Opinion
Required Reading
This week, art rising to the challenge of our times, Instagram CEO's insane statement, then Jeffrey Deitch's insane statement, Hans Ulrich Obrist is profiled, Miami's museums, purpose of Art Basel Miami Beach, and more.
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Art
Women Artists Dominate in Art Basel Miami Beach's Sculpture Park
MIAMI BEACH — Amid all the predictable fare in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Public sector, installed in Collins Park alongside the Bass Museum of Art — your Ernesto Neto hammock contraption, your Justin Matherly concrete-and-walker figure, your shiny bronze Elmgreen & Dragset provocation, your Georg Base
Opinion
Weekend Words: Tree
This week, The New York Times cheerfully reported on "the leafing of New York": the cityscape transformed by hundreds of thousands of trees planted over the past few decades.
Poetry
The Golden Mean: Dorothea Lasky and the Well-Adjusted Poem
Dorothea Lasky is the Ello of poetry. She gives us poems that are cute and zany, but on a clean, ad-free platform that is friendly, complex, and interpersonally sensitive. She is poetry’s golden mean between radical and legible, romantic and classical, interpersonal and impersonal: in other words, s
Art
Can I Be a Witness?
I have been thinking about the difficulty of characterizing Michael Mazur in part because, while he became highly celebrated as a printmaker, his paintings have never received nearly the same attention. Once a label is attached, it takes years to remove it.
Art
In a Former Auto Body Shop in Miami, Video and Performance Art by Women
MIAMI BEACH — Just a 15-minute walk down the road from this year's Art Basel Miami Beach is an exhilarating exhibition of work by 33 female artists. Acting as a foil to the painting and sculpture that dominate the fair(s), the show features only videos and performances, many of which focus on the bo
Art
Not for Sale: Outside the Convention Center in Miami
MIAMI BEACH — “There’s a lot of product going on here,” I heard a woman say into her cell phone at the mega-art fair Art Basel Miami Beach 2014. Indeed, $3 billion worth of art is being offered for sale this year, according to the event’s organizers.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Judy Rifka
Judy Rifka and I met 10 years ago, when I was selecting a work of hers for an exhibition. Her studio was dense with paintings, a testament to how prolific and energetic she is.
Art
Alberto Giacometti’s Art of the Impossible
“What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.” That’s how Alberto Giacometti summed it up, as told by James Lord in Giacometti: A Biography, published in 1997.
News
Hundreds Take to the Streets to Seek Justice for Artist Killed by Miami Police
MIAMI — This evening, amid the well-kept art fairs and glitzy parties of Miami Art Week, some 300 people — possibly as many as 600, according to some reports — descended on the Miami neighborhood of Wynwood to protest police brutality and the death of artist Israel "Reefa" Hernandez.
Art
Bodies in the Street: After the Eric Garner Decision
We are in Foley square at 6pm, some of thousands gathered the day after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict Daniel Pantaleo for murdering Eric Garner, for putting him in a chokehold that ended his life as Garner pled — 11 times that were caught on camera — “I can’t breathe.”
Art
NADA Miami Beach Keeps It Casual
MIAMI BEACH — Upon entering this year's New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) art fair one immediately appreciates the need for this alternative to the larger, establishment art fair down the beach. Unlike Art Basel, NADA Miami Beach has a casual, approachable feel.