Recap: Satellite’s Artist-Run Space at Miami Art Week 2015

Nearly 40 groups and galleries took over the derelict oceanfront hotel and tossed inhibition out the windows

If you’re measuring in internet time, Miami Art Week 2015 is long over, but there was one show we can’t get out of our minds—the inaugural Satellite Art Show. A brainchild of Brian Whiteley (founder of the now-defunct SELECT Art Fair), the brand new fair situated itself far from the on-edge crowds in South Beach. Closer to its partners Miami Project and Art on Paper, …

Miami Art Week 2015: The Infinite or Uncountable

Paintings and sculptures that confound with their vastness

The notion of infinity or even that which is uncountable often perplexes the human brain. They’ve also been themes approached by artists for centuries. The following five pieces, seen across multiple fairs during Miami Art Week, either hint at one or the other, or tackle them head-on. From a line that seems to have no end and a mirrored infinity light-box to layers upon layers …

Hello! Selfie Miami

Like a real-life Tumblr page, artist, author and feminist Kate Durbin created “Hello!Selfie Miami,” a performance piece that occurred last week during Miami Art Week. The response to a man’s attack on Durbin’s piece about teen girls’s selfies manifested in a bunch of young women—dressed as mermaids and covered in Hello Kitty stickers—taking selfies for hours on end, with no interaction with their audience. Durbin …