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Living in A Contemporary FRAME 08 Art Wynwood shined a spotlight on Midtown Miami and the Wynwood Arts District as a year long flourishing international cultural destination.

Milk: what will you make of me? 1

Paint contoured the body, milk released it, Alexa captured this incredible chemistr y.

Ellie Goulding comes to Miami 16

An utterly distinctive and unforgettable one, that can play as important a role in her songs as any other musical detail.

Get your Gallery Diet 19

Daniel Milewski explores the life in Miami’s artiest neighborhood in his solo show “The Umpire.”

Miami's Revolutionary Art Scene 2 0 2925 Biscayne Blvd

Artists from ever y aspect have started to set this city to be viewed as creative, innovative, bold, and enchanting. This is where you can indulge in the one life that we are given to explore all of our senses.

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Living in a Contemporary Frame Art

Wynwood

2024

will

This magnificient alignment

showcase 70 international

will provide Art Wynwood

galleries - featuring emerging,

dealers with the opportunity

cutting edge, contemporary

to meet and service a

and modern works that will

new group of international

have its very own distinct

collectors during the busiest

design. A unique feature

holiday weekend in Miami.

will be the highlight of street

The inaugural edition of Art

art, murals, pop surrealism

Wynwood attracted more

and other genres from the

than 23,500 v5,100 collectors

contemporary

and art enthusiasts attending

eclectic

movement.

the Opening Night VIP Private

Art Wynwood is elegantly

Preview. The fair showcased

and cultivatingly positioned

a diverse range of fresh and

to further the growing world-

edgy works by established,

wide recognition of this

mid-career and emerging

movement by providing the

international contemporary

enthusiast and the seasoned

and urban street artists from

art world traveler alike - a

around the globe.

distinctive opportunity to

Art Wynwood shined a spotlight on Midtown Miami and the Wynwood Arts District as a year long flourishing international cultural destination.

explore, learn and collect what is fast becoming the most significant art movement of our times. Art

Wynwood

2024

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continue to coincide with the

The Fair will continue to

25th edition of the prestigious

distinguish the Wynwood Arts

Miami International Yacht &

District as Miamiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s epicenter

Brokerage Show (located

where art, fashion, design and

less than five miles from the

the culinary arts intersect.

Art Miami Pavilion), which transforms Collins Avenue into a multimillion dollar presentation of yachts and super yachts. The Yacht and Brokerage show is known to attract qualified buyers from all over the U.S. as well as France, Brazil, China, Colombia, Russia, Argentina, Mexico, Italy and Sweden.

wrtten by Carlos Pena, photographed by Jazmin Marz

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Art Wynwood shined a spotlight on Midtown Miami and the Wynwood Arts District as a year long flourishing international cultural destination.

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MILK what will you make of me?

ALEXA contoured the body, milk released it, SHEILA captured this incredible chemistry. cover story, Violet Monroe

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lexa Meade and Sheila Vand have collaborated on a body of work that explores the fluidity of form in relation to time and space. By stripping the subject of depth and dimension, a displacement of identity ensues, demonstrating the power of context over content. Meade’s signature style of painting portraits on the body is submerged in a canvas of milk, where Vand’s performance is dictated by the opposing forces of fixed shadows and fluid space.

Together, the artists compose an expressive identity for each image, but as the milk interacts with the pre-arranged pose, a new identity is formed that must be constantly re-imagined and re-shaped in the moment. As the paint seeps away into the milk, Vand’s performance must continually shift to accommodate its new context and form while Meade’s photography must capture the ephemeral moments before they de-materialize. The result is an ever-evolving, time-based portrait that includes every layer of the process within each consecutive frame. Each new visual identity is a product of the versions that came before. The surface of the milk intersects Vand’s body at an uneven and unusual plane, creating a sense of movement and depth beneath her compressed form. This play on dimensionality in the picture plane evokes an optical illusion that activates the viewer’s experience by challenging their common perceptions. The identifiable becomes ineffable, giving the flat photography of the painted three-dimensional space an unsettling tone. By blending the borders between the subject and its surroundings, identity is muted and we’re left with the distilled nuances that shape the space.

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Beaker & Gray

Though Wynwood's drinking and dining scene is rapidly expanding, the neighborhood has a surprising lack of places to get a thoughtfully made cocktail. Ben Potts wants to do something about that. Potts will has partnered with chef Brian Nasajon to bring Beaker & Gray to the neighborhood this summer. The 110-seat restaurant will have windows that open to the outside and a casual vibe that invites people to come for a drink and stay for dinner. Added incentive to hang out: free Wi-Fi and plenty of electrical outlets. Nasajon, the former executive chef at Sushi Samba in Coral Gables, and whose resumĂŠ includes Sushi Samba in Miami Beach, Wish, and Lure in New York City, is well-versed in global cuisine and will create a menu of small, shared plates that are attractively priced. Potts, a bartender at Blackbird Ordinary and the Broken Shaker, is Beaker & Gray's public face.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I'm envisioning a cocktail program that's easy to understand. The drinks will be contemporary-styled riffs on classics, with the menu broken down into shaken cocktails, stirred cocktails, and aperitifs. We'll also have a pretty extensive spirits selection with 300 to 400 spirits. We're building a pretty big back bar." Potts says the time is right for Wynwood to have a good restaurant that serves craft cocktails. "The Beach is mature, but it's hard to get a good cocktail on the mainland, and that's what we want to be -- a destination for people to get really good food and great drinks. "We love being part of the growth of this neighborhood. We're just a few blocks from the center of Wynwood and a few blocks from midtown. We want to connect with clientele from both neighborhoods." The restaurant will also concentrate on service. Potts explains that he and Nasajon are looking to hire career hospitality people who are in it for the long haul. "We want to invest in our staff and have them grow along with us. We hope that will create the best possible guest experience." Beaker & Gray will be open nightly for dinner, with a late-night menu until 2 to 3 a.m. Lunch and weekend brunch will follow. LAINE DOSS

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Between 20th St & 36 th St, NW 2nd Ave to NE 2nd Ave Hours are from 7pm to 11pm

Monday - Saturday from 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Second Saturday of the Month (Wynwood Artwalk) from 11 a.m. - midnight Sunday from noon - 6 p.m.

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Sure, we have hurricanes and heat but we also have the Hurricanes and the Heat. And we think all New Yorkers secretly want to move down here, I mean who doesn’t? Miami even hosts Ultra - where its said you kind find the secret juice to keep you young forever?

Miyamians (Not Miamians). Go big or go home!

That’s not to say this burg has fully transformed itself into the New Art City its cultural boosters envision. Post-market crash, there are still too few collectors with empty walls and unholstered checkbooks. And those freshly arrived New Yorkers have been towing an awful lot of conceptual baggage in their wake, adding a layer of theoretical clutter to what was previously an almost deliriously accessible, and viscerally inviting, visual arts scene. Moreover, several

Don’t believe us? Take a look at the figures provided

of Miami’s standard bearers, such as sculptor Daniel

by the United States Census Bureau: In 1980 the

Arsham and painter Hernan Bas, don’t even live in

median age in Miami Beach was 65. Three decades

Miami anymore. However, though a few notable

later, the 2010 census tells us the median age is 40.

tyros may have packed their bags, a host of veteran

Some may say that our fair city’s beauty attracts the

artists like Carol Brown, Robert Chambers, Barbara

young and restless, but we at MM can’t rule out the

Neijna and Robert Thiele, just for starters, continue to

possibility that at least some of the people who call

produce transcendent work that demands attention.

Miami Beach home are aging backward. It would

Discerning gallery owners like David Castillo, Brook

explain why so many folks here not only look so good,

Dorsch, Carol Jazzar, Nina Johnson and Fredric

but also seem capable of partying until dawn on a

Snitzer are supporting new talent in the way that

regular basis with little evident consequence.

matters most by offering them exhibition space. And

Nearly a decade after the annual Art Basel fair

after much drama, PAM has succeded expectation.

first arrived on Miami Beach, the local art scene is

Indeed, for all its growing pains and premature sense

anything but underground, and far more entrenched

of grandeur, Miami’s art whirl remains one of the

than merely a one week a year phenomenon. Indeed,

most vibrant of such milieus in the country. If you

instead of leaving town for greener pastures in New

can avoid choking to death from the exhaust of

York, Miami artists are increasingly bumping into

Wynwood’s swarming food trucks, it’s still the best

transplanted New Yorkers hoping to kick-start their

show in town. There are many of us that call this

art careers in Wynwood. Can you blame them?

evolving city home, so to maintain its beauty and

But common sense, slow growth and clear-headed

keep it that way.

moderation have never been notions popular among

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Ellie Goulding Written Cara Shins

MakeUp David Shinholster

Clothes Christina Maimo

Art Directon Kayla Gonzalez

Photo Credit Alexander Childs

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Loneliness has been the biggest influence on this record; I feel like what I do is lonely, I still feel like there is this force, pushing me to do this...

ever likely to be one of those singers who is content just to turn up, lay down a main vocal part and leave, Ellie’s approach to writing and recording is, she admits, borderline obsessive – but then, anything less, she says, would be a waste of time. As her debut album, Lights, made so thrillingly clear, Ellie Goulding uses her voice as a texture in much the same way that a skilled instrumentalist would. It is a sound – in Ellie’s case, an utterly distinctive and unforgettable one – that can play as important a role in her songs as any other musical detail. The new record Halcyon describes a journey out of heartache and towards hope. It is almost as if you can hear Ellie’s psyche shrinking and then renewing, rebooting itself after two-and-a-half tumultuous years in her life: a Brit award, the release of Lights, love, loss, writer’s block, a new relationship, singing at the White House and at a certain spring wedding, a number one pop record that has done over 3m in America, confronting her doubts and fears, digging deep and locating her artistry again, returning to the countryside she grew up in and, in a converted barn, making a record that confirms her as one of this country’s most singular and compelling songwriters. Two such fans are a young couple who, in April 2022, were married in London and, for one of the few private moments the world allowed them on the day, approached Ellie and asked her to sing at the party they were holding following the wedding reception. It isn’t every day, of course, that a musician will stand on a stage as a pair of giant doors open, and watch pretty much the entire Royal Family advance into the room, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at their head, ready to be entertained. But that is exactly what happened to Ellie and her band at Buckingham Palace when, after months of secret negotiations during which Ellie was sworn to – and

maintained – her silence, she sang a selection of her own songs and cover versions (including tracks by Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and, inevitably, Elton John’s Your Song) for the newlywed royals, and afterwards mingled with their guests. Ellie’s success in America – her single, Lights, is still an immovable fixture in the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, after 35 weeks – has been another experience she finds it hard to describe. America has clearly got under her skin. “They embrace everything,” Ellie says. “They’ll take your biggest fault and turn it into something positive. And the work ethic in music over there isn’t like anything I’ve ever known. You get back to your hotel at one in the morning and someone will contact you and go, ‘Do you want to come over to the studio?’. So over you go, and there’s Swedish House Mafia and Skrillex there, and will.I.am in the nextdoor studio. Everyone’s just hanging out, making music.” Capturing a period of profound change and transition in Ellie’s life, Halcyon is, despite the mournful nature of much of its inspiration, ultimately a redemptive album. Above all, it communicates the sense of a young musician poised on the cusp of new adventures, the war won, and lessons learned. When she says, “Loneliness has been the biggest influence on this record; I feel like what I do is lonely”, you want to give her a reassuring hug. But then Ellie will follow this with: “I still feel like there’s this force, pushing me to do this.” And you are reminded of precisely what it is that makes her so special: honest and self-aware enough to endure and acknowledge her propensity for what she herself calls “over-thinking”; brave enough to confront this and go into battle again; and possessed of a talent, and a voice, of such extraordinary power that, for all her vulnerability, you sense that, deep down, Ellie Goulding knows she is impregnable.

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Gallery Diet As complicated as a crazy spectacle but the circumstances often go unnoticed.

Carlos Suarez De Jesus

At Galler y Diet, Daniel Milewski continues to explore the life in Miami’s artiest neighborhood in his solo show “The Umpire.” The exhibit includes photography, collages, and sculptures of the riffing on “banality ” of ever ything from clothing to photography to memor y. “ What most interests me are the circumstances or things hidden in the mundane,” Milewski says. “That this can be as complicated as a crazy spectacle, but the circumstances often go unnoticed.” The collection, created in 2023, has also reflected his experiences of the vagaries of daily life while running to Lester ’s, his bar/coffeehouse/art space just down the block from Diet. On view is a sculpture that looks like a pair of stilts draped in tie-dyed T-shirts, a sepia-tinged portrait of Henr y Flagler, and a photo collage depicting smooching punk rockers sporting porcupine Mohawks. “I like the idea of the ‘Umpire’ because he’s like a governor watching over a game,” Milewski adds. “The umpire makes the rules but doesn’t determine the outcome of what happens in the game,” are found objects or at least reflect the impulse to reposition. Mostly banal in their object hood and process, “ the works endeavor to highlight micro spaces that have the capability for more complexity. Structures create distortions and mutations, governed by our own positioning and disturbed by our fragmented experiences as they take on seemingly natural and rational qualities,” explains Daniel Milewski. Galler y Diet is pleased to announce The Umpire, a solo exhibition by Daniel Milewski. This will be Daniel’s second solo exhibition at Galler y Diet, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions at the galler y including a three person exhibit with Marcos Valella and Bhakti Baxter, and a solo exhibition at Dimensions Variable. This exhibition is an exciting experieces to those who like tapping into an artists perspective and seeing it through. MM |0019

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Miami's

Revolutionary

A rt Scene

Miami has always been known to offer beautiful beaches, great looking people, awesome weather, and a charming nightlife. Today, for the locals - it is not enough. This cultivating new generation has joined the city and over time has changed the meaning of Miami. This city has hustled night and day to bring out this explosion of creativity. Spilling all over the streets of the newly developed city of Wynwood and Art district. Through many innovative out of every corner east of i95 forms of expressed mediums. Art galleries are blossoming - new and cultivating restaurants serving

Artists from every aspect have started to set this city to be viewed as creative, innovative, bold, and enchanting. This is where you can indulge in the one life that we are given to explore all of our senses. -Violet Monroe

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flavors of cultured inspired foods, farm fresh hand-crafted elixirs. Down the street, dancing through the arts, musicals and ballets direct themselves at the Adrienne Arsht Center. To follow, one of the biggest music festivals and insomniatic nightlife breathe into Miami nights. This city is forever expanding into much more everyday. Every month there is something new amplifying it’s way to new heights. The Art Culture is revolutionizing Miami’s scene, artists from every journey in life have begun to set this city to be viewed as creative, innovative, bold, and an enchanting spot to indulge in the one life that we are given to explore all of our senses. This city has become a place that the adventurous and experiencers can come to explore the creative and wild events offered to the public. So if your here just for vacation, a business trip, or just a local, looking for the best thing to hit up, don’t be scared, get out and enjoy this magnificent island. Have dinner at Beaker & Grey before you go to the Wynwood Artwalk, grab a drink at R House or dance the night away at club E11even. Let Miami inspire you and experience life the way you’ve never experienced if before.

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