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MIAMI PREUIEW BY RONI FEINSTEIN he fifth edition of the international with them altogether. Also in this Dec. 5-6, just prior fair Art Basel Miami Beach location is Art Perform, a program of to the opening of (Dec. 7-10) once again offers daily performances curated by Jens ABMB. On Dec. 6, visitors a cornucopia of citywide Hoffman of the CCA Wattis lnstitute, Aquarelle, Guillermo exhibitions and events geared to San Francisco, and an artist DJ Kuitca's site-specif ic cutting-edge art. At the Miami Beach program organized by Alanna Heiss public art project Convention Center, the principal and Klaus Biesenbach of New York's for Aqua, a Dacra venue, some of the world's most P.S.1. Art Projects includes both Development project prominent galleries present their public works of art and performances on Allison lsland, is wares in the company of younger that are on view at various sites in being unveiled; last galleries comprising the Art Nova Miami Beach (maps are provided). year, a Richard Tuttle section of the fair. ln a beachfront ln the botanical gardens opposite the project was dedicat- village of converted shipping contain- convention center are the Art Video ed at the same site. ers situated a few blocks away, Art Lounge, programmed by Michael On Dec. 7, the night Positions offers the work of other Rush of the Rose Art Museum at of the fair's official Brandeis University, and the Art opening, Miami artist Sound Lounge, curated by David George Sanchez- Dale Chihuly: Niijima Floats,2005, hand-blown glass; Weinstein of P.S.1. Calderon will stage at the Fairchild Tropical Gardens. Photo Terry Rishel. Seeking to take advantage of the an art exhibition/ more than 36,000 visitors expected event in Bicentennial to arrive in Miami for the fair, the Park in downtown city's numerous ad institutions, col- Miami. Titled "An American Falla," it the 1969 classic Easy r9rder at the lections, galleries, alternative spaces involves the creation (and subse- Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road; and artists have planned a rich array quent destruction by fire) of a full- Dennis Hopper, its director and one of ofierings. As in years past, a few scale re-creation of the first home of its stars, will be present at the new art spaces have timed their built in Levittown, N.Y., ca. 1947. screening. On the 1oth, a reception openings to coincide with ABMB. One On the same night, the Miami will be held at Cesar Pelli's new of these is the Freedom Center, a collaborative FriendsWithYou is Carnival Center for the Performing new cultural and educational facil- organizing a blimp parade titled Arts with public art works by ity established by Pedro Martin's "Skywalkers" to extend from 21st Jos6 Bedia, Cundo Bermudez, Terra Group. Sited in Miami's historic to sth Streets along the Miami Gary Moore, Anna Valentina Freedom Tower, its opens with the Beach shoreline; other events are Murch, Robert Rahway Zakanitch, exhibition "Carlos Alfonzo: Extreme promised as well. Konstantia Kontaxis and Ed Talavera Expression, 1 980-1 991 ,' curated by On Dec. 8. Art Loves Film shows lsee "Front Page," this issue]. Julia P. Herzberg. The Moore Space, one of the city's leading alternative Detail of Carlos Betancourt's lhe galleries, is inaugurating a satellite Cut-Out Army,2006, 100 individual venue, the Moore Space Loft, a few t least l0 additional art fairs will occur during the four days of ABMB cutouts on cardboard, each I feet tall. blocks from its Design District loca- I design, photo--based Courtesy Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. tion, and the Ambrosino Gallery, a lf lonu focuses on another on work and still long-prominent commercial gallery Fl unoth". o, .ont".pJ.ry prints).The NewArt DealersAltiance that stands opposite the Museum of lnc. (NADA), made up of 90 international galleries, once again takes up Contemporary Art in North Miami, residence in the lce Palace Studios at 59 NW l4th St,while Pulse,with is opening a Wynwood branch, The 50 exhibitors, returns to Miami for its second run at 2700 NW 2nd Ave. Wynwood Art District, the epicenter Scope, which is making its fifth appearance in Miami, occupies a new of Miami's contemporary art scene, venue: a 40,000-square-foot tented structure set in Roberto Clemente promises to deliver any number of Park at I 0 I NW 34th Sr in Wynwood. On its inaugural run in Wynwood surprises, as on a seemingly daily is Photo Miami,which is directed byTim Fleming and includes 50 inter- basis empty warehouse spaces galleries photo-based are being turned over to artists and national showing work, video and new media; it dealers for temporary exhibitions, takes place in the SOHO Building at2l36 NW lstAve. ln a warehouse installations and performances. space across the street from Pulse is Fountain, an "alternative fair" orga- Already planned is the presentation nized byWilliamsburg, Brooldyn, dealers John Leo and David Kesting, of Carlos Betancourl's "The Cut- which presents the work of young artists and galleries (it is at the corner Out Army," consisting of a group of of 29th St. and NW 2nd Ave.).The Design Miami ltair is located in the 8{oot-high photographic cutouts of Moore Building. people (nearly 100 of them), at the The remaining five fairs are tal<ing place on Miami Beach in proxim- warehouse of the future offices of ity to the convention center. Aqua, created last year by Seattle dealers La Comunidad Agency on NW 1si with an emphasis on West Coast galleries and artists, is at the Aqua Zaha Hadid Architects: Digital Place. The Design District once again rendering o, a 42-foot container, 2005; has a full program of exhibitions and Hotel ( I 530 Collins Ave.).Two fairs making their debuts-the Bridge at Kenny Schachter ROVE. Courtesy events planned and this year a record Art Fair, initiated by Chicago's Brrdge magazine, and Flow Miami Zaha Hadid Architects, London. number of 10 satellite fairs round out lnternational, directed by Matthew Garson-are at the Catalina Hotel the whole. and Beach Club ( I 732 Collins Ave.). Sponsored by the lnternational Fine Among the notewodhy events is Print Dealers Association (FPDA), INK, which includes I 5 publishers young galleries" One of the exhibitors, the two-day symposium "Creator, offering contemporary worl< on paper, is at the Su:tes of Dorchester at Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, has Collector, Catalyst: The University 1850 CollinsAve. replaced the usual shipping container Art Museum in the Twenty-First Finally, in lieu of Frisbee, which was held at a Miami Beach hotel dur- with a prototype portable pavilion Ceniury," hosted by the Wolfsonian- designed by renowned architect Zaha Florida lnternational University and ing the past two years, founders Anat Egbi and Jen DeNike have initiated Hadid that is itself for sale. A few of co-organized with the Princeton Free Frisbee, consisting of posters by more than 60 artists distributed the other exhibitors have variously University Art Museum, being held at throughout the Greater Miami area, the intention being to make artwork violated their containers or dispensed the Miami Beach Convention Center available to all. ArtinAmerica 43 Museums Calzada'.ln Dreams Awake," a 30-year premiered, will also be on view. The Moore Space Loft, a new, 7,500- The Museum of Contemporary retrospective of the Cuban adist, who square-foot warehouse facility three Art in North Miami presents "Elusive has been living in Miami since 1960. blocks away (ai3627 NE 1st Court), Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Meanwhile, the Patricia and Phillip is being inaugurated at ABMB wiih Light," a traveling retrospective of Frost Museum at FIU is showing John Bock's performance and installa- the adist's neon and fluorescent light the concept-based work of four tion Zero Hero (2003105), originally pieces organized by the Milwaukee women artists of Cuban extraction presented at the 51st Venice Biennale. Art Museum. Also on view is an in "A Room of One's Own: Teresita ln the Buena Vista Building nearby, exhibition of Pablo Cano's marionette Ferndndez, Maria Elena Gonzdlez, an alterna- sculptures for his new production, Quisqueya Henrlquez, Marfa Bas Fisher lnvitational, tive space founded in 2004 by Miami "City Beneath the Sea," which will be Martinez-Cafras." artists Hernan Bas and Naomi Fisher, pedormed Dec.9 and 10. presents paintings and drawings by MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Private Gollections New York artist Jessica Dickinson. the museum's satellite facility in and llonprofits Elsewhere in the Design District, Wynwood, displays "Artificial Light," The Wynwood Art District is home Robins and Dacra Development an exhibition of light sculpture to five private collection spaces by younger adists influenced by that are open to the public. For the Nauman, Dan Flavin and others, Pablo Cano: King Otto,2006, first time, rather than presenting a organized by the Anderson Gallery mixed mediums, 54 by 24 by series of curated shows, the Rubell Virginia Commonwealth University at 24 inches; al the Museum ol Family Collection has dedicated School of the Arts and the Virginia Contemporary Art. ils enti re 45,000-square-Ioot space Museum of Fine Arts. On Dec. 7, to a single exhibition, organized by "E-Merce: ln Fashion, The Runway director Mark Coetzee, "Red Eye: Battle," a performance inspired by Los Angeles Afiists from the Rubell costumes in Merce Cunningham Family Collection." lt will include dances, will be presented. work in a wide range of mediums The Miami Art Museum, now by Doug Aitken, Frank Benson, the direction of Terence Riley, under Amy Bessone, Mark Grotjahn, presents the midcareer sur- traveling Kristen Morgan, Laura Owens, vey of Lorna Simpson's work orga- Lara Schnitger, Catherine Sullivan nized by the American Federation of and many others.