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31.12.24

The Best of 2024: Art Miami 2024

Here's my favourite art fair of the year, Art Miami 2024. Enjoy

1 Larisa Safaryan, Ice and Water, 2021, Armenian

2 Jarek Puczel, Summer, 2024, Polish

3 Joanna Mercedes Skurska, Flowering Time 4, 2024, German Polish

4 Aurelien Couput, Drift, 2024

5 ZuZi, It Takes Two, 2024, Turkish

6 Yoshitomo Nara, Bow Wow Wow, 2015, Japanese

7 Jacob Gils, Brooklyn No.2, 2024, Danish

8 Eva Armisen, A Written Head, 2024, Spanish

9 Jay Kelly, Current, 2024, American

10 Ernie Eugene Barnes, Pool Player, ca. 2008, African American

11 ransome, Ice Cream Child, 2022, African American

12 Paul Richard, Invisible Man with Red Roses, 2024

13 Takuma Tanaka, I remember my home town, 2022, Japanese

14 Miles Regis, All About Dem Hoops, 2023, African American

15 Donald Sultan, Red Lantern Flowers, 2014, American

16 Mayumi Nakao, Sunny's Day, ca. 2023, Japanese

17 Jan Kalab, Infernal Medusa 924, 2024, Czech

18 Daisy Seilern, Surreal 1, 2021

19 Enrique Machado, Spill Over, 2022, American

20 John Belingheri, Jade, 2024, American

21 Niki Zarrabi, Evanescent, 2023,

22 Adam Handler, Summer Vacation Ghost, ca. 2024, American

23 Damien Hirst, H13 5 Exmouth Esplanade, 2023, British

24 Kostas Papakostas, Becoming, 2023, Greek

25 Agostino Rocco, fashionable questionable, nr. 32, Amina 2024,

26.12.24

What's new at Saatchi Art?

I like profiling emerging artists and I think there's no better way to end the year and wish everyone a Happy Holiday than to present these works. Please enjoy.

1 Flavia Cuddemi, Botanical Garden, Italy

2 Tulika Das, Storybook Fields, Australia

3 Kristen Olson Stone, Table for two, US

4 Tommy Lennartsson, I'm still waiting, Sweden

5 Brad Scromeda, Girl with flowers and birds, Canada

6 Sophia Oshodin, Waiting for wonders, UK

7 Olga Voropaeva, coneptual art portrait

8 Michael Vincent Manalo, Tell me who you are without telling me who you are 3, Taiwan

9 Satu Laurel, Scenery 30.8, Finland

10 Stephanie de Malherbe, Le chemin des cactus III, France

11 Khaled Morad, Miles from nowhere, France

12 Tammy Keller, Warm Gulf Breezes, US

13 Nina Fourton, Tulipes en Septembre, France

14 Luka Jikia, Friends on the river, Georgia

15 Thomas Saliot, Casual LA vibes, Spain

16 Loui Jover, Nocturnia, Australia

17 Emzar, Kiknavelidze, In white, Poland

18 Elina Zelena, Sunny girl, Ukraine

19 Elina Evstig, Untitled no.19, Germany

20 Tomasz Cichowski, Walking Beside Myself no.2, Poland

21 Meredith Howse, Honeymoon Bay, Australia

All images courtesy of Saatchi Art.

22.12.24

Art Basel Miami is always eventful and this year was no different. It's not surprising that the art fair draws artists from around the world. It's truly a must-see and when you view the artworks below you'll know why. Take for example the luminous rendering of a cityscape by Mark Innerst in On Locust. The city shimmers like jewelry in the night sky. It could be any city but the dazzling lights give the painting a new dimension. The cityscape is alight and we see the beauty of the skyscrapers compared to the lower vicinity. There's a breakdown in the composition and we can only wonder where this is. It is most likely NYC and all the signs point in that direction. It never sleeps and the lights make it so.

Winold Reiss's Portrait of Robert Nathaniel Dett, personifies dignity and composure at its finest. Mr. Robert Nathaniel Dett was a Canadian-American musician who is well regarded to this day. Mr. Reiss captures him with perfect ease as Mr. Dett poses relaxed and almost removed from his ever day setting. He is impeccably dressed and his brilliance is as palpable as much as the artist who painted him. Mr. Reiss celebrates Mr. Dett's career with this portrait and it's a work that should really hang in a museum.

In Pheobe Boswell's to know love we see harmony and union juxtaposed in a pool setting. There is a strong undercurrent of love among the family members and it's reflected in the water and buoyancy of the waves. It's a joyous occasion and Ms. Boswell wants to show the familial with a quiet reverence. Please enjoy these as well as others.

1 Mark Innerst, On Locust, 2019, American