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Miami's Newest Edition: Brazil Art Fair
MIAMI — The first ever Brazil Art Fair in Miami got off to a rough start: it didn't open on time. When I visited two days later, the fair still felt tentative, a bit uncertain, rough around the edges.
Jillian Steinhauer
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Making Connections, Seeing Double at Art Miami
MIAMI — One of the good things about the glut of art at fairs is the chance to make unexpected visual connections — to watch sparks fly between artworks you'd never otherwise see together. At the sprawling Art Miami fair, I was pleasantly surprised by some of the associations and affinities that jum
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The Miami Art Fairs, Rendered in Duct Tape
MIAMI BEACH — Duct tape is an unlikely artistic medium, but Tirtzah Bassel makes it work. Down the street from Art Basel Miami Beach, Bassel has begun creating "Duct Tape Miami," an installation that uses duct tape to replicate the people and environments of this week's Miami's art fairs.
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Miami Project 2013: Systems at Work
MIAMI — Perhaps the most defining feature of art fairs is their organizational structure: floors divided into white-walled, cubicle-type booths; important galleries selling expensive work situated near the front or center; strategically placed VIP lounges and bars. So perhaps it's no surprise that,
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Spike Lee Doesn't Do the Right Thing [UPDATED]
When famed film director Spike Lee launched a Kickstarter project for "The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint" this past summer, we rolled our eyes. But when Spike Lee hires unpaid interns and steals a designer's work — well, then we feel compelled to say something.
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Nazi-Era Munich Trove Includes 39 Toulouse-Lautrec Works
Among the 1,406 artworks discovered throughout the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt are 39 pieces by French painter and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The works are all drawings and prints.
Opinion
See All of Frida Kahlo's Paintings, Made by Anonymous Chinese Artists
"Largest Exhibition of the Life and Art of Frida Kahlo Makes U.S. Premiere in San Diego," the press release announces. On its website, the show bills itself as "the only exhibition worldwide where Frida Kahlo's paintings can be seen in one place." But in reality, The Complete Frida Kahlo: Her Painti
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Join Hyperallergic Friday, December 6, for Evening Cocktails at Aqua Art Miami
On Friday, December 6, from 6 to 8 pm, we invite you to join us at Aqua Art Miami (1530 Collins Avenue, South Beach, FL) for evening cocktails and music.
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Art Rx
Museums are great for holiday weekends, especially ones a little more off the beaten track than, say, the Met or MoMA. If that sounds too mainstream for you ... well, there are always North Korean propaganda films. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Crows in the Dining Room and Other Messy Histories
In three of the period rooms at the Brooklyn Museum, something is amiss.
Performance
The Questions of Performa 13
Marianne Vitale’s “The Missing Book of Spurs,” her commission for Performa 13, features half-naked women in corsets, a man in assless chaps, and “natives” in outfits inspired by traditional Native American clothing; it features blocks of wood, a wooden sculpture that looks like a torpedo, and a larg
Opinion
Another Royal Portrait Disaster
You may have thought the Kate Middleton debacle was enough bad royal portrait news for one year, but no, there's more. Behold, a new portrait of the Danish royal family.