Breakfast in the Park at the Frost Art Museum Set for 12/7 as Part of Art Basel

This year's Breakfast in the Park at the Frost Art Museum (part of Art Basel) features guest-speaker Daniel Arsham on Sunday, Dec. 7, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Details below!

11th Annual Breakfast in the Park at The Frost Art Museum for Art Basel Week
Guest Speaker: Daniel Arsham (Sunday, December 7, 9:30 a.m. - noon)
This is an official Art Basel event.

Each year, in celebration of Art Basel Miami Beach and to showcase the Frost's renowned outdoor Sculpture Park, the museum hosts Breakfast in the Park and invites a noted sculptor to speak.

The event draws hundreds of art enthusiasts, patrons, collectors, gallery owners and artists from around the world (many of whom are visiting Miami for Art Basel).

Guests enjoy a complimentary outdoor breakfast, plus informal lectures and guided tours of the Sculpture Park and the exhibitions inside the museum. This year's guest speaker is Daniel Arsham, a contemporary American artist whose work blurs the lines between art, architecture and performance. He explores issues such as natural-versus-manufactured and intention-versus-happenstance.

(Daniel Arsham, Glacial Rock Eroded Radio, 2014)

The Sculpture Park at Florida International University includes a variety of artistic styles and movements situated throughout 26 acres of lush, subtropical landscape: Abstract-Expressionism, Constructivism, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Earthworks, and Kinetic Art. Forty-four works include sculptures by John Henry, Linda Howard, Alexander Liberman, Barbara Neijna, Michele Oka Doner, Joel Perlman, Robert Thiele, Steve Tobin and Arnold Zimmerman.

More about Daniel Arsham (danielarsham.com): In 2003 Arsham graduated from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science in NYC and received the Gelman Trust Fellowship Award. Arsham's work has always played with notions of architecture. His sculptures and installations make architecture do things that it is not supposed to do. It wrinkles and ripples, and appears to blow like a curtain, it confounds our notions of how architecture is made and used.

In 2008, Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen established Snarkitecture, a Brooklyn based art and design studio that creates everything from functional objects to installation to stage design. It is a collaborative practice that aims to make architecture perform the unexpected, focusing on the investigation of structure, material and program and how these elements can be manipulated to serve new and imaginative purposes. Snarkatecture has received many high profile commissions including the baseball stadium in Miami, Storefront in NYC and Design Miami 2012.

Arsham's work has been shown at PS1 in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, the MCA Chicago, Athens Biennial in Greece, The New Museum in New York, Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, California and Carré d'Art de Nîmes, France among others. Daniel Arsham's artistic practice includes commissioned public art, performance and architectural projects including several high profile collaborations with choreographer Merce Cunningham, Producer Pharrell Williams, Dior Homme, Jonah Bokaer and Designer Hedi Slimane. Daniel Arsham was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1980, was raised in Miami and currently lives and works in New York City.

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University opened its current 46,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art building in November 2008. Admission to the Museum is always free. The Frost is an American Alliance of Museums accredited museum and Smithsonian Affiliate, and is located at 10975 SW 17th Street, across from the Blue Garage and adjacent to the Wertheim Performing Arts Center on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday noon-5 p.m. Closed on Mondays and most legal holidays. For more information, visit thefrost.fiu.edu or call 305-348-2890. Or follow on Twitter: twitter.com/frostartmuseum and Facebook: facebook.com/frostartmuseum.

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