I love to think about it as Miami are week more than Basel even though you know it's Basel is so so important but I like to think of how great an opportunity it is for our local artists and for our local organizations to be seen by many people from around the world my name is Danny Tapia and I'm the founder and curator for art scene 365 pretty much all the institutions and local venues will have an offering during Miami our week and is they are great choices for the public for the locals to actually be part of the Miami a week without necessarily probably incurring to the expenses of the arer or the traffic and at the same time have the opportunity to be part of the of the assignement the museums for example example the peris AR Museum always has new shows new offerings and it's a great venue for people who wants to go and be part of it without being in the mainline without necessarily going to to Miami Beach also uh a local projects a local artist Cornelius tulo is going to have an installation and I'm looking forward Cornelius have had a great year he had had shows in New York you know have had some installations over here but I'm really looking forward to what he's going to do in at Locus because this is what Locus projects is known for like giving artists an opportunity to really stretch theel stretch their practice and and create something new I am very excited for a program that the city of Miami Beach put together called No Vacancy where basically they do an open call and commission 12 artists to do installations at u local uh hotels and then this is open to the public completely free and it gives the artists an opportunity to do an installation to show their work my name is Tia Carrington and I am the co-founder and executive director of commissioner some of the things that I'm most excited about is this artwork commission that we're doing with giovana Gonzalez we commissioned giovana in season 3 of commissioner um to do a performance and installation and she'll be bringing that back in an all new iteration called play a act 6 at Untitled art fair but it's going to be free and open to the public so imagine performance on The Sands of Miami Beach that really explore movement as a political act another initiative I'm very excited about is what's happening over at the historic Hampton house I mean this is one of the gems of Miami the last Hotel of the green book and I think more recently known for being featured in the film One Night in Miami where Sam Cook and Muhammad Ali um and Malcolm X come together to have that that Monumental conversation but they're going to be hosting range of programming including an exhibition with the collection of Beth D Woody uh they're going to be featuring a sculpture by Reginal O'Neal as well as an exhibition by Miami's own Jared McGriff some of the ways in which I like to plan my week is geographically because traffic is real so first of all I decide whether it's a day to be in Miami Beach or it's a day to Bey on the mainland the other thing that I like to do is really just focus on the artist I know and then I think about what are some of the events or some of the exhibitions I can see that I won't see any other time of year because this is a special time um to be able to catch a popup show or something more ephemeral so I like to try and do something very different I ask myself is it weird enough is it interesting enough am I going to like the vibe and that's how I do it I also like to stick to maybe only two to three things a day I know um there's this impetus to want to have it all but sometimes you just need to be present with the work and so I try and take that pressure off and really just kind of align with my values and step into the places I want to be there's also a lot of people and families and you know that live on the west side of the county that sometimes have a harder time preaching or accessing the cultural offerings so that's why it's so important also to balance a little bit the the offerings towards the the west side of the county of course on that side we have the frostar museum which is a a jewel of a museum and uh the Dural Contemporary Art Museum in terms of navigating the mainland um there's just so much going on between Miami base galleries so my uh trick is always to just input it in a map so I start with the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami which is going to be showing an incredible exhibition with Detroit based artist Jia Richards and then work my way down south and from there you can go to the galleries in Little Haiti maybe have a stop over at the historic Hampton House pass by the rubel collection come all the way back up for primary and spinello projects gradually end at new art dealers art fair the most important thing um about art week is to just be really curious and to remember that you belong in any space that you enter in so ask the questions um dive into the work stay present try and meet the artist if you can I think at best you come away from art week with new Rel relationships with new topics that you want to look further into maybe with a travel plan to go visit their the artist in a studio wherever they may live think it's a time to build on um friendship it's a time to immerse yourself in art and also a time to enjoy [Music] Miami