The entire art world seems to be quickly descending upon Miami, and last night, most of it could be found at Tropezón Miami. There, Kristina Newman-Scott, Heather Hubbs, Franklin Sirmans, Maribel Pérez-Wadsworth, and Sarah Harrelson gathered to host a night of tapas and tequilas while celebrating the launch of their four-day series of thought-provoking public programming, ECOLOGIES, presented by NADA, the Knight Foundation, Pérez Art Museum, and CULTURED.
The Occasion: ECOLOGIES delves into some of the most urgent topics coloring South Florida today, focusing on the support systems necessary to sustain creative communities. Those taking the stage from Dec. 2 – 4 include artists Anastasia Samoylova, Woody De Othello, and Naomi Fisher (and, of course, CULTURED readers will spot contributors and editors Julia Halperin, Johanna Fateman, Whitney Mallett, and Jarrett Earnest among the lineup.)
The Locale: Just a few breaths from the beach, the Tropezón Miami is decked out in vintage Spanish Spaghetti Western posters and a cabana-style bar, where guests sidled up for a glass of Ruinart before sitting out in the cool evening air with plentiful plates of traditional tapas, including pan con tomate, tuna crudo with coconut ajo blanco, baked mussels with sofrito, roasted carrots with herbed yogurt and chermoula, and cured Iberico ham and pears.
The Crowd: The crowd was composed of a tizzy of cultural leaders from South Florida and beyond. Attendees could spot amongst the fray philanthropists Jorge and Darlene Pérez, Pérez Art Museum Director Franklin Sirmans, NADA Director Heather Hubbs, Global Head of Curatorial Projects at David Zwirner Ebony L. Haynes, collectors Cecilia and Ernesto Poma, cultural organizer Tiana Webb-Evans, artist Margaux Ogden, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Bass Museum Silvia Cubina, and CULTURED Co-Chief Art Critic Johanna Fateman, as well as the Cultural Counsel’s Hunter Braithwaite and Adam Abdalla.
Parting Gift: Guests walked away with a copy of The Deep State: Art, Culture & Florida, a new publication from the Cultural Counsel depicting Florida’s place in our collective imagination, rendered by Harmony Korine, Zaha Hadid, John Singer Sargent, Damien Hirst, and more.
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