These standout artworks caught my eye at Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA, Untitled Art, and the new Open Invitational.
Miami Art Week
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Miami Fair Asks Gallery to Remove Portrait of Trump
Scope Art Show said the work was taken down because it was not part of L Kotler Fine Art’s original proposal.
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Art Basel Miami Beach Returns With Smoke and Mirrors
An AI app you can’t opt out of and buzzy sales reports shroud political uncertainty and hidden costs.
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A No-Nonsense Guide to Miami Art Week
Here are the fairs, exhibitions, and events that should be on your radar, and a few words of traffic advice to keep you sane.
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At Miami’s “Smaller” Fairs, Textiles and Softness Take the Stage
While the world is burning outside the ephemeral veneer of this week, artists at NADA, Untitled, and Ink Miami explore intimacy, femininity, and Latinidad.
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In Ron DeSantis’s Florida, What Can an Art Fair Mean?
Miami’s local artists grapple with environmental, economic, and political issues year-round, all while facing access barriers to fairs like Art Basel in their own city.
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Art Basel Miami App Crashes Minutes Before Opening
For roughly half an hour, art collectors had to consider a world in which they didn’t get that Alex Katz work.
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Joiri Minaya’s Tropical-Inflected Critiques of Colonialism
In unifying contemporary tropical realities with histories of colonization, Minaya demonstrates how imperialist attitudes survive in the discourse and commodification culture surrounding tropical tourism.
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Gauging the Potential of Abstraction at Art Basel Miami Beach
Questions of privilege aside, the range of abstract works reminded me how artists are providing nuanced ways of thinking about identity that move beyond exclusion/inclusion binaries.
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Damien Davis Explores the Legacy of the Tulsa Race Massacre Through Collage
For his solo presentation at Untitled Art Fair in Miami, Davis developed a lexicon of negritude, crafting sculptural plexiglass collages to explore the events that decimated a community popularly known as “Black Wall Street.”