Scenes from Miami Art Week: Day 1 -ARTnews

Bertram the Pomeranian—a pet with 285,000 Instagram followers—takes a nap in the Hole’s booth at Untitled.

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As the Magic City prepares for Art Basel Miami Beach 2018, which opened to invited guests earlier today, here’s a look around some of the surrounding events that make up Miami Art Week, including the openings of the Untitled Art fair and the exhibition “Pop Minimalism,” a collaboration between Gagosian gallery and Jeffrey Deitch; a reception at the Rubell Family Collection; a preview of the Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation; and a look at Paula Crown’s public installation in the form of a red Solo cup, as well as parties at the Edition and Wynwood Walls.

View of the Untitled, Miami art fair.

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Pep Duran’s Backlot Constructions, foreground, in the booth of Barcelona’s RocioSantaCruz at Untitled.

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Installation view of Drift Seeds, a mixed-media work by Martin Belou, Julie Escoffier, Juan Gugger, and Néphéli Barbas, in “A Group of People Walking Through the Space,” a special project by the artist-run curatorial collective AGUAS, curated by Rodrigue Mouchez, at Untitled.

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Work by Adam Parker Smith in the booth of Los Angeles’s the Hole.

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Bertram the Pomeranian—a pet with 285,000 Instagram followers—takes a nap in the Hole’s booth at Untitled.

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Mixed-media works by Wilmer Wilson IV, in the booth of ConnerSmith, Washington, D.C.

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View of the booth of Paris’s Galerie Les filles du calvaire at Untitled.

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Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu at Untitled.

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One Star Press at Untitled.

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Paula Crown’s public installation JOKESTER 2—a larger-than-life version of a red Solo cup meant to address cycles of consumption and pollution—in the Miami Design District. For every photo shared on Instagram during the week of Art Basel, PAHC / studio•lab will work with the Miami chapter of the Surfrider Foundation to clean one pound of plastic waste off Miami’s beaches as part of its “Rise Above Plastics” campaign.

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Installation view of the Jeffrey Deitch– and Gagosian-curated show “Pop Minimalism,” 2018, at the Moore Building in the Design District.

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Jeffrey Deitch tries to move some art at his exhibition “Pop Minimalism,” at the Moore Building in the Design District.

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Ai Weiwei, Zodiac, 2018, installation view, at “Pop Minimalism,” in the Design District.

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Portuguese artist Vhils’s carved mural at Wynwood Walls.

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Shepard Fairey, third from the left, DJs at Wynwood Walls.

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Works by Purvis Young at the Rubell Collection.

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Works by Nicolas Party at the Rubell Collection.

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The Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation held a preview party in its new space. The building is specifically designed to accommodate James Turrell’s light sculpture Aten Reign (2013), which will ultimately be permanently displayed there by the foundation.

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The lobby of the Edition, where several events and after-parties took place on Tuesday, December 4, during Miami Art Week.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit senior curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, Alissa Jenkins, and artist Nina Chanel Abbey at the Creative Time party at the Edition.

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