Inside Miami Race Week Events: Nobu Matsuhisa Launches 'Miami Sushi Club', Fabel Hosts Scuderia AlphaTauri, Loro Piana, Ralph Lauren and Tyler Herro's 'Boy Wonder World' Brand Launch at 'The Office'

Miami Race Week was alive in anticipation of the second Miami Grand Prix 2023, as the jetset, billionaires, celebrities, athletes and Miami’s biggest stars were seen at some of the hottest events around the city. Iconic restauranteurs took center stage as legendary sushi chef Nobu Matsuhisa launched his ‘Miami Sushi Club’ premium menswear capsule collaboration with Chris Stamp and McLaren and Fabel Miami partnered with Scuderia AlphaTauri to bring a real Formula1 car onto their rooftop in Wynwood for an electric dinner party with Scuderia AlphaTauri drivers Yuki Tsunoda and Nyck De Vries. Amid the heat of the NBA Playoffs Miami Heat-star Tyler Herro headed to Matthew Chevellard’s ‘The Office’ art gallery in Miami Design District to celebrate the launch of his new lifestyle clothing brand and to check out the newly displayed SOLARIS, Solo Exhibition by Jonny Robles. Luxury timepiece manufacturer Hublot teamed up with PROFILEmiami to host Watches and Wonders at The Ritz-Carlton, Bal Harbour where they debuted their Limited Edition Novelties Collection for the first time in the United States. Top fashion brands such as Loro Piana and Ralph Lauren also celebrated the week in style as Loro Piana debuted their new Resort Collection with a lavish cocktail at their Miami Design District boutique and Ralph Lauren has a sunset soiree at a private waterfront estate.

Miami Sushi Club x Nobu Hotels Magazine x McLaren Dinner for Miami Grand Prix

To celebrate the annual FORMULA1 Miami Grand Prix, Nobu Matsuhisa and Chris Stamp extended their next chapter of Sushi Clubs into Miami, hosting a dinner in partnership with Nobu Magazine and McLaren. For this special occasion, Sushi Club has joined forces with Nobu’s namesake hotel magazine and premium automobile house to bring together artists, car-enthusiasts and sushi lovers together for an evening of great food and company.

The dinner, which took place on Friday May 5th at Nobu Restaurant Miami Beach, featured a custom-designed special menu created and prepped by Chef Nobu himself along with special limited-edition Miami Sushi Club pieces, including a Sushi Club x McLaren hat, tote bag, and t-shirt. The dinner coincided with the launch of the Miami Sushi Club limited-edition capsule on Saturday, May 6th at 11 am ET on sushi-club.com and in-store at the La Brea flagship store at 11am PT.

Since its inception in Beverly Hills, CA 2021 Chris Stamp and Nobu Matsuhisa have embarked on a journey to create a community celebrating the elegant simplicity of quality food and art. Bonded through their mutual love for sushi, the arts, travel and fashion, the duo look to create an inclusive world catered towards like-minded individuals who wish to further immerse themselves in the lifestyle of culinary art.

Ralph Lauren Celebrates New MDD Boutique With Cocktail Party at Private Waterfront Estate

Ralph Lauren hosted a cocktail party to celebrate the newly opened Miami Design District luxury concept store with a performance by Leslie Grace. The world of Ralph Lauren came to life through an immersive experience at a water-front private estate in North Miami, complete with manicured gardens and a spectacular pool with incredible views of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline. Guests were transported to a distinctly Ralph Lauren expression of coastal living - wicker lounge chairs accented with crisp navy and white awning stripes, touches of gold decorative accessories and classic blue-and-white entertaining moments from Ralph Lauren Home captured the spirit of Riviera-chic style.

Notable guests in attendance included  Melissa Barrera, Grace & Anna Van Patten, Joan Smalls, Lily Aldridge, Leslie Grace, Noah Beck, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Diana Silvers, Xochitl Gomez, Claire Holt, Camila Coelho, Cass DiMicco, Anggie Bryan, Sira Pevida, Martha Graeff, Jenny Lopez, Vita Sidorkina, Rafa Kalimann, Amanda Diaz, Nane Miller, Georges Coupet, and more wearing Ralph Lauren.

Loro Piana Celebrates The Launch of Resort 2023 Collection

Loro Piana celebrated the launch of the Resort 2023 collection with a lavish cocktail party at their Miami Design District boutique. With the Summer Resort Collection, Loro Piana echoes the inimitably Italian spirit of vacation living. A spirit expressed through a unique, evocative taste; an easy going style with relaxed silhouettes that glide over the body, letting the wearer savor the freedom of summer. All thanks to the savoir faire and sartorial canons of the Maison which, master of finest fibers, transforms precious, impalpable and fresh yarns into original fabrics that combine silk, cotton and linen, the absolute protagonist of different textures, from the lightest to tweed. The palette ranges from the colors of dawn to sunset, from dynamic strip ed and floral prints to subtly shaded ones.

Guests included Matthieu Garnier (CEO of Loro Piana North America), Karolina Kurkova, Archie Drury, Martha Graeff, Elysze Held, Alicia Pettit, Marianna Hewitt, Stephanie Hill, Anggie Bryan, Demetri Demascus of PROFILEmiami, Katya Demina of PROFILEmiami and Adam and Ryan Goldston.

Fabel Miami Partners With Scuderia AlphaTauri to Host Miami Race Week Preview Party

Fabel, Wynwood’s premier rooftop restaurant and Scuderia AlphaTauri, Red Bull’s Formula One sister racing team, announced their partnership and teamed upon to host a Race Week Preview Party on May 4th, 2023 at Fabel Miami. The collaboration brought together the worlds of precision, performance, and hospitality creating a unique experience for customers and fans alike. The main event included a four-course menu curated by Executive Chef Ian Fleischmann, worldclass entertainment and dancing, all while showcasing the Scuderia AlphaTauri F1 car in the center of the space offering guests a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with the stunning machine, which was craned to the rooftop.

Fabel owner, Matthew Rosenberg, along with Scuderia AlphaTauri’s Marketing Director, Fabian Wrabetz, led the night with Q&A’s from Principal Franz Tost and drivers Nyck De Vires and Yuki Tsunoda. The event held on Fabel Miami’s open-air rooftop restaurant welcomed over 200 VIPs, including almost 50 of the Scuderia AlphaTauri team.

“The opportunity to partner with a world class Italian F1 team like Scuderia AlphaTauri has proven to be a seamless collaboration and is clear we are just getting started,” shares Matthew Rosenberg. “Their positioning as a premium lifestyle brand on top of their diligent attention to detail allowed the values of each brand to come through in a weekend of truly unique experiential offerings. The ideas that our teams have started planning are going to change the way hospitality is experienced.”

Fabel Miami is known for its exceptional quality and attention to detail, offering a range of luxury concierge experiences beyond the footprint of Fabel Miami, including world-class dining, off-site experiences, and curated hospitality. Scuderia AlphaTauri, one of Red Bull’s two Formula One racing teams, is known for its high-performance cars, innovative technology, and association with its premium fashion line, AlphaTauri.

PROFILEmiami X Hublot Host Watches & Wonders at The Ritz-Carlton, Bal Harbour

On Friday, May 5, with all eyes on Miami for Miami Race Week and the FORMULA1 Miami Grand Prix 2023, Hublot and PROFILEmiami teamed up to host Watches and Wonders Collectors Cocktail as Hublot debuted their ultra-exclusive, limited edition novelties for the first time in the United States. The lavish invite-only cocktail party was hosted overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Haulover Inlet at The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour.

Guests enjoyed champagne and caviar while getting intimate with some of Hublot’s most exclusive timepieces and novelties including the $527,000 Integrated Tourbillon Full Blue Saphire, the Integrated Tourbillon Full Carbon, the Square Bang Unico Sapphire and Ceramic, the Unico Golf Sky Blue Carbon and other limited edition timepieces such as the Classic Fusion Chronograph Orlinski Titanium. The invite only event was attended by business leaders, watch collectors and influencers such as real estate developers Michael Konig of One Thousand Group, architect and designer Denio Madera, Marc Chasin of Eden Multifamily, Cullen Mahoney of Continuum Company, the newly minted President of Hublot North America, Natacha Lamour-Nahim, and was hosted by Demetri Demascus and Katya Demina of PROFILEmiami with Thierry Richard of Hublot’s Bal Harbour Boutique.

Patrick Carroll and Tyler Herro's Boy Wonder World Lifestyle Brand Launch SOLARIS Art Exhibition at THE OFFICE

Miami real estate investor and philanthropist Patrick Carroll teamed up with Matthew Chevellard’s THE OFFICE art gallery to host the debut of SOLARIS, a new exhibition of paintings curated by local artist Johnny Robles, and celebrate the launch of Tyler Herro’s new lifestyle clothing brand, Boy Wonder World, captured through a stunning capsule collection. Along with art collecting, philanthropy is a passion of Carroll’s, with 100% of proceeds from the evening will go to a charity of Carroll’s choice to continue in his worldwide giving back.

SOLARIS showcases Jonny Robles' latest art installation as its focal point - a journey that captures the essence of his multi-disciplinary fusing a mind-bending approach to color theory that blends art, technology, and nature into a mesmerizing psychological experience. The capsule collection, Boy Wonder World, will bring together the unique vision of Tyler Herro, an iconic personality representing his full foray into the lifestyle sector that's both bold and inspiring. THE OFFICE is an art gallery by Blu Scarpa founder and Miami-based designer Matthew Chevellard. Patrick Carroll oversees investments and strategy for CARROLL, whose portfolio includes over $11.5 billion in acquisitions and $6.7 billion in dispositions for the company.

PROFILEmiami Insider's Guide To Miami Art Week 2022: Art Shows and Activations Across Miami

Buckle up! It is that time of year again in Miami. Starting November 29th and running through the first week of December, Miami Art Week attracts millions of visitors from across the globe to Miami’s sunny beach’s and luxurious enclaves for a celebration of art, design, fashion, style and culture. Miami Art Week brings together some of the world’s best artists, galleries, art collectors, designers and cultural icons for a week of art shows, installations, events and lavish parties. PROFILEmiami is bringing our readers a series of in-depth Guides to Art Week with a curated list of must-attend art shows, installations and events throughout the week.

PROFILEmiami’s second edition of our Insiders Guide explores the high-energy art shows which pop-up across the city the first week of December each year. Art Collectors and visitors have the opportunity to explore the world’s leading art galleries all concentrated into select art shows which serve as pop-up museums and cultural hotspots. Each show has a different feel and vibe, bringing together different galleries of similar art styles including modern, contemporary, impressionism, pop art, cubism, surrealism, etc. Collectors and visitors alike have the opportunity to get up close and personal rare museum quality paintings and sculptures from legends such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol, as well as the newest works by Jaume Plensa, Jeff Koons, Banksy, Kaws, RETNA, Bradley Theodore, David Yarrow, Alec Monopoly and Damien Hirst, amongst many others. While perusing the galleries attendees sip champagne, pose for photos with their favorite pieces and rub shoulders with the Jetset with celebrity sightings not uncommon.

This year during Miami Art Week there will be several exciting and immersive activations across Miami. Matthew Chevallard’s THE OFFICE. Gallery and F2T Gallery will present I DONT NEED IT, BUT I WANT IT, Avery Andon’s ArtLife will present Isaac '“Drift” Wright Art Basel Experience, The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis will return to Mana Wynwood as the sequel to last year’s famous activation that introduced NFTs to the masses and the widely popular Doodle NFT will build a 9-hole mini golf course in Wynwood dubbed DoodlePutt.

Whether your goal is to pick up some new art pieces for your home of just enjoy the energy of Miami Art Week, our Insiders Guide will help you plan your week so you don’t miss out on anything.

Art Shows:

ArtMiami/ Context (Downtown Miami)

Dates:

November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)

November 30 - December 45, 2021 (Public Days)

Hours: 11 AM - 7 PM

Location: One Herald Plaza (NE 14th Street & Biscayne Bay), Miami

Art Miami, America’s foremost contemporary and modern art fair, and its sister fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, will kick-off Miami Art Week 2022, opening on Tuesday, November 29th with an invitation-only VIP Preview evening with public days beginning Wednesday, November 30th and running through Sunday, December 4th.

Art Miami continually showcases the most significant artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries and is a “can’t miss” event for collectors, curators, museum professionals and art enthusiasts. Distinguished for its quality, depth, and diversity, Art Miami 2022 will feature investment quality paintings, drawings, design, sculpture, NFTs, video art, photography and prints from more than 160 leading galleries across 17 countries.

CONTEXT Art Miami, presented by Art Miami, continues to create and push boundaries on the conversation about contemporary art, The 2022 edition will showcase works from 75 innovative galleries from more than 20 countries, including Japan, Turkey, Australia, France, South Korea and Chile, among others. CONTEXT Art Miami will kick-off during Miami Art Week with an invitation-only VIP preview on Tuesday, November 29 and run through Sunday, December 4, 2022.

CONTEXT Art Miami’s 10th Edition offers an exceptionally strong platform for collectors to discover and acquire fresh and significant works in today’s primary art market.

Art Basel (Miami Beach)

Dates:

November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)

November 30 - December 45, 2021 (Public Days)

Hours: 11 AM - 7 PM

Location: 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach

Since its launch in 2002, Art Basel Miami Beach has served as a dynamic platform uniquely bridging the art scenes of North and South America, Europe, and beyond. The edition marking its 20th anniversary will be the largest to date, featuring 282 exhibitors from 38 countries and territories – more than half of which hail from the Americas. In addition to its Galleries, Positions, Nova, Survey, and Edition sectors, the fair will host 20 large-scale projects as part of the Meridians sector, 29 curated installations within exhibitors’ booths in the Kabinett sector, as well as nine panels with leading art world voices in its renowned Conversations series. Additionally, this year at Art Basel Louis Vuitton will exhibit selected works by a curated ensemble of the world’s most-renowned artists.

Art Basel began in the 1970’s in Basel, Switzerland as an art fair to cater to a new wave of art collectors. Art Basel expanded to the United States with its first sister fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, in 2002. The show attracts some of the highest-end art galleries and most discerning collectors to the Miami Beach Convention Center.

SCOPE (Miami Beach)

Dates:

November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)

November 30 - December 4, 2021 (Public Days)

Hours: 11 AM - 8 PM

Location: Ocean Drive between 8th and 10th Avenues at 801 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach

Celebrating its 21st edition, SCOPE Miami Beach returns to its bespoke pavilion on the sands of Ocean Drive and 8th Street. Honoring its mission to provide a platform for experiential innovation and discovery, Scope will welcome 150+ diverse contemporary exhibitors featuring the New Contemporary, a genre that stands as a critical contribution to both global politics and local community engagement.

With over 85 art shows spanning more than 20 years, SCOPE Art Show in Miami, New York, and Basel, Switzerland is celebrated as the premier showcase for international emerging contemporary art and multi-disciplinary creative programming. Renowned for its uncanny ability to forecast new visual trends that are embraced globally, SCOPE has garnered extensive critical acclaim with cumulative sales of billions and attendance of millions.

Design Miami/ (Miami Beach)

Dates:

November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)

November 30 - December 4, 2021 (Public Days)

Hours: 1 PM - 7 PM

Location: 1800 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach

Design Miami/ returns to Miami Beach for its 18th edition, curated by Curatorial Director, Maria Cristina Didero. This year’s program will explore the theme of The Golden Age: Looking to the Future, celebrating a tomorrow of our own creation. The programming this year offers vibrant, diverse and thought-provoking responses to this thematic, which speculates how design and innovation might lead us to a better, more harmonious and more sustainable collective future. The fair takes place in Pride Park, opposite the Miami Beach Convention Center.

This year there will be a variety of activations throughout Design Miami/. For the first time Dolce & Gabbana has partnered with Design Miami/ to present the brand’s unique Alta Gioielleria Collection. Dolce&Gabbana Alta Gioielleria represents a universe of creativity where the invention of new forms is combined with the preservation of Italy’s renowned tradition of fine jewelry-making.

Audi x Andrés Reisinger will present a new immersive and experiential digital installation in cooperation with digital artist and designer Andrés Reisinger. FENDI will present Triclinium by Lukas Gschwandtner, which consists of wearable canvas sculptures referencing historical portraits of women reclining on furniture.

Kohler has revealed a partnership with global artist/designer, Nada Debs. Together, they present Trancendence, a custom hammam that will offer a three-room immersive experience for visitors to Design Miami/2022. The installation, along with various onsite and digital activations, pays homage to cultural inclusivity, environmental sustainability, and heritage through design and innovation.

Maison Perrier-Jouët collaborated with Paris based artist, architect and designer Garance Vallée to create Planted Air, an installation which conveys her vision of one nature, in which all life forms are united, to the point of forming a single entity. Planted Air offers a reinterpretation of the ecosystem of the Champagne vineyard, in which visitors are invited to follow a path through a series of sculpted vines, which appear to be rooted in the chalk-rich earth of Champagne, reaching upwards towards the sky.

Activations:

THE OFFICE. & F2T GALLERY | I DON’T NEED IT, BUT I WANT IT

Dates: Opening Night: November 27 from 5pm - 8pm (open to the public); November 28 - January 29 

Hours: 11am - 7pm

Location: The Office, Miami Design District, 3930 NE 2nd Ave., Suite 202 (Miami Design District)

ABOUT: Matthew Chevallard’s THE OFFICE. Gallery and F2T Gallery present I DONT NEED IT, BUT I WANT IT, a group exhibition featuring artists Callum Eaton, Eduardo Sarabia, Jonathan Casella, Kristopher Raos, Saj Issa, Sam Keller, Stephanie H. Shih, and Tim Irani. The selected artists will bring forth a collective body of work highlighting the global culture crisis of mass production and capitalism, emphasizing the cliche or kitschy elements of our cultures, through the use of irony and pop art elements. THE OFFICE., founded by art patron and avid collector, Matthew Chevallard, educates the public on art collecting and presents exceptionally curated and co-curated exhibitions, within the contemporary art world. F2T Gallery from Milano, conceived in 2021 by acclaimed collectors Matteo Novarese and Francesco Bena, works with leading emerging artists, galleries and collectors in the contemporary art world. 

Superblue Miami

Hours:

Monday–Thursday: 11am–7pm

Friday–Saturday: 10am–8pm

Sunday: 10am–7pm

Location: 1101 NW 23 Street, Miami, FL 33127 (Allapattah)

One of the hottest immersive art activations in Miami is on showcase for Miami Art Week. Wind your way through a mirrored labyrinth by Es Devlin, discover a transcendent digital environment by teamLab, and enter an enveloping light-based Ganzfeld work by James Turrell. Turrell’s objectless art of experiences, pioneering Light and Space, made him the natural choice for the first slate of exhibitions currently filling a huge former warehouse in Miami occupied by Superblue, the new commercial venture exclusively dedicated to immersive installations. Here visitors can have their depth perception dizzyingly dissolved by one of Turrell’s ‘Ganzfelds’, the colored light works he has been fine-tuning since 1976.

Craig Robins Collection: Two Of The Same Kind

Dates: November 30 - onward

Hours: 10am - 12pm

Location: DACRA Headquarters, Miami Design District, 3841 NE 2nd Ave. (Miami Design District)

ABOUT: The Craig Robins Collection consists of contemporary art and innovative design, displaying within the Miami Design District headquarters of DACRA and rotating on a bi-annual basis. This year, “Two of The Same Kind” highlights the work of Marlene Dumas and Jana Euler, two artists whose painting and drawing practices are broadly represented in the Collection holdings. The theme of dualism threads through two portraits by pop icon Andy Warhol, both commissioned decades ago by Craig Robin’s mother and Jackie Soffer’s mother separately, acting as a spectacular coincidence. More than a hundred works on view present an expansive overview of figurative art from the last three decades. The multifaceted Collection also features design pieces by the recently acquired Sasha Gordon and by established favorites such as Zaha Hadid, Jean Prouvé, Marc Newson and Marteen Bass. 

Tesafaye Urgessa at Saatchi Yates Miami in Miami Design District

Dates: November 21 - December 21

Hours: 12pm - 6pm

Location: Saatchi Yates Miami, Miami Design District, 35 NE 40 St. (Miami Design District)

ABOUT: This November, Saatchi Yates Miami will temporarily open a solo exhibition of new work by Ethiopian Contemporary artist Tesfaye Urgessa to co-inside with his presentation at the Rubell Museum, opening December 2022. Saatchi Yates Miami is situated in the Miami Design District, next to the Institute of Contemporary Art and the de la Cruz Collection. Born in 1983 in Ethiopia, Tesfaye studied under master Tadesse Mesfin at Staatlichen Akademie in Stuttgart, and later emigrated to work in Germany. Through these experiences, Ugressa connected Ethiopian iconography and a deep fascination with traditional figurative painting to create a unique and striking language which portrays race and the politics of identity.

ArtLife Presents Isaac '“Drift” Wright Art Basel Experience

Dates: November 30th- December 18th 

Hours: 11am - 7pm

Location: 307 NE 61st Street, Miami (Magic City/ Little Haiti)

Give a retired US Army Special Ops Paratrooper a camera, and he’ll scale the tallest skyscrapers in the world and reinvent modern photography. ArtLife presents US Army Special Ops Vet turned photographer Isaac “Drift” Wright @driftershoots debut Solo Exhibit “REBIRTH” where Wright uses his military skillset to capture surreal images from death-defying heights.

Immersed in the traditional Art World, ArtLife has set itself apart as an innovative and dynamic Gallery and Lifestyle Brand with an immense passion and understanding for this illustrious and flourishing market. Founded in 2015 by veteran art dealer and artist manager Avery Andon, ArtLife has quickly become a forward-thinking name in the industry. At a time when buying art over the internet seemed bizarre, ArtLife was one of the first truly online-only art gallery’s. Showcasing some of the most sought after blue-chip, established and emerging artists, in both virtual and in-person exhibition spaces, ArtLife pioneered a non-traditional approach welcoming both seasoned and aspiring collectors to immerse themselves in the seemingly elusive world of contemporary and modern art, from anywhere in the world.

DoodlePutt

Dates: December 2nd + 3rd

Hours: Noon - 10 PM

Location: 2534 N Miami Ave, Miami (Wynwood)

Doodles, one of the most influential and hottest NFT projects in existence featuring a collection of colorful line-drawn characters has, will come to life in Wynwood for Miami Art Week. Doodles will showcase how imaginative and dynamic the brand is through a 2-day immersive activation that will transport you to a world of color and magic. DoodlePutt features a 9-hole mini-putt course that brings to life the Doodles universe, combined with an outdoor lounge, entertainment, and more. Travel through 9 mini-golf holes, each representing a different part of the Doodles universe, on a course filled with new worlds to explore, characters to meet, and secrets to unlock. Doodles and Shopify will also bring URL and IRL together in a first-of-its-kind token gated NFT retail drop with Doodles

Limited tee-times and general admission passes will be available for the public on-site. To register or more information visit Doodles.

Louis Vuitton Custom Curated Collection at Art Basel

Dates:

November 29 (Private Day/ VIP Preview)

November 30 - December 45, 2021 (Public Days)

Hours: 11 AM - 7 PM

Location: 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach

Louis Vuitton will exhibit selected works by a curated ensemble of the world’s most-renowned artists as part of Art Basel Miami Beach, held at the Convention Center in Miami Beach from November 29 - December 3. Standout artist collaborations on display in the Louis Vuitton lounge include two wax figures of Yayoi Kusama, created by the artist herself; a panda figure sculpture by Takashi Murakami on a vintage Louis Vuitton trunk; paintings by Richard Prince and Alex Katz; a photo by Jean Larivière, and the now iconic Artycapucines collection. As a celebration of the Maison’s relationship with Yayoi Kusama - and to mark the 10-year anniversary of the first collaboration - exclusive new pieces will be showcased for the first time as a teaser of the upcoming collaboration.

Riches Presents The Crown We Never Take Off Curated By Donnamarie Baptiste

Dates: December 2 and 3rd 

Hours: Noon - 9pm

Location: SOHO Studio, 2136 NW 1st Ave. (Wynwood)

Prime Video and their upcoming Original series Riches will host of “The Crown We Never Take Off”, their larger-than-life immersive art activation taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach at Soho Studios in Wynwood. Inspired by the series, Riches, Prime video is bringing to life an experience that will celebrate elements from the show that exhibit the freedom of expression and identity in the Black diasporic experience, through several mediums including photography, sculpture, painting, music, video, and performance art. The event will feature Riches-themed diaspora inspired cocktails, passed hors d'oeuvres​, live music​, photo activations (Face of flair, S+R, Riches beauty installation, Crown Bust, Art work)​, and much more.

nft now and Mana Common Present ‘The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis’

Dates: November 30 - December 3

Hours: 11am - 7pm

Location: Mana Common, 169 E Flagler St., Miami (Downtown Miami)

The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis is the sequel to last year’s famous activation that introduced NFTs to the masses. Powered by MoonPay, the 5-day festiva is free to the registered general public and will transform Downtown Miami will feature leading artists, NFT communities, industry titans, influencers, and performers from brands like Christie’s, Instagram, Porsche, Alo Yoga, Art Blocks and more.

This year, the experience is moving beyond the screens and creating the first-ever web3 metropolis. Over the course of 5 days, the events will take over 12 buildings and 2 city blocks in Downtown Miami’s Flagler District to unite the web3 community for a landmark experience unlike any other.

This year will feature immersive activations by 9dcc by gmoney, Art Blocks, Adam Bomb Squad, Christie’s, FaZe Clan, Instagram, Porsche, RTFKT + CloneX, WME, and MetaMask. Artists include Beeple, Dave Krugman, FEWOCiOUS, PPL PLSR, Pussy Riot and Unicorn Dao. There will also be music performances by Adworld, Daniel Allan, DJ_Dave Latashá, Major League DJz, Venus X, The Whooligan.

The programming will feature leading artists, musicians, community partners, panels, speakers and performers. For more information on The Gateway, please visit nftnow.com/thegateway. To register for a free ticket, visit The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis. 

Miami Worldcenter Launches $5M Public Art Program in Downtown Miami

Miami Worldcenter, a 27-acre $4 billion mixed use development transforming the heart of Downtown Miami, has brought on renowned international art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch and Miami-based curatorial collective PRIMARY to spearhead a $5 million public art initiative that will transform the streets and buildings of the ‘city within a city’ into a permanent outdoor art museum.

Now on display, the first work to be completed as part Miami Worldcenter’s new public art initiative is a massive colorful mural by contemporary artist Nina Chanel Abney, which graces the walls of a pedestrian tunnel and the exterior façade of a parking garage at the development. Other museum-worthy artists confirmed to exhibit pieces at Miami Worldcenter include Woody De Othello, Viktor El-Saieh, Nick Cave and Trenton Doyle Hancock, among others.

PROFILEmiami's Insider's Guide To Miami Art Week And Art Basel 2021 In Miami Design District

Following a lost year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Miami Art Week and Art Basel return to Miami to light-up the city and kick off the 2021 holiday season. Starting November 30th and running through the first week of December, Miami Art Week attracts millions of visitors from across the globe to Miami’s sunny beach’s and luxurious enclaves for a celebration of art, design, fashion, style and culture. Miami Art week brings together some of the world’s best artists, galleries, art collectors, designers and cultural icons for a week of art shows, installations, events and lavish parties. PROFILEmiami is bringing our readers and in-depth Insiders Guide to Miami Art Week and Art Basel with a curated list of must-attend art shows, installations and events throughout the week.

PROFILEmiami kicks off our Insiders Guide series with a look at some of the art, culture, and fashion initiatives set to debut in the Miami Design District in celebration of Miami Art Week. Miami Design District is one of the hottest neighborhoods in the world, home to a number of luxury fashion houses, art galleries, fine dining experiences, and cafés. The open-air, pedestrian-friendly neighborhood, known for its many distinct and artistic façades, notably boasts a highly energy-efficient infrastructure and became the first neighborhood in the world to achieve the Gold level (LEED ND: Built v4 Gold). Miami Design District is the brainchild of Miami real estate development icon Craig Robins. The neighborhood was inspired by the worlds leading shopping districts including Fifth Avenue and Rodeo Drive and visitors can enjoy mature canopy-covered streets and walkways, sculptural specimen trees, and extensive rooftop gardens.

For Miami Art Week 2021 the Miami Design District will unveil its highly-anticipated annual Design Commission, a physical and virtual site-specific installation coined Tomorrow Land designed by creative studios Studio Proba and Enjoy The Weather. In addition to an array of public and site-specific installations, the Miami Design District will debut exhibitions including, but not limited to, ‘Shattered Glass’ presented by Jeffrey Deitch, the Mitchell-Innes & Nash exhibit, Goodman Gallery and Galerie Lelong, among others. Additionally, luxury powerhouse, Louis Vuitton will be unveiling new Objets Nomades with several other moments taking place in the Miami Design District.

As Miami Art Week kicks off make sure to make your way over to Miami Design District to check the following installations PROFILEmiami has identified as must-see for 2021:

2021 MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT DESIGN COMMISSION: TOMORROW LAND 

The Miami Design District is pleased to unveil Tomorrow Land, a physical and virtual site-specific installation created by Studio Proba and Enjoy the Weather for the neighborhood’s Annual Design Commission 2021. Tomorrow Land features a series of playfully designed sculptures, seating, and ornamentation, created by Studio Proba in her signature, popular style. In addition to the physical components woven throughout the Miami Design District, the installation boasts an interactive, virtual game created by Enjoy the Weather. A dedicated app built around AR technology and proximity beacons which allow visitors to “collect” and digitally customize Studio Proba’s shapes and place their own custom totems throughout the neighborhood—and beyond—for other participants to discover and play with. Tomorrow Land will also enliven the entrance of Design Miami/ in Pride Park. 

Dates: November 2021 - May 2022

Location: Miami Design District as well as the entrance of Design Miami/ in Pride Park 

CRAIG ROBINS COLLECTION

The Craig Robins Collection, exhibited within the Miami Design District headquarter offices of DACRA, is a private collection of contemporary art and design. Based on the belief that art should be shared, highlights from the collection are constantly rotated and put on view within the workspaces at DACRA, the innovative development company founded by Craig Robins in 1987. The annual re-hanging of Craig Robins’ contemporary art collection highlights 45 artworks by celebrated American conceptual artist John Baldessari (1931-2020), including highlights John Baldessari Clement Greenberg 1966-1968 and John Baldessari Kissing series: Simone Palm Trees (Near), 1975, The collection also features recent acquisitions including work by Kenturah Davis, Sayre Gomez, Urs Fisher, and more. Encompassing the disciplines of design, art, and architecture, the multifaceted collection also features pieces by established favorites such as Zaha Hadid, Jean Prouvé, Richard Tuttle, and Marlene Dumas.

Dates: December 2 - December 3 | 9AM-12PM

Location: DACRA Headquarters: 3841 NE  2nd Avenue

LOUIS VUITTON OBJETS NOMADES COLLECTION

Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades Collection celebrates the Maison’s long-tradition of exceptional craftsmanship and heritage through travel-inspired objects that reflect the collaborative, contemporary visions of a diverse group of internationally-renowned designers. From a hammock to a foldable stool, an armchair to a room screen, each limited-edition object transcends the creative boundaries of design, showcasing the Maison’s profound attention to complex craftsmanship and artistic innovation. This December, Louis Vuitton will be expanding its Objets Nomades collection by transforming its Miami Design District stores into an immersive Objets Nomades installation, highlighting new pieces for 2021, including Merengue and Aguacate by the Campana Brothers, Cosmic Table by Raw Edges and a Petal Chair by Marcel Wanders. The men’s store façade will be based on the Marcel Wanders Studio Objets Nomades Diamond Screen, where Marcel reinterprets Louis Vuitton’s historic Monogram motif and the canework that once adorned LV trunks. The color and sensationalism of the pattern adapted to the new men’s store façade screen pays homage to Miami Modernist architectural style. The Women's store’s façade will be temporarily wrapped in a jubilant burst of woven colors, patterned after a new Objet Nomade by the Campana Brothers. Inside, Patricia Urquiola has curated an enveloping exhibition of the universe of Objets Nomades, an inspiring journey through the remarkable artistic perspectives of all the Objets Nomades collaborators and an exceptional survey of the Maison’s heritage and savoir-faire.

SHOES + ART BY MATTHEW CHEVALLARD 

Footwear Entrepreneur, Matthew Chevallard, is debuting an innovative modern-retail experience in the Miami Design District, coined: Shoes + Art. Merging Chevallard’s passion for footwear with his passion for art collecting, this multifaceted speakeasy retail concept, invites the public into a forward thinking and design-driven oasis in the middle of the most popular neighborhood in Miami. Chevallard’s new Avant Garde boutique, is situated in front of luxury houses Fendi and Louboutin, and features his two Italian hand-made footwear brands, Blu Scarpa and Concetto Limone all within Chevallard’s art gallery, THE OFFICE. The unique boutique concept will open to the public in time for Miami Art Basel 2021, on November 28th, 2021, with a solo exhibition by the coveted Mexican American artist, Eduardo Sarabia. The exhibition will feature a full range of works from Eduardo’s practice. For the first time, Eduardo will be displaying 10 limited edition lithographs, with several of them hand embellished by Eduardo Sarabia himself. Tying in the brands, Eduardo will be painting a set of Blu Scarpa products, and will be displaying a large selection of unique hand-painted ceramic plates. The remainder of the works will be revealed during the opening.

Dates:  November 28 - ongoing

Location: 160 NE 40th Street; 2nd floor of OTL

JEFFREY DEITCH PRESENTS: ‘SHATTERED GLASS’ 

Shattered Glass, the acclaimed exhibition of new art by emerging artists of color, which was shown at Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles last spring, will be presented in an expanded version in the Moore Building in the Miami Design District. The Los Angeles version of Shattered Glass, curated by Melahn Frierson and A.J. Girard, was more than an exhibition, it was a phenomenon, attracting 1,000 visitors per day in its final weeks on showcase. Shattered Glass connected with a diverse art audience, giving visitors a rare opportunity to see art that reflected their own life experience. The expanded Miami version of Shattered Glass will include fifteen new artists. The painting, sculpture, and photographic works in the exhibition are all figurative. The subject matter is often the artists’ family and friends. Their primary subject is their own life and their community. The participating artists are all strongly socially engaged; many of whom incorporate powerful social messages into their work. The exhibition represents a remarkable new generation that connects with a new art audience. Jeffrey Deitch has been presenting exhibitions and public art projects in the Miami Design District since 2002.

Dates: November 29 - December 5

Location: Miami Design District The Moore Building

MITCHELL-INNES & NASH

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce its return to the Miami Design District with a winter exhibition space opening on Wednesday, November 24th. The first exhibition will be a group show featuring early works by Eddie Martinez alongside works by seven outsider, self-taught and American art brut artists that Martinez collects or is otherwise inspired by: Hawkins Bolden(1914-2005), Freddie Brice (1920-1998), David Butler (1898-1997), Willie Jinks (1921-2012), Ike Morgan (b. 1958), Mary T Smith (1904-1995) and Billy White (b. 1962). Taken together, the exhibition emphasizes a set of shared formal mannerisms between the artists: flatness rather than a sense of perspective, a graphic outline rather than finely wrought draughtsmanship.  The work contains a sense of speed, immediacy and improvisation.  Repeated figures assume a symbolic, spiritual or totemic quality.   

Dates: November 29 - December 4 from noon to 8pm, Sunday, December 5 from noon to 6 pm - Winter Exhibition

Location: 151 NE 41st Street, Suite 125

GOODMAN GALLERY

Goodman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new and existing bronze sculptures from William Kentridge's ongoing series of bronze glyphs, alongside a drawing from his most recent animated film, City Deep. Kentridge’s glyphs are a visual dictionary of sorts made up of a series of sculptures that form a vocabulary of symbols, representing a collection of everyday objects, suggested words, or icons that are ubiquitous in the artist's practice. The glyphs started as ink drawings and paper cut-outs, each on a single page from a dictionary. The drawings were transformed into bronzes, to embody the weight and character their shapes on paper suggested.

In their smaller formation, the glyphs can be arranged in order to construct sculptural sentences and rearranged to deny meaning. An example of this can be found in Drawing for City Deep (A Fault to be Discovered Later). City Deep is Kentridge's most recent film from his Drawings for Projection series. The film, grounded within Kentridge’s home city of Johannesburg, can be viewed as a counterpoint to the 1990 film, Mine, which depicts images of the deep-level mining industry. City Deep extends this depiction to the informal, surface-level “zama zama” miners who illegally work decommissioned mines on the edges of the formal mining economy.

Dates: November 24, 2021 - End of January 2022

Location: 151 NE 41st Street, Suite 123

GALERIE LELONG

Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, is launching a new temporary exhibition space at Paradise Plaza in the Miami Design District from November 28, 2021 to February 28, 2022. The opening will coincide with Miami Art Week and Art Basel: Miami Beach 2021, where the gallery has participated since its first edition in 2002. Galerie Lelong & Co. looks forward to furthering a deeper conversation with the vibrant and growing community in Miami by presenting pieces of historical and timely content from artists in the program, showing works that encompass a diverse range of media including painting, work on paper, sculpture, and photography.

Since 1991, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, has championed a diverse roster of contemporary artists from throughout the world. Led by Mary Sabbatino, Vice President and Partner, the gallery has pioneered the community both in presenting a balanced roster of male and female artists, and artists from the Global South. The gallery’s programming is noted for its political acuity and museum-quality exhibitions, as well as its work with artists to help develop large-scale public art commissions beyond the gallery’s walls. In tandem with the gallery’s artists who present work that examine the human condition and collective consciousness, Galerie Lelong demonstrates its commitment to social justice and good citizenship through charitable initiatives and collaborations. Galerie Lelong is a member of the Art Dealers’ Association of America, the most esteemed organization of art galleries in the United States.

Dates: November 28 - February 28, 2022

Location: 151 Northeast 41st Street, Suite 121

UNCOOL ARTISTS

An independent art exhibition that speaks to our time by interrogating wholeness, remoteness, isolation, and the use of technology to maintain human connection; while reviving the Mail Art network that was extremely important during the 60s and 70s in Latin America.

Dates: November 30 - December 5 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location: 3930 NE 2nd Ave Suite 202

JUAN CARLOS MALDONADO ART COLLECTION: THE POETICS OF EXACTNESS

Beyond minimal art –the historic movement– The Poetics of Exactness exhibit aims to explore the manifestations of a typically modern expressive desire that still remains present in the works of many contemporary artists: how can that order be accomplished –that minimum gesture whose materialization can cause a maximum effect in the psyche of its beholders? Drawing the boundary that separates an everyday object (one manufactured by industry, for example) from that special object that, for the lack of a more accurate descriptor, we still call a 'work of art'. Establishing this trait that separates a work of art from other objects of the world is, therefore, the job of many contemporary artists who, like many of their modern predecessors, produce what we could call a calculated, precise aesthetic –the poetics of exactness.

Dates: November 30 - December 5 | 10am - 6pm 

Location: 3841 NE 2nd Avenue,  Suite 201

CLIMAX BY JEAN THIERRY BESINS

Designed by Jean Thierry Besins, CLIMAX is a 13-foot sculpture made of 1 ton of recycled stainless steel. The radiator inspires viewers to stop shielding themselves from the existential threat of death when facing climate change. CLIMAX is the first version of a 100-foot tall heater that Jean Thierry Besins plans to install in Iceland in September 2024. The sculpture is situated in Jungle Plaza and will be on view through February 2022. 

Dates: November 2021 - February 2022

Location: Miami Design District Jungle Plaza 

ABOUT MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT

The Miami Design District is a one-of-a-kind neighborhood that combines luxury shopping, galleries, museums, design stores, restaurants and major art and design installations all within an architecturally significant context. The Miami Design District is owned and operated by Miami Design District Associates, a partnership between Dacra, founded and owned by visionary entrepreneur Craig Robins, and L Catterton Real Estate, a global real estate development and investment fund, specializing in creating luxury shopping destinations. As Miami becomes increasingly known for its own rich culture, the growth of the Miami Design District further reflects how the city is deserving of its place on the global stage. For more information, visit http://www.miamidesigndistrict.net / Facebook: MiamiDesignDistrict / Instagram: @miamidesigndistrict / Twitter: @designdistrict