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Behold The Annex: The Wolfsonian—Florida International University’s seldom-seen art storage, a portal through time.
Miami Art Week is here and we have a plan.
Kick-off Miami Art Week with élan at The Carter Project. Back by popular demand, let's celebrate each other and our community who show up for Miami all year round.
Join us for an intimate artist talk with Amani Lewis on the closing weekend of their breakthrough exhibition, CHAPTER 1, The Mind in Chaos Meets the God of Clarity, at Mindy Solomon Gallery.
Join us for a virtual masterclass with Magnus Resch, the celebrated author of How to Collect Art.
Recognized by CNN as "the world’s leading art market expert," Magnus will share his insights on art investment and elaborate on the inner workings of this $65+ billion industry. Together, we’ll delve into the market’s finer points by offering a distinct perspective on art collecting, and provide a preview of Commissioner’s Miami Art Week program, replete with tips for requesting fair passes and getting the most out of your experience. This event is ideal for both seasoned collectors and curious newcomers. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Get a free book! The first 20 members to register will receive a complimentary book of How to Collect Art by Magnus Resch, with an introduction by Pamela J. Joyner. Recipients will be notified this week and can pick up their copy at Antonia Wright’s artwork reveal on Saturday, November 16.
Register for the virtual masterclass here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information to join.
About the author: Magnus Resch, Ph.D., is a bestselling author and entrepreneur. With a Ph.D. in economics, he has studied at Harvard and lectures at Yale University. His career has been highlighted in a Harvard Business School case study. Magnus resides in New York City and Miami.
About the book: Navigating the world of collecting can be a tricky process, especially for those just starting out. The world’s leading art market expert, Magnus Resch, explains the core principles of the art market and reveals his secrets on how to build and grow an art collection.
He answers questions such as:
• What art should I invest in?
• Where do I start?
• Which gallery should I visit?
• How do I get VIP tickets for Art Basel?
• Where's the best place to sell my art?
• Is this price fair?
This book is a comprehensive guide for anyone interested in collecting art, novice or expert. Readers will learn:
• How the art market really works;
• How to navigate the art world;
• How to start and develop a sustainable collection strategy for every budget.
Featured alongside Magnus’s advice for collecting are quotes and case studies from esteemed art world professionals, including mega collectors Shelley and Philip Aarons, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jorge M. Pérez, Howard E. Rachofsky, and Komal Shah; museum directors Adam Weinberg and Heidi Zuckerman; art fair founder Touria El Glaoui; mega art dealers Marc Glimcher, Adam Lindemann, Jeffrey Deitch, and Simon de Pury; leading art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist; superstar art advisor Amy Cappellazzo; and artist Julian Schnabel. The book also features a foreword written by leading art collector Pamela Joyner.
This virtual engagement is generously supported by Art Moves.
Join us for the very first artwork unveiling of Season Seven with the exceptional Antonia Wright.
Laissez les bon temps rouler! Commissioner is heading to The Creole City for Prospect.6—an international and citywide art triennial.
Join us for an interactive workshop with Rafael Domenech on the opening weekend of his solo exhibition Prologue: Residual images in italic at the Andrew Reed Gallery in Allapattah.
Join us for happy hour at Sunny’s Steakhouse before hopping across the street to Primary for a private preview of artist Piero Penizzotto’s new solo exhibition.
Join us for Season Seven orientation, virtual edition, to learn how to get the most out of your membership and what you can expect throughout the year.
Let’s get to know each other over bubbles, water lilies, and a natural dye workshop with artist Diana Eusebio at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden.
We’re thrilled that Loni Johnson is the recipient of the fourth and final commission of Season Six. Born and raised in Miami, she’s an artist, educator, mother, and activist.
The weather can’t get us down. Join us for a snorkeling tour with Lauren Shapiro in Key largo, documented by a local lens-based artist.
Our partnership with University of Miami’s Center for Global Black Studies bookends the season in this all-day program of performance, screenings, and lectures.
By popular demand, we’re thrilled to offer a second snorkeling tour with Lauren Shapiro in Key largo, documented by a local lens-based artist.
Curated by Dejha Carrington, Everything is a Spiral is an invitation to reconsider our relationship with time and to speculate a wider spectrum of existence with 17 artists-in-residence at Oolite Arts in Miami Beach.
Get the most out of your visit to NADA NY 2024 with a curated tour by Commissioner and Komal Kehar.
Joel Gaitan is the third commissioned artist of Season Six. Coinciding with the artist’s solo exhibition En El Corazón Del Infierno, En Las Alturas Del Cielo at KDR, come out to celebrate all month.
Joel's practice is a profoundly personal exploration of his Nicaraguan ancestry and upbringing in Miami. A fused inspiration with a nod to his Central American heritage, his new works in the exhibit En El Corazón Del Infierno, En Las Alturas Del Cielo unfold across distinct chapters: Genesis, The Absolute, and Revelations. Here, Joel’s cross-cultural study challenges historical hierarchies, transcending boundaries and weaving narratives in every sculpture.
Join us for the unveiling event. We’re going full immersion in Joel’s world!
Bonus reading: Learn more about what’s happening in Allapattah with KDR, neighboring spaces, and our perspective in the Financial Times (Carolina Drake, November 2023).
Join textile-based artist and MOCA public programs' Lauren Baccus for a dynamic tour of Red Rooster's remarkable art collection during Women’s History Month.
Join us for a tutorial with Cristina Coronel and the team at I’ve Been Framed, and bring your questions and artwork for collective guidance and demonstrations.
We’re thrilled to commission Germane Barnes, our first-ever architect, whose interdisciplinary practice and research-based approach offers objects and collage as living artifacts of our time.
Join us in one of the world’s most electric cities during art fair week.
Hop on a rumba bus, but make it public art. For our first-ever tour on wheels, we’re partnering with multidisciplinary artist Naomi Fisher to spill the tea on the sites and stories of our city.
Free and open to everyone, GeoVanna Gonzalez’s PLAY, LAY, AYE: ACT 6, an installation performance, takes place in an all-new iteration on Friday, December 8 at 5–5:30 PM at Untitled Art on the sands of Miami Beach at Untitled Art during Miami Art Week.
Press pause, get outside, and explore Miami Beach's public artworks in a walking tour with Commissioner Cofounder Dejha Carrington.
Welcome to Commissioner’s guided tour of Miami Design District collection highlights. To ensure you have proper walking shoes for our journey, we’ve partnered with our friends at On to get you outfitted.
Miami Art Week can get a little crazy, but we have a plan for you. Enter your member code to access fair passes and daily programming curated just for you.
It’s with a spirit of radical imagination and exploration that we’re thrilled to announce Beatriz Monteavaro is the first commissioned artist of Commissioner Season Six.
Art loves books. Over the years, commissioned artists such as Michele Oka Doner, Lisa Leone, Anastasia Samoylova, and Philip Smith have fueled our passion for collecting the publications, written artifacts, and documents that illuminate their visual arts practice. This season, we’re officially partnering with the 40th Edition of the Miami Book Fair to highlight a series of artist authors and co-present curated member programming.
Reserve a one-day complimentary ticket to the Street Fair on November 18 or 19, available for pick up at the media table. Quantities are limited, so RSVP at your earliest.
To help you get started, here’s a list of our artful picks*. Events are open to all, first come, first served:
Saturday, November 18 at 12 PM
Building 8, First Floor, Magic Screening Room
Architecture & The African Diaspora: A Conversation
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is a call for architects to reconceive and reconstruct the built environment, changing the buildings, infrastructure, and urban plans that have embodied and sustained anti-Black racism in the United States. The book, which includes a broad range of essays by curators and prominent scholars from diverse fields – including architect Germane Barnes and artist Olalekan Jeyifous – is a "field guide" to the 2021 exhibition of the same name at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Sunday, November 19 at 12 PM
Building 8, First Floor, Magic Screening Room
Guardian Of Nature: Michele Oka Doner*
Michele Oka Doner, Season Five Artist, has an expansive body of work. Her permanent art installations include Radiant Site at New York City's Herald Square 34th Street subway station and A Walk on the Beach, the mile-and-a-quarter-long bronze terrazzo concourse at Miami International Airport. Her work is also part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, among others. A Seed Takes Root: A True Story describes a decades-long relationship between Doner and a banyan tree that began when she was a young girl.
Sunday, November 19 at 1 PM
Building 8, Second Floor, Room 8202
Artists Look Back: On Exile & Displacement
In Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, Edel Rodriguez tells the story of a Cold War childhood, an exiled family’s displacement, and a tenacious longing for those left behind. In Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair, ROSA LOWINGER chronicles her Cuban Jewish family’s intergenerational trauma in a story about repair and healing that will change how you see the places we cherish.
Sunday, November 19 at 4 PM
Building 8, First Floor, Magic Screening Room
On Photography: Portraits Of Now*
Anastasia Samoylova: Image Cities is the Miami-based photographer’s latest series of images captured in urban environments across the world. She observes how, in our neoliberal era of networked economic markets and networked imagery, the global centers of money and culture are becoming increasingly aligned and similar.
*Featuring Commissioner artists
*The schedule is subject to change. Please visit the Miami Book Fair website for the most up to date information.
Image Credit: New York Times, The Miami Book Fair International in 1987. The caption reads, “Organizers sought from the start to attract big names; this year over 500 writers are expected to attend.”
A delightful mystery group date where anticipation builds until the last minute.
Join us for Season Six orientation to learn how to get the most out of your membership, why the program exists and what you can expect throughout the year.
