While Art Basel Miami Beach is the main event of Art Week, there are several satellite fairs that feature smaller galleries and emerging artists. For my second full day of art, champagne and parties, I headed to Art Miami and Context, partner fairs just across the...
Art Basel Miami Beach is back for the first in-person edition since pre-pandemic days. As with previous years, the week is full of parties, exhibitions, benefit auctions and satellite fairs across Miami Beach and downtown. This week, I’ll be visiting as many events as...
“Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,...” William Shakespeare, The Tempest Scarcely into the second act of Alcina—the third of Handel’s operas based on material from Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso...
Considering the world today, it’s no wonder you’ve begun to peel, to pull away from your respective homes, to hide from the tremors, quakes and quick-sands of the living world. We are all guilty of something. We have all fallen under at some time or other, curling in...
MOCA Madness Good news, the art world is revving up! We have art fairs taking place In Real Life, galleries setting regular opening hours and museums flinging open their doors. Of course, we’re not completely out of the COVID woods—many venues require proof of vax...
One of the most memorable events at MOCA occurred when Chinese-American artist Cai Guo-Qiang exploded gunpowder from an exterior wall of the Geffen Contemporary just after sunset, setting off blinding and spectacular explosions before a huge crowd unprepared for such...
Maggie West took over a large, dark space somewhere north of Frogtown last week and filled it with massive images of flowers, pulsating time-lapse photographed in UV light. The colors have weird harmonies: bad-acid Disney-villain purples and magentas, alien and dreamy...
If you are interviewing somebody who gets interviewed a lot, and they compliment you on the quality of your questions, you are probably doing something right. This happened on multiple occasions to Delphine Seyrig during her 1981 documentary Be Pretty and Shut Up!...
Dear Babs, My longtime friend recently started painting and selling his art online. We live in different cities, and it’s been hard to meet because of the pandemic, but he’s having me over soon, and I know he’s going to want my thoughts about his art. The problem is I...
Nothing really happens in Sun & Sea, an opera set during a time in which we may expect ‘things’ will more or less stop happening altogether; or in any case, when things only happen to us—excepting possibly those wealthy enough to have provided themselves...
One thing Orson Welles understood about movie-making was that a great motion picture, like any great work of art, tapped into a sense of the magical. He also understood that the magic was not simply the final studio product, however released or presented...
Soft White was a porn star in the 80s, and with all the money he made was finally able to buy a piece of land in the Adirondacks where he opened a rescue for abused Alpacas. He once thought about changing his name to Hard White, but the allure of the soft and fuzzy...
It was really a break from a break from a break from a longer art project (which is what art features turn into after they’ve been festering and metastasizing for more than a month or two) that brought me out to Bel Ami – a gallery I’d never been to located in the...
The art world has been a secretive, opaque business for centuries. Secondary market transactions are rarely transparent and auction houses are often silent about the identity of the ultimate seller and buyer (provenances are full of phrases such as “from a private...
You know when an airplane goes from just rattling back and forth to when it feels like the engines stopped and you drop, like, 20, 50, who knows how many feet and then picks up rattling again? I hate that. I don’t want to die. The nice thing about turbulence is it...
A term that has gained a lot of currency in the past couple of decades is “abandoned.” There are hundreds of social media accounts dedicated to abandoned things. New websites and art books about them keep springing up. Abandoned things from the mid-20th century are...
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