ArtSpace Virginia Miller Galleries - Miami

By Raisa Clavijo

Renato Meziat’s “A Decade of Realism,” an exhibition at Virginia Miller Galleries was on view until the end of March. On this occasion, the artist gathered together still lifes and scenes in which a window serves as a frame for peaceful seascapes. The exhibition reflected [...]

By Paco Barragán

Like Charles Dickens’ famous novel A Tale of Two Cities, the history of the contemporary art fair of the 1970s and 1980s can be explained by the extraordinary rivalry between Cologne and Basel. I will try to formulate here why ART COLOGNE, though being the first contemporary art fair, [...]

By Jason Hoelscher

Technologies become socially interesting only when they become technologically boring, to paraphrase NYU new media professor Clay Shirky. That is, people marvel at a new gadget when it debuts, because its rarity causes it to stand out. At that point it is technologically interesting but socially dull. It is only [...]

“The transformation from the established model of the Academy to an increasingly free-market system was slow and piecemeal.”
Published in 1996, Making Modernism: Picasso and the Creation of the Market for Twentieth-Century Art is still one of the basic books for understanding the making of the art market. Written by Picasso scholar Michael [...]

By Craig Drennen
Mid-December every year I convene with familiar art world veterans to hear about their favorite pieces from the Miami art fairs. And every year I’m told that the best thing seen was an obscure Picabia, a forgotten Fontana, or a newly available Alice Neel. In other words, within the froth [...]

Rosenbaum Contemporary - Boca Raton

By Raisa Clavijo
A major exhibition of the works of the master Roberto Matta opened at the Rosenbaum Contemporary in Boca Raton at the end of March. The show, “Two Generations,” assembled the work of this artist and that of his daughter Federica, an author, painter and sculptor. [...]

LnS Gallery - Miami

By Raisa Clavijo

Last spring, LnS Gallery presented “Visual Poetry,” a selection of works by Mario Bencomo, an artist residing in Miami. The series assembles an extensive collection of works in which he linked his particular visual language with the poetry of various authors who have been relevant to his [...]

“I think of simple forms, formal economic solutions, but using elements that already carry a very important social and symbolic burden.”
Chilean artist Patrick Hamilton has been living in Madrid since 2014. His prolific artistic trajectory started in the mid-1990s in Santiago de Chile, where he also oversaw a successful artist-run gallery called González [...]

By Paco Barragán
The 20th century knows basically three typologies of art fairs: modern, contemporary and global. The Armory Show represents the modern, or “artist-frame-to-frame,” art fair: organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in 1913 in New York, it represented 1,300 works hanged frame-to-frame on the walls in 18 partitioned spaces, [...]

Phoenix Art Museum
By Paul Laster
A painter, sculptor and printmaker, Matt Magee has created his own visual belief system through the making of abstract, minimalist paintings and works on paper that explore systems, repetition and sequencing and the construction of surreal sculptures, which poetically blend elements from nature with manmade objects.
Magee was born in [...]