Artnet News Miami Art Week 2011

Recession? What recession? The global art world is about to descend upon Miami for what might be called Miami Art Week

. It's insanely large and packed with events -- we count 17 art fairs, a billboard project, an art-market conference, an auction preview, a new auction-house launch and dozens of museum and gallery events. If you want to stay home and pull the covers over your head, we don't blame you. But check back here for daily reports once the big show gets under way.

Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 1-4, 2011 (with the media and VIP receptions on Nov. 30), the blazing sun that started it all ten years ago -- and in its anniversary celebration, ABMB doesn't hesitate to take (justified) credit for the local art renaissance - once again brings more than 260 galleries to the halls of the spacious Miami Beach Convention Center. More than half of the exhibitors in the main fair are from outside the U.S., including 26 from Latin America, nine from Asia and two from Africa. The fair's Art Nova section features 42 galleries with "new works" by 105 artists, while Art Kabinett boasts more than 30 curated exhibitions within individual exhibitors' booths. A one-day ticket is $40.

Art Positions, once housed in containers at the beach but since moved into the main hall, presents 16 galleries from ten countries hosting "cutting-edge" projects, including performance artist Emily Sundblad at Algus Greenspon from New York and Theaster Gates at Chicagos Kavi Gupta. A section called Art Public, organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Christine Y. Kim in collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art, puts more than 20 public artworks in Collins Park, the swath of green between the Bass and the beach.

The construction site down from the Convention Center on 17th Street has turned into the New World Center, a $160-million, six-story-tall concert hall designed by Frank Gehry for Michael Tilson Thomas' New World Symphony, and ABMB is using the building's outdoor projection wall to present its Art Video section. Also on tap: Art Film, Art Salon and Art Basel Conversations.

* Design Miami/11, Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2011, now in its 7th edition, brings a dollop of international design chic to the tropical doings. Sited in a custom structure in the parking lot behind the Miami Beach Convention Center, Design Miami/ has grown, promising a 50 percent increase in participating galleries. We see the return of veteran dealers Galerie Patrick Seguin (Paris), Carpenters Workshop Gallery (London and Paris), Demisch Danant (NY) as well as first-time exhibitors Didier Ltd (London), Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud (Brussels) and Novalis Fine Art (Turin).

Design Miamis Design Talks series is once again moderated by W Magazine editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi, and the fair features a site-specific installation by architect David Adjaye as well as a design performance titled Craft Alchemy by fashion house Fendi, which involves the transformation of antique furniture with discarded bits of Fendi leacher by designer Elisa Strozyk and artist Sebastian Neeb. General admission is $25.

* NADA Art Fair, Dec. 1-4, 2011, now in its eighth year, sets up as usual a few miles north in the spacious Art Deco Deauville Beach Resort, with 90 hip and youthful exhibitors, ranging from 179 Canal in New York and Altman Siegel in San Francisco to Warhus Rittershaus in Cologne and Workplace in Gateshead. NADA partners this year with Paddle8 to put the fair online; Paddle8 members can preview the offerings beginning on Nov. 25, 2011. Admission is free.

by: aarenbrowns

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