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Miami Beach

NOW ABOUT THAT BANANA… MIAMI ART WEEK 2019 DEMOCRATIZED THE ART WORLD

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, January/February 2020

by Nancy Nesvet

Miami Art Week 2019 hosted the people’s fairs. Artists at the most democratic fairs ever at Miami Beach and Miami during Miami Art Week used art and craft to deliver clear messages for all the people, showering truth over fictions. Looking toward the future, and back toward the past, work addressed truth versus colonial myth and threats to our common environment, be they political or climatic. The work demanded that we look at ourselves, examine our attitudes and recognize our differences but realize we must come together to save our common world. Had I a fortune, I would spend it at Landau Fine Art, Montreal, for “Caroline,” 1963, oil on canvas, the Alberto Giacometti painting full of mournful emotion expressed in grays and taupes with sparing lines on an off-white ground; so little said with so few lines, each making a mournful mark. Yves Tanguy’s “Titre inconnu” (5634), 1927, oil … [Read more...] about NOW ABOUT THAT BANANA… MIAMI ART WEEK 2019 DEMOCRATIZED THE ART WORLD

Alfredo Jaar restaged his A Logo for America, 1987, in New York in 2014. © Alfredo Jaar. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.

Still Relevant: Art Basel Miami Beach Keeps the Pulse

// Art Basel Miami Beach, Issue Articles, November/December 2018

by Nancy Nesvet

Reflecting North and South America’s political and economic turbulence and artists’ domestic and environmental concerns, Art Basel Miami Beach 2018 — its 17th edition — will open to the public December 6 through 9 at the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Center. Two hundred and sixty eight exhibitors will display work in tried and true sectors: Galleries, where gallerists present their choice of artists and where 12 galleries have moved to from their previous sectors; Nova, where three artists will exhibit in each of the twenty nine gallery-supported booths; Survey, showing 16 works made since 2000; Positions, where emerging galleries will show 14 solo artists, eight for the first time; Kabinett, with themed exhibits; Edition, where 11 galleries show prints; Conversations, where artists, curators and gallerists discuss the work and the art world; and Magazines, the sector where … [Read more...] about Still Relevant: Art Basel Miami Beach Keeps the Pulse

FACE IT: DAY THREE MIAMI BEACH: ART MIAMI AND CONTEXT

// Art Basel Miami Beach, Featured, Visual Arts

By Nancy Nesvet Continuing the exploration, the intrepid Artscope Team, national correspondent Nancy Nesvet and publisher Kaveh Mojtabai went over the bridge to downtown Miami to explore the Art Miami and Context Fairs. At both fairs, we found more adventurous, risk-taking work, sometimes gorgeous and well-executed, and sometimes kitchy, maybe intentionally so. We saw a huge number of portraits, both photographic and painted, and figurative sculpture spanning the material spectrum. Perhaps best in the Art Miami show for me were the photographic portraits of Niloufar Banisadr, an Iranian artist now practicing in Paris. With scriptor architectural drawings relating to the image behind the portrait, six photographs including “Mes Voyages, Mona Lisa” (2015) were quietly beautiful. David Yarrow’s 56” x 56” photograph, “The Old Testament, Dinokeng, South Africa” (2017, Holden Luntz … [Read more...] about FACE IT: DAY THREE MIAMI BEACH: ART MIAMI AND CONTEXT

Sergio Vega, Tropical Shower.

SMILING AND LOOKING FORWARD: SCOPE AND UNLIMITED FAIRS EARLY HIGHLIGHTS OF MIAMI ART WEEK 2017

// Art Basel Miami Beach, Featured, Visual Arts

By Nancy Nesvet MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, DEC. 5, 2017. Smile and the world smiles with you. In Miami Beach, at the Scope and Unlimited Art Fairs, we are in a happy place, or at least a lot happier than at past fairs and biennales. Maybe it is because we are tired of the depressing state the world is in. But hey, it’s time to come out of the cocoon, especially in this sunny paradise of blue skies and cerulean ocean. So, at the Scope Art Fair, we are seeing lots of manga and comic work; paintings declaring “Life is so Big and Beautiful, Where should we start?” signed Luis XXX, or Francois Bel’s “Warhology Blue Neon Fushia Bubbles” (Virginie Barrou Planquart, Paris). Beauty reigns but so does an infatuation with identity, yours, mine and ours, in Sungchul Hong’s “Perceptual Mirror 0633D,” 2017, of solar LCD units in plexiglass at Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, We are delighted, … [Read more...] about SMILING AND LOOKING FORWARD: SCOPE AND UNLIMITED FAIRS EARLY HIGHLIGHTS OF MIAMI ART WEEK 2017