The figure’s peaceful, meditative pose and barely-there attire officially made her a Headliner this year. There wasn’t any sculpture more PLUR than this at Art Basel. If you squint, the explosive colors look like the fireworks finale on the closing night of EDCLV.ħ. Placed atop music speakers, Martin Klimas captures the dopest images of vibrating paint in sonic action. Steve Reich and Musicians, Martin Klimas Photography If you look closely enough, you can see Fatboy Slim in there. This should help explain why you feel like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix at EDC. The cube appears to have an infinite universe as part of the exhibition’s Time Space theme. If you’re like us and always wondered what “falling down the rabbit hole” looks like, this is probably it. If only we could do the same thing to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The seats sprayed in neon graffiti are a sight to be seen. And like this guy (assuming it’s a guy), no matter how we feel, we always have time for neon.Ībout 20 minutes outside the chaos of Art Basel in midtown Miami is the Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key. With its faceless, somber form, this piece evokes a similar emotion to how we feel after being up for 72 hours straight in Vegas. What’s scarier than a pre-recorded DJ set? This thing. Standing 24 feet tall, the Fly’s Eye Dome could be a place of relaxation for you and your bae to lie back and gaze Under the Electric Sky. This bubbled dome is one of the newest installations at Miami’s brand-new, multi-million-dollar Perez Art Museum Miami, located off Biscayne Bay. While you spectate, you can grab a cold one at the bar inside the pyramid. Wouldn’t buying $10 beers at festivals be much more enjoyable in this work of art? Heineken’s Art Pyramid, which was also at Counterpoint Festival in Atlanta, hit the sands of Miami Beach, towering at more than 35 feet high and encompassing 12 massive art walls that were painted over the six days of Basel’s SCOPE Miami show. But while the star power is immense, shining just as brightly are the often-overlooked creative works of art (what Basel is all about, hello!).Īs we inch closer to next year’s festival season, here are 12 installations from this year’s Art Basel that would be rad at EDC Las Vegas 2015. The lineup of nightclub DJs has proved just as massive, with acts like Guy Gerber, Richie Hawtin, Pete Tong, Marco Carola, Kaskade, and the Martinez Brothers B2B Seth Troxler. In recent years, the week-long array of VIP events has grown into a mecca for high-profile celebs and art enthusiasts alike. Miami Beach is flooded with tens of thousands of visitors from around the world in search of the latest and greatest paintings, art installations, cultural movements, music, celebrity sightings and, most importantly, free drinks. Basel tov! It’s that time of year in Miami when the high-waisted, gut-concealing booty shorts of summer are replaced by colorful, tailored suits, unnecessarily draped in designer scarves-it gets down to 80 degrees in December-and gaudily enhanced by alligator skin shoes that only “high-fashion” Euro men can pull off.
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