Opening Reception and Live Performances at The Betsy – South Beach: December 4
Just in time for Art Week Miami Beach 2025, The Betsy – South Beach unveils a brilliant new collection of photography that encompasses wide-ranging practices and purposes that extend far beyond merely pointing a camera and clicking the shutter. This collection (as well as some new mixed-media work) is realized through the inspired curation of the hotel’s co-owner and art curator Lesley Goldwasser within nine property-wide galleries.
The Art Week exhibitions capture the intensity of the world around us: past, present and future. Front and center is a major collection of works from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s legacy of “putting the world under wraps,” including historic images of the Biscayne Bay installation in Miami (1983), the Reichstag in Berlin (1995) and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (2021), all exclusively photographed in real time by Wolfgang Volz.
On Thursday, December 4, from 8-11 p.m., The Betsy’s opening event features the premiere of a commissioned piece by the Peter London Global Dance Company that explores themes of wrapping, unwrapping, temporality and transformation. As movements dissolve—one into another and then morph into a final still gesture—the entire dance becomes a mirror (and an echo) for the ephemeral nature of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work. Select artists from this year’s Art Week collection will be present at the event alongside Goldwasser. Guests are encouraged to enter The Betsy’s Gallery through 1433 Collins Ave.
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