Showing posts with label Art Basel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Basel. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Festivals flooded streets of Miami during 2013

The city of Miami offers ideal conditions 365 days a year to host festivals, fairs and exhibitions. During 2013, international events flood the streets of the capital of the Sun and here's what the most salient.

Weekend Art Deco at its 35th edition, is held in mid-January at the Miami Beach Historic District with art exhibits, musical performances, films, theater, parades and more. For more information visit ArtDecoWeekend.org .
 In mid-February, is held the Miami Carnival , the largest street festival in the United States . The event includes beauty pageants, musical performances, art, cooking and surprises. Visit CarnavalMiami.com for more information.
The Miami Film Festival is an event from March 1 having a hundred films from over 30 countries in 10 days!
Delicious event is the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival in April, tasting the best rum brands in the world, seminars and competitions.
Cubanostalgia.org brings an art show, books, food and Cuban music in the Fair Expo Center in Miami , especially since mid-May.
Miami Beach is full of thousands of visitors in the month of June at the American Film Festival Back ( abff.com ) with film premieres, lectures, conferences and awards to the best of the African-American film industry.
In September MiamiWineFair.com offers a sample of more than 1,500 wines from over twenty countries in theMiami Beach Convention Center .
The FestivalMiami.com is an event with the best of classical and jazz music for all lovers of the arts rhythmic.
Certainly, during the 2013 Miami offers a wide range of activities for all people who are in the city.

Monday, December 10, 2012

Miami is much more than beaches


Artists working in the area of ​​graffiti in Wynwood, Miami.  EFE "This show has become a true economic engine for Miami, it has impact on major sectors of the city," said Matti Herrera Bower, Mayor of Miami Beach, at the opening of this exhibition created in Basel, Switzerland, and celebrates 11 years an issue increasingly powerful at this point in the southeastern United States Art Basel is home to contemporary art enthusiasts headquartered in the Convention Center Miami Beach, but the pair are made at least 22 other exhibitions installed in large tents in the nearby neighborhoods of Midtown Miami and Wynwood. The best thing about this show and everything that happens in artistic these days in Miami is that art lovers converge U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America, and in many cases they are very open to discovering collectors new talent from anywhere in the world, "said Cecilia Tanure, the Rio gallery A Gentil Carioca.

More than 250 galleries from 31 countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Argentina and Uruguay, last week opened its samples at Art Basel Miami Beach, the first contemporary art fair in the United States, which floods the edge and money sunny city of Florida.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

CHAMPAGNE TRIP TO MIAMI


Hollywood star Demi Moore and her new lover Vito Schnabel make yourself comfortable in Miami seasonally. There, the painter's son will throw an elaborate party. As is appropriate for a seasoned art dealers, the festival also has an iridescent background.
At 23 degrees, it should be casual a lavish party, especially since the son of Star-painter Julian Schnabel's up (61) Large. Demi Moore (50) and her new toyboy Vito Schnabel (34) let it rip right tomorrow, as the "New York Post" reports. The "Dom Perignon" party is part of the "Art Basel Miami Beach" event, an exclusive and prestigious art events.
The international art fair should radiate properly and for the Hollywood star shine.More than 250 galleries from around the world offer Upmarket from the art scene, the fees for the smallest booth be suspicious filmstar 33,000 U.S. dollars. Opposite Demi Moore to give this opportunity to the celebrities handle in his hand. Star artists including Damien Hirst (47), actor Val Kilmer (52), the Russian multimillionaire Dasha Zhukova (31) or "Sotheby's" Chefauktionator Tobias Meyer (49).  

Friday, December 7, 2012

Art Basel Miami Beach celebrates its eleventh birthday


With the work of over 2000 artists on Thursday, the Art Basel Miami Beach has been opened.
The U.S. subsidiary of the Swiss Fair celebrates its eleventh birthday: 2002 was my first time in this context in Florida Modern Art has been shown by the base learning.The trade fair had taken place almost not this year.The New York galleries are among the most loyal customers of Art Basel Miami Beach.Many are, however, in the district of Chelsea and was by Hurricane "Sandy" in late October heavily affected.Several galleries reported that they only with great effort but to participate, many with a reduced program.Among the artists is also Julian Lennon, the son of ex-Beatle John Lennon.The musician, who is 50 years old next year, photographed for a few years.It shows some landscape shots.caused a stir, a work of art that will be shown only on the edge of the actual exhibition.It's about a Bugatti designed by Bernar Venet.The car is front orange and goes into a deep black.The Frenchman, who has lived for decades in New York, is actually known for his steel sculptures.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Art Basel Miami Beach and other fairs attract mass collectors


Art Basel Miami Beach, the contemporary art fair largest in the United States, starting on Wednesday its eleventh edition in the city located in the southeastern United States, where he began to wander and gallerists, artists and collectors from around the world in search of its treasures.
While Art Basel is the main temple of this great feast of art, parallel exhibitions are developed 22 "satellites" of furniture design, jewelery and exhibition of murals and graffiti, turning Miami into a large gallery with tastes visited by millionaires avant-garde artists find eager patrons.
"South Florida is temporarily transformed into a mecca of art during Art Basel and we want to give people the opportunity to learn and experience the unique culture of our local artists diaspora," said Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, referring to a parallel sample of African artists to be held in the Art District of the city.
Only Art Basel announces 257 galleries from 31 countries between 5 and 9 December. The main exhibition is held in the Convention Center Miami Beach, but also takes the streets of Art District, a few miles away, which hosts exhibitions of graffiti and exclusive parties.
"This is the time of year when the best of the artistic movement takes place in Miami, with artists and collectors from Milan, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires. 

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Miami graffiti become pop art mecca

The heart of this neighborhood's murals is 'The Wynwood Walls', a room designed in 2009 by developer Tony Goldman, who proposed and achieved remarkable success with transforming cast aside windowless warehouses and industrial buildings of this depressed area of ​​Miami in giant open-air paintings capture the creativity of young artists.

Wynwood, the art district of Miami, reaffirm their status as the new trends regarding plastic. Graffiti area of ​​Wynwood, the art district of Miami, starting Wednesday reaffirm its status regarding the new currents of plastic, coinciding with the start of Art Basel Miami Beach, the largest art fair in the United States.

The current complex of six separate buildings, located in the street, has become a permanent center of artistic creation visited by tourists and locals who want to enjoy in Miami for more than just beaches and water sports.
The art shows are organized here are undoubtedly satellite fairs generate more attention during the celebration of Art Basel Miami Beach, which opens on December 6 and in which more than two thousand artists from around the world.
This sort of outdoor museum of street art, which is 'The Wynwood Walls', and all around, going well beyond the pure graffiti and has points a must, as the old building RC Cola, whose white walls are covered by the clever colorful internationally renowned artists in the world of street art.
The quote in Wynwood this year proposed the encounter with the work of over 40 artists from Europe, Asia, USA. UU. and A. America, whose work will cover the walls of the stores in the area.

The 5 begins the Art Basel in Miami


The New Yorker Miguel Paredes, known for his work in street art which uses animated characters, expose their graffiti, sculptures and paintings during Art Basel Miami, the most important art fair in the United States and with the participation of 257 galleries from 31 countries. "The Art Basel Miami is the time of truth, where we teach what we do best and we have five days of people around the world who come looking for who the new great artist," says Walls, who will meet from 5 to 9 December about eighty of his works. Paredes's work, which include versions of Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty or 'lucky cat' of the Chinese, is based in the pop universe, the animated dolls and graffiti culture of Manhattan. This year in Miami, this work shows both in Wynwood Walls Gallery, the neighborhood where a great part of the Miami art world, as in the Red Dot fair. Also exhibited during these key dates for American art industry in the Pop Up Gallery in Miami Beach, while planning a mural in the sophisticated club Caffeine, Wynwood. In this work not only New York's familiar characters but others created by him as' The Magic Flea, "which, he explained, included in almost every work. The Art Basel Miami Beach, which this year celebrates its eleventh edition. 

Monday, December 3, 2012

Art Week In Miami

The first event of commercial art of the twentieth century was in 1913, the Armory Show in New York showed the new artists of the time, among them Braque, Duchamp and Kandinsky. Today art fairs have surpassed auction houses first choice when purchasing art. They are adrenaline-charged events, art shows no curatorial line, a show of characters where intimacy, conviction, patience and focus on the purchase and sale of art are essentially nonexistent. The four major international art fairs are: Maastricht, Netherlands in March, Art Basel, Switzerland in June, Art Basel Miami Beach in December and Frieze London in October.