Art Basel Miami Beach/Miami Art Week 2022: Survival-guide cheat sheet for best art and music events, parking - South Florida Sun Sentinel

A grounds 282 creation galleries volition descend connected the Miami Beach Convention Center for the 20th day of Art Basel Miami Beach, returning Dec. 1-3. But here’s the brutal truth: Art lovers are amended disconnected avoiding that contemporary-art tornado similar the plague.

The constellation of 14 outer fairs and pop-ups orbiting Art Basel — collectively known arsenic Miami Art Week — is simply much fun, much soul-nourishing and somewhat farther from the feeding frenzy of millionaire creation collectors.

The champion proposal to shrewdly navigate Miami Art Week? Take a cheat expanse with you — this one, for example. Here we’ve laid retired what you should cognize astir parking and avoiding the highways and — astir importantly — however to skip Art Basel itself and inactive person a large time.

Heading to Miami Beach? The biggest postulation headaches are interstates 195 and 395, truthful instrumentality the less-crowded Venetian Causeway.

The remainder of Miami: Travel during off-peak hours (never Monday-Friday unreserved hr oregon weekends) to debar much stress. Don’t exit I-395 astatine North Miami Avenue, often clogged with tourists trying to scope Midtown, Wynwood and the Design District, but alternatively instrumentality Federal Highway.

If driving by car: You’ll regret it immediately, since navigating and parking tin beryllium tricky erstwhile fractional of known civilization has descended connected the area. In Miami Beach, you whitethorn get fortunate astatine the 1,460-space 17th Street Garage ($2 an hr for archetypal 4 hours; $15 each day) crossed the thoroughfare from The Fillmore Miami Beach (1700 Washington Ave.) Don’t hide to get early, though. In downtown Miami, effort the Omni Center store (1645 Biscayne Blvd.; $25 each day) oregon the Pérez Art Museum Miami garage (1103 Biscayne Blvd.; $15 level fee, oregon $11 if you’re a PAMM member).

Need escaped rides? Uber and Lyft are notorious for surge pricing, particularly during weekends, truthful consider the escaped Metromover (5 a.m. to midnight Monday done Sunday), which loops astir downtown Miami and hits the Arsht Center for the Performingn Arts, PAMM and the Frost Museum of Science. A free Miami Beach trolley volition tally from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday done Sunday, with stops each 20 minutes linking Midtown and Wynwood to the normal center.

Use aboveground tons and thoroughfare meters: For painless parking successful Wynwood, Miami Beach and beyond, download the Miami Parking Authority’s Pay by Phone app. After parking, motorboat the app, punch successful the determination fig and duration, and you’re done.

“Patria y Vida,” a metallic mound of 25 achromatic crowd-control barricades from show artists Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares, is portion of "No Vacancy, Miami Beach," a juried creation amusement with works popping up astatine 12 hotels. (Ruben Millares / )

Through Dec. 8 astatine assorted locations successful Miami Beach; free; MBArtsandCulture.org/no-vacancy/

Put this successful the class of “Art I Would Visit If I Had Unlimited Energy and Ubers.” Twelve artists make impermanent site-specific works astatine 12 iconic Miami Beach hotels — each apt to beryllium stuffed with tourists — during the 3rd yearly “No Vacancy” creation show. Participating hotels see Loews, Avalon, The Betsy, Faena and Fontainebleau. For those who aren’t keen connected hopscotching from 1 edifice to the adjacent for the afloat experience, present are 2 highlights: Piled connected the sands down the Faena is “Patria y Vida,” a metallic mound of 25 achromatic crowd-control barricades, which performance artists Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares accidental are a connection astir the public’s close to peacefully protest. At Esmé Miami Beach, meanwhile, there’s Beatriz Chachamovits’ “Carcass,” a sculpture postulation of bleached elkhorn, staghorn, encephalon and different endangered corals threatened by water contamination and coral harvesting successful Florida. Visitors whitethorn ballot for their favorites here, and 2 winners — to beryllium announced connected Dec. 8 — volition person a $10,000 Public Prize by the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau and a $25,000 Juried Prize awarded by a section jury.

Superblue Miami volition big the virtual reality-meets-food lawsuit Superblue and Meta Open Arts contiguous Aerobanquets RMX from Nov. 28 done Dec. 4. (Superblue Miami / )

Nov. 28-Dec. 4 astatine Superblue Miami, 1101 NW 23rd St.; $58 for 5 bites, $200 for 10 bites; Superblue.com/aero

Yes, the name’s a mouthful, but truthful is the cuisine. Billed arsenic an “immersive gastronomy experience,” guests don virtual-reality helmets portion sampling bites created by James Beard Award-winning cook Chintan Pandya (New York restaurants Semma, Dhamaka and Adda). As visitors eat, the programme from integer creator Mattia Casalegno translates those flavors and textures utilizing surreal virtual scenes. The pairing is inspired by F.T. Marinetti’s 1932 work, “The Futurist Cookbook,” which predicted, astatine the time, that aboriginal eating experiences would beryllium utopian and propulsion diners toward higher levels of consciousness. If each this sounds similar mystical woo-woo, the pedigree of the artists is not. Bravo “Top Chef” justice Gail Simmons “narrates” the experience, scored to an archetypal soundtrack by instrumentalist Martux_M.

4 p.m.-3 a.m. Dec. 1-2 and noon-3 a.m. Dec. 3-4 astatine Wynwood Marketplace, 2250 NW Second Ave., Miami; escaped admission; RSVP via Eventbrite.com for escaped drink; HiveWynwood.com

This cocktail-fueled performance venue, creation lounge and nutrient colony pop-up is ever a sensory overload, particularly for visitors who similar erstwhile unrecorded graffiti happens conveniently adjacent to a bar. The four-day escaped shindig volition see the Basel House Mural Festival, successful which artists overgarment connected 20-foot shipping containers scattered astir the site. Meanwhile, determination volition beryllium BMX skateboarding and DJs spinning euphony astatine thedeck, a adjacent dayclub and nightclub. Finally, a nighttime marketplace of section vendors volition sling apparel and jewelry alongside nutrient trucks.

Dec. 2-5 astatine aggregate Miami Beach and downtown Miami venues; free-$75, $300-$350 VIP, Filmgate.Miami/09

This ninth-annual bash is each astir integer creation and embracing the metaverse (aka Mark Zuckerberg’s existent obsession), fundamentally an interactive satellite the nationalist accesses utilizing virtual-reality headsets. The festival is simply a four-day blitz of virtual-reality screenings, unrecorded music, creation performances, filmmaking how-tos and interactive workshops. On the lobby partition of the Frost Science Museum, for example, there’s a integer sculpture that generates random waterfall patterns cascading with superb colors. Meanwhile, a Stiltsville Boat Tour volition depart from Bayside Marketplace connected Dec. 5, with guests onboard donning VR headsets and watching “Stiltsville VR,” a abbreviated movie astir a lensman time-traveling done 100 years of the famed wood stilt houses connected the borderline of Biscayne Bay.

An representation from Miami lensman Barry Fellman’s coffee-table publication “Miami Creative: A Decade of Transformation.” (Barry Fellman / Courtesy)

Through March 15, 2023, astatine Center for Visual Communication, 541 NW 27th St., Miami; free, but visitors indispensable RSVP via Eventbrite.com for creator meet-and-greets

This radical accumulation unites caller works by 15 section modern artists, specified arsenic Edouard Duval-Carrié, Gustavo Oviedo, Carlos Betancourt and Mira Lehr. They’ll beryllium paired with a motorboat enactment for “Miami Creative: A Decade of Transformation,” Miami lensman Barry Fellman’s coffee-table publication featuring essays and 200 images that seizure the region’s surging arts country implicit the past decade. The venue volition big creator meet-and-greets from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2.

In cherry-picking the champion Miami Art Week gatherings, people we avoided — arsenic should you — astir thing with “NFT” successful the title. Runners-up see a photograph accumulation marking the 30th day reissue of Madonna’s post-feminist publication “Sex” astatine Saint Laurent successful Miami’s Design District (Nov. 29-Dec. 4; free), wherever immoderate signed copies volition beryllium auctioned disconnected to payment Madge’s Raising Malawi charity.

Another is “@rt By Chimps,” a show of abstract paintings by the talented primates of Save the Chimps, a 150-acre refuge successful Fort Pierce, which volition plaything into New World Center successful Miami Beach (7-11 p.m. Nov. 30; $250).

"@rt By Chimps,” a show of abstract paintings by the talented primates of Save the Chimps, is acceptable to instrumentality spot Nov. 30 astatine New World Center successful Miami Beach. (Save the Chimps / )

7 p.m.-1 a.m. Dec. 1 astatine MAPS Backlot, 301 NW 23rd St., Miami; escaped with RSVP astatine ultra-courtside-miami.rsvpify.com/

21 Savage, the Grammy-winning, British-born Atlanta rapper who 3 years agone made headlines for his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, volition execute a acceptable with the Miami Heat’s DJ Irie. The juncture is the merchandise of the beermaker’s 2022-23 Michelob ULTRA NBA Team Cans, and the lawsuit is besides expected to diagnostic appearances by NBA legends Alonzo Mourning and Gary Payton, WNBA prima Nneka Ogwumike, and NBA skills trainer Chris Brickley. Admission is escaped but get early, arsenic it is first-come, first-served.

Doors unfastened 6 p.m. Dec. 1-4 astatine Skatebird Miami, 533 NE 83rd St., Miami; $30-$125 via Tixr.com; LegendsOnly.Live

A four-day creation and euphony celebration, Legends Only volition diagnostic unrecorded graffiti paired with aggregate hip-hop and reggae acts, including Jadakiss (Dec. 1), Curren$y with Smoke DZA (Dec. 2), Westside Gunn (Dec. 3) and Inner Circle, Ky-Mani Marley, Maffio, Kulcha Shok and Dubwise (Dec. 4).

Doors unfastened 5 p.m. Dec. 1-4 astatine Wynwood Marketplace, 2250 NW Second Ave., Miami; $105 for festival walk via Dice.fm

Nightclub icon Club Space precocious unopen down its Little River outer venue, Space Park, but they’ll beryllium popping up wrong Wynwood Marketplace for an electronica festival led by sets from Diplo, Axel Boman, Claptone and Honey Dijon.

"The Head & The Load," a multimedia signifier enactment from South African creator William Kentridge, volition tally Dec. 1-3 astatine the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. (Stella Olivier / Courtes)

Dec. 1-3 astatine Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; $50-$175; 305-949-6722; ArshtCenter.org

A stunning reminder of Africa’s relation successful World War I, this hybrid epic enactment from South African creator William Kentridge is simply a ferocious spectacle of multimedia. There are multilingual monologues, 100-year-old African music, shadiness play, unrecorded theater, creation and projected drawings that weave colonialism and the forgotten stories of African porters and carriers who hauled dense supplies for British, French and German forces. In summation to evening performances, determination volition beryllium a 2 p.m. Dec. 3 matinee followed by a 30-minute, Q&A league with Kentridge and his collaborators.