Miami-Dade Art in Public Places

Miami artists Jim Drain and Bhakti Baxter will create a five day “VIP Party” that will take place in cargo containers located on the waterfront area of PortMiami. Visible from the I-395 Causeway and Government Cut, those traveling by vehicle or boat will become voyeurs to the most exclusive make-believe party during Art Basel. This work was commissioned by Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places to celebrate the completion of two public art projects at PortMiami, Jim Drain’s The Bollard Project, a monumental installation of 1,000 artist designed traffic control bollards, and Bhakti Baxter’s Coral Reef City, a series of 18 toll booths wrapped in photographs of an undescribed species of zoanthids discovered by the scientific art endeavor Coral Morphologic.

Permanent works by Claes Oldenburg-Coosje van Bruggen, Edward Ruscha, Michele Oka Doner, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Daniel Arsham/Snarkitecture, and Jose Bedia, amongst others are on view around Miami-Dade County.

• Artists:
  Bhakti BaxterJim Drain
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• Open:
  Wednesday, 04 December 2013
• Close:
  Thursday, 07 November 2013
• Address:
  I-395 Causeway and Government Cut
• Web:
  Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
• Opening hour:
  From sundown to 11pm
• Photo credits:
  Bhakti Baxter and Jim Drain, VIP Party, Temporary Installation Commissioned by Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places