The big sister of CONTEXT, Art Miami is broader and more expansive with art from 20th century masters such as Picasso, Chagall, Warhol, Alexander Calder, Wildredo Lam and Keith Haring running through to the 21st century and, inevitably, some of the same cutting edge artists that appear in CONTEXT, but with a more spacious layout allowing […]
Why do we not learn from the past? We have lost the art of urban planning that creates great spaces for people to work in, live in and enjoy – you only have to look at the redevelopment of Vauxhall. In the UK, we have a reactive system, though there are some bright spots such […]
While exploring Miami, I thought it was time to move out of the centre and investigate the art collections in Wynwood and the Miami Design District, not an area I have explored in detail before. I have to admit that I didn’t quite know what to expect, but was blown away by the de la […]
If you drive down from Fort Lauderdale to Miami, as I frequently do when staying in the area, you will come to know the I-95 well, with its views out to different districts of Miami, against the backcloth of skyscrapers around the Harbour. As you drive on the I-95 above North Miami Avenue, the buildings […]
Innovative and transformational art was the underlying theme of the 12th edition of the PULSE Maimi Beach Contemporary Art Fair, focussing on new and mid-career artists from all around the world. The transformational theme ran throughout the fair in a variety of ways from the 3D optical illusions which is characteristic of British artist Patrick […]
Folded aeroplanes, screws, nails, spoons, polyamide mesh, ceramic pots, old paintbrushes, old records and cassettes, basket balls and darts, plus the newest technologies of LED lighting and thin display screens: Art continues to break out of the traditional boundaries of paint, canvas and bronze sculpture. Galleries and artists from all around the world have been […]
A father, mother and child, desperate to seek a new life, float helplessly across the shark-infested waters between Cuba and Florida in a raft made of tyres, with no sail or oars. Hanging down are Polaroid photographs of real-life experiences attached to the painting. A small naked man stands trying to pull a huge floating cloud […]
Forty years ago, an art student’s project to create an art magazine came to life with the first edition of “Arte en Colombia”. Over the last four decades, it has become the leading source of information on Latin American art, at a time when awareness of Latin American art has been growing in North America and […]
One of this week’s parties for Miami Basel combined an exhibition of four decades of Latin American art by ArtNexus with the marketing of Renzo Piano’s first residential project in the United States – the new luxury condominium development by the Terra Group at 8701 Collins Avenue on the edge of North Beach in Miami. […]
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the new contemporary art museum located in the developing Museum Park in Miami opened last year and (at last) provides Miami with an international quality museum setting for its own collection of contemporary art, for international art projects and galleries in which to house international loan exhibitions, such as […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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