By Maja Horn
By most accounts the coming together of Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which commissioned her installation Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) for its massive second floor atrium, appears like a particularly happy marriage. Arguably, not since Chinese artist Cai Guo-Quiang’s spectacular installation of [...]
By Janet Batet
We met Alexis Hubshman, director and promoter of Scope Art Fair and founder of Art Asia -Miami’s first Asian contemporary art fair- during his November 18-20 visit to Miami, hours prior to his talk at the Miami Art Museum Art Fair Survival Party, on the occasion of the inauguration of the 7th edition [...]
By Peter Frank
The power abstract painting holds over the beholder is not so much that of form itself but of its suggestion. The ideologies of artistic practice may motivate painters and fix their positions in the discourse of art history, but for viewers of the work itself, the painting exists as image and/or object-an image [...]
By Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart
One of the primary missions of Prospect.1 has been to help in the recovery of New Orleans, especially its cultural economy, through staging the largest biennials of contemporary art ever organized in the United States. With over eighty artists and more than two dozen venues, this historic biennial brought together key international artists [...]
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
For many artists of the so-called Third World, their cultural identity -if we can still use this term- is even in today’s global society, both a burden and an advantage. It is a burden because they are expected to create a body of work, which is somehow related to their cultural heritage. But [...]
By Bryan Barcena
The visual arts have throughout their existence served the subtle yet necessary function as cathartic vessels into which the conflicts of the mind are poured. Media and vehicles for the expression of psychosomatic trauma are frequently manifested as complex and nuanced regurgitations of the past. The icons and symbols that represent troubling experiences [...]
By Patricia Schoene
On December 3, 2008, when Art Basel Miami Beach was launched at the VIP Preview, all the media were skeptical. After a poor sales showing at New York auctions in November, there was not much hope that the most significant contemporary art fair in the United States and its satellite fairs would fare [...]
Miami Beach Convention Center, March 27 - 30, 2009
By Denise Colson
In March of this year, the seventh edition of Merrill Lynch arteaméricas, with the participation of renowned galleries from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela will be the ideal place [...]
By Paco Barragán
Nothing is what it looks like anymore: photography resembles painting, video looks like installation, sculpture becomes performative, and painting is all and nothing at the same time. And everything is integrated into photo-based media practices. Also, many artists no longer resort to a camera per se, but instead prefer to use an I-phone, [...]
By Bryan Barcena
As the twentieth century reached its final hours, many artists felt that art based on critical theory was on the way out. The conceptual frameworks, which had propelled art along during the past hundred years, were beginning to seem feeble. The strategy became one of refusing to criticize or to become an antithesis [...]
