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Miami Art Week Report: Day 3 A day at the fairs and a look inside the after dark events
Artillery is back with Day 3 in Miami Beach. The fairs are in full swing, the collectors are fighting for first access, and the tiny glasses of overpriced champagne are on offer at every opportunity. Yesterday, we started with the design highlight of the week: Design Miami/. Located just outside the Convention Center where Art Basel Miami Beach takes place, Design Miami/ is a refreshing counterpoint to the art-centric events of the week and offers the best opportunity to see the biggest names in contemporary design, as well as innovative rising stars. Opening Wednesday and running through Sunday, this year’s fair is the 19th edition and...
Miami Art Week Report: Day 2 Elevate Española highlights the importance of public art, and the fairs begin
After a weekend filled with art and philanthropy in Palm Beach, we’re officially ready for the parties, fairs, and people-watching of Miami Art Week. Yesterday, Untitled Art and the New Art Dealers Alliance fairs opened to VIPs, and the heavy-hitting Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami/ open today. To kick off my week, rather than dive straight into the fair tents and convention center, I started this year off in the best part of Miami: the city itself. The City of Miami Beach is full of vibrant culture, iconic Art Deco hotels, public art, and, of course, the beach. As I made my way to Untitled Art, my first stop was for the unveiling...
Miami Art Week Report: Day 1 New Wave Art Wknd Takes Over Palm Beach
Miami Art Week is back, which means the crowds are on the way to enjoy the beach, the sun, the stunning hotels, and the most coveted art the market has to offer. For those of us visiting from New York, the warm weather couldn’t have come at a better time. Throughout the week, Artillery will be taking you to the major fairs and public events, as well as a few VIP openings and private parties, in what we hope will be both an entertaining and enlightening daily report. Before jumping into the commerce and culture of Miami, we’re starting with some art and philanthropy a few hours north in Palm Beach for the 5th anniversary of New Wave Art...
WOVEN VISIONS Diedrick Brackens Explores Identity with Innovative Technique and Unusual Tenderness
Even with the growing inclusion of textile art in textbooks, surveys and biennials, one doesn’t normally think of weaving as a cutting-edge contemporary art medium. Diedrick Brackens is out to change that. A breakout star of the 2018 Hammer “Made in L.A.” biennial, Brackens uses his works to foreground Black and queer bodies—and the occasional catfish—through lyrical, at times haunting, scenarios. An eager advocate of his adopted medium—“At the very beginning I fell in love with how meditative it was,” he recalls—he is unafraid to adjust his practice through insights that he gleaned from studying painting and other art forms: first at the...
EDGES AND PLURALITIES Melissa Joseph Brings Craft Into the Future
For Melissa Joseph, all things relate to edges. Her practice exists on several of them: painting, felting, craft, utility, art … the list continues. She works in a unique dry-felting medium to create imagery based on her own photography and that of her family. While channeling “ancestral stories,” as she explains, she also addresses broader social issues, including gendered labor and identity. She constantly considers multiple things at once from a perspective that is inherently plural, evolving and defined by many identities: artist, teacher, woman, South Asian, American, friend, daughter and sister. As she prepares for her fall solo show,...
