Miami, City of Sun and Beaches, Is Now About Art

Miami, City of Sun and Beaches, Is Now About Art by Lizette Alvarez 

 

 

Published: November 29, 2011; accessed: November 29, 2011

SUMMURY:

Miami has always been a city where people come and retire or spend their honeymoon. It is also a place to buy cocaine and dodge bullets. However due to Art Basel, an organization which promotes the expression of Art has now taken over Miami Beach. Miami Beach has brought an international circus of high-powered art dealers, curators and art loves. This has been a booming contemporary art scene, which has influenced and attracted artists all around the world.  It has given Miami the power to believe in itself. Only 3 of the 260 galleries in Miami are invited this year for Art Basel fair and only a handful of homegrown artists were in the fair. Due to this Art Basel there are a dozens of new galleries, which have opened, and scores of artists have relocated to Miami, firstly because they are lured by relatively low rents and of course because of Art Basel. This fair gives the artist, collectors and gallery owners a rare opportunity to observe world-class art however more importantly it is a time where they can talk and interact with the leading players of the international art world.

REASPONSE:

This is obviously important to me because I have always wanted to pursue art and whenever in my art class we learn about profound and reputed artists it is an honor to see their artwork being displayed. This article struck out to me, firstly because it is about art and secondly because it relates to what I want to do in life. I want to be known as a leading player of the international art world. I want to talk to famous artists and relate with their work. Ms. Onkka gives our class an artwork and we have to analyze it, it is so much fun for I learn so much from just one piece of art.  So imagining that Miami, which was not influenced by art, is now experiencing the new world of art. I too, want to experience the world of world-class art.

VOCABULARY:

*        Gentrifying:

“First came the Design District, known foremost for its furniture and design showcases, and then Wynwood Art District, its still-gentrifying neighbor, which has grown from about 4 galleries eight years ago to about 45 today.”

Definition: renovate and improve (esp. a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste.

My father is gentrifying the interior of the house because I was feeling uncomfortable with the porch furniture in the house.

*        Impoverished:

“Most galleries are clustered in two once-impoverished neighborhoods just north of downtown Miami that now serve as popular art enclaves, luring the expert and the curious alike.”

Definition: exhaust the strength, vitality, or natural fertility of; make poor

The soil in my garden looked impoverished, so I went out and poured water and fertilizer to nourish the soil.

*        Lured

“But since Art Basel’s debut 10 years ago, dozens of new galleries have opened, and scores of artists have relocated here, lured by the relatively low rents and, partly, by Art Basel itself.”

Definition: tempt (a person or an animal) to do something or to go somewhere, esp. by offering some form of reward :

The child was lured into a car by the kidnappers however luckily he managed to escape