A soft blue light descends upon delicate Chinese artifacts housed inside dark cabinets. Each has a dedicated source of light announcing it. From a distance, the mechanism holding them vanishes, leaves them floating like fragile notes on an invisible music sheet. The room is quiet, ceremonial. The song of hammers and drills can’t touch this sacred space. Nobody dares speak. Not … [Read more...]
Art Palm Beach outdoes itself with marvelous fair
By Myles Ludwig If you see only one art fair in West Palm Beach, this is the one. Art Palm Beach at the Convention Center is sassy, sexy and spicy, with dishes of Latin flavor, Korean “kidult,” spiritual significance, intellectual challenge, irony, inscrutability, installation, process, counterfeit, the best of contemporary art (the art of yesterday) and refined Danish … [Read more...]
Fort Lauderdale Art and Design Week: Boats, mansions and art galore
By Sandra Schulman Cultural crusader Evan Snow looked at the art action in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties and wondered why Broward wasn’t getting in on the art fair game. So three years ago he did something about it, fusing the lush waterways of Fort Lauderdale – which give the town its “Venice” nickname – with the many mansions along the water and filling them with … [Read more...]
Amid the glam, much beauty at Modern + Contemporary show
By Myles Ludwig Oh, dear: it appears tough times have hit the Palm Beach art market. No more the free-flowing champagne (now $23 a flute) and nary a canape in sight when I arrived at the VIP-y vernissage at the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary show at the city’s oft-traded “tent site” on Thursday night. It was the first pitch of the art show season, traffic was tangled and … [Read more...]
‘Tech Effect’: At Old School Square, Titian meets the terabyte
Want to be my friend? Technology asked Art. Cornell Art Museum answered with augmented reality, emojis and touch screens. On view through March 30, Tech Effect looks at contemporary art’s response to and adoption of technology with the help of 12 artists who marry technology and creativity and understand their relationship’s current status is not that complicated. The new … [Read more...]
Miami Art Week, part 2: Another explosion of innovative abundance
By Sandra Schulman Art Week Miami has wrapped for another year, leaving huge sales and visual overload in its wake. The main fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, was a stunner this year and began with a bang last Wednesday as many galleries reported selling out their entire booths within hours of the opening day. The enormous new convention center was literally unwrapping lobby … [Read more...]
Abundant energy at Miami Art Week (part 1)
By Sandra Schulman Miami has been buzzing with world-class art events since early this week, with museums and fairs getting the jump on the action. The renovated Bass Museum held a swank brunch Tuesday morning to show off its new exhibitions. Fantastical creatures by the Haas Brothers animate two spaces on the ground floor with furry sci-fi critters that cross boundaries … [Read more...]
Daniel Chimowitz: Art fashion for a global tribe
By Sandra Schulman The wildly exotic mashup of his “walking canvases” are conjured up by artist Daniel Chimowitz from his international background. Born in London to a mother from the Tlingit tribe of the Pacific Northwest, he was raised in the DIY punk-liberal atmosphere of San Francisco, where he also absorbed his Jewish heritage. He spent summers in Europe, mostly in … [Read more...]
Boca Museum’s ‘Imagining Florida’ shows state’s hold on artistic imagination
By Christina Wood Imagine a tropical sunset. Imagine a bridge reaching toward the horizon. Imagine a Seminole hunter aiming an arrow at his prey, an idle sailor sitting by the dock or a woman trimming the plants in her garden – underwater. If you do, you will be imagining Florida as some of the artists in a new exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art have been doing … [Read more...]
Insider’s Guide to Art Basel and Art Week in Miami: Just go!
By Sandra Schulman The biggest Art Week in Miami happens in early December, when the world-class art circus that is Art Basel Miami rolls into the big-top Miami Beach Convention Center from Dec. 6-9. But there are also dozens of satellite fairs, outdoor sculpture exhibits, fair tents on the beach, parties and new shows in the museums that get started earlier in the week of … [Read more...]