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.
Art lovers, tax havens and luxury brands now know Miami as a center of universal vibes. But then, in the early 21st century, let's say, Miami's reputation was culturally more deceptive than drugs. Art Basel and the countless fairs, temporary exhibitions that followed (remember the carnival that ended with the Ferris wheel before Midtown became Midtown) became a magnet for locals and expats alike, who soon began to buy real estate.
The rest, as they say, is history. But history is being written, with ever-changing twists and turns inspiring us to put on our most comfortable sneakers, brave traffic nightmares, and revel in the wonderland that Miami Art Week has become. in the year 2022
A rare show . William Kentridge is one of South Africa's most popular contemporary artists, best known for his cartoons and animated films. Miamians recognize his work from past exhibitions at the private museum El Espacio 23 in Allapata and the Museum of Art + Design at Miami Dade College, as well as past art week fairs. In December, Kentridge brings to Miami what is perhaps his most ambitious work to date; an immersive performance combining music, spectacle, dance and multimedia projections that tells the story of the black porters and porters who served the British, French and Germans during World War I. War. . Previously shown only in Europe and New York, Head and Barden will run December 1-3 at the Adrienne Arsht Center on a massive, specially commissioned stage. Tickets, starting at $50, are limited and are likely to sell out quickly.
For a deep dive into Kentridge, head to the NSU Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale to see the two-screen performance of "Ursonate," based on Dada artist Kurt Schwitters' fat 1932 poem composed entirely in nonsensical, invented language. The shows take place every half hour from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. From Thursday to Saturday and Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
And if you're going to Los Angeles this winter, William Kentridge of The Broad. Praise of Shadows will continue through April 9.
BIG FAIR at 20:00 . Art Basel Miami Beach does not rest on the successes of the past. After their first (and successful) Art Basel Paris+ fair, the organizers are hosting their biggest fair in Miami, featuring 283 leading galleries from 38 countries and territories, including David Castillo, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, and Spinello Projects. (See Devan Shimoyama's Monument to Art 2020, a forest-like installation that includes shoes dangling from electrical wires, and Zanele Muholi's massive sculpture outside in Collins Park.)
Like last year, this year the Miami Beach Fair kicks off on VIP Tuesday. Invite-only preview days are November 29-30, public days are Thursday through Saturday, December 1-3. Sunday is no longer on the agenda.
Beyond Art Basel at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Design Miami's sister fair opens to the public on November 30 and runs through Sunday, December 4. (Tip: Buy tickets for both fairs online.)
In town, check out Art Basel's first-ever beach cleanup on 18th Street (November 28), an art talk with Typoe at The Underline (December 1), and the Vizcaya-commissioned Towers of Desire exhibition by the Puerto Rican twins Jaime and Javier Suárez. Berrocal, from December 1.
THE NEXT BIG HOLIDAY SALE . Back at its shop in Biscayne Bay, Art Miami is bracing for an influx of foreign collectors who will find high-end contemporary works from 155 international galleries, many in larger spaces this year. The Sister Context fair celebrates its 10th anniversary with 75 galleries focused on the most progressive works. NFTs will make a comeback, says fair director Nick Korniloff, often associated with physical works of art. You also see politically charged artwork by living artists and works by the late Christo, who once shrouded Miami in pink.
For context, follow Banksy's Refugee Dreamboat sculpture from Ballon Rouge and Montreal's S16 Gallery. A portion of the proceeds go to the Choose Love charity.
Last year's artist Andrés Valencia, now 11, will collaborate with Chase Contemporary on a series of prints to benefit the Klitschko Foundation of Ukraine; The fair will also serve as the home for Kennedy Children's Youth Suicide Prevention Program.
The fair opens for VIPs on November 29, with public days from November 30 to December 6.
After a hiatus with Covid, the Aqua Sisters show returns to Miami Beach with a new director, once again showcasing the work of emerging and mid-career artists.
PRIZM MAKES A DIFFERENCE 10. Prizm Art Fair is a testament to passion and perseverance. In the decade since its inception by Miami-based Mikhail Solomon, the fair has grown from a small showroom in a downtown DuPont warehouse to a Design District marquee. In 2022, the iconic Miami Black Artists Fair will be fully hybrid, with in-person experiences on Miami Avenue at NE 42nd Street and the Little Haiti Cultural Center with real-time online access for buyers and attendees. in the culture program. The theme "Vernacular in Fashion" features 11 international galleries and 80 individual artists exploring the unique ways in which African culture exists in different countries. A true IRL experience. Gogo music celebration on Saturday at the Little Haiti Cultural Center with DJ John Butler, husband of artist Bisa Butler. Also news. art buyers can pay with cryptocurrency.
THE MAN OF THE HOUR. The center of attention is Miami architect/designer/artist Jermaine Barnes, and for good reason. Barnes, assistant professor of architecture at the University of Miami, received the prestigious 2021 Rome Architecture Award for Studies in Architecture and Identity. Highlights this year include an article in Architectural Digest, a solo show at Miami's Nina Johnson Gallery, and the Miami Design District's Annual Commission on Neighborhoods in 2022. The winning concept, "Rock/Roll," will be inspired by Carnival and honors the BIPOC communities of Miami. It features incredible rocking seats, bells, and a floating dome with architectural stairs that resemble a giant disco ball.
You can also find her work at Oolite Arts on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, her installation Rosie's Kitchen, which honors her grandmother and explores the role of the kitchen in the lives of Puerto Rican, Jamaican and Haitian families in Miami, through September 11. december. . .
WHEN ART MEETS TECHNOLOGY . The $69 million NFT may be a thing of the past, but blockchain, digital art, and artificial intelligence are just beginning to enter our lives. .
▪ FilmGate, the annual festival of interactive media, now in its ninth year, offers a glimpse into a future that moves faster than the speed of light. If 2021 was the year of NFTs, 2022 is all about AI, whether it's a massive projection, a VR headset, or a planetarium. If these initials don't make sense, you're in the right place. The festival is designed for tech-savvy people, says Diliana Alexander, executive director of FilmGate Miami, a visual storytelling organization. The program includes a wide range of interactive installations, panels and VR (virtual reality) experiences, many of which are influenced by AI (artificial intelligence). Events are held throughout the city and in Miami Beach. Highlights include dome installations inside the Frost Science Museum Planetarium on December 2, a live Europa show in Miami on December 3, and a Native American virtual reality ceremony on December 4. For a complete list of free and paid experiences, visit filmgate.miami/09.
▪ Mana Common and the web3 nft platform will once again house a one-stop NFT store spanning 12 buildings and several blocks in the center of the Flagler neighborhood. "Gateway. A web3 metropolis will feature activations from Christie's, Instagram, Nike and more in a free public exploration of art, music, games, technology and culture, November 29-December 3, from noon to 9 a.m. morning: 00 am every day.
▪ And yes, these giant corals "grow" out of the Adrienne Arsht Center, or want to. From November 29 to December 3, Coral Morphologic Art Studio presents "Coral City Projections" outside the Arsht Center's Aspet Concert Hall. The organizers believe it will be the largest choral show ever held in the world. The idea, of course, is that without change, the performing arts center will one day truly be under water.
The monumental work will be visible every afternoon from 6:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. A soundtrack by Coral Morphologic and Nick Leon will play in the courtyard next to the Art Deco Sears Tower.
BEAUTY BEACH. The annual Art Week series at the Faena Hotel (3201 Collins Ave., Miami Beach) takes place on much larger stages (remember Raoul de Nieves' carousel in Cathedral Hall?).
The Aorist digital art platform offers two new installations. The Living Room, by art collective Random International, explores the concept of interiors as living beings in a giant indoor space above the sand (through December 4, tickets required). In the hotel's project room, Quayola presents Effets de Soir, a video series on nature and painting traditions (through January 8).
Also in the arena, Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares of Miami created Patria y Vida as part of the city's No Vacancy program. The 50-foot photo sculpture, inspired by the widespread protests in Cuba on July 11, 2021, uses the familiar barricades used in protests around the world.
And in the hall of the cathedral, admire the one and a half meter high sculpture "Heart of the Ocean" by Sestia. 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 that was the brainchild of original. curator Ximena Chemins.
Tanning doesn't burn. Coppertone Girl was one of America's most recognizable brand symbols at a time when business and country were focused almost exclusively on the white middle class. The iconic Coppertone Girl billboard from the 1950s that now greets visitors to Biscayne Boulevard is the inspiration for the exhibit, which reimagines the advertising campaign in new, modern ways. Neighboring Green Space Miami, with support from the Green Family Foundation, selected 14 artists to create personal visions of the new Coppertone girl. The winners were Lauren Backus; Morel Doucet; Diana Eusebio; Lisbeth Lara and Prem Lorenzen; Coralina Rodriguez Meyer; Nicole Nyariri, Stephanie Paredes, and Daniella Silvera; lauren shapiro; Cornelius Tulloch; Arsimer McCoy and Passion Ward; and Diego Weissman. Visitors can enjoy the results through January 14, 2023, Wednesday through Sunday, during a free group showing at 7200 Biscayne Blvd., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
ON. Miami's Design District will once again be filled with temporary exhibitions, many of which are free. "Rock". Roll” and Prizm Art Fair, find out.
▪ For the sixth year, the Gagosian megagallery and super curator Jeffrey Deitch team up to present the group exhibition "100 Years." This year it will move from the Moore Building to the historic Buick Building near 39th Street at Second Avenue NE.
▪ Saatchi Yates presents a temporary exhibition of new works by contemporary Ethiopian artist Tesfaye Urgesa, whose work will also be exhibited at the Rubel Museum.
▪ OFFICE. Gallery and F2T Gallery present I DON'T NEED IT BUT I LOVE IT, a group show focusing on mass production and global kitsch culture.
▪ Curator Zoe Lukov, formerly of Faena Art, joins Abby Packer to present "Boil, Toil + Trouble," featuring works by 40 water-focused artists.
▪ Neighborhood developer Craig Robbins reopens his offices this year with a show called "Two of a Kind," which highlights the work of Marlene Dumas and Jana Euler. The theme of duality runs throughout the presentation, which coincidentally includes portraits of Andy Warhol commissioned decades ago by Robin's mother and his wife's mother, Jackie Sofer, who met years later.
ROOM WITH A VIEW. Perhaps no city understands the value of culture better than Miami Beach. During Art Week, this translates to No Vacancy, Miami Beach, offering temporary art installations at local hotels through a juried art competition. This year, 12 artists are creating site-specific works at dozens of hotels, at a salary of $10,000 per artist plus $35,000 in cash. Members of the public can vote on their choices at mbartsandculture.org. The program is a collaboration of several coastal agencies and the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The works are exhibited in the common areas of the hotel until December 8.
Featured artists are Maritza Kaneka of Miami (Riviera Suites South Beach, 318 20th Street); Beatriz Chachamov (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 Marcotuli (Croydon Hotel, 3720 Collins Avenue); Jessy Nite (Avalon Hotel, 700 Ocean Drive); Charo Oquet (Catalina Hotel and Beach Club, 1732 Collins Avenue); Magnus Sodami (Loews Miami Beach Hotel, 1601 Collins Avenue); Michelle Weinberg (Royal Palm South Beach, 1545 Collins Avenue) and Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares (Faena Hotel Miami Beach, 3201 Collins Avenue). Also in attendance will be Sri Prabha from Hollywood (Betsy Hotel, 1400 Ocean Drive) and Esben Weil Kjer from Copenhagen, presented by Miami's Bas Fisher Invitational (The Fontainebleau, 4441 Collins Avenue).
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Morris Lapidus-designed building at 1 Lincoln Road, the Ritz Carlton South Beach partners with MONAD Studio, co-founded by local artists Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalkberg, who have created visually stunning sound instruments. charity auction. The Miami Symphony Orchestra concert is by invitation only, but the instruments will be on display in the hotel lobby beginning November 30.
OPA-LOCKA. Very few visitors, or locals, know that this historic town of 16,000 inhabitants exists. The Art of Transformation, a partnership between the city and the Opa-Locka Community Development Corporation, will give you a reason to visit. The five-day celebration includes three exhibitions, talks with artists and experts, concerts, pop-up events, and a final parade.
"This Place Here. Africa and the Global Diaspora", inspired by a quote from Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, brings together the works of 6 international artists from the OLCDC collection. Beautiful Human Love, based on a 1957 letter to humanity by Haiti's Jacques Stephane Alexis presents the history of Haitian art. Beauties Not Yet Born, a show based on Ai Kwei Arma's novel, features a variety of international, emerging and mid-career artists.
The festival takes place in three neighboring spaces: 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 moment to discover the unexpected and spectacular architecture of the city. As the name of the street suggests, the Moorish buildings resemble a fairy tale setting.
OUR ARTISTIC PAST . For two decades, the nonprofit Wynwood Center for Visual Communication has featured exhibits that are beautiful and thought-provoking, though sometimes overlooked. This year's group show, The Miami Creative Movement, curated by Downtown Miami director and photographer Barry Fellman, features works by 15 key Miami artists in the city's trajectory, including Carlos Betancourt, Edward Duvall-Carey, Myra Leary, Karen Rifas, and Aseri. Saint Val. The show will also feature Fellman's new coffee table book, Miami Creative, from Letter16 Press. A decade of transformation.” “Bringing together this impressive group of artists in the Miami Creative Movement exhibit…is the coveted 'inside' experience that Art Basel Miami Beach visitors love,” said Alberto Ibarguen, who wrote the Book Foreword He Should Know As president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, Ibarguen is a whistleblower.
ART AND SOUND . Fans of the German technical band Brandt Brauer Frick are in for a treat. The Robot Heart Foundation presents the Multi Faith Prayer Room, an audiovisual installation by Brandt Brauer Freak Art featuring 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 Miami Annex, 78 NW 37th St. Buy your tickets at link.dice.fm/BBFRobotHeart:
PARTNER HAMAKOV. Finding a seat at a high-end restaurant during Art Week requires deep personal connections and a relentless planning assistant:
▪ American Express and Resi together to find the solution. A series of dinners with celebrity chefs Massimo Bottura, Missy Robbins and Mashama Bailey in the open space of the Design District created by artist Philip K. by Smith III; Tickets are $350 each and are available to higher tier Amex cardholders enrolled in Resy's Global Dining Access program - members also get access to Joe's Stone Crab, COTE Miami and Mandolin events:
For those on a budget, Smith's "Garden of Dreams" installation will be open on November 30 from 11am to 6pm, featuring food and drink by Michael Solomonov: Reservations are available to all Resy users: Admission, food and drinks are free.
▪ For those who prefer the technological side of their food, Superblue, the Allapattah Interactive Arts Center and Meta Open Arts from November 28 to December 4 present Mattia Casalegno's Aerobanquets RMX: Until 16 Groups of people enter the room of futuristic restaurant designed by Casalegno and equipped with Meta Quest 2 VR headsets, which will take you with chef Gail Simmons to a new dimension: tickets range from $58 (afternoon) to $200 (night) per person number: The menu offers amuse-bouche, yes, real food, created by James Beard Award-winning chef Çintan Pandyaya:
Book the experience and get 10% off your ticket Superblue - Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemer's new biometrically activated immersive installation, "Arterial Topology", joins existing installations by Es Devlin, teamLab and James Turrell :
Wynwood Walls celebrates its 12-year anniversary at the hands of world artists with 10 new murals: Bicicleta Sem Freio (Brazil), DULK (Spain), Jessie & Katey (АМН), Drik Чарваўр (Бърлин), Лелин Алвес (Brazil), Shok1. (Great Britain), Michael Brandrup (Denmark) and Millo (Italy), as well as the new mural by Shepard Fairey (АМН) dedicated to the late Wynwood Walls founder Tony Goldman: the Goldman Global Arts Annex gallery will host a solo exhibition of The American artist Hebrew Brantley. The exhibition: This year's theme is "The future starts now":
