PLAN ForYourArt Miami: Art Basel

December 02, 2008 - December 07, 2008

For those planning on heading en masse to Art Basel Miami Beach, we have created an expert selection of events to help you PLAN ForYourArt. Don’t forget to pick up your special issue of MAP ForYourArt while at the fairs or download it here.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2
Anri Sala
7–9pm
Opening Reception
$25 | MOCA North Miami

NADA Opening Night Preview
4–9pm
Benefiting the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, with a special performance by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and DJ N_RON
$200 | The Ice Palace

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3
Design Miami/ Chat Shows
5:30–6:30pm
Designers Fernando & Humberto Campana, Arik Levy and Tom Dixon are interviewed by hosts and Dezeen.com editors Marcus Fairs and Rupinder Bohgal in this TV talk show-style chat
Free | Design Miami/

Art Loves Music: Yelle
10pm
Free | On the beach, between 21st and 22nd Streets

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
Artist Talk
10am
Richard Flood, chief curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, moderates a conversation between New York-based artists Chuck Close and Vik Muniz
Free | Art Basel, Art Guest Lounge

The Shape of Things to Come: Artists as Public Intellectuals
10:30am
Panel discussion moderated by CIFO Gallery curator Leanne Mella with artists Paolo Canevari, Daniel Joseph Martinez and Carlos Motta, among others
Free | CIFO

NADA Performance Series
4–7pm
David Ellis performs OKAY Motion Painting with live accompaniment by a href="http://www.romsound.com/" target="fya">ROM (Matt Crum and Roberto Lange), followed by a performance by a href="http://www.barrbarr.com/" target="fya">BARR (Brendan Fowler)
Free | NADA Garden

This Is the End: The Rising Tide of Money Goes Out of the Artworld and All Boats are Sinking
4:30pm
Special talk with New York-based critic and journalist Jerry Saltz
Free | Art Basel, Art Guest Lounge

Herb and Dorothy film talk
5pm
Bob Colacello, Megumi Sasakia and James Sienna talk with Herb and Dorothy Vogel on how the couple, a postal clerk and a librarian, shaped one of the most important contemporary collections
Free | Art Basel, Art Guest Lounge

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5
The Future of the Museum | Africa, America and the World
10am
Moderators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Thelma Golden join Eungie Joo, Glenn Ligon and Rachel Chikukwa to discuss the institutions of Africa and their relationship to the art world
Free | Art Basel, Art Guest Lounge

Gen Art Vanguard
New Contemporary Art Fair
8pm–12am
Opening night features interactive installations, performance artists and music
$20–$40 | Charcoal Studios

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6
Record Talk: Dave Muller’s Top Ten
1pm
With artists Dave Muller and Lionel Bovnar
Free | Art Basel, Art Guest Lounge

The Standard, Miami
Film Series Part II
7–10pm
Video art projection, curated by Cheryl Dunn
Free | The Standard Hotel, Miami

Annihilation Time, Caustic Christ, Sex/Vid
9pm
Punk bands perform at pop-up exhibition space in the Design District
Free | Punk Is Dead, Punk Is Everything

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7
Artistic Production | Los Angeles, an alternate artworld model?
10am
Russell Ferguson, chair of the UCLA Department of Art, moderates a discussion between Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and artist Bill Al Bengston on the art scene in Los Angeles
Free | Art Basel, Art Guest Lounge

For the full Art Basel Miami Beach schedule, click here.

Filed Under: See Events Greater L.A.

Posted by: Karen Marta on December 01, 2008

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