Cribbed directly from Ed Winkleman: “It’s now officially a week and a day since we returned from Miami, the art shippers have returned our stuff, and we’re neck-deep in follow-up (not to mention slush), but I’ve finally found the time to survey the responses to the annual Artfest in the […]
Tag: Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach: Swimming in pigment
Here’s an excerpt from my report on the Art Basel Miami Beach experience in the recently released February issue of The Brooklyn Rail.“To feed Two Coats of Paint, my daily blog about painting, I comb the Internet for art reviews and commentary from all over the world. It�s an enriching […]
Painting Miami green
Exactly one week ago I was grabbing yet another cup of coffee in Miami, wondering how I could get to all the fairs before my Sunday mid-morning flight. The answer, of course, was I couldn�t. I saw a stunning number of good paintings by unfamiliar artists from all over the […]
The blessed and the damned
In The Times, Olivia Cole reports that Spanish painter Lluis Barba unveiled his version of Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights at Art Basel Miami Beach. “So what could be more easy on the eye than a 21st-century reworking of Hieronymus Bosch�s The Garden of Earthly Delights? Painted in 1504, […]
Florida artists, slouching toward Miami
The art-buying hordes have descended on Miami for Art Basel Miami Beach. Artists from Miami and neighboring communities are torn. Is it an opportunity to expose their work to a wider audience, or is it an unwanted intrusion to be scrupulously avoided? Ashlee Harrell of the New-Times Broward Palm Beach […]
