Art Basel announced today that Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of New York’s Public Art Fund, will organize the Public sector at this year’s edition of Miami Basel, which runs Dec. 5 through Dec. 8. Read More
Michael Stipe, RoseLee Goldberg, Ryan Trecartin and the Rodarte sisters are just some of the artists and curators signed up to take part in “Moving the Still: A Festival of GIFS,” the “first ever large-scale open call and exhibition” dedicated to GIFS as an art form, both in digital and real space. The festival, which is being presented by Paddle8, the online site for art collectors, and Tumblr, the social blogging platform, will launch its online call for submissions on Oct. 17. Read More
Nothing foreshadows the end of summer like news trickling in about Art Basel Miami Beach. Today’s announcement that the Scope Art Show has struck a sponsorship deal with cable network VH1 was just such news, and it gave us a slight shiver. Scope, the satellite art fair that will run concurrently with ABMB from Dec. 4 to 9, will make its biggest splash to date, occupying a 100,000-square-foot pavilion in midtown Miami, replete with a VH1 Outdoor Lounge for post-fair frolicking. Read More
This morning the organizers of the Art Basel fair, coming up in June, announced that its Unlimited section in Hall 1, in which artists present ambitious new work, will feature 62 displays. Read More
With Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 now closed, Gallerist offers this look back at our reports from before, during and after the fair. Thank you for following along.
FAIRS
A Tour of Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
Photographs from the main fairs’ booths.
Kris Martin’s Sculpture at Art Basel Miami Beach Could Read More
My recent New York Observer article “Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach, Now!” has upset some people in the art world, including certain dealers, collectors, writers and especially the Art Basel company. The piece was intended to stimulate dialogue and it certainly did, though I regret that much of the irony was lost on some. Read More
Last week, just a few blocks south of the Art Miami fair, in the Wynwood section of Miami, seven galleries—New York’s P.P.O.W., BravinLee, Pierogi, Winkleman, Postmasters and Ronald Feldman, and London’s Hales Gallery—converted a 15,000-square-foot warehouse into the second edition of a fair that is called, appropriately, Seven. Read More
Fairgoers and dealers alike seemed largely in good spirits by the end of the day at Art Basel yesterday, as the tenth edition of the fair kicked off, and informal, off-the-record polling of gallerists suggested that business was clipping along comfortably. Read More
“People pay to see others believe in themselves,” Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon wrote in Artforum in 1993. “Maybe people don’t know whether they can experience the erotic or whether it exists only in commercials. … As a performer you sacrifice yourself, you go through the motions and emotions of sexuality for all the people who pay to see it, to believe that it exists.” Read More
The tenth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach began earlier today, with VIP card holders—including Diddy, Rush Hour director Brett Ratner, China Chow, Morley Safer, Jeffrey Deitch and just about everyone you would expect to be there—descending on the Miami Beach Convention Center to survey the art on offer by some 260 dealers. Read More
