Scene, by All: Miami Art Week 2013

Highlights from the city's annual art bonanza captured on Instagram

Dave Wilfert of The World’s Best Ever never misses Miami Art Week. The founder of one of the internet’s top arts and culture sites and a seasoned fair-goer, Wilfert grabbed our eye with a picture of this perforated piece of “motivational blotter art” by David Shrigley. The work is officially titled “Strive for Excellence,” and Wilfert tells us, “I took this photo because I bought …

Greenroom Magazine

The Minneapolis-based print publication connects music content with health, wellness and social issues

Yet another reminder that print isn’t dead: Minneapolis’ recently launched Greenroom Magazine. Given the Twin Cities’ long history of underground hip-hop, electronic and house music, Greenroom is shedding light on both the history of the local scene and also the current bigger picture with interviews from the likes of Chance The Rapper and Stones Throw Records’ critically acclaimed Homeboy Sandman. “I see Minneapolis as a …

Miami Art Week 2013: Beasts and Birds

Captivating works humanize as well as contextualize modern animal art

From the earliest noted iterations of art—paintings upon cave walls—to today’s cat-obsessed internet, animals have provided the inspiration behind culture of all kinds. We are awash in imagery of beasts and birds and domesticated pets. But during this most recent Art Week Miami—across all fairs and exhibitions—certain works presented shone an interesting light on why we continue to be mesmerized: We see something human within, …