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Four Palm Beach galleries are among the 277 exhibiting this year as part of Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the art world’s largest events.
The annual International Art Fair takes place Dec. 8-10 at the Miami Beach Convention Center and features 277 galleries on-site, as well as simultaneous exhibitions from museums and personal collections in South Florida.
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Art Basel returns this year to the conference center, which just underwent a $640 million renovation and expansion aimed at modernizing assets and addressing the effects of emerging sea levels, the conference center said.
Also serving as Art Basel’s Fair of the Americas, this year’s edition in Miami Beach will highlight artists from the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora. More than two dozen galleries will be newcomers, hailing from countries such as Egypt, Iceland, the Philippines and Poland.
“This year, our exhibition in Miami Beach will find surprises and an expanded platform to notice a diversity of artistic voices and perspectives, which resonate and reverberate through Miami Beach’s ever-expanding cultural offerings,” said Vincenzo de Bellis, director of fairs and exhibition platforms for Art Basel. De Bellis is leading this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach as the fair’s new director, Bridget Finn, prepares to take the reins of the 2024 fair.
Here’s what you want to know about this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach.
Art Basel Miami Beach is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 8-10 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach.
The fair is open by invitation on December 6th and 7th.
Ticket costs start at $58 for students, citizens and seniors. Students must be over the age of 12 and recently attending school or university. In this case, the citizens are other people who live in Miami Beach. Seniors are seniors who are 62 years of age or older. The ticket is for one user during one day from December 8 to 10, between noon and four in the afternoon.
A daily ticket valid from noon to four o’clock in the afternoon. You can get it for $75.
The first-access ticket is $95 and includes admission for one user for one day and early access to the exhibit starting at 11 a. m. m.
Premium, VIP, and exconsistent three-day stays that come with access to select South Florida museums are available for $630, $2,200, or $3,500 per month, depending on the access point and benefits included. The $3,500 Premium Discovery ticket price includes a personal cocktail reception and a stop with a Cuban artist at his studio.
Admission is free for children under the age of 12 with the purchase of an adult ticket. Art Basel Miami Beach will offer Art Kids for toddlers ages 4 to 11, a free game room with Miami Children’s Museum programming and staff. Pre-registration is required and more details can be obtained on the Art Basel website. 22
The fair is divided into sectors, led by the Galleries sector, which includes 222 fresh art galleries.
The Nova sector includes 22 galleries that present works created in the last three years through one, two or three artists. Many pieces from this sector have been exhibited before, Art Basel said.
The Positions sector has 16 galleries that highlight emerging artists. In the Survey sector, there are 17 art history projects that come with artist presentations and exhibitions.
The Méridiens sector is a showcase for 19 artists who do have compatibility with the stand format, adding installations, performances and immersive experiences.
While the other sectors are grouped together, the Kabinett sector is found throughout the show floor and includes 30 galleries.
For more information, artbasel. com/miami-beach.
If traveling by car to the Miami Beach Convention Center, there is valet and self-parking available. Self-parking in the Miami Beach Convention Center parking garage is $20. There are other municipal garages that are near the convention center that can be used if the center’s garage is full. Download the ParkMe app, available on Android and iPhone, to see which garages have space and what the cost to park will be.
If traveling via Brightline, visitors can use Uber or Lyft to get to the conference center from the MiamiCentral train station. If traveling to Miami Beach or from a nearby hotel, visitors can use the free Miami Beach service. bus service or tram system.
Four Palm Beach galleries will be on display at Art Basel Miami Beach. Two galleries that have recently hosted seasonal pop-up events on the island will also have booths.
The works span many mediums and styles, with sculptures, photographs, and paintings created using a variety of methods.
Acquavella Galleries (340 Royal Poinciana Way, Suite 309, Palm Beach) will be on display at booth D12 in the conference center. Modern, post-war, and fresh works from the 20th and 21st centuries will be exhibited through artists such as Nicole Wittenberg. , Carl Andre, Francis Bacon, Miquel Barceló, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Bourgeois, Keith Haring, Jackson Pollock, James Rosenquist and Wayne Thiébaud.
The Acquavella booth will feature works by Damian Loeb, whose exhibition at the Acquavella Gallery in Palm Beach ends Dec. 5, and Jon Joanis, whose Palm Beach exhibit begins Dec. 8.
The fair is a wonderful opportunity for galleries to succeed among new audiences and interact with the art world at large, said Eleanor Acquavella.
“In addition, the fair combines other complementary systems from our New York and Palm Beach spaces, combining our strong fashion and post-war masters with new works by new mid-career artists we exhibit in Palm Beach such as Damian Loeb, Nicole. Wittenberg and Jon Joanis,” he said.
Ben Brown Fine Arts – 245 Worth Ave. , Palm Beach – will be showcased at booth D8. The gallery will feature new works by Yoan Capote, Awol Erizku, Vik Muniz, Nabil Nahas, José Parlá, Enoc Perez, Ena Swansea and Hank. Willis Thomas.
There also will be a selection of artwork from post-war artists Alighiero Boetti, Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Roy Lichtenstein and Antoni Tàpies.
Brown plans to create “an organization of artists whose collective impact enriches and shapes the evolving landscape of new artistic expressions”: Miquel Barceló, Amoako Boafo, Günther Förg, Andreas Gursky, KAWS, Richard Prince and Sean Scully. “Ohne Titel,” a grid painting by Förg, and Prince’s “Glue,” a combination of collage and acrylic that measures 10 feet wide and about 6 1/2 feet high.
Gavlak (340 Royal Poinciana Way, Suite M334, Palm Beach) will be featured at booth B57.
Gavlak was founded in 2005 through Sarah Gavlak, the artistic mastermind of Palm Beach County’s New Wave Art Wknd, and is known for representing women, black artists, other people of color, and LGBTQ artists.
Artist Deborah Brown will be part of Gavlak’s collection at Art Basel Miami Beach. Brown uses bright colors to depict scenes of modern life, with his “Street Smarts” series showing street vendors promoting everything from counterfeit designer handbags to fruit.
Gavlak also will feature pieces from Andrew Brischler, whose exhibition “Self Portraits” is on display through Dec. 17 at Gavlak in Palm Beach. Additional artists in Gavlak’s booth: Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Lisa Anne Auerbach, Jake Clark, Willie Cole, Marc Dennis, Braxton Garneau, Taha Heydari, Nir Hod, Abby Leigh, Nancy Lorenz, Maynard Monrow, Anthony Sonnenberg and Alexis Teplin.
White Cube — 2512 Florida Ave., West Palm Beach — will be in Booth A23.
The gallery will showcase paintings and sculptures by artists such as Lynne Drexler, David Hammons, Richard Hunt, Robert Irwin, Julie Mehretu, Ed Ruscha, Park Seo-Bo, and Danh Vo.
Among the pieces on display is Hunt’s sculpture “Years of Pilgrimage,” the last piece in Hunt’s “Plough Series,” which spanned approximately three decades. The play will pay homage to Hunt’s grandfather, a sharecropper in Georgia. To create the “Years of Pilgrimage,” Hunt welded metal pipes.
Two galleries that recently had seasonal locations in Palm Beach also will be at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Lehmann Maupin, who in the past had a seasonal gallery in Royal Poinciana Plaza and in the past on Worth Avenue, will be present at booth B26.
The gallery, now in its year at Art Basel, will feature new works by Loriel Beltran, Lee Bul, Mandy El-Sayegh, Teresita Fernandez, Todd Gray, Chantal Joffe, Tammy Nguyen, Do Ho Suh, Nari Ward, and Erwin Wurm.
Fernandez will debut a new painting in his “Dark Earth” series, in which he transforms raw charcoal into relief images. Lehmann Maupin will also offer a new installation through Brazilian artist OSGEMEOS in the Kabinett sector of the fair, new paintings and sculptures on immersive wallpaper.
Pace Gallery, which has been present in Palm Beach for the past two seasons, will be offered at booth D35.
The gallery will exhibit the works of more than two dozen artists, Gideon Appah, Lynda Benglis, Alexander Calder, Latifa Echakhch, Elmgreen.
One of the highlights of Pace’s booth will be Benglis’ “QT,” a sculpture in bronze.
Pace will also feature a glass-blown sculpture through Wilson and Longo’s “Untitled (Battle of Ukrainian and Russian Tanks),” a charcoal drawing that is part of Longo’s larger series examining the COVID-19 pandemic, politics, and war.
With the who’s who of global art in South Florida over the weekend, local galleries that don’t make it to Miami Beach will showcase their best works to the many creditors and art lovers who will take to the highway, or Brightline, to search new or unusual works. As a result, art lovers who don’t need to go to Miami Beach can find plenty of opportunities to see stellar works of art while still staying local.
Some highlights of the exhibitions taking place over the weekend such as Art Basel Miami Beach:
“Presence: Judy Glickman Lauder’s Collection of Photographs,” at the Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach. www. norton. org
Exhibition “Environments of Paris” through Isabelle de Ganay at Findlay Galleries, Worth Ave. , Palm Beach. www. findlaygalleries. com
Exhibition “Capricho”
“Graphic Design Student Show” at Palm Beach State College’s Lake Worth Art Gallery, in the HU Building of the campus at 4200 Congress Ave. www.palmbeachstate.edu/art-gallery-pbsc
“Pictures in the Half-Light” exhibit Dec. 9 at the Holden Luntz Gallery, 332 Worth Ave. , Palm Beach. www. holdenluntz. com
“Deck the Walls” opens Dec. 7 at Lighthouse ArtCenter Gallery, 373 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta. www. lighthousearts. org
“Let There Be Light” exhibit at the Palm Beach International Airport Gallery, point two atrium near the green, 1000 James L. Turnage Blvd. , West Palm Beach. www. pbia. org
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Art Basel Miami Beach: Tickets, travel, Palm Beach galleries and more
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