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Art review: Check out these two smaller venues’ new digs and new shows
M P Landis, “mp13.14” Photograph by Gary Lowell There are several well-recognised artwork venues in Portland that surface regularly in this column. But lesser, quieter venues off the crushed route are also truly worth in search of out. Two of individuals have been all around for a although, but have new sorts. Ocean Household Gallery & Body, operated out of Cape Elizabeth for many decades, has just relocated to an interesting new – and a lot greater – place in the Knightville neighborhood of South Portland. Proprietor Graham Wooden is showing “M P Landis – close to, about” via May perhaps 14. Mayo Street Arts closed prior to the pandemic…
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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…