IN PERSPECTIVE
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BACK AGAIN after a hiatus induced by the pandemic, Art Miami returns this year to its usual downtown haunt, One Herald Plaza on Biscayne Bay, within walking distance of Museum Park and The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Art Miami and its sister fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, will run December 1–5, with—count them—two VIP previews on Tuesday, November 30—the Opening Night Platinum VIP preview from 4:30–6:30 p.m. and the regular VIP preview from 6:30–10:30. The Pérez Art Museum Miami will be the philanthropic partner of the VIP previews, while Yvel, founded in 1986 by Isaac and Orna Levy, will be the official luxury jeweler to Art Miami.
Recognized as a key destination for top-quality works from the 20th and 21st centuries, Art Miami, now in its 31st year, brings together a long roster of dealers from all over the U.S. and the world, from Japan to Colombia to London to Tel Aviv. Among the highlights: The work of the Colombian-born artist Fernando Botero has been seen all over the world, but one major work of his, has not, because it will make its public debut at Art Miami, courtesy of Art of the World Gallery of Houston. The Street, a huge four-panel oil-on-canvas polyptych, depicts four characteristic figures from Latin American daily life, rendered in the characteristic rotund style known as boter-ismo. David Benrimon Fine Art of New York will present an oil-on-canvas Picasso portrait from 1936, Jeune Femme au Large Cou, de Face, with an asking price of $16 million. At the booth of Galeries Bartoux of Miami there will be an exhibition of works by the late Venezuelan abstractionist and kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Jerald Melberg Gallery of Charlotte, N.C., will feature several prominent artists including Robert Motherwell, Brian Rutenberg, and the Argentine Raul Diaz. New to this year’s offerings at the fair will be abstract paintings by the young artist Katherine Boxall. Among the offerings from Arthur Rogers Gallery of New Orleans is David Bates’ neo-chinoiserie painting (2019, oil on canvas). Berry Campbell Gallery of (1976). A first-timer at Art Miami is Atlanta based TEW Galleries, which will be exhibiting works by five contemporary artists, as well as monotypes by Otto Neumann, a German artist who died in 1975. Among the works on offer are Los Angeles-based artist America Martin’s figurative oil and acrylic on canvas (2021) and two series by the English photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten, one of which deals with the pandemic shutdowns.
