Art
Koons in Paris: More Is Less
PARIS — As we well know, Jeff Koons looms large as the major symptom of the hype, hubris, and money that have swamped the global art scene.
Review
Art
In One of William Blake's Final Works, the Engraved Trials of an Unfortunate Soul
One of the last series William Blake completed was on the woes of Job, that biblical figure tormented through a bet between God and Satan that his faith was tenuous
Art
Piecing Things Together at Pulse Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH — Sometimes at a fair all the art blends together and it's hard to know what to make of anything. Other times a motif emerges, and once you spot it, you wander the aisles and booths seeing it everywhere.
Books
Inflatable Corsets, Ventilated Top Hats, and Other Failed Victorian Inventions
Many great inventions came out of the Victorian era, from the photograph to the electric lightbulb. The elastic opera hat and the anti-cholera belt, however, are not among their illustrious numbers.
Art
Safety First at Design Miami
MIAMI BEACH — In its tenth year, Design Miami again enjoyed a prime location across the street from the center of the Miami universe, Art Basel Miami Beach.
Art
Text Messages from the Margins
Christian Berst gallery's inaugural exhibition Do the Write Thing: Read Between the Lines is a wake up call to artists who risk losing their art in search of their career.
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
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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
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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.
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.
Performance
Dancing at the Speed of the Internet
MIAMI BEACH — There's the whiff of grand ambition in MEEM 4 MIAMI, which is artist Ryan McNamara's new version of his award-winning commission for the Performa 13 performance art biennial.
Art
Finding Room to Breathe (and Feel) at Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH — One of the things I find hardest about art fairs — particularly those held in convention centers and large exhibition halls — is their aesthetic. Bright, clinical white everywhere, with temporary walls set at perfect right angles and the gridwork of pipes and rafters floating high abov