South Florida Sun-Sentinel Palm Beach (Sunday)
Art fairs return to West Palm Beach
Not to be outdone by Fort Lauderdale’s bounty of art gatherings this January, West Palm Beach has entered the post-Art Basel season boasting a pair of contemporary-art fairs.
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (returning Jan. 10-13) and ArtPalmBeach (Jan. 16-20) will both take place near downtown.
Here’s everything you need to know about West Palm Beach’s biggest art fairs:
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary
5-9 p.m. Jan. 10 (VIP preview), 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Jan. 11-12 and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Jan. 13 at the pavilion, 825 S. Dixie Highway and Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; $20-$30, $55 for festival pass, $150 for VIP; 800-376-5850 or ArtPBFair.com
Paintings by Andy Warhol and Marc Chagall, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein top the contemporary-art bill at this third-annual fair from Nick Korniloff, the art-fair mogul behind Miami Art Week’s Art Miami, Context and Aqua tents.
They ’ll all cram into a 65,000-square-foot white tent perched on the corner of Okeechobee Boulevard and South Dixie Highway, joining 60 international art galleries. Noteworthy are 30 new glass works by 85-year-old master glassblower Lino Tagliapietra, known for his colorful abstract forms. There will also be a Nick Korniloffcurated exhibit of donated works to benefit the Joe Namath Foundation, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Namath’s Super Bowl III victory with the New York Jets at Miami’s Orange Bowl on Jan. 12, 1969. (The Hall of Fame quarterback lives nearby in Tequesta.)
Free trolleys will transport passengers every 30 minutes from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Jan. 11-13 between the fair and the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens (253 Barcelona Road, West Palm Beach), which offers two new exhibits: “Contours in Metal: Sculpture by Gino Miles” and “Murano Mosaics: Persistence and Evolution.”
ArtPalmBeach
6-10 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16 (VIP preview), noon-7 p.m. Jan. 17-19 and noon-6 p.m. Jan. 20 at Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; $8-$15, $20 at the door; 305 -490-4584 or NextLevelFairs.com/ArtPalm-
The creation of art-fair power couple David and Lee Ann Lester, this 22nd-annual fair will feature 75 local and international galleries, up from 60 last year. If the names sound familiar, it’s because the Lesters’ company, Next Level Fairs, has delivered multiple air-conditioned tents to Art Basel week over the years, along with programming ArtBocaRaton every March in Mizner Park.
New to ArtPalmBeach will be FLOW, a pavilion housing video installations and animation art, with pieces from collector Elayne Mordes of WhiteSpace Collection in West Palm Beach. Highlights include “Tow With the Flow,” in which performance artist Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen covers her body in mud to explore issues of “over-consumption in the Western World,” and “The F Word,” which probes “fourth-wave feminism” through interviews with artists who use their bodies as subject matter.
Also on tap is DESIGN, another ArtPalmBeach pavilion, showcasing Scandinavian artists such as Nina Nørgaard, Christian Brunn, Vera Kulju and their works, which include Nordic jewelry, furniture, décor and glass.