The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is pleased to announce the 9th annual NADA Miami Beach on December 1st through December 4th at the Deauville Beach Resort (6701 Collins Ave) in its expansive Napoleon, Richelieu, and Le Jardin Ballrooms. NADA Miami Beach is recognized as the preeminent fair featuring the world’s most significant emerging art galleries from over 30 cities worldwide. The fair is prominently recognized for celebrating new and innovative contemporary art from rising talents around the globe.
NADA will also present a new roster of NADA Projects – a program developed to showcase new, innovative and idiosyncratic projects. These economically sized booths will allow pioneering young galleries and non-profits to join more established galleries in NADA’s survey of the most distinguished voices in contemporary art today.
Happening at NADA Miami Beach 2011
Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency
For this year’s NADA fair, Ox-Bow commissioned collaborative artists, Jonas Sebura and Alex Gartelmann, to build a cabin that will be installed in the lobby of the Deauville Beach Resort. While not an exact replica of a particular cabin, this structure borrows its vernacular from the artist-designed and built architecture prevalent throughout Ox-Bow’s 101-year-old campus. As a stand-in for the retreat-style residency within the fair, this cabin will host Bad at Sports as its resident artists. Bad at Sports is a weekly podcast, a series of objects, events, and a daily blog produced in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and New York City that features artists and “art worlders” who discuss art and its community. During their residency at NADA they will broadcast a pirate radio station throughout Miami and online with live interviews and recorded episodes. This three-part collaboration between Ox-Bow, Sebura and Gartelmann, and Bad at Sports, exemplifies how Ox-Bow is a site for collaboration, dialogue and exchange.
Paddle8 Study curated by Phaidon Press
Paddle8 is proud to bring NADA Miami Beach online. A special preview for Paddle8 members begins Friday November 25 — a week before the fair – at Paddle8.com, and works from participating exhibitors will be available on the site through December 11. Users may virtually explore and collect artworks from the booths at NADA Miami Beach as well as exclusive online-only artworks beyond the fair offerings at www.paddle8.com/artfairs during the aforementioned dates.
On location at NADA Miami Beach, the Paddle8 Study curated by Phaidon Press will welcome visitors to browse and collect exhibitor offerings on Paddle8.com and peruse select Phaidon titles inspired by the galleries and projects at NADA, including new releases Defining Contemporary Art, The Art Museum and Vitamin P2. Visitors may register on-site to win a special edition artist print courtesy of Paddle8.
To become a Paddle8 member and visit NADA Miami Beach online, register at www.paddle8.com/user/register/
Hennessey Youngman Presents: His History of Art
Live at NADA Miami Beach, Thursday, Dec 1 at 5pm
This year, NADA Miami Beach features a lecture by artist, Hennessey Youngman, located in the Deauville Beach Resort. Youngman provides description of the lecture:
What is Art? Where does Art come from? Why do humans need it? Maybe we don’t. I mean, we probably don’t, yet still mankind has produced objects of contemplation for aeons. Ever since the first caveman bested his first saber tooth on the plains of Eurasia and needed some token to show off his interspecies dominance, he unknowingly initiated the creation of Art, which ever since, has been tethered to human existence. But how did Art go from tokens of survival to an unending line at the MoMA so we can be stared down by a 60-year-old woman in Jedi robes?
Sadly, no such dedicated individual presented themselves before the task so Hennessy Youngman, self-proclaimed YIBA (Young Internet Based Artist), cultural theorist and the lone talking head behind the internet program ART THOUGHTZ, decided to take it upon himself to trace those historical dots until they formed something coherent enough to be considered a thematic constellation. And what might that constellation look like: well, it’s a lecture entitled His History of Art, of which the first installment will be called, The Caveman Times to the Bible Days.”
New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and Grolsch present SwingArt Award 2011 winner Jiae Hwang/Grolsch Happy Hour – Thursday, Dec 1 from 4pm to 7pm:
The SwingArt Award commissions an artwork from a living artist to grace a limited edition collectible bottle. 1,615 bottles will be signed by the artist and gifted to NADA Miami Beach opening preview guests on December 1, 2011, in honor of the founding of the Grolsch Brewery.
Open to the Public:
Thursday, Dec 1; 2pm to 8pm
Friday, Dec 2; 11am to 8pm
Saturday, Dec 3; 11am to 8pm
Sunday, Dec 4; 11am to 5pm
Opening Preview:
Thursday, December 1: 10am-2pm
By Special Invitation
Admission:
Daily admission will remain free and open to the public.
Location and Transportation:
Deauville Beach Resort, Collins Avenue & 67th Street, Miami Beach
The Deauville is 10 min North by car or taxi from the Miami Beach Convention Center. There is a taxi stand immediately outside the venue, average fare to Collins Park/Convention Center is $15-$20.
Free shuttles will run each day of the fair, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday beginning at 10:30am. Shuttles will be running between the NADA Art Fair (67th/Collins) and the Convention Center (17th/Washington).
2011 Sponsors/Partners:
Perrier, Sonos, Paddle8, Phaidon Press, Grolsch, Intelligentsia, Renwick Fine Art Services, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA).
New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a not for profit organization dedicated to lending support and encouragement to those who work with new contemporary and emerging art. NADA members include galleries, gallery directors, non-profit art spaces, art advisors, curators, writers, museum and other art professionals from around the world. To date, NADA has succeeded on two fronts: making the contemporary arts more accessible for the general public, and creating opportunities that nurture the growth of emerging artists, curators, and galleries.