An architectural masterpiece in Miami Beach: take the tour

On the waterfront in Miami Beach is a new a few-tale dwelling that is presently producing its mark. 

The dream retirement house, overlooking Biscayne Bay with stunning skyline views of downtown Miami, was inspired by the iconic, mid-century modern-day Stahl House in Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, California, which attributes a minimalist glance with expanses of glass, exposed concrete and a cantilevering roof.  

New Art Bank Exhibit at the Annenberg Community Beach House

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Quit by the Annenberg Community Seashore Dwelling for Artwork Financial institution: Picked Is effective from the Town of Santa Monica Art Collection and see pieces by standout artists from Southern California and additional afield. Paintings, prints, images, and sculpture sign up for general public art project maquettes and preparatory drawings for an eclectic mixture of model and subject. The Art Lender municipal art assortment was instituted in 1984 to provide artwork into Santa Monica’s general public spaces, and is funded via the Town of Santa Monica’s Percent for Artwork Method.

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Ali Acerol – It Is, 1993 &#13

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Robin Brailsford – Maquette for River of Lifestyle: Garibaldi, 2013 &#13

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Roberto Chavez- Musicians, 1992 &#13

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Kai Bob Cheng – Sealife, 1985 &#13

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John Divola – Traveling/Slipping, 1984 &#13

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Eugenia Zink Everett – Untitled, c 1930s &#13

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Anthony Friedkin – Gibson Frazier, Buffalo Nights Theatre Organization Dressing Room, Powerhouse Theatre, 2002 &#13

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Charles Garabedian – Phrasius, Thrasius, or Thaisus, 1994 &#13

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Helen & Newton Harrison – Proposal Drawing for California Wash, A Memorial, 1996 &#13

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Ernst Hesse – 3 Ladies, Santa Monica, 1989 &#13

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Tom Jenkins – Maquette for Roadster: NES Park proposal, 1984 &#13

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Margaret Lazzari & Lauren Evans – Maquette for Exuberant Birds, 2014 &#13

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Linda Lopez – La Mano Poderosa, 1997 &#13

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Ed Moses – Q-UBO-T, 2001 &#13

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Roland Reiss – Blue Moon, 1992 &#13

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John Hubbard Wealthy – Juan and José, 1933 &#13

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Ilene Segalove – T.V. Rerun – Pass up America, 1987 &#13

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Norman H. Yeckley – Adobe La Cañon, 1941 &#13

The Beach Dwelling Gallery is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. just about every working day several hours are subject matter to modify, connect with ahead to (310) 458-4904 to confirm. For more data, visit annenbergbeachhouse.com. This exhibit is made attainable with assistance from Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, Increase @ Annenberg.

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Daytona’s North Beach Street is moving toward a traffic lane reduction

DAYTONA BEACH — In about three years, the stretch of Beach Street involving Bay Avenue and the Most important Avenue bridge is going to search a whole lot like the newly refurbished segment of the highway south of Intercontinental Speedway Boulevard.

At their conference Wednesday night time, metropolis commissioners decided they want to increase a landscaped median down the middle of that space of North Seaside Street, cut down visitors lanes from four to two, manage on-avenue parking, widen sidewalks and increase benches.

On the eastern stop of Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard involving Ridgewood Avenue and Seashore Street, commissioners want to widen sidewalks to 11 feet and insert new trees. The choice they turned down was to build new five-foot-large sidewalks and include things like new parallel parking.

Daytona Beach city commissioners have at least temporarily shelved the idea of adding a roundabout at the intersection of Beach Street and Fairview Avenue. The roundabout was proposed to be part of a roughly $8 million improvement project on Beach Street that will begin at Bay Street and include the eastern end of Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard. But on Wednesday night commissioners agreed to leave the roundabout out of that road project and consider it in the future.

A majority of commissioners were all set to instruct the roadway designer to leave the median out of the plans for that extend of Beach front Road and develop parking to build an additional 85 on-street angled spaces in that space. But previous-minute pleas from a several local residents certain commissioners to adjust training course.

“Aesthetically, the street will look so much greater with medians all the way to Fairview,” reported beachside resident Anne Ruby. 

Four Arts exhibit in Palm Beach celebrates fiber arts

"Millefleur" by artist Kirsten Hassenfeld is included in the exhibit "A Beautiful Mess: Weavers and Knotters of the Vanguard."

It is a single of the oldest forms of artistic creativity in the world, dating back to the Neolithic period, but a modern interpretation of weaving and textile art is on show now at The Culture of the 4 Arts.

“A Lovely Mess: Weavers and Knotters of the Vanguard” is a modern day textile exhibition structured by the Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, Calif.

The 4 Arts is hosting the show’s debut as a traveling exhibition and an accompanying show, ”Speaking Threads: Dialogues with Weavers and Knotters,” featuring artists from the Fiber Artists-Miami Association. The displays run via Jan. 30. 

“A Wonderful Mess” features 19 is effective, including wall-hangings, gallery installations and monumental pieces from an all-female roster of conceptual artists that use twisted, tied and braided will work manufactured from tactile and utilitarian materials such as rope, yarn, clay and wire. 

Watercrest Myrtle Beach Assisted Living and Memory Care Honored for Outstanding Creative Landscape Design by the City of Myrtle Beach

The exterior landscaping of Watercrest Myrtle Beach boasts a PGA-worthy putting green with purposeful awnings for shade, and individual gardening stations to appeal to horticulturists and nature lovers alike. The illuminated walking paths are surrounded by lush lawns and interwoven amongst rock-scaped ponds and gorgeous arbors to create destinations and relaxing gathering spaces.

“It’s a great honor to be recognized by the City of Myrtle Beach for the exceptional landscape design and aesthetics at our newly-constructed Watercrest Myrtle Beach community,” says Jeremy Cairns, Vice President of Construction Management for Watercrest Senior Living Group. “We are grateful to all of our partners for their hard work, particularly to Gregory Duckworth with Environmental Concepts for our award-winning landscape design.”

Ideally located at 6151 Colline Verdi Way, Watercrest Myrtle Beach is a 98-unit, luxury senior living campus comprised of 76 assisted living and 22 memory care residences with resort-style amenities and exceptional care.  The comfortably, classy design includes a stunning promenade, fireplace, signature water wall, cigar and scotch lounge, multiple dining venues, Southern style outdoor living spaces, Art Studio and Gallery, and the coveted Spa W. The community offers residents world-class wellness amenities including a resort-style pool, light and salt therapy, state-of-the-art fitness and physical therapy center, beautifully landscaped walking paths, therapeutic live moss walls and a putting green.

Watercrest Myrtle Beach will be open for tours and holiday festivities as the team prepares for the arrival of future residents. The community is hosting a Christmas Jubilee on December 16th with lunch served at 12pm. Reservations are requested, please contact the community at 843.936.4020.

With multiple senior living projects in development throughout the southeast, Watercrest Senior Living Group is setting new standards of quality for seniors and their families in the development of upscale senior living communities.  Watercrest Myrtle Beach is one of two senior living development projects partnered between Watercrest, Corecam Capital Partners, and Peninsula Alternative Real Estate.

About Watercrest Senior Living Group
Watercrest Senior Living Group was founded to honor our mothers and fathers, aspiring to become a beacon for quality in senior living by surpassing standards of care, service and associate training. Watercrest communities are recognized for their luxury aesthetic, exceptional amenities, world-class care, and innovative memory care programming offering unparalleled service to seniors living with Alzheimer’s and dementia. A certified Great Place to Work, Watercrest specializes in the development and operations of assisted living and memory care communities and the growth of servant leaders.  For information, visit www.watercrestseniorliving.com.

About Corecam Capital Partners
Corecam Capital Partners is a Direct Investments Platform focused on Private Equity, Real Estate and Venture Capital. Corecam Capital Partners targets private investment opportunities alongside its investors and provides access to its proprietary deal sourcing. All investments are structured in-house by a team of investment professionals located in Zurich, Vienna, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City.

About Peninsula Alternative Real Estate
Peninsula Alternative Real Estate (“PARE”) is a leading private equity firm in the Student & Senior housing space and a vertical within Peninsula Investments Group. PARE provides equity and mezzanine financing to leading developer-operators in the student housing, senior housing, and multifamily space following institutional quality processes developed over the last decade.

SOURCE Watercrest Senior Living Group

Art Basel Miami Beach Returns, Smaller but Ready to Party

MIAMI BEACH — It’s back. Canceled last year because of Covid-19, the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair returns next week, unfolding throughout the area. Beginning on Tuesday with invitation-only hours, and open to the public Thursday through Saturday, it will feature 253 galleries exhibiting work inside the city’s Convention Center, as well as a dizzying number of accompanying satellite art fairs, pop-up shows, and celebrity-studded private dinners.

It’s a sprawling cultural circus that has come to be called “Miami Art Week,” complete with corporate branding exercises, from a sculptural forest by the stage designer Es Devlin (commissioned by a Chanel fragrance) to a “Yacht the Basel” fete hosted by the snack food Cheetos, with “dynamic original art pieces created from Cheetos’ iconic orange dust.”

The return of Basel’s Miami fair couldn’t have come soon enough for the gallerists about to converge on Florida from around the globe. While contemporary art auctions are once again smashing records, overall gallery sales remain sluggish. A midyear Art Basel and UBS report by the economist Dr. Clare McAndrew found that nearly half of the 700 surveyed dealers saw a continued decline in sales during the first six months of 2021. Mega-dealers like Larry Gagosian and David Zwirner, with blue-chip rosters and multiple outposts, were rebounding quickly, the report said. But many smaller dealers, who had relied on Art Basel to develop new clients and introduce emerging talents, had been struggling.

Marc Spiegler, Art Basel’s global director, can pinpoint the moment when Miami’s revived art frenzy took off: Sept. 20, when the U.S. government said it would lift the Covid travel ban on most visitors from Europe and Asia in November, thus making the Miami fair the first truly international one in the U.S. since the pandemic’s start.

Spiegler’s phone immediately began burning up with messages from dealers who had previously passed on participating: “By the end of that week more than 30 galleries ‘uncancelled,’” he said, noting that despite all the grousing over “fair fatigue,” there was still no digital substitute for buying and selling art in the flesh. Nearly half the fair’s exhibitors will now be arriving from overseas and Latin America. “I’ve read all the predictions that art fairs were finished, that nobody was going to travel anymore,” Spiegler continued. “We have a show only marginally smaller than the one in 2019.”

This is no doubt a relief for Art Basel’s owners, the Swiss MCH Group, whose stockholder reports show they have lost more than $109 million since the pandemic’s start. Yet if the Miami fair’s return is reason for MCH to cheer, the future of its other two art fairs — Art Basel Hong Kong, scheduled for March 2022, and the flagship Art Basel in Switzerland, scheduled for June 2022 — remains uncertain. Even setting aside the growing wave of government repression and censorship in Hong Kong, there is a mandatory quarantine of up to three weeks for visitors entering the city. Come March, if that quarantine remains, Spiegler said it’s hard to imagine a full-fledged Basel fair happening. And with Covid infections surging again across Europe, sparking new lockdowns, it’s anyone’s guess what June will bring.

These potential losses in revenue for Art Basel make the smooth execution of the Miami fair all the more crucial. To avoid crowding, entry tickets are now timed and proof of a Covid vaccination or a recent negative test is required, as is the wearing of masks. These protocols may seem familiar — and reassuring — to visitors from New York or Los Angeles, but they’re almost nonexistent throughout Miami. Local officials have found themselves overruled on mask mandates by the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, who has tried to make himself the face of Republican opposition to Biden administration virus policies. For Spiegler, however, the subject isn’t open to debate.

“When you bring together thousands of people from all over the world, wearing masks is the only thing that makes sense,” he said. And if a fair attendee, say, a billionaire art collector, refused to comply with the mask mandate? Would Basel’s security physically eject them from the Convention Center? “That’s what it means to have a mask mandate,” Spiegler answered firmly.

Beyond Art Basel, the mood within Miami’s year-round art scene is anything but tentative. Superblue, a joint venture of the heavyweight Pace gallery and Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, opened this past spring inside a 50,000-square-foot renovated warehouse in the Allapattah neighborhood. Meanwhile, Fotografiska, the privately owned global string of photography museums, has announced that it is moving into the 42,000-square-foot warehouse right across the street, next door to the Rubell Museum, with its David Rockwell-designed building set to open in 2023.

And in the city’s pre-eminent galleries, business is strong. At the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, the director, Joshua Veasey, said things are as busy now as at any point during his six-year tenure there. He credits the established collectors who fled cities up north or out west, riding out the coronavirus in their new Miami residences, who began visiting the gallery for the first time.

“After being stuck inside for so long, there was a lot of redecorating,” Veasey quipped. “These are the problems of the wealthy.” Yet the fresh faces at the gallery didn’t emerge out of Miami’s newly arrived “tech bros,” from the aspiring new media mogul Bryan Goldberg to the PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who have relocated here amid a wave of Silicon Valley cheerleading from the city’s mayor. New lower-key clients come with the more typical collector backgrounds of finance and real estate development.

What has trickled down from the tech industry is the love of all things NFT. Art Week hosts a bewildering array of NFT-themed gatherings, including the daylong NFT.BZL conference, featuring a bulging roster of NFT artists, tech figures, and both the city and county mayors. One of the many new NFT marketplaces, SuperRare, has even enlisted the engineers at SuperWorld to install 20 3-D sculptures throughout Art Basel’s Convention Center, viewable there only on their app — a novel way to get in front of influential eyeballs while sidestepping the fair’s curatorial committees and the roughly $60,000 (and up) booth fee.

“I was skeptical at first, I wanted to see if NFTs would have more than five minutes of life,” conceded the Miami multimedia artist Carlos Betancourt, one of the few established local talents to have embraced the new blockchain-based medium. He said the key to his comfort was finding a platform, Aorist, with a curator, Ximena Caminos, who was already a longtime supporter of his work. That, and Aorist’s willingness to produce a real-life version of his seen-only-on-a-screen NFT piece “What Lies Beneath,” which spotlights global warming’s rapid melting of the polar ice caps. The result, whose sale will benefit a local underwater sculpture park, is a pair of faux icebergs — one of which is 20 feet high and 30 feet wide, wrapped in collages of Sven-Olof Lindblad’s photos of actual icebergs, and set afloat in the oceanfront pool of Miami Beach’s Faena Hotel.

While room rates at the Faena — starting at $3,300 a night, $5,500 for an ocean view — may limit the audience for “What Lies Beneath,” it’ll still be hard to avoid seeing Betancourt’s artwork and its varied styles around Miami next week. “Into The Everglades,” his animated silhouettes of Florida wildlife, will lope nightly across the side of downtown’s 35-story-high InterContinental Miami hotel; “Milagro!,” a 38-foot-long string of 245 handcrafted charms, commissioned by the city of Miami Beach, will hang across a busy city boulevard; and two of his photos — homoerotic portraits of both himself and his longtime partner and collaborator, the architect Alberto Latorre — will be featured in a group show, “Skin in the Game,” inside a Beach storefront.

His ubiquity, Betancourt said, is proof that Miami’s museums and collectors alike have finally embraced the city’s own artists, prodded by Art Basel’s attention to made-in-Miami work. “People had an inferiority complex here for many years,” he continued, recalling his arrival from Puerto Rico as a teenager in 1980, discovering an art scene that too often looked elsewhere for direction. The shift is evident next week as local institutions proudly exhibit work steeped in Miami’s social fabric.

For starters, Anastasia Samoylova’s “FloodZone” photos at the HistoryMiami museum capture an often surreal visual interplay of flora, fauna, and crumbling concrete; Gary Monroe’s “Refuseniks” photographs at Florida International University’s Miami Beach Urban Studios offer a poignant study of early ’80s Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union rebuilding new lives in a then-unraveling South Beach; and Jared McGriff’s otherworldly paintings at the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale depict visions of Black life that are simultaneously troubled and stirringly gorgeous.

This seriously minded artwork is being presented within the context of a tropical weeklong party. If that seems contradictory, Betancourt believes that embracing that contradiction is precisely what has made Miami finally come into its own as an art city: “We enjoy the party and that manifests itself in our work,” he said. “That’s what Miami brings to the equation — we do it all unapologetically.”