Videos: 2014
Claire Breukel: Curator, Writer
INTRODUCTION TO CLAIRE BREUKEL: 5:00 min. Introduction to Claire Breukel. South African-born, CLAIRE BREUKEL works between Miami and San Salvador as Director and Curator of Y.ES Contemporary Art El Salvador. After co-curating the 2002 Cape Town Month of Photography biennale and the 2003-2004 the Brett Kebble Art Awards in South Africa, Breukel was introduced to Miami through the Rubell Family Collection. In Miami, she became Executive Director at Locust Projects, an alternative non-profit art space for 3 years before becoming nomadic...
read moreInterview: Dennis Scholl — Art Collector
INTRODUCTION: 0:39 min. Introduction to Dennis Scholl. Dennis Scholl has been an art collector since 1976. He has also been involved with a number of museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Tate, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and the Aspen Art Museum. Scholl and his wife Debra created a 4000 square foot spaced they called “World Class Boxing” (WCB) to exhibit selections from their extensive collection, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, videos and photography. WCB was...
read moreInterview: Alec Wilkinson – Author, Journalist, Critic, Musician
INTRODUCTION- 33 sec. Introduction to Alec Wilkinson. Alec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker magazine since 1980. Before that he played guitar in rock and roll bands. For The New Yorker, he frequently writes music criticism in the form of Profiles and stories for “Talk of the Town.” Wilkinson has written ten books: Midnights (1982), Moonshine (1985), Big Sugar (1989), The Riverkeeper (1981), A Violent Act (1993), My Mentor (2002), Mr. Apology (2003), The Happiest Man in the World...
read moreInterview: Ella Fontanals-Cisneros – Founder & President, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros is a philanthropist, entrepreneur and art collector with an abiding passion and discerning eye for contemporary art and design. Born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela, her vision has made a significant impact on the Miami arts community and arts organizations around the globe. Fontanals-Cisneros began collecting works by artists from Latin America in 1970. The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection has since grown to include important and cutting-edge pieces by risk-taking artists from around the world, with strong...
read moreVideo Chat: Jeffrey Lawson — Founder / Owner of Art Fairs
Jeffrey Lawson is the Founder and owner of Art Fairs Unlimited, LLC, Untitled, Art and ELEMENTS Global Trade Show, LLC. Lawson has produced and consulted on large-scale trade shows globally for the past 11 years. In 2010, Lawson founded Elements Showcase. In 2012, Lawson founded UNTITLED. Art Fair and it was inaugurated in December 2012 on the sands of Miami Beach at Ocean Drive and 12th Street. In December 2015, Untitled, Miami Beach held its fourth edition and hosted over 125 international galleries and not-for-profit spaces and drew...
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