The Miami Art Blog by Heike Dempster

Art Basel

Art Basel Miami Beach    Miami Beach Convention Center        Dec 6 - 9

Art Video Nights            New World Center, 500 17th Street    Dec 5-8

Art Film: Painters Painting by Emile de Antonio
                                     Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road    Dec 7, 8 pm

Art Basel Conversations (10 - 11.30 am)

Dec 6:

Richard Tuttle and Chris Dercon

Dec 7:

Rethinking the Encyclopedic Museum (Thomas P. Campbell,Michael Govan, András Szántó)

Dec 8:

Asia Focus | Why Japanese Post-War Art Matters Now (Doryun Chong, Allan Schwartzman, Minas Gerais, Mika Yoshitake, Alexandra Munroe)

Dec 9:

Artistic Practice | The Artist as Musician (Angela Bulloch, Rodney Graham, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Jim Shaw, Hans Ulrich Obrist)

Art Salon

Dec 6:

1 pm - Art Market Talk | The Age of Empires

2 pm - Talk: Curating in Context

3 pm - Artist Talk: Walead Beshty

4 pm - Artist Talk: The Poetics of Enchantment

5 pm - The Global Artworld | Focus on Biennial of the Americas

6 pm - Artist Talk: Black Dada: How does it feel to be a problem?

Dec 7:

1 pm - Artistic Practice: Street Art in the Middle East: Alternative Forms of Political Expression

2 pm - Book Launch: Commissioning Contemporary Art: A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists

3 pm - Art Law Talk | How to Buy Art – And How to Handle it

4 pm - Lunch Bytes | New Media, New Markets: Buying, Selling and Collecting Digital Art

5 pm - Artist Talk: Bill Viola: Liber Insularum

6 pm - Latin Art Market Challenges a. Opportunities in Brazil/ Mexico

Dec 8:

3 pm - Artist Talk: Plane Text: Language in Art

4 pm - Art and Architecture | Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account

5 pm - Artist Talk: Painting Forever

6 pm - Artist Talk: Hollywood is a Verb

Dec 9:

1 pm - Lecture: Word and Image in Art

2 pm - Artist Talk: Hernan Bas

Satellite Fairs

Scope Miami                    NE 36th St and Midtown Blvd.                 Dec 6- 9

Art Miami/ Context         3101 NE 1^st Ave                                      Dec 4 -9

Art Asia Miami                Lot E, 36th Street N. Miami Avenue          Dec 4-9

Miami Project                  NE 1^st Ave/ NE 30^th Street                        Dec 4-9

NADA                             Deauville Beach Resort, 6701 Collins Ave    Dec 6 - 9

Pulse Miami                    Ice Palace Studios, 1400 N Miami Ave       Dec 6-9

Design Miami                 Meridian Ave/ 19^th St, adjacent to Art Basel  Dec 5-9

Untitled                          12th Street and Ocean Drive                      Dec 5-9

Red Dot                          3011 NE 1st Avenue                                  Dec 5-9

Independent Thinkers     The Armory Studios, 572 NW 23rd St        Dec 5-9

OHWOW's It Ain't Fair       743 Washington Avenue                          Dec 7-9

Galleries

Primary Projects        Raneytown/ Rebeca Raney           4141 NE 2^nd Ave, Suite 104                  Dec 6 -9

Primary Projects        Asif’s Guns Pop Up Store             167 NW 25th Street                              Dec 6-9

Primary Projects       Parker Soho by Kenton Parker       Soho Beach House                                by app.

Primary Projects       Cicada by Autumn Casey              locations vary                                       Dec 5-9

Spinello Projects      “Closer” Group Exhibition             2930 NW 7th Ave                                  Dec 4 - Jan 5

Product 81               Farley Aguilar solo show              2930 NW 7th Ave                                  Dec 4 - 18

Locust Project          Theaster Gates, Jacin Giordano, Nicole Eisenman    3852 N Miami Ave      Dec 6- 9

Gallery Diet              Ohad Meromi: The Working Day   174 NW 23rd Street                              Nov 30- Dec 31

B M de Varona Art Space      “I Am Wynwood”               2301 NW 2 Ave. Studio B                      Dec 6 - 9

Kavachnina Contemporary    Salustiano                        46 NW 36th Street                                Dec 8-Jan 10

MUSEUMS

Bass Museum                                 The Endless Renaissance - Six Solo Artist Projects: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Barry X Ball, Walead Beshty, Hans-                                                                                               Peter Feldmann, Ged Quinn and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Museum of Contemporary Art         Bill Viola

Miami Art Museum                         New Work Miami 2013

PARTIES

Party on the Plaza                               Miami Art Museum                           Dec 6       purchase advance tickets

MAM Ball                                            Miami Art Museum                           Dec 8       purcgase advance tickets

Crash the Ball After Party                    Miami Art Museum                           Dec 8       purchase advance tickets

MOCA & Vanity Fair Party                   Museum of Contemporary Art           Dec 4      by invitation

Gentleman Jack's Art, Beats + Lyrics   LMNT                                               Dec 5

Young Guru Vs Just Blaze                   Bardot                                              Dec 4       cover charge

Nicholas Jaar                                      Bardot                                              Dec 6      cover charge

David Lynch Silencio Pop Up Club      FDR at the Delano                             Dec 4-8

Forevermark Diamonds Music at MOCA      Mondrian South Beach             Dec 7               $25

Miami Project Opening Party

with Performance by Hundred Waters   NE 1st Avenue & NE 30th Street   Dec 6, 7     VIP passes required

Events/ Other

Pulse Art Fair Champagne Preview Brunch

& Book Launch with Rachel Lachowicz                     The Ice Palace, 1400 N. Miami Ave        Dec 5, 10 am

Hermes Opening reception for

“Couleurs de L’ombre” by Hiroshi Sugimoto            Hermes, 175 NE 40th Street                  Dec 6, 7 pm        by invitation

Sagamore Art Basel Brunch                                     Sagamore Hotel                                     Dec 8, 9 am       by invitation

Bakehouse Art Complex Breakfast                          561 NW 32^nd Ave                                   Dec 6 + 7, 9 am-12

Miami Project Artist Talk with Ruben Ubiera                                                                        Dec 5, 6-11 pm

Miami Project Panel Discussion with Jean-Paul Mallozzi                                                      Dec 6, 6-11 pm

Miami Project Artist Talk with Kiki Valdes                                                                           Dec 8, 6-11 pm

MEI Building Karel Fonteyn “Pistoleros”                                                                               Dec 5-9

International Contemporary Jewelry Fair aboard the Seafair, Miami Bayfront                       Dec 4-9