Miami Art Week 2013: Color Chaos: Our highlight of work that utilizes the power of color to overturn structure

Miami Art Week 2013: Color Chaos


There are over 16 million noted colors and artists have long sought to capture several—if not most—of them. Even Pantone’s GEO system is composed of 2,058 new solid colors….

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Scene, By All: Miami Art Week 2013: Highlights from the city’s annual art bonanza captured on Instagram

Scene, By All: Miami Art Week 2013


Dave Wilfert of The World’s Best Ever never misses Miami Art Week. The founder of one of the internet’s top arts and culture sites and a seasoned fair-goer, Wilfert grabbed…

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Miami Art Week 2013: Beasts and Birds: Captivating works humanize as well as contextualize modern animal art

Miami Art Week 2013: Beasts and Birds


From the earliest noted iterations of art—paintings upon cave walls—to today’s cat-obsessed internet, animals have provided the inspiration behind culture of all kinds. We are awash in imagery of beasts and birds and domesticated pets. But during this most recent Art Week Miami—across…

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Miami Art Week 2013: Photography: From Pieter Hugo’s “Kin” series to Mapplethorpe’s stunning Polaroids, our photography picks from this year’s extravaganza

Miami Art Week 2013: Photography


Every December, Miami is packed with contemporary art from around the world, and the range of media from across the fairs that set up their temporary annual digs is astounding. Jumping out from the myriad sculptures, paintings, videos, performance art and more are some compelling photographs—photos that manage to…

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ListenUp: The historic Nelson Mandela anthem, Kirsten Dunst in anime costume, a lot of NTS radio and more in our look at music this week

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It’s Nice That + NTS Radio’s Black Impulse Playlist Our creativity-championing friends over at It’s Nice That have let the folks from Black Impulse on NTS Radio hijack their weekly mixtape—resulting in two hours of music,…

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Miami Art Week 2013: Brazil ArtFair: The debut of a new festival composed entirely of contemporary Brazilian art and design

Miami Art Week 2013: Brazil ArtFair


A new fair has entered the landscape of Miami’s ever-expanding art week. Opening today, 4 December 2013, the Brazil ArtFair is housed in a spacious 25,000 square foot exposition tent, located near the Wynwood Art District….

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David Datuna: Viewpoint of Billions: American culture magnified in the artist’s groundbreaking work which interacts with Google Glass

David Datuna: Viewpoint of Billions


Melding enough types of buzzworthy gadgets to make any technologist drool, NY-based artist David Datuna’s new multimedia piece “Viewpoint of Billions” is likely one of the first pieces of art to be specifically created with Google…

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Art Basel 2013: The Changing Worlds of Sculpture : Six pieces that redefine the medium through humor, form and otherworldly sentiments

Art Basel 2013: The Changing Worlds of Sculpture


Transportive and transformative, the following six sculptural pieces found at this year’s Art Basel push the boundaries of the medium and its definition within art. Chaotic, thoughtful and sometimes even funny, each work manages to bring a new world into our own. Continue Reading…

Art Basel 2013: Paint, Zippers and Partnering: Groundbreaking work across collage and mixed media at the world-renowned art show

Art Basel 2013: Paint, Zippers and Partnering


With the history of art stretching back to the earliest stages of humanity, it can be difficult to enter unexplored frontiers. The following artists presented work at this year’s Art Basel that, whether by means of innovation or refreshing clarity, delivered on the festival’s promise of the world’s…

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Art Basel 2013: Light and Fire: This year’s Swiss edition illuminates vibrant sculptures of filtered glass, mirrors and more

Art Basel 2013: Light and Fire


Like moths to flame, light art—and its use within, and as a complement to, sculpture—attracted the attention of many visitors at this year’s 44th edition of Art Basel. Lamp-like orbs and rods, shadow art and even live fire mesmerized spectators. The use of…

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