See full version: Your guide to Art Basel Miami Beach Design Miami/ 2019
American fashion designer Thom Browne is still dreaming of summer, evidently. He’s erected a 21ft tall palm street artwork in the atrium of the Moore Building, realised in a dreamy palette of yellow, green, and pink seersucker, pincord, and gingham oxford. Palm Tree I opens to the public on 5 December. [links]
Forty years in the making, El Espacio 23 is a new private museum dedicated to philanthropist and entrepreneur Jorge M Pérez’s vast art collection. A passion project of the billionaire, the space is housed in a repurposed 28,000 sq ft warehouse in Miami’s Allapattah neighbourhood and designed by Pérez himself who sees it as an extension of his home (amenities include a library, living room and bar area to entertain guests). The inaugural exhibition, ‘Time for Change’, explores conflicts and contradictions in contemporary social spheres, with close to 100 works by 80 artists on display. Open to the public from 9am – 5pm during Miami Art Week, with private tours available upon request. more
Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch have made an annual tradition of joint thematic exhibitions at the Moore Building, and this year is no exception. The fifth in the collaborative series is titled ‘The Extreme Present’, taking inspiration from recent publication, The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. [links]
The Raleigh Hotel is paying homage to the late, great Les Lalanne, with the largest outdoor exhibition of the French artists’ whimsical work to date. Initiated by real estate developer and investor Michael Shvo (a longtime friend of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne), the sculptural menagerie will be on display in a new, immersive tropical garden designed by architect Peter Marino and Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles. [links]
The fair is gaining a new curatorial direction from Aric Chen, who has set a theme for 2019 – the fair’s 15th edition. Named ‘Elements: Water’, it’s a continuation of his Basel offering, ‘Elements: Earth’, in which he curated a range of projects that investigated the future of materials, resources and making. Aligning with the theme is Porky Hefer’s inhabitable sculptures for Southern Guild Gallery, while showing for the first time is Melbourne gallery Broached Commissions who will reveal contemporary versions of Victorian antiques. Elsewhere, collaboration highlights to look out for include Fendi and Studio Kueng Caputo; Cosentino and Patternity; and Analogia Project for Perrier-Jouët.
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When it came to partying in the name of art (on land), A$AP Rocky took over Story while Swizz Beatz served as poolside dj at the W South Beach to celebrate emerging artists February James and LaKela Brown—and those who arrived to Miami one day earlier may have caught Paris Hilton spinning at the same hotel the night before. more
Tapestry close-up and side profile. [links]
From Diesel to Dior, fashion houses of every price point knew Miami Art Week would be an ideal time to have an artist-in-residence. Style and art collided into the closing weekend. For starters, Desigual teamed up with Barcelona-based performance artist Carlota Guerrero for a racy live exhibit while Coach tapped Brooklyn street artist WhIsBe to paint an in-store mural of his sweet and iconic Vandal Gummy bears.
A white mixed media by David Hammons sold for $2.4 million on opening day at Basel, one of the biggest recorded sales of this year’s fair. Other hot-ticket items included massive self-portraits by Cindy Sherman who unveiled a set of ten tapestries. Her first-ever, non-photographic works stood about 9.5-feet high, each priced at $125,000 each. As of Saturday afternoon, only one of ten remained on display. here