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The Center for Arts and Innovation Surpasses its First Fundraising Goal

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The Center for Arts and Innovation Surpasses
The Center for Arts and Innovation Surpasses

The Center for Arts and Innovation Surpasses its First Fundraising Goal

The Center raises nearly $30 million in capital from donors across South Florida and the United States; calls on the community to join in history-making project

Boca Raton, FL – November 7, 2023 – The Center for Arts and Innovation announced today it has surpassed the City of Boca Raton’s year-one fundraising threshold. With nearly $30 million in capital commitments raised in recent months, and on the heels of the selection of world-renowned architect Renzo Piano as lead designer, The Center welcomes individuals and organizations looking to join other visionaries as the design process begins and be a part of the creation of a globally-renowned epicenter for creativity, education, innovation, and community.

“It’s thrilling to see our South Florida community support the creation of a 21st-century campus that celebrates and encourages creativity’s essential role in society while also providing a much-needed platform for innovation to flourish,” said Andrea Virgin, Chair & CEO of The Center. “We are grateful for our donors’ tremendous generosity and partnership in the creation of one of the country’s most exciting projects, led by one of the world’s greatest architects, Renzo Piano. For those looking for a front-row seat at how transformational infrastructure comes to be, and one of the first geared to the needs of the 21st century, the time is now to join us on this history-making journey. It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Projected to break ground in 2025, Boca Raton’s centennial year, The Center will drive a focus on creative, economic, and innovative progress to the region, and will prioritize innovation, sustainability in design, and economic growth at its core. Offering a compelling vision that collocates artistic and cultural creation and experiences alongside multidisciplinary tech innovation, The Center will redefine what a cultural hub can be, who it can serve, and the impact it can have. By establishing itself as a pivotal space for new ideas, experiences, businesses, and innovators of tomorrow to take shape, The Center will set the stage for campuses like it in the future.

First initiated in 2018, The Center was initially conceptualized to fill a 60-mile gap in cultural infrastructure along Florida’s Gold Coast. While The Center has made tremendous progress towards its mission, its landmark placement at the north end of Mizner Park, next to the Boca Raton Museum of Art, realizes the original vision of establishing a cultural hub in Boca Raton’s downtown core, where 40 percent of the land was earmarked for such a purpose. Once operational, The Center is estimated to create more than $1.3 billion in overall economic impact in the area within its first five years, both from retained direct, indirect and induced spending and more than half a million new annual visitors to the city. 

Inclusive of a $10 million dollar lead anonymous gift, The Center extends its deepest gratitude to all of its capital donors who have brought the organization to this milestone. Donors who contributed $1 million and more include James & Marta Batmasian Family Foundation; Elizabeth H. Dudley; the Kent Jordan Family; the Schmidt Family Foundation; The Edith & Martin Stein Family Foundation; and Andrea Virgin (in remembrance of Thomas J. Virgin). 

In addition, meaningful donations were also made by Peg Anderson, Dr. Robert & Margaret Blume, Heidi Boncher & Joel S. White, the Deyo Family, Steven & Gina Giacona, Stephen & Terri Geifman, Leslie Goldberg, Bonnie Halperin & Family, The Steven Halmos Family Foundation, Eric & Olga Jorgensen, Erica Kasel, Michael & Lisa Kaufman, Patricia & Paul Kilgallon, Nina and Camilo Miguel, Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, Laura & Shaw McCutcheon, the Mere Foundation, The Perkaus Family, and the Weiner Family.

“The Schmidt Family Foundation is pleased to support The Center for Arts & Innovation. We believe it is an essential project uniting creativity and innovation for the advancement of education, business and the community,” said the Schmidt Family Foundation.

“Jim and I are proud to support The Center for Arts & Innovation and help fulfill a dream of bringing world-class arts & culture to Boca Raton – a dream that is finally materializing after 25 years,” said Marta Batmasian of the James and Marta Batmasian Family Foundation.

“The Steven Halmos Family Foundation is very happy to support such an exciting project like The Center.  We look forward to seeing this wonderful creative arts campus come to life and empower learners of all ages within our region,” said Jeff Halmos of the Steven Halmos Family Foundation.

“As the leadership of the Center for Arts and Innovation continues to exceed numerous City requirements, confidence and excitement builds. I envision an iconic Center for Arts and Innovation that will be celebrated and treasured. There is no doubt that it will be fully utilized and quickly become world-renowned,” said Margaret Blume.

“As long-term residents of Boca Raton, Lisa and I are thrilled to support this project as it represents the exciting next era of our ‘best in class’ community,” said Michael Kaufman, Founder and CEO of Kaufman Lynn Construction.

“Nina and I wholeheartedly champion the arts and The Center’s mission, recognizing their profound influence beyond mere economic impact. Creativity sparks the imagination of students and businesses, fosters innovation, and unites communities to amplify their impact in profound ways,” said Camilo Miguel, CEO of Mast Capital. “As Chair of the Building Committee on The Center’s Board, it is with great pleasure to have our family support the capital campaign and guide Renzo Piano’s design for what is becoming one of the most thrilling cultural projects in our state.”

“The Weiner family is both honored and grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this most exciting addition to the Boca Raton cultural community,” said Bruce Weiner, Owner of PEBB Enterprises. “We look forward to giving our continuing support for this incredible endeavor.”

To learn more about The Center of Arts and Innovation and how to show support and get involved, please visit https://thecenterforartsandinnovation.org/. 

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About The Center for Arts & Innovation

Conceptually announced in 2018, The Center for Arts and Innovation is a non-profit mission to create a comprehensive, economically vibrant, accessible, innovative and sustainable cultural destination in Boca Raton that will enhance the arts and cultural infrastructure in the city; benefit the residents, patrons, visitors, organizations and civic and business communities; and be a landmark along the Gold Coast for future generations of audiences, artists, students, businesses, technologies and institutions. In addition to infrastructure to support The Center’s education and innovation programming,The Center imagines six diverse & adaptive performance & event spaces — indoor and outdoor—ranging in seating capacity from 99 to 3,500 seats. These can be programmed as individual spaces or combined to host events for nearly 6,000 total attendees.

Miami Art Week: Women Art Dealers in Miami Story Idea

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Miami Art Week 2023
Miami Art Week 2023

Miami Art Week: Women Art Dealers in Miami Story Idea

Miami Art Week is approaching, and it is time to celebrate the city’s vibrant art scene. As the art world gears up for the event, it is important to recognize women who have significantly contributed to the art business.
Four female entrepreneurs who run their art galleries in Miami are Alicia Restrepo, the owner of Etra Fine Art located in Little River; Payal Tak, the owner of Lucid Design District, which is situated across from ICA; Daisy Diaz, the owner of Frascione Arte in Florence; and Sylvie San Juan, the owner of Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit in Miami.
According to a recent report by Artsy, women dealers are 28% more likely to exhibit female artists, while male-run galleries tend to showcase more male artists. The report also found that younger galleries are likelier to have female leadership. This data suggests that women play an increasingly important role in art as artists and business leaders.

Alicia Restrepo, Owner of Etra Fine Art (Little River) © Stefano Campanini
Alicia Restrepo, Owner of Etra Fine Art (Little River) © Stefano Campanini

Alicia Restrepo, Owner of Etra Fine Art (Little River Art District)

Alicia Restrepo (born in Medellín, Colombia) graduated first in Economics and then later in art history. She has been in the art business since 1983, first as co-owner of one of the most important galleries in Soho in the 80’s and 90’s. In 2003, she relocated to Miami following Art Basel Miami Beach’s debut in 2002 when Miami quickly became recognized as a global cultural destination.

Ms. Restrepo is an expert in Latin and South American art and has an impressive collection of contemporary art by mid-career to established artists from those regions, as well as Europe. Etra Fine Art has survived Miami’s gentrified neighborhood shifts. The gallery’s first location was in the Design District (before it became a luxury retail hub); followed by Wynwood (in the days when the area had Art Walks); and currently, in Little Haiti/Little River Art District (the new home of Oolite Arts).

In addition to promoting and exhibiting artists, Ms. Restrepo works with private collectors, corporations, and interior designers to build collections by researching, locating, acquiring, and installing an array of artwork.

Payal Tak, Owner of Lucid Design District (Miami Design District) ©. Armando Colls
Payal Tak, Owner of Lucid Design District (Miami Design District) ©. Armando Colls


Payal Tak , Owner of Lucid Design District

Payal Tak (born in India) is the former President and CEO of her self-made, Virginia-based IT services company. She opened Lucid Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach / Miami Art Week 2022. For over three decades, while focusing on executing a business in Information Technology, Ms. Tak relied heavily on creating art as her go-to activity to re-energize at the end of her day. She would often paint late into the night while listening to Sufi music.

The 3,700-sf gallery is located on Miami’s “art corner” (10-12 NE 41 St. at Miami Ave) next to Museum Garage and across the street from the de la Cruz Collection and ICA Miami. The idea of Lucid Design District was born from Ms. Tak’s desire to connect with the community through collaborative art exchanges. She hosts regular exhibitions, educational art talks, and artist networking events.

CHROMA 2023 – Art Week Exhibition Opens Tuesday, December 5th at 5 p.m. EPK link for images, artist bios, and exhibition description.
Payal Tak, Owner of Lucid Design District (Miami Design District) ©. Armando CollsDaisy Beatriz Diaz, Cultural Director of Frascione Arte (Italy/South Florida)

Daisy Beatriz Diaz, Cultural Director of Frascione Arte (Italy/South Florida) © Frascione Arte
Daisy Beatriz Diaz, Cultural Director of Frascione Arte (Italy/South Florida) © Frascione Arte

Daisy Beatriz Diaz, Cultural Director of Frascione Arte (Italy/South Florida)

Daisy Diaz was born in Miami to Cuban American parents. Her father’s passion for antiquities ignited Daisy’s lifelong commitment to the arts. After graduating from Boston College, she set out to complete a master’s degree in industrial design in Florence, which led to a career at Lungarno Alberghi (the Salvatore Ferragamo family’s hospitality and interior design group). Soon after, she formed her own distribution company. Ms. Diaz’s unwavering appreciation of the arts would lead her to meet Federico Gandolfi Vannini (4th generation art dealer and owner of Frascione Arte), and, for more than a decade, the couple has expanded their private collection.

Since 2020, Federico and Daisy have lived in Miami while continuing to run Frascione Arte. They hope to make a lasting impact on South Florida’s arts and culture scene.

Sylvie Daubar-San Juan, Humanities Department Chairperson and Director of the Olga M. & Carlos A. Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. © Armando Colls
Sylvie Daubar-San Juan, Humanities Department Chairperson and Director of the Olga M. & Carlos A. Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. © Armando Colls

Sylvie Daubar-San Juan, Humanities Department Chairperson and Director of the Olga M. & Carlos A. Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School

Ms. San Juan alongside Daisy Diaz and Federico Gandolfi Vannini curated the “Faith, Beauty, and Devotion: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Paintings” exhibition that opened on September 14th. There will be special programs and Art Week hours, plus a significant Art Week announcement. The exhibition features thirty paintings by Italian and Flemish Masters, from the 13th – 17th centuries.

Faith, Beauty, and Devotion: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Paintings 
The Miami Art Week Hours are:

  • Saturday, December 2nd, “Italian Wine Event” from 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. (A ticketed event.)
  • Thursday, December 7th from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. (Public hours. Free admission.)
  • Saturday, December 9th from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Public hours. Free admission.

Art Palm Beach Returns to Palm Beach County

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art palm beach fair 2024
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Art Palm Beach Returns to Palm Beach County
Exciting Show This Year Includes New Celeb and Charity Partner

Building on the massive success of last year’s inaugural show, Art Palm Beach is coming back to Palm Beach County with an even bigger and even more highly curated show! This year, the owners of the LA Art Show, the most prestigious and innovative art show in America are proud to announce an entirely new experience this year. “Last year, we created a new and completely revamped Art Palm Beach,” said Kassandra Voyagis, the producer and director of the show. “Under our leadership, we took this show in a new and exciting direction marrying both fairs in a dynamic state-of-the-art bicoastal enterprise. This year we are upping the ante even more by adding new international galleries, a completely new theme, and a new charity partner.”


Art Palm Beach will be held from January 24th to 28th, 2024, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center where there will be more than 80 prestigious contemporary, emerging, and modern art galleries. A highlight of this year’s show is the debut of a dedicated platform for artificial intelligence within DIVERSEartPB, a rotating group of museums, art institutions and non-profits. Under the expert guidance of renowned art curator, Marisa Caichiolo, DIVERSEartPB will spotlight How AI is reshaping humanity. Through thought provoking installations, live, and interactive experiences, visitors will be challenged to look at how AI is recreating the way the human memory works and changing our perception of what it means to be human.


Among the notable components of this year’s show is the Acquisition Award, being presented by La Neomudéjar Museum to an attending gallery. The artwork piece selected by La Neomudéjar Museum curators will be added to the museum’s permanent collection in Spain.


Art Palm Beach is also pleased to announce a first of its kind local partnership with The American Heart Association. Art Palm Beach is proudly donating 15% of the entire show’s proceeds to American Heart including the night of the star-studded VIP opening night premier event. Ticket sales for opening night are $150. Tickets for every other day are $35 and can be purchased here. The exclusive VIP red-carpet opening night event will feature the who’s who of Palm Beach County along with trendsetters, influencers, and alpha consumers, plus a special celebrity host.
For more information about the show please visit ArtPalmBeach.com.

Sasha Gordon paints to process the pains of prejudice

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Sasha Gordon, Pinky Promise, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson.
Sasha Gordon, Pinky Promise, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson.

Claire Breukel

Sasha Gordon paints to process the pains of prejudice

The figurative painter’s first solo museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, showcases her hyperreal self-portraits

Two years after graduating from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), American artist Sasha Gordon’s solo debuts at Jeffrey Deitch in New York and Matthew Brown in Los Angeles are followed by her first solo museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). The ground-floor exhibition features seven existing and new oil paintings that venture into the imaginary of a young queer Asian American woman, and the 25-year-old’s observations and experiences of the world. Manifesting across the canvas in theatrically expressive yet pristinely detailed and hyperreal forms, Gordon’s fleshy self-portraits offer windows into worlds where pervasive archetypes are questioned, dismantled, and ridiculed. Presented through imagined personas depicted as in her body (often naked and exposed), as animals and as objects, Gordon empowers these self-characterizations with the criticality needed to challenge the status quo.

Sasha Gordon. Photographs by William Jess Laird.
Sasha Gordon. Photographs by William Jess Laird.
Sasha Gordon, Pinky Promise, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson.
Sasha Gordon, Pinky Promise, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson.

‘Gordon’s new paintings demonstrate meticulous detail and extraordinary inventiveness as she navigates complex personal narratives through universal concepts of identity and objectification,’ shares Alex Gartenfeld, the exhibition’s curator, and ICA Miami’s Irma and Norman Braman artistic director.

At a time when figurative painting and the exploration of identity politics is center stage, Gordon’s work and voice is poignantly positioned. Yet her early success can be contributed to the exquisite exactitude of her paintings combined with witty and candid compositions that augment contemporary sociopolitical subject matter. In Volcano (2023), a personified volcano explodes in brilliant yellow and orange light, as lava sprays and flows down the mountain to form tendrils of fiery long hair. The dark gray rock doubles as a face equally explosive with anger – eyes glaring, nose scrunched, and teeth clenched – hostile in monumental eruption. Recalling Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1480), Gordon’s painting Like Froth (2022) perches a female figure on a rock, naked and frontally exposed. Set amid stormy seas and blood-red skies, the character bluntly and perceptively stares back, creating an unnerving loop of looking. Contradicting painting traditions that positioned women as objects to be consumed, the female forms in these works are object and protagonist, subject and voyeur – unapologetic in their rage.

Left: Like Froth, 2022. Right: Almost A Very Rare Thing, 2022. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson. Both works by Sasha Gordon. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown.
Left: Like Froth, 2022. Right: Almost A Very Rare Thing, 2022. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson. Both works by Sasha Gordon. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown.

Colorful and sweetly detailed imagery is curious and uncomfortable, turning humor into satire and titillation into confrontation. Like a carnivorous Venus flytrap plant, the artist’s multidimensional role-play as creator, character/subject, and audience/onlooker invites close observation, dominates the interaction, and ingests the viewer within the outcome.

Born and raised in New York, Gordon’s mastery stems from her fascination with archetypes and prejudices perpetuated throughout the history of portraiture. By assuming avatars, Gordon constructs interactions and exchanges that appear dreamlike and fantastical yet underpin ardent feelings and truths about homophobic, racist, and gendered interactions.

Sasha Gordon is represented by Matthew Brown (Los Angeles). ‘Sasha Gordon’ will be on view at ICA Miami from December 4, 2023 to April 28, 2024.

This article was originally published in the Art Basel Miami Beach magazine 2023.

Published on November 10, 2023.

Caption for full-bleed image: Sasha Gordon, Pluck, 2022 (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson. A dark filter was applied over this image for readability. 

Art Basel, The Artist and the Collector

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Estrellita B. Brodsky, credit Hans Neumann
Estrellita B. Brodsky, credit Hans Neumann

Art Basel, Miami Beach

Conversations | The Artist and the Collector

Guadalupe Maravilla and Estrellita B. Brodsky

Thu, Dec 7, 2023
5pm – 6pm (Miami Beach)
Art Basel
1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach

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Estrellita B. Brodsky, collector, curator, and philanthropist, New York  

Guadalupe Maravilla, artist, Brooklyn 

Moderator: Coline Milliard, Executive Editor, Art Basel, Basel 

The relationship that develops between an artist and a collector is at the heart of the art world. Artist Guadalupe Maravilla and the collector, curator and philanthropist Estrellita B. Brodsky discuss their respective commitment to championing diverse perspectives from Latin America and the challenges they have had to overcome. This discussion offers insights into how connections between individuals are shaped by their shared vision of art. 

Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD, is an internationally known art historian, collector, and philanthropist who has advanced the presence of art from Latin America and its diaspora on the global stage. 

Brodsky holds a doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a Master’s from Hunter College. She has curated exhibitions and written extensively on post-WWII Latin American artists including Jesus Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc.  A founding member of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Latin American Art Initiative, a trustee of the Hirshhorn Museum and Tate Americas Foundation, she has endowed curatorial positions in Latin American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In 2015, she founded ANOTHER SPACE, a program and not-for-profit exhibition gallery established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Foundation, to broaden international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America. 

Premiere Artist Talk: María Magdalena Campos-Pons

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María Magdalena Campos-Pons
María Magdalena Campos-Pons

Art Basel, Miami Beach

Conversations | Premiere Artist Talk: María Magdalena Campos-Pons

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Art Basel 1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach

Thu, Dec 7, 2023

1pm – 2pm (Miami Beach)

Franklin Sirmans, Director, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami  

Moderator: Crystal Williams, President, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence 

María Magdalena Campos-Pons discusses her influential career as an artist and teacher with Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Crystal Williams, President of the Rhode Island School of Design. Exploring her multimedia practice, which considers how history, memory, gender, and religion inform personal identity, they chart Campos-Pons’s trajectory over the last 4 decades, from her youth in Cuba to her acclaimed retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum and US tour 2023- 2025. 

BIOGRAPHY

The art of María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959, Matanzas) addresses history, memory, gender, and religion, investigating the role of each in identity formation. Her practice intermixes photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance.

Campos-Pons is a descendant of Hispanic and Chinese immigrants to Cuba and of Nigerians brought to the island and enslaved in the 19th century. She grew up with the legacy of slavery. As a child, Campos-Pons learned about Santería, a religious tradition that originated in the Yoruban nations of West Africa. Informed by the traditions, rituals, and practices of her ancestors, her work is deeply autobiographical. Using herself and her Afro-Cuban relatives as subjects, Campos-Pons creates historical narratives that illuminate the spirits of people and places, present and past. She makes personal history universally relevant. Invoking narratives of the transatlantic slave trade, her images and performances honor Black laborers on indigo and sugar plantations, renew Catholic and Santería practices, and celebrate revolutionary uprisings in the Americas. The sea as a repository of memory and site of identity formation is a frequent theme, allowing her to explore topics ranging from the Middle Passage to the contemporary migrant crisis. Campos-Pons writes that she collects and tells “stories of forgotten people in order to foster a dialogue to better understand and propose a poetic, compassionate reading of our time.”

From the beginning, Campos-Pons has combined traditional artmaking mediums with installation and time-based mediums including video, film, and performance. In the 1990s, she began making large-format Polaroid photographs that elaborate the complexities of the themes she addresses. Campos-Pons’s performances often unfold as ritualistic processionals that physically and spiritually fill the spaces in which they take place while asserting their relevance beyond the boundaries of those spaces.

Since 2020, Campos-Pons has witnessed a surge of excitement as demonstrated by recent acquisitions of her art by the Museum of Modern Art (New York); Princeton University Art Museum; Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); Speed Art Museum (Louisville); Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; J. Paul Getty Museum; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston); and other public and private collections. In addition, her work has appeared in Thinking Historically in the Present at the Sharjah Biennial 15 (United Arab Emirates) and soft and weak like water at the 14th Gwangju Biennale.

Campos-Pons’s art is also in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); Art Institute of Chicago; Victoria and Albert Museum (London); Pérez Art Museum (Miami); and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge). She has presented performances at venues including the Venice Biennale; documenta 14; Havana Biennial; Dakar Biennale; Johannesburg Biennale; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA; and (in collaboration with composer and sound artist Neil Leonard) Guggenheim Museum and National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC).

In the fall of 2023, the Brooklyn Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum will present María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold, a major traveling multimedia survey of her work, the first since 2007. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog published by the Getty.

Campos-Pons graduated in 1980 from the National School of Art in Havana, Cuba. She went on to study painting at Havana’s Universidad de las Artes (ISA). In 1988, she earned an MFA in Media Arts from Boston’s Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In the late 1980s, she taught at the Universidad de las Artes (ISA) in Havana. There she gained an international reputation as an exponent of the New Cuban Art movement, which arose in opposition to Communist repression on the island. In 1991, she immigrated to Canada and onto Boston in 1993, where she taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and received numerous prizes and honors for both her teaching and her artistic practice. In 2017, she became the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she now resides.

Campos-Pons has founded or cofounded several nonprofit arts organizations including the Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice, a collaboration between Fisk University, Frist Art Museum, Millions of Conversations, and Vanderbilt University. In addition, she has launched Intermittent Rivers, an artistic intervention in Matanzas, Cuba, as part of the Havana Biennial, and When We Gather, a multifaceted art project in Washington, DC, celebrating the vital role of women in the progress of the United States.

The Art Market in 2023: Collecting in Brazil

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Luisa Strina, gallery owner, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Marcio Botner_Courtesy of A Gentil Carioca

Art Basel, Miami Beach

Conversations | The Art Market in 2023: Collecting in Brazil

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Thu, Dec 7, 2023

3pm – 4pm (Miami Beach)

1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach

Pedro Barbosa, collector, São Paulo  

Márcio Botner, co-founder, partner and director, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro  

Luisa Strina, gallery owner, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo 

Moderator: Oliver Basciano, writer, São Paulo and London 

The Brazilian art market is the largest by size in Latin America. With president Lula’s government reinstating the ministry of culture and increasing funding to the arts, how is the market developing? This panel examines shifts in the Brazilian art scene since the beginning of 2023 through the voices of gallerists, collectors, and experts. Has a renewed prioritization of the arts already had a measurable impact? 

Art Basel, Miami Beach, How Do Museums Remain Relevant?

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Tonya M. Matthews; credit Shawn Lee Studios
Tonya M. Matthews; credit Shawn Lee Studios

Art Basel, Miami Beach

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Fri, Dec 8, 2023
3pm – 4pm (Miami Beach)
1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach

Conversations | Renewing the Institution: How Do Museums Remain Relevant?

Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Bass, Miami Beach 

Jillian Jones, Deputy Director, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo 

Tonya M. Matthews, President and CEO, International African American Museum, Charleston 

Moderator: András Szántó, author and cultural strategy advisor, Brooklyn 

Many significant US art museums have just completed or are completing redesigns and extensions. These institutions are not only adding more welcoming facilities, they are also adapting to new times. From integrating new technologies to finding new ways of working and engaging audiences, museums are seeking to reassert their relevance today. Here, three leaders reveal how they are resetting their institutions. 

SCOPE THE NEW CONTEMPORARY

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THE NEW CONTEMPORARY

Courtesy of Saype | 2021 New Contemporary Installation

The New Contemporary returns to the SCOPE pavilion with an experiential multidisciplinary program located in our expanded Atrium. The New Contemporary will present daily programming featuring large-scale installations, music performances, and panel discussions during the day while continuing our long-standing commitment to wellness. Guests are encouraged to attend morning healing programming and guided meditation against the backdrop of beautiful South Beach. This multi-day destination will transform after-hours into a premium nightlife experience, offering a world-class music program.

TOMISLAV TOPIC | INSTALLATION | ENTRANCE

The German artist Tomislav Topić uses large-scale color and form to create site-specific art installations that derives from graffiti writing. Topić will install a large-scale immersive work at SCOPE’s front entrance, using shapes and patterns found in architecture to transform visitors’ perception of space.

BK ADAMS | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

Courtesy of the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

BK Adams’ The Messenger, Time, A Blue (Collar) Horse stands at 25 feet tall and 20 feet long. Conceived as a modern-day “Trojan Horse,” Adams’ large-scale sculpture employs the vernacular of welding and manufacturing to create a large-scale, three-dimensional artwork that inspires self-reliance and empowerment. Hand fabricated by the artist and his team, there are over 7,000 running feet of welds created entirely from steel; the work is painted with industrial blue car paint and draped with a blanket of 130 clocks, symbolic of the constant passing of time and our relationship with it. This handcrafted work echoes a history of manufacturing while posing the question, “Who is selling us the dream now?” The Messenger, Time, A Blue (Collar) Horse is intended as a mantra to encourage the next generation to self-improvement, self-love, and actualization.

CONNOR TINGLEY | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

Courtesy of Connor Tingley Studio | Photographed by Quinn Matthews

Connor Tingley’s installation in collaboration with Curren Caples explored the unstable relationships between culture and nature in a liberated union of shared messaging between painting and skateboarding. Bridging gaps between three disciplines, DIY is an art collaboration between the mediums of music, skateboarding, and painting. The conversation is rooted by the subject matter of Southern California Americana in a work that is ultimately about man’s effect on earth and the limits of our creations in light of nature. They want to inform the gravity and the day-to-night transition that we all experience which is described by the mark-making from the skateboard wheels. They connect the domain of painting (on the wall) and skateboarding (on the ground). Each discipline is not compromised in approach but affected in their outcomes as they participate together.

JEREMY POPE | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

Artist and two-time Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Jeremy Pope, will join SCOPE in a conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight), around his photojournalism series, FLEX(bitch). Growing up with a preacher and professional bodybuilder father, this series opens a dialogue about Pope’s journey to manhood, masculinity, and self-love. What began as a self-funded creative project transformed into a therapeutic journey and a profound excavation of self. Pope and McCraney will discuss the confrontation of fears, unexplored thoughts, and the unraveling of internationalized homophobia. FLEX(bitch) challenges preconceived notions, urging us to bend what we believe about ourselves, our convictions, and how we show up in the world.

TEAROOM | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

The Way of Tea, or Chanoyu, is a Japanese-born experiential installation art. It units hosts and guests in a ritual of sharing a bowl of tea, symbolizing harmony among individuals, craftsmanship, and society. In this gathering, we’ll feature the works of artist “Takahiro Koga”, known for his philosophy of ‘NEO Wabi-Sabi’, celebrating the beauty found in both luxury and simplicity, which may seem contradictory at first glance.

DAÀPÒ RÉO | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

Made possible by SCOPE

daàPò réo is a Nigerian-born and naturalized U.S. citizen. His artistic practice draws on autobiographical material and his subject matter deals with shifts in perspective, reversible identities, and interactions as humans. He features the American flag as a recurring motif. It’s one of the most recognizable national banners worldwide, the U.S. flag epitomizes a sense of home and pride in one’s identity, but also the face of the Western world, of its imperialistic liberalism and recent drift to the political right. He uses it as a catalyst for conversations, a canvas to crystallize ideas and feelings.

MONOLITH | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

A monumental example of the future of public art, the Monolith, will illustrate the power of public digital art installations’ ability to bring connectedness and wellness to communities. The Monolith will feature emerging and blue-chip digital artists within this monumental sculpture piece.

SCOPE WALLS | INSTALLATION | BEACHFRONT

SCOPE continues to bring the world of art to unconventional settings. This year the SCOPE Walls, a series of murals, will be featured at SCOPE on the sands of Miami Beach. This project is a continuation of SCOPE’s mission to work globally while thinking locally, impacting the art industry as a whole with a profound respect for the surrounding community.
The works this year are a black and white monochrome highlighted with select, powerful, colors from a rainbow. This is a way of drawing a broad but simple ‘line in the sand’ as it were. This line though is not an ultimatum but rather an invitation. Through the righteous aid of all the participating artists. NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE, is our effort at a beach front venue that sparks dialogue and discourse. Our world is rapidly changing and evolving and through art and through conversations we move together.
This joint project between SCOPE Art Show and STRAAT Museum brings together two leading international art institutions with a shared commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion, and social justice. STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam is the world’s largest Street Art and Graffiti focused museum. The collaborations created a unique platform for artists to showcase their work, engage with a global audience, and participate in important conversations about contemporary social issues.

Artists
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BISCO SMITH
MANDO MARIE
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ANTHONY GARCIA SR.
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JEFFREY HENSON SCALES | INSTALLATION

Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery

Jeffrey Henson Scales recently discovered lost negatives from his early days in the Black Panther Party; this series of photographs reveal to us, 56 years later, an intimate peek at an organization that has long been misunderstood and misrepresented. Henson Scales visited Huey Newton in jail frequently while he was on trial for murder in the killing of an Oakland police officer during a traffic stop. The Black Panther Party chairman, Bobby Seale, encouraged Jeffrey to be the official photographer for the party’s newspaper, The Black Panther, and this became the first place his photographs and illustrations were ever published at the age of 13.

LUCY SPARROW | INSTALLATION

Internationally acclaimed artist Lucy Sparrow returns to Scope Art Show, Miami this December to present Feltz Bagels, an artistic homage to New York’s legendary culinary delicacy. Feltz Bagels will be a fully immersive experience where visitors can buy their favorite bagel handmade in felt and served personally by Sparrow herself. Feltz Bagels will offer thirteen varieties of bagel – each hand-sewn and available filled or plain with a sewn selection of NY staples; choose from a poppyseed bagel with a schmear, a colorful rainbow salt-beef bagel or the everything bagel filled with pastrami and pickles.

AARON T. STEPHAN | INSTALLATION | PATRON LOUNGE

Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery

Luminous Twist, in its simplest interpretation, is a light fixture. The sculpture comprises a cluster of streetlights in keeping with familiar public lighting features. Here, however, the lights come to life. Rising from a single foundation, the light poles gradually diverge into individual intertwining paths, abandoning a static vertical posture to join into a vibrant, life-like spiraling form. Representing a tree, a swarm, or a choreographed dance, Luminous Twist literally illuminates but also suggests that the ordinary can become extraordinary and, in fact, that the ordinary itself is extraordinary. Luminous Twist both illuminates and creates a visual anchor in the center of the SCOPE Miami 2023 tent.

LAUREN FENSTERSTOCK | INSTALLATION | PATRON LOUNGE

Lauren Fenserstock’s Manifest Lands Like This is a series of seven wall-hanging obsessively detailed mosaic sculptures inspired by the energy centers of the chakra system. The sculptures showcase two elements crashing together – with one merging together explosively and another tentatively testing the boundaries of difference – and the shapes bring together an esoteric cast of forms from Buddhist texts and contemporary science. Each sculpture’s title is a loose interpretation of the original Sanskrit, embodying each chakra’s emotional and energetic nature.

“Manifest Lands Like This” is a cosmos of collisions. A pair of stars merge explosively. Another duo tentatively tests the boundaries of difference. A glittering sun longingly rips a wound as it devours its partner. These sculptures bring together an esoteric cast of forms from Buddhist texts and contemporary science including supernovae, lotus blossoms, black holes, and root systems. Moving from the tiny to the incalculable, they pull from the farthest reaches of our universe and the ground below our feet, to reveal an equality in all things.

LILLIAN BLADES | INSTALLATION

Made possible by SCOPE

Lillian Blades’ works are predominately mixed media assemblages on wooden panels or wired together to form moving tapestries. Her childhood home of The Bahamas, her ancestral background of West Africa, and her late mother, who was a seamstress, influenced her art. These influences appear through the use of her color palette and objects that evoke memory and history. The assemblage format of collected and curated bits and pieces is like a quilt or family heirloom.

MAIN STAGE

The SCOPE Main Stage will host events throughout daily programming. In the morning, guests are encouraged to attend yoga and guided meditation. Afternoon activations include daily talk series and performance programming. At night guests have a chance to loosen up and blow off some steam with a-list talent that is respected worldwide. All of this is occurring alongside large-scale installations, music, and VIP tours, creating an unforgettable experience for those attending.

SCOPECIRCLE

SCOPE is proud to reintroduce the SCOPEcircle with a new initiative that invites top collectors to host an artwork presented by our flagship New Contemporary program. Large scale sculptures will be loaned to collectors in the spirit of building emerging artist patronage.

SECTORS

James Reyes, Untitled, 2023 | Courtesy of Ki Smith Gallery

We’re thrilled to present three sectors of outstanding galleries for the 22nd edition of our flagship Miami show: Futures, photo basel + SCOPE and CORE.

Futures
Stellar emerging galleries who are new to SCOPE featuring solo exhibitions.

CORE
A front-of-show selection of dynamic established galleries that are magnifying diverse voices.

photo basel + SCOPE
Top photography galleries presenting solo or thematic exhibitions: in partnership with photo basel.

CURATORIAL AWARD

Greg Allen-Müller, Hyper-Realistic Straight Lines, Sculpture | Courtesy of Bahnhof Gallery

Curatorial Awards are given to exhibitors featuring an extraordinary program through solo or focused thematic curation.

TRAVEL GRANT

Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Deploiement, Photography  | Courtesy of Galerie Carole Kvasnevski

SCOPE International Art Show is proud to present galleries from over 25 countries in 2023. Our commitment to diversity in our program is exemplified by the generous Travel Grants that we offer to exhibitors who are traveling from overseas.

MORNING WELLNESS | ALO YOGA

After the success of their partnership in 2022, Alo Yoga returns to SCOPE to present daily health and wellness programming. Guests will be encouraged to attend morning healings, yoga classes, guided meditations and more – all against the backdrop of beautiful South Beach.

AFTERNOON | TALK SERIES

SCOPE presents a dynamic series of talks and events in partnership with prestigious publications, institutions and strategic partners.

2021 Programming

SUNSETS | LATE AFTERNOON MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVATIONS

Sunsets transform experiential afternoons into exclusive live evening performances. SCOPE’s stage will ignite with top music performers who will add a new dimension to our pavilion.

EVENING | PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS

SCOPE’s multi-day destination will transform after-hours to a premium nightlife experience and feature world-class music talent at night.

ASHLEY | CLARE CELESTE

Ashley partners with international collage artist, Clare Celeste, to create an immersive exhibit at SCOPE Art Show that highlights the delicate balance between nature and nurture while showcasing furniture from Ashley’s new leather collection launching December 2023.

FILM RESIDENCY | SCREENING

New York City underground art gallery ‘The Locker Room’ unleashes Winnie Cheung’s documentary-horror film, RESIDENCY, at SCOPE Art Show.

Is it a documentary about making a horror film? Or a horror film about making a documentary? Artist and Filmmaker Winnie Cheung crafts a haunting metafictional tale about women artists pushed beyond their limits.

Screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Art21’s Nick Ravich with director Winnie Cheung, producer Samara Bliss, and artist Manuela Viera-Gallo.

Following the screening, we will showcase a video of Connor Tingley’s installation. This installation in collaboration with pro skater Curren Caples explores the unstable relationships between culture and nature in a liberated union of shared messaging between painting and skateboarding.

Untitled Art Announces Programming for 12th Edition

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Untitled Art Announces Programming for 12th Edition

2023 Programming includes new artist projects and performances, as well as panel discussions as part of the Untitled Art Podcast, among others.

Untitled Art is pleased to announce a program of curated Special Projects, performances, podcast conversations, and events for its 2023 edition. This year marks the fair’s most international presentation to date, focusing on collaboration across the art community. Untitled Art’s programming is part of a curatorial platform spearheaded by Artistic Director Omar López-Chahoud and Director of Development and Curatorial Affairs Clara Andrade Pereira in support of the wider arts ecosystem – both globally and locally in Miami. Selected artists, galleries, and non-profits will highlight topics from gender and diversity, digital initiatives, historical positions, and celebrate new and underrepresented voices, in line with this year’s curatorial themes of “Gender Equality in the Arts” and “Curating in the Digital Age”.


Special Projects, presented throughout the fair, call attention to key issues and new artistic voices. This newly designed sector is an opportunity for exhibitors and artists to expand their curatorial presentation in Miami and connect with a wider audience. Highlights this year include:

bitforms (New York, NY) is bringing a selection of Manfred Mohr’s earliest computer-generated plotter drawings (circa 1970) showcasing his first implementation of the hypercube through his algorithmic computer-generated 16mm film, Cubic Limit (1973-74). This special project distinguishes Mohr’s pioneering use of algorithms decades before it became a tool of contemporary art.

Henrik Godsk will construct an interactive sculpture titled Carousel 1884 (2023), a modernist reworking of a family heirloom. The work will be clad with both inward- and outward- facing portraits that refer to family lore in lieu of the expected vibrant panels of a fair ride. Presented by Vigo (London, United Kingdom), this work is a continuation of Godsk’s practice that infuses folkloric and high art, drawing from his heritage as a seventh-generation traveler growing up in fun fairs in Denmark.

Gerd Leufert’s NENIAS (1965-1985/2023) is a wall installation, presented by Henrique Faria Gallery (New York, NY). The term “nenias” was used by the artist since the early 1960s to identify a series of figures he developed. The conventional meaning of the term comes from music, referring to certain old songs or lamentations reserved for funeral rites. These forms, now adapted for new space and spectator, fuse together ancestral cosmogonies with contemporary figures able to transcend the diverse currents of anthropological and indigenist thought.

For Freedoms has commissioned new signed and numbered and hand-embellished limited edition prints by April Bey, Petra Cortright, Christine Sun Kim, and Hana Ward that will be displayed in the podcast lounge and available online on the For Freedoms website. In tandem, the artist-led organization will present a panel discussion titled Imagining a Culture of Listening, Healing, Awakening, and Justice that will explore the role of artists in shaping society and politics on December 5.

Ediciones Marea, in collaboration with the Pedro Reyes Studio, have produced five works from the repertoire of the late Luis Ortiz Monasterio (1906-1990), with the support of the artist’s family. This project, consisting of an exceptional collection of limited-edition pieces, marks the first-ever presentation of these works by Ortiz Monasterio’s outside of Mexico.

Epidermic Scapes (1977-2022) by Vera Chaves Barcellos showcases a series of images of the artist’s and other people’s skin enlarged to such an extent that their indexical function is lost as they take on a more abstract appearance, presented by Zielinsky (Barcelona, Spain / São Paulo, Brazil). The artist’s intention is to expand the images to such an extent that they could be displayed on the floor or wall in a monumental way and as if they were terrestrial landscapes.

El Kilómetro (San Juan, Puerto Rico) presents Awilda Sterling-Duprey’s Blindfolded (2020-present), part of her series of dance drawings where the artist blindfolds herself to make abstract marks on wall-mounted paper in response to salsa and/or jazz improvisations. Blindfolded was included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial where the artist created the work via performance within the installation itself. Similarly, as part of this year’s Special Projects sector, this iteration of the series will be activated during the artist’s performance at 11:30am on Wednesday, December 6th.

YI GALLERY (Brooklyn, NY) spotlights Open Sky, Mirage (2023), an ongoing exploration by Karian Amaya into the transformations of matter and its effects when placed in varying geographical contexts. Inspired by the aesthetics of exploitation and extraction of natural resources, this presentation seeks to encapsulate the passage of time, serving as both a record and memory of a place. As the minerals in the copper pools change and evaporate, they create distinct pools, each capturing a unique visual representation of time.

Kelley Johnson Studio will present a functional sculpture within this year’s Untitled Art Podcast Lounge. In conjunction with the awarded Rado Production Prize sculpture in the fair’s interstitial space, Fleeting Fragments of Time 15/45 (2023) features an interplay of light over the chrome surfaces, so that participants interactions will continuously reshape the work’s interpretation.


Ten live performances will also accompany the fair, continuing Untitled Art’s support of non-commercial genres and multi-disciplinary art practices. Highlights include New York Performance NOW! a series of performances by artists Ms. z tye, Alexa West, and Mayfield Brooks during the VIP and Press Preview, curated by Kyla Gordon, and presented by the New York City-based artist-run initiative 99 Canal; an audience-activated performance by Trueson Daugherty in which the artist serves slices of a symbolic mass wedding cake meticulously adorned with over 100 custom-made bride and groom figurines, presented by curator and multidisciplinary artist, Kalup Linzy and with the support of The Tulsa Artist Fellowship; supported by Gallery Meessen De Clercq (Brussels, Belgium) and developed in collaboration with the Ringling College of Art and Design faculty and students, Lieven De Boeck’s ongoing performance parade, What’s going on?, celebrates mixed gender and queer identity, and explores art as an interactive experience that can only happen through personal activation (a concept tied to the work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica); Software for People v2 by Erick Antonio Benitez presented by Selenas Mountain (New York, NY) and supported by Y.E.S. Contemporary connects the physical, mystical, and digital through dance; presented by Negrón Pizzaro (San Juan, Puerto Rico), David Correa’s Death in Dade is an ongoing series of performances depicting desperation, resentment, and sorrow of the Latin laborer; presented by Miami-based non-profit cultural partner Locust Projects, an audiovisual performance and installation by Nicki Duval and Robbie Trocchia titled bout (2023) deconstructs competitive boxing and the work of American realist painter George Bellows, breaking down the boundaries between arts and athletics, and challenging gender stereotypes through boxing and queerness; and GeoVanna Gonzalez will present an iteration of her performance installation, PLAY, LAY, AYE: ACT 6, presented by Commissioner, in partnership with Chief.


The Untitled Art Podcast returns for its fourth year to support the fair’s 2023 Exhibitors within a dialogue showcasing the wider art ecosystem. Over 20 conversations are scheduled on-site during the fair, with participation of figures within each facet of the art community: including renowned artists Antonio Andrews, Ashanti Chaplin, Jeffrey Meris, Alyssa Klauer, Kalup Linzy, Sharif Bay (presented by albertz benda (New York, NY / Los Angeles, CA)), Manfred Mohr (presented by bitforms (New York, NY)), LaKela Brown, and Kacy Jung (presented by Jonathan Carver Moore (San Francisco, CA)); and influential art professionals and institutional curators Natasha Becker, curator for the Arts of Africa at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; NXTHVN’s Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Marissa Del Toro; Rachel Delphia, the Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator at Carnegie Museum of Art; Kate Green, Ph.D., Chief Curator & Nancy E. Meinig, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Philbrook Museum of Art; and Carolyn Sickles, Executive Director of Tulsa Artist Fellowship.


Highlights in this sector include two Spanish speaking panels, one of which features DeMartini Family Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Untitled Art Ambassador Marcela Guerrero in a discussion with Latin American and Caribbean galleries from the Nest sector; a dialogue on the market for women artists by Casey Lesser, Director of Content of Artsy, and Julia Halperin, Cofounder of the Burns Halperin Report; a conversation supported by Vortic between the platform’s founder, Oliver Miro and Untitled Art Ambassador and Dallas-based art advisor, Adam Green; Curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas and Artistic Director Neville Wakefield to discuss Programming Partner Desert X 2025’s themes and socio-cultural concerns with Zoe Lukov, reflecting on past projects, desert conditions, gender equality, and the impact of technology on art and daily life in the Coachella Valley; a panel by Atlantic World Art Fair, an annual online experience featuring contemporary art makers in the Caribbean, the Atlantic Islands and the region’s wider diasporas; and a series of panels covering the art market for female artists, the impacts of new technologies, and new collecting models hosted by Untitled Art’s Education and Programming Partner Sotheby’s.

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