![]() ![]() Another non-profit, Locust Projects, was presenting a delightful installation in its project-room by Miami-based Cuban artist Beatriz Monteavero as well as an intervention in public space by Martine Syms, evoking the legacy of the Harlem Square Club, a mythical Miami music and performance nightclub in 70’s Overtown, a historically African American Miami neighborhood. Art Basel was also the occasion for Bas Fisher Invitational, artist run space co-led by Florida native Naomi Fisher since 2004, to celebrate the future move out of its current downtown location due to an urban development plan, with a group show entitled Planes, investigating issues of collaborative practices and gentrification, drawing on Fisher’s long time contacts in NYC, where she lived for almost ten years during the legendary glamorous Deitch era. artist Alex Bag and a solo presentation of Berlin-based Renaud Jerez to come in 2016. and European artists, with a current presentation of video works by U.S. On the other hand, the ICA intends to position itself as a decentralized place for global art conversations involving local, U.S. ![]() PAMM looks decidedly towards the South, this year didactically hanging its own collection in order to demonstrate its efforts in acquiring major works by Latinos and minority-issued artists– the exhibition program also includes a welcome solo presentation of Jamaican born artist Nari Ward. The mega Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) built by Herzog and de Meuron and inaugurated in 2013 can’t by itself compensate for the city’s historic lack of institutions, and the young ICA Miami, born from the MOCA Miami dissolution, led by energetic New York renegade Alex Gartenfeld, works more on a Kunsthalle scale than a museum one, although managing a collection. So what about culture and the arts in that context? Art Basel week remains incontestably the highlight of a cultural landscape otherwise more nuanced. cities saw their influence decline in the 90 as globalization was accelerating, Miami was building a specific agenda for itself, acting as a hub between North America, the Caribbean and Latin America. The new possibilities of access to information and the outrageous prices of New York housing and living situations do the rest: and where many other U.S. It’s of course the digital connectivity (along with friendly tax and financial regulation policies, whose historical permissiveness is fortunately on the decline) that makes possible for a whole part of the financial sector to move their activities down to Florida, where “the nightlife and beaches don’t hurt either” (1). ![]() state for rich Latin Americans to administrate their fortunes abroad. after New York, and the real estate business is thriving in order to accommodate its growing corporate population. It is now the second financial center in the U.S. Stuck in traffic between closed highways and multiple deviation routes, Art Basel visitors might notice an impressive amount of construction work going on in the Floridian cultural capital these days. ![]()
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