District Thursday night. Most, if not all, the works in the collection were of grisly figures and ghostly, often bloody apparitions. But who would expect anything else?
Finally, the champagne flowed at a recession-era Basel party. A giant fountain featuring giant flutes bubbled over with bubbly, and waiters cased the sandy ''oasis'' behind the Raleigh with chilled bottles of Krug that seemed in ample supply.
The future, with all its unknowables, can cause us to dream or to feel anxiety. These disparate reactions to the future are the central theme in the exhibition, The Possibility of Island, which opened Thursday at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Wynwood annex, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse.
A who's who of South Florida's design community -- and Ivana Trump -- attended Paperlove, Luminaire's annual art exhibit-slash-fundraiser for UM's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The future, with all its unknowables, can cause us to dream or to feel anxiety. These disparate reactions to the future are the central theme in the exhibition The Possibility of an Island, which opened Thursday at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Wynwood annex, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse.
Art Positions, the 20 galleries and shipping containers assembled in Miami Beach's Collins Park, opened Wednesday night with an ice theme that featured white floors with black geometric designs and white foam sculptures that resembled ice formations. WPS1 from New York provided the trippy soundtrack.
Satellite events that depend on Art Basel's spillover crowds, publicity and funds could have a harder time this year as the art economy shrinks.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but looking at some of the artworks shown over the years at Art Basel Miami Beach, you may find yourself wondering if the art world needs glasses. For casual viewers, figuring out why a urinal painted red or a precisely arranged stack of plywood is ''art'' can be downright mystifying.
Art Basel signed a three-year deal to stay in Miami Beach just as the popular arts fair gets it way with hotels that are lowering rates.
Fashion lovers may want to head to the second annual In Fashion Photo, an exhibit featuring some 250 works by more than 35 top fashion photographers, including Slim Aarons, Miles Aldridge and Bettina Rheims.
At the opening preview for Art Asia, a new contemporary Asian art fair in Miami's Midtown, 44 galleries showed works from countries including Japan, India, South Korea, Indonesia and the Netherlands.
Was the work of art by John Legend or a housewife in Davie? Guests at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach's Masters Mystery Art Show Wednesday night weren't sure -- that's what made it fun.
A day after ordering an artist in South Florida for Art Basel to remove a floating display from the coastal waters off Miami Beach, the U.S. Coast Guard issued a statement Wednesday defending its order and insisting the artist still has a chance to get his work back on the water.
Kelly Klein, ex-wife of Calvin, has explored swimming pools, underwear and crosses in previous coffee table books. She takes on horses in a hefty, $150 tome (Rizzoli) that some partygoers at a Raleigh hotel cocktail party Wednesday evening carted away two and three copies at a time. Things are tough all over, so the book wasn't a freebie. But Basel-going guests of the book signing, hosted by Raleigh owner Andre Balazs, seemed happy to pull out credit cards.
Despite a rough patch for show sponsor UBS, its annual client dinner for 800 featured a menu of stone crabs and super jumbo shrimp -- but no caviar in these rugged times. The firm cut back on the number of events it hosted this year, said a spokesman, and instead focused on the dinner, held on the beach in a massive tent fitted with hip lounge-style furniture.
Art at the Chapel is a modest but moving exhibit by five Miami artists at San Juan Bautista, a neighborhood church tucked into a gritty sliver of Wynwood where one homeless woman rests on a plastic carton, her gaze lost to the horizon, and another talks to herself under a No Parking sign.
Four-year-old Design Miami has come of age -- and so has the Design District in which it sits. The design fair has moved from the vertical and historic Moore Building and into a 43,000-square-foot megatent specially designed by New York architects Chris Lasch and Ben Ananda. Miami is a town familiar with massive party tents, but this one was created with a high, transparent face so that it feels open to the district.
Art Positions, the 20 galleries and shipping containers assembled in Miami Beach's Collins Park, opened Wednesday with a trippy ice theme that featured white floors with black geometric designs and white foam sculptures that resembled ice formations. WPS1 from New York provided the soundtrack from a DJ booth overlooking a courtyard in the center of the container village.
Carole Feuerman's Survival of Serena is a haunting, vivid sculpture of a woman clinging for dear life to an inner tube. But the artwork, which has been exhibited in China and Venice, did not survive a trip to Miami.
The morning's rain gave way to a breezy, cool day -- a little too cool for ill-prepared New Yorkers like Joel Wachs, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation, who brought only two Hawaiian shirts and a T-shirt for his visit to South Florida for Art Basel week. He found himself shivering at the VIP opening of the Mark di Suvero exhibition of monumental sculptures at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables.
Satellite exhibits outside the official Art Basel show may have trouble surviving in the current economy.
Caixanova, the Spanish banking firm that brought to Miami its spectacular collection of Goya engravings, is back at the Freedom Tower with The Divine Comedy, an exhibit of engravings created by the rambunctious surrealist Salvador Dalí to celebrate Dante's famous work.
The municipal parking lot on Miami's Northwest 38th Street never looked so good. Among the transplanted sod and pools with floating orchids, guests at In Fashion Photo 08/09 swigged cocktails and snapped cellphone photos of Naomi Campbell's unforgettable derriere as captured by famed fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier. The general crowd was thick, but red-carpet notables were few.
What's an art fair without a few provocateurs? New York City artist Gregory de la Haba is unabashedly trying to shock us all with Between Nothingness and Paradise -- a towering sculpture installation of horses in a threesome, on exhibit at the Bridge Art Fair in Miami's Wynwood Art District. Clad in Vegas-style headpieces and sequined garter belts, two mares and a stallion are frozen into their assigned sexual positions (anatomically impossible for one of the mares, by the way), their organs engorged...
Viewing art created around the world is one of the major attractions of Art Basel and its satellite fairs. From Budapest's Art Factory Gallery to its debut at the Wynwood Bridge Art Fair on Tuesday, comes the mournful work of Zsolt Bodoni, who describes himself as ''an ethnic Hungarian who grew up in Romania.'' His oil on canvas, Monument, conveys with drips and mood-setting blues and grays the displacement of all that's been lost to the devastation of civil war. Only the blurry image of a monument...
Art and real estate make a familiar combination, particularly during Art Basel Miami Beach, when developers lure well-heeled crowds with parties disguised as sales pitches.
Dozens of black sweater-clad art aficionados braved the frigid temps (Ok, in the 50s) to check out shock artist David LaChapelle's exhibit Jesus Is My Home Boy. The collection of photographs at Wolfgang Roth features Jesus in various urban settings.
Art Basel Miami Beach plans to ratify its three-year rental agreement at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Tuesday, a deal that would keep the popular art show in South Florida through 2011.
Four-year-old Design Miami has come of age -- and so has the Design District in which it sits. The design fair has moved from the vertical and historic Moore Building and into a 43,000-square-foot megatent specially designed by New York architects Chris Lasch and Ben Ananda. Miami is a town familiar with massive party tents, but this one was created with a high, transparent face so that it feels open to the district.
If you haven't been to Art Miami in a few years, it's time to go. ''Art Miami has done a really good job,'' said Miami collector Dennis Scholl, echoing an oft-heard sentiment at Tuesday's VIP opening, a charity event for Lotus House. ``Last year was a massive leap forward. This year is even more of an improvement.''
This year at Art Basel Miami Beach, all eyes will be not only on the world-class art but also on the number of red dots that pop up beside works that have sold.
A new look is promised for the 2008 version of Design Miami: The three-day forum for international design will be under a big top.
Global markets may be tanking, jobs disappearing and credit increasingly hard to come by. But Art Basel Miami Beach still exerts a powerful gravitational pull, attracting almost two dozen other independent art fairs during the first week of December.
David Castillo sums up his life's work experience in two words: art dealer. ''It's the one and only job I've ever had,'' says the mild-mannered owner of David Castillo Gallery in Wynwood.
Talk about timing. As the United States prepares to inaugurate its first African-American president -- with all the cultural re-evaluation that act entails -- the Rubell Family Collection is opening its latest exhibit, 30 Americans, a socially charged look at contemporary African-American art that fills its 45,000-square-foot Wynwood space. But don't utter the O-word to the Collection's matriarch, Mera Rubell.
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