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Debating the art market as the best judge of quality
On May 24 at China's Hong Kong Convention Center an outfit called Intelligence Squared will host a formal debate during the debut of the newest spinoff of the Art Basel franchise of international art fairs. The motion under consideration will be: "The...
Tags: Arts, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Auction Service, Justice System
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Jay-Z's $20K purchase raises local artist's profile
Hebru Brantley's trip to Miami Beach for the high-profile Art Basel art show was winding down when the Chicago-based street artist and De La Salle Institute alum was told there was one more potential customer who wanted to meet him right before his flight...
Tags: Zach Gilford, Chicago White Sox, Chauncey Billups, Grant Hill, Gold Coast
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The grilled cheese grows up
You can say we're having a grilled cheese moment. Our favorite childhood comfort food is suddenly commanding not just a spot on menus, but full-fledged restaurants. Last November, longtime Miami chef Allen Susser opened Daily Melt, a grilled...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Tomatoes, Foods and Beverages, Cheddar Cheese, South Miami
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'All-Media' doubles up
The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood's "All-Media Juried Biennial" has always offered viewers a chance to see works by established artists while discovering artists not yet on their radar. The upcoming biennial, which drew submissions from 267...
Tags: Fine Artists, Arts, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Artists
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'Art comes first' in Tony Karman's comeback story
C'mon — who doesn't love a good comeback story? Tony Karman gave us a great one when he launched Expo Chicago in September, a new and improved contemporary art fair that earned high marks for its visually sumptuous design, spacious exhibitor...
Tags: Navy Pier, Arts, Merchandise Mart, Entertainment Events, Artists
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Katy Perry, Sophia Bush and more at ShopBazaar Coachella party
Katy Perry, Sophia Bush, Julianne Hough, director and actor Eli Roth and more stepped away from the Coachella Music and Arts Festival grounds Friday to fete ShopBazaar, Harper's Bazaar's editor-run e-commerce site. The Gene Autry pool at the Parker Palm...Tags: Katy Perry, Google+, Entertainment Events, Alexander Wang, Fendi
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Let us go then, you and I, to O, Miami
As a man who two years ago carried the near-impossible mission of exposing 2.6 million Miami-Dade County residents to poetry, and who did so with a monthlong slate of events that included dropping famous poems from helicopters and sewing them into thrift-...
Tags: Barack Obama, Miami Beach, Parks and Recreation (tv program), Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Miami-Dade County
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Miami's cultural transformation
It's Saturday night, and though a drizzle threatens, the lawn is jammed with children snoozing in strollers, couples sprawling on picnic blankets, teens taking a break from skateboarding. The star appears — not some retread boomer rocker but high-...Tags: Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Art Museum, Entertainment, SoHo, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Miami art collectors take works to Palm Springs Art Museum show
Don and Mera Rubell are known in the art world as the New York-to-Miami transplants who helped to bring the Art Basel art fair to Florida and opened a museum-like space there for their cutting-edge collection. Not so well known: their connections to...Tags: Theft, Fine Artists, Arts, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Hugo Boss
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A Banksy mural, lost in London, is found in Miami
North Londoners are furious over a missing Banksy mural that was torn off a building in the Wood Green neighborhood of the city and has since resurfaced online at Fine Art Auctions Miami. The high-profile mural by the mysterious street artist, no...
Tags: Arts, Slavery, Banksy, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Elizabeth II
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L.A. Art Show is taking a broad view of art
Invited to provide a table-setter for the L.A. Art Show, a sprawling and mind-bogglingly diverse annual marketplace and smorgasbord for the eyes, Marilyn Lowey delivered an installation that's cheekily site-specific. Titled "Translating Transitions #4,"...
Tags: Arts, Avatar (movie), Art Basel Miami Beach, Customs and Tradition, Marketing
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Gramps, Wynwood's new bar, bridges Dade-Broward gap on its grand opening
Adam Gersten went through law school and worked as an attorney for five years just so he could open a bar. Why else would anyone get a law degree? "It took me a long time to finish school, and then I really needed a law degree," Gersten says. "I...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Disc Jockeys, David Grohl, Satellite and Cable Service, Personal Service
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