Miami Art Week Can Be Overwhelming. Heres An Insiders Guide To What You Want To See
Twenty years ago, Art Basel opened its doors in Miami Beach. Our city has never been the same again.
Art lovers, tax evaders and luxury brands now recognize Miami as the center of global glitz. But once - XXI. At the turn of the century, let's just say, Miami's reputation was more of a cultural disaster than a drug. Art Basel and its multitude of fairs, temporary exhibits (remember the Ferris wheel carnival before Midtown was Midtown?) quickly became a magnet for locals and expats alike who began to hoard the 'immovable.
The rest, as I said, is history. More than a story in the making, it's a constant evolution that inspires us to put on our comfiest running shoes, brave the nightmares of the road, and enjoy the wonderland that is Miami Art Week, for live and personally thank 2022.
REFERENCE IMAGES : William Kentridge is one of South Africa's most prominent contemporary artists, known for cartoons and cartoons. Miamians know of his work from past Art Week shows and exhibits at El Espacio 23, a private museum in Alapata, and the Museum of Art + Design at Miami Dade College. In December, Kentridge brings to Miami what may be his most ambitious work to date: an immersive performance blending music, performance, dance and multimedia projections that tells the stories of black porters and messengers who served in Britain, in France and Germany. World War II Previously shown only in Europe and New York, Head and Cargo will take place from December 1-3 on a large, purpose-built stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Tickets, starting at $50, are limited and likely to sell out quickly.
For a more in-depth exploration of Kentridge, visit NSU's Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, a two-screen display titled "Ursonate," complete with Pure Evil, based on the 1932 sound poems by Dada artist Kurt Schwitters. Performances take place every half hour from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
If you're heading to Los Angeles this winter, The Broad's William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows runs until April 9.
LA GRANDE FOIRE CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY : Art Basel in Miami Beach does not look back on its past successes. Following the first (and highly successful) Paris+ by Art Basel, organizers are bringing the largest exhibition to date to Miami with 283 leading galleries from 38 countries and territories, including David Castillo, Fredric Snitzer Gallery and Spinello Projects in Miami. (Check out the so-called 2020 Devan Shimayama Monument, a forest-like installation of shoes suspended from electric wires, and the giant outdoor sculpture by Zanele Muholi in Collins Park). effect
Like last year, this year's Miami Beach Expo kicks off on Tuesday for VIPs. Preview days by invitation only: November 29-30, Thursday-Saturday, December 1-3, public days. Sunday has again been cancelled.
Across from Art Basel at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Design Miami/its sister exhibit opens to the public November 30 and ends Sunday, December 4. (Tip: buy tickets for both fairs online.)
In town, see Art Basel's first beach cleanup on 18th Street (November 28), an art talk with Typoe at The Underline (December 1), and an exhibition commissioned by Puerto Rican twins Jaime's Towers of Desire, Vizcaya. and Javier Suarez Berocal, from December 1.
ANOTHER BIG FAIR : Under the Biscayne Bay tent, Art Miami is bracing for an influx of foreign collectors who will find contemporary works from 155 international galleries, many of which will be in larger halls this year. Sister fair Context celebrates its 10th anniversary with 75 galleries dedicated to avant-garde works. Exhibition director Nick Kornilov says NFTs are making a comeback, often alongside physical artwork. It's also an exhibition of politically charged art by living artists and works of the late Christ, once shrouded in Miami pink.
In context, note Banksy's Dreamboat refugee sculpture, courtesy of Ballon Rouge and Montreal gallery S16. Part of the profits are donated to the humanitarian organization Choose Love.
Artist Andres Valencia, who emerged last year and is now 11, will collaborate with Chase Contemporary on a series of prints to benefit the Klitschko Foundation in Ukraine; the fair will also serve as a launch pad for Kennedy's Kids, a teen suicide prevention program.
The fair will open its doors to VIPs on November 29 and the days will run from November 30 to December 6.
After a COVID-19 hiatus, Aqua's sister show returns to Miami Beach with a new director showcasing work by young, middle-aged artists.
PRIZM 10 years: Prizm Art Fair is a show of passion and perseverance. In the ten years since its launch by Michael Solomon of Miami, the fair has grown from a small showroom in a warehouse to the DuPont building and now a tent in the Design District. In 2022, Black Art Fair Miami will be fully hybrid, offering a live experience at the Miami Avenue Tent on NE 42nd Street and the Little Haiti Cultural Center with real-time online access for buyers and sellers. participants in the cultural program. The mode features 11 international galleries and 80 individual artists exploring the unique ways African culture exists in different places, themed vernacularly. A true IRL experience: celebrating gogo music with artist Biza Butler's husband, DJ John Butler, at the Little Haiti Cultural Center on Saturday night. Another novelty: art buyers can pay with cryptocurrencies.
MAN'S MAN : Miami's spotlight is on architect/designer/artist Herman Barnes, and for good reason. Barnes, associate professor of architecture at the University of Miami, received the prestigious 2021 Rome Architecture Prize for his research on architecture and identity. Highlights this year include publication in Architectural Digest, a solo exhibition at the Nina Johnson Gallery in Miami, and the Miami Design District's 2022 Annual Commission. A winning Rock/Roll concept inspired by Carnival and celebrating Miami's BIPOC communities. , featuring whimsical rocking seats, jingles, and an architectural-scale floating dome shaped like a giant disco ball.
You can also find her at Oolite Arts on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach at Rosie's Kitchen, an installation that pays homage to her grandmother and explores the role of cooking in the lives of families in Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Haiti. December 11
WHEN ART MEETS TECH: The $ 69 million NFT may be a thing of the past, but blockchain, digital art, and artificial intelligence are beginning to enter our lives. This year's Art Week once again brought art and technology together.
▪ Now in its 9th year, FilmGate's annual interactive media festival takes a look at a future that moves faster than warp speed. If 2021 was the year of NFTs, 2022 is the year of artificial intelligence, be it a giant projection, a VR headset or a planetary dome. If those beginnings don't make sense, you've come to the right place; Diliana Alexander, executive director of FilmGate Miami, a visual storytelling organization, says the festival is for the tech-savvy. The program includes many interactive devices, panels and VR (virtual reality) experiences, most of which are created under the influence of artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence). Events are held at various locations throughout Downtown and Miami Beach. Highlights include a dome installation in the Frost Science Museum planetarium on December 2, a live broadcast from Europe to Miami on December 3, and a virtual reality presentation of a Native American ceremony on December 4. experience, see filmgate.miami/09.
▪ Mana Common and the nft web3 platform are once again hosting an exciting NFT Showcase that will cover 12 buildings and several city blocks in downtown Flagler. "The Gateway: a web3 metropolis" will feature activations from Christie's, Instagram, Nike and others in a public exploration of art, music, games, technology and culture from November 29 to December 3 from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.
▪ Yes, there are - or will be - giant corals "growing" from the Adrienne Arsht Center. From November 29 to December 3, the scientific and artistic studio Coral Morphologic presents "Coral City Projections" at the Knight Concert Hall of the Arsht Center. Organizers believe it will be the largest choral performance in the world. The idea, of course, is that without any changes, the performing arts center will one day be truly flooded.
The monumental work is visible every evening from 6:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. A soundtrack by Coral Morphologic and Nick Leon will play on the patio next to the Sears Art Deco Tower.
BEAUTY ON THE BEACH: The annual Arts Week program at the Faena Hotel (3201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach) includes exhibits from many major venues (remember Raoul de Nieve's carousel in the atrium of Cathedral ?).
Digital art platform Aorist has unveiled two new installations. Casual International Art Collective's Living Room explores the interior as a living entity in a giant indoor space in the sand (until December 4; admission required). Inside the hotel, Project Room Quayola presents the video series "Effets de Soir" dedicated to nature and artistic traditions (until January 8).
Also at Honda, Miami's Antonia Wright and Ruben Millarez created Patria y Vida as part of the city's No Vacancy program. Inspired by the protests in Cuba on July 11, 2021, the 50-foot light sculpture utilizes the familiar barricades used during protests around the world.
And in the cathedral atrium, admire Sestier's “Heart of the Oceans” sculpture, one and a half meters high. Inspired by the heart of a 400-pound whale that washed ashore in 2014, the "heart" will return to the sea as part of The ReefLine, a 7-mile underwater sculpture park and artificial reef in Miami Beach. Curator: Ximena Cammini.
Don't Burn: The Coppertone Girl was one of America's most recognizable brand icons at a time when business and the country focused almost exclusively on the white middle class. The iconic 1950s "Coppertone Girl" billboard welcoming visitors to Biscayne Boulevard is the inspiration for the exhibit, which reimagines the advertising campaign in modern and other terms. Neighboring Green Space Miami, supported by the Green Family Foundation, selected 14 artists to create a personal take on new girl Coppertone. Honorary bearers were Lauren Backus; Morel Duce; Diana Eusebio; Lisbeth Lara and Prem Lorenzen; Caroline Rodriguez Meyer; Nicole Nyariri, Stephanie Paredes and Daniela Silvera; Lauren Shapiro; Cornelius Tullock; Arsimmer McCoy and Passion Ward; and Diego Weissmann. Visitors can see the results through January 14, 2023 during the band's free show on Biscayne Blvd Wednesdays and Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. At 7200
NEARBY : The Miami Design District will once again be filled with temporary exhibits, many of which are free. Discover Rock | Roll and Prizm Art Fair:
▪ For the sixth year, Gagasyan's megagallery and super curator Geoffrey Deitch have mounted the collective exhibition “100 Years”. This year, it will move from the Moore Building to the historic Buick Building on Second Avenue NE near 39th Street.
▪ Saatchi Yates presents a temporary exhibition of new works by contemporary Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urges, whose works will also be exhibited at the Rubel Museum.
▪ OFFICE. Gallery and F2T Gallery present the collective exhibition "I DON'T NEED IT, I WANT IT" dedicated to the global culture of mass production and kitsch.
▪ Zoe Lukow, former curator of Faena Art, joins Abby Pucker to present Boiling, Working + Challenges, featuring the work of 20 artists working on water.
▪ Neighborhood promoter Craig Robbins will open his offices this year with “Two of a Kind”, a show highlighting the work of Marlene Dumas and Jean Euler. The theme of dualism continues throughout the presentation. Coincidentally, the portraits of Andy Warhol were commissioned decades ago by Robin's mother and the mother of Jackie Sofer, the wife they met years later.
Rooms with a view: Perhaps no city understands the value of culture better than Miami Beach. Art Week sees the return of the No Vacancies, Miami Beach art competition, which features temporary art installations at local hotels. This year, 12 artists will create special works in dozens of hotels, each artist will receive a salary of $10,000 and an additional prize of $35,000. Citizens can vote for their choice at mbartsandculture.org. The program is a partnership between several beach agencies and the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The works will be exhibited in the hotel's public areas until December 8.
Featured Artists: Miami-based Maritza Kaneka (Riviera Suites South Beach, 318 20th Street); Beatrice Chachamawitz (Esme Miami Beach, 1438 Washington Avenue); Brookhart Jonquil (Cadillac Hotel and Beach Club, 3925 Collins Avenue); Justin Long (International Inn on the Bay, 2301 Normandy Drive); Claudio Marcotulli (Croydon Hotel, 3720 Collins Avenue); Jessy Nite (Hotel Avalon, 700 Ocean Drive); Charo Oquet (Catalina Hotel and Beach Club, 1732 Collins Avenue); Magnus Sadamin (Loews Miami Beach Hotel, 1601 Collins Avenue); Michelle Weinberg (Royal Palm South Beach, 1545 Collins Avenue) and Antonia Wright and Ruben Millarez (Faena Hotel Miami Beach, 3201 Collins Avenue). Also in attendance will be Esben Weile Kjær from Copenhagen presented by Sri Prabha from Hollywood (Betsy Hotel, 1400 Ocean Drive) and Bas Fisher Invitational from Miami (The Fontainebleau, 4441 Collins Avenue).
OPA-LOTSKA: Few visitors - or locals - know of the existence of this historic city of 16,000 inhabitants. Transforming Art, a partnership between the city and the Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation, will give them a reason to visit. The five-day celebration includes three exhibitions, interviews with artists and experts, concerts, pop-up events and a grand finale parade.
Featuring works by six international artists from the OLCDC collection, inspired by a quote from Toni Morrison's Beloved, This Is the Place: Africa and the Global Diaspora. Based on a 1957 letter to humanity by Haitian Jacques Stephen Alexis, "A Beautiful Human Love" traces the history of Haitian art. Beauties Not Yet Born is a play based on the novel by Aya Kwai Arma featuring many international, emerging and mid-career artists.
The festival takes place at three nearby locations: the historic Opa-locka Station (480 Ali Baba Ave.), the Hurt Building (490 Ali Baba Ave.) and the ARC (675 Ali Baba Ave.) artinopalocka.org.
Take the time to admire the city's unexpected and impressive architecture. As the street name suggests, the Moorish buildings look like scenes from a fairy tale.
OUR ARTISTIC HISTORY : For two decades, the nonprofit Wynwood Center for Visual Design has presented thought-provoking, if sometimes overlooked, art exhibits. Curated by Miami filmmaker and photographer Barry Felman, this year's Miami Creative Movement group show features the work of 15 Miami artists who are central to the city's history, including Carlos Betancourt, Edouard Duval-Carey, Miri Lehr, Karen Rifas and Acero. Saint Val. The show will also feature Fellman's new coffee table book, Miami Creative: A Decade of Transformation from Letter16 Press. "Bringing together this impressive group of artists in the Miami Creative Movement exhibit...is a valuable 'insider' experience that visitors to Art Basel Miami Beach love," said Alberto Ibarquen, who wrote the front -about the book. He should know; As president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, Ybarguen is the last man in town.
ART & SOUND : Fans of the German techno group Brandt Brauer Frick are in for a treat. The Robot Heart Foundation presents "The Multifaith Prayer Room", an audiovisual installation by Brandt Brauer Frick Art that brings together 120 voices from around the world speaking about faith, rituals and the future. From December 1 to 3, the 30-minute shows will take place at 3:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The evening parties will feature 360-degree sound with music by Brandt Brauer Frick (December 1) and AMÉMÉ (December 2). The Miami Annex, 78 NW 37th St. Buy your tickets at link.dice.fm/BBFRobotHeart.
TASTE PARTNER: Winning a place in Art Week at the restaurant of your choice requires deep personal connections and tireless program support.
▪ American Express and Resy collaborated on a solution: a series of dinners with Michelin-starred chefs Massimo Bottura, Missy Robbins and Mashama Bailey in a Design District pop-up space created by artist Philip K. Smith III; each ticket costs $350 and is available to Amex cardholders participating in Resy's Global Dining Access program. Members also have access to Joe's Stone Crab, COTE Miami and Mandolin events.
For those on a budget, Smith's Garden of Reflections installation will be open for restoration by Michael Solomonov on November 30 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Reservations are available to all Resy users. Entrance, food and drinks are free.
▪ For those who prefer the tech side of food, Superblue, Allapattah Interactive Art Space and Meta Open Arts presented Mattia Casaleño's RMX Aerobanquets from November 28 to December 4. Groups of up to 16 guests enter a futuristic dining room designed by Casaleño and Don Meta Quest 2 VR VR viewers, where they will be transported to a new dimension with Chef Gail Simmons. Tickets range from $58 (day) to $200 (evening) per person. The menu features appetizers (yes, real food) created by James Beard Award-winning chef Chintan Pandya.
Order a print and get a 10% discount on the Superblue card . Acclaimed Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lazan-Hemmer's exciting new installation, activated by participants' biometric data, "Tapology of Impulse", joins existing installations by Es Devlin, teamLab and James Turrell.
AAINST THE WALLS : Wynwood Walls turns 12 with 10 murals by artists Bicicleta Sam Freio (Brazil), DULK (Spain), Jessie & Katey (ЗША), Drik The Villain (Berlin), Lelin Alves (Brazil), Shok1 з новостьами (Great Britain), Mikaël Brandrup (Daniya) and Mila (Italy), as well as a new mural by Shepard Fairy (ЗША) in honor of the godfather, creator of Wynwood Walls, Tony Goldman. A solo exhibition by American artist Hebru Brantley will take place in the closed Goldman Global Arts Annex Gallery. This year's theme is "The Future Starts Now". Amen to that.
