I think a simple rating system is in order to help sift through the many options at Miami Basel. (Adding to the confusion, many of the fairs go by short names and acronyms that are similarly cryptic: Aqua, NADA, AIPAD, RAM, Flow, Zones, Scope, Ink, Pool, M*A*S*H.) In the headline, I’ll let you know whether [...]

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I really enjoyed this looping program of single channel videos in a small theater outside the Convention Center. Two favorites: Euan Mcdonald’s Where Flamingos Fly and Vanessa Renwick’s Portrait #2: Trojan. The whole program of 19 shorts organized by Michael Darling, a curator at the Seattle Art Museum, is less than two hours long and [...]

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Lest you think I’m grumpily alone in my Miami Basel malaise (see post below, where I advised bringing packing headache remedies with your Louboutin heels), Miami New Times has printed a lightly snarky send-up of the whole affair: Baselopoly. Go straight to Traffic Hell and do not pass Go!

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If you haven’t seen this week’s Creative Loafing, I should mention that I am (now through Sunday) in Miami blogging about Art Basel Miami Beach and the art-and-commerce madness that surrounds it.
Since ABMB cropped up in 2002, the number of “satellite fairs” and events that coincide with it has grown dramatically. This year there’s something [...]

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For anyone who remembers Booty, the short-lived contemporary art leg of the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, here’s where Carrie Mackin’s concept came from. The Covivant curator—who will be back in town briefly in December to curate a show at Blue Acier, by the way—saw Art Positions at Miami Basel and talked the City of [...]

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Robert Rauschenberg famously said he wanted to work in the space between art and life. Here’s an exhibit that illustrates that idea almost literally: Jorge Pardo’s House at Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

Stepping into Pardo’s house—that is, the museum’s open-plan interior transformed with vast photomurals and handmade furniture into an immersive experience of eight [...]

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