Miami Art Week 2013: Folded, Rippled and Melted: Our highlights of non-traditional shapes across sculpture and painting

Miami Art Week 2013: Folded, Rippled and Melted


Whether angled or oozing, wave-like or crumpled, shapes in art and design have always stepped beyond the boundaries of traditional form. During our recent exploration of art in Miami, a few works caught our attention, and also begged to be touched. While we actually couldn’t poke at any of…

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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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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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Art + Design in Miami: Perspective Shift: Mastering the art of the double-take

Art + Design in Miami: Perspective Shift

Zipping past thousands of exhibitors in dozens of venues during Miami Art Week, it’s easy to miss a piece here and there. After a while, you start to appreciate artists that make you look twice. Toying with perception, detail and physical distance, we found a number of artists that…

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Art + Design in Miami: Photography: Infrared surveillance film, DIY negatives and suggestive stills seen at Pulse, Art Basel and NADA

Art + Design in Miami: Photography

The vast presentation of photography at last week’s art fairs in Miami included an array of highly impressive artists. Among the tremendous amount of work on display below are five picks of the most compelling photographers at Art Basel, Pulse and NADA this year. Matthew Brandt The well-deserved hype about…

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Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo: Jan Fabre’s bug-based series tackles King Leopold II’s Congo

Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo

Sponsored content: One of the most captivating artists at Miami Art Week, Belgian artist Jan Fabre painstakingly creates massive allegorical works entirely out of naturally shedded jewel beetle wings. In the series “Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo,” he uses the biological emerald detritus to comment on the gruesome history…

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Art + Design in Miami: Comic Aggression: Disgruntled artists mingle the cute with the profane

Art + Design in Miami: Comic Aggression

Artists have plenty of cause for complaint: politics, sexuality, war, the commercialization of the art market. Too witty for sincere criticism, the discontents at Art Basel 2012 and surrounding Miami fairs decided to childishly air their respective gripes with obscene humor. The result isn’t the inflammatory art of old,…

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