Here Are 17 Fantastic Museum Shows to See During Art Basel Miami Beach 2019

Suffering from fair fatigue? Feeling like a lab rat as you
wander through the maze-like labyrinth of gallery booths? We have
the solution, with these private and public museum shows.

From the reopening at the newly dubbed Rubell Museum, to Jose
Perez’s new art space, and a Kusama installation to boot.

“From Day to Day” at the
de la Cruz Collection
Ongoing through 2020

Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz’s latest exhibition of their
wide-ranging collection features artists including Hernan Bas, Mark
Bradford, Salvador Dalí, Isa Genzken, Ana Mendieta, Gabriel Orozco,
Laura Owens, Sterling Ruby, and Christopher Wool.

23 NE 41st Street, Miami Design District. Admission is free.
2019–2020.

“Can It Really Be 20 Years Already? Art in Our
Times, Contemporary Masters, and Philanthropy” at the Margulies
Warehouse
Through April 25, 2020

The Margulies Warehouse presents its 20th year anniversary
exhibition with a survey that looks at the breadth of their
collecting prowess, always with a focus on educating the
public.

591 NW 27th Street. General admission is $10.

“Mira Lehr: A Walk in the
Garden” at the Jewish Museum of
Florida
Through February 3, 2020

Eco-feminist artist and Miami Beach local Mira Lehr is busier
than ever at age 85, presenting an exhibition of ten monumental new
paintings and 180 aerial sculptures hung from the ceiling of the
Jewish Museum of Florida.

301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. General admission
is $12. 

“Teresita Fernández: Elemental” at the
Pérez Art Museum Miami

Through February 9, 2020

The PAMM sets the spotlight on Miami native Teresita
Fernández with an exhibition of large-scale sculptures,
installations, and mixed media works created from the mid-1990s to
the present. Highlights include her mirrored floor
sculpture Untitled (1997) and Fire (2005), a hanging
installation of thousands of silk threads hand-dyed to depict
flames.

1103 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. General admission
$16. 

“The Extreme Present”
Presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch at the Moore
Building

In the fifth iteration of Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch’s
collaborative art exhibition, the focus is on “artists’ reactions
to the conditions of our accelerating and increasingly complex
world.” Despite the vague description, expect huge crowds coming
for the big names propping up the program.

Moore Building, 191 NE 40th Street, Miami Design District.
Admission is free.

“Time for Change: Art
and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Peréz Collection” at El
Espacio 23
Opens December 4, 2019

Jose Perez’s new space in the Dominican neighborhood Allapattah
(just a stone’s throw from the Rubell’s new digs) will debut during
Miami Art Week, fulfilling what he called “an extension” of his
work from the other major museum that already bears his name.
The show is organized by Colombian curator Jose Roca, and will
feature works by Doris Salcedo, Alfredo Jaar, and William
Kentridge, among others.

El Espacio 23 – Jorge M. Pérez Collection, 2270 Northwest
23rd St, Allapattah. Admission is free. 

“Wong Ping” at the ICA Miami
December 3,
2019–April 26, 2020.

One of the most memorable artists in the most recent New Museum
Triennial in New York, Wong Ping makes absurdly humorous videos
with simple, boldly colorful animations of anthropomorphic
characters. He’s been commissioned to make a brand new video for
the ICA. If previous work is a guide, expect overt sexuality and
dark political overtones.

61 NE 41st Street, Miami Design District. Admission is
free. 

“Lara Favaretto: Blind Spot” at the Bass Museum of Art
December 1, 2019–April
19, 2020.

Lara Favaretto’s paintings, sculpture, and interactive
installations often deal with themes of consumption and decay, and
incorporate upcycled materials, like the 2,000 discarded books she
gathered from across the city and has displayed on bookshelves for
Momentary Monument – The Library (2012–19). She’s also
created a new, site-specific permanent commission for the show.
Titled Gummo VI (2019), the motorized piece
features five large-scale brushes from an automated car wash.

2100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. General admission is
$10. 

“Cecilia Vicuña: About to
Happen” at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA),
North Miami
Through March 29,
2020

Chilean-born artist Cecilia Vicuña, who works at the
intersection of conceptual art, feminist art, land art, and poetry,
gets the first major US solo show of her 40-year career, organized
by the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Among the highlights
are the small “precario sculptures” she’s been making from found
objects since 1966, as well as her 2018 installation Burnt
Quipu, which pays tribute to recent forest fires on the West
Coast with floor-to-ceiling lengths of wool. The Miami edition
of the show adds paintings, which Vicuña began making in the
1970s and has only recently revisited, sometimes recreating lost
works from memory.

Joan Lehman Building, 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami.
General admission is $5. 

“Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I
Have for the Pumpkins” at the Miami Design
District
Through January 31, 2020

The ICA Miami is bringing Miami’s first-ever Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Mirror Room to the Miami Design District with an off-site exhibition.
The Instagram-friendly artist built her first mirrored pumpkin room
for the Venice Biennale in 1993, when she represented her native
Japan. (If you want to brush up on Kusama kontent, there’s an episode of the Art Angle for
that.)

112 NE 41st Street, Suite 106, Miami Design District.
Admission is free on Thursdays, $15 timed tickets
Friday–Sunday. 

Inaugural Installation at
the Rubell Museum
Opens December 4,
2019

The Don and Mera Rubell are unveiling their grand new home,
dubbed the “Rubell Museum,” just in time for art week, when they’ll
have the most foot traffic guaranteed to inaugurate the space. The
100,000-square-foot space designed by Annabelle Selldorf will house
both long-term installations and traveling exhibitions, with the
kick-off tracing the arc of the couple’s collecting tendencies.

1100 NW 23th Street, Miami. Admission is free.

“Trenton Doyle Hancock: I
Made a Mound City in Miami Dade County” at Locust
Projects
Through February 8, 2020

Beloved nonprofit alternative art space Locust Projects presents
a new site-specific installation by Houston-based artist
Trenton Doyle Hancock, continuing his exploration of the “Mounds”
fantasy he created at the age of 10 years old. The show features
hand-drawn pages from Hancock’s forthcoming graphic novel
recounting the adventures of his hero Torpedo Boy as he defends the
gentle, plantlike Mounds from the evil tofu-eating Vegan mutants,
as well as a toy store display selling infant version dolls of the
characters—visitors are encouraged to purchase one and to act out
tales from the Moundverse at home.

3852 North Miami Avenue, Miami. Admission is
free. 

“Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of
Massaguer” at the Wolfsonian FIU
Through March 1,
2020

Conrado Walter Massaguer (1889-1965) was one of the most
prolific and incisive artists working in Cuba, especially during
the 1950s and ’60s. This installation focuses on the works recently
gifted to the Wolfsonian, and explores the many themes that
Massaguer’s work encapsulated, ranging from images of the iconic
“flapper girl” to cartoons riffing on dignitaries and presidents
who ruled the decades.

1001 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. General admission is
$12.

“After Stonewall,
1969–1989” at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art
Museum at FIU
Through January 5, 2020

Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion in New
York, this exhibition organized by the Columbus Museum of Art has
amassed some 200 works of art and other objects showcasing the
LGBTQ liberation movement’s impact on visual culture.

10975 SW 17th Street. Admission is free. 

“I Paint My Reality:
Surrealism in Latin America” at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

Through June 30, 2020

Tracing Surrealism in Latin America from the 1930s to the
present day, this exhibition drawn from the US Art Museum
collection and promised gifts from the Stanley and Pearl Goodman
collection features such major artists as Leonora Carrington,
Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, and Rufino Tamayo.

1 E Las Olas Boulevard Fort Lauderdale. General admission is
$12.

“WE BUY GOLD” at 48 East Flagler
Street
December 5–January 7, 2020

For the third straight year, curatorial collective, GOOD TO KNOW
is staging a Miami Art Week exhibition, taking over an 1980s-era
mall in downtown Miami’s jewelry district for “WE BUY GOLD.” The
group show is inspired by commercialism and mall culture, but also
considers the title material from a variety of viewpoints—gold is a
natural material that has become a luxury good and a trading
commodity, but is also linked to exploitation. Featured
artists include Kalup Linzy, Sara Mejia Kriendler, Matt
McCormick, Ivan Sikic, Juni Figueroa, and Antonia Wright.

48 East Flagler Street, Miami. Admission is
free. 

“KidsBasel” at Wynwood Arts 29
December 3–7, 2019

The former Rubell Family Collection space, now home to Wynwood
Art 29, is dedicating its Miami Art Week outing to a posse of
tween art prodigies including Yung Lenox, discovered at age six and
now 13; visual and performance artist Elisabeth Anisimow, also 13;
12-year-old Abstract Expressionist phenom Aelita Andre; and
eight-year-old graffiti artist Rodrigo “Dyno” Barrera.

95 NW 29th Street, Miami. Admission is free. 

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