Benchwarming: Artist Tweaks Park Staple for Miami Crowd

Down in Miami, the art and design fun wasn’t all concentrated in the buzzing fairs, humming tattoo parlors, and thumping parties. Art Basel, in collaboration with Roc-Off Productions and the City of Miami Beach, installed public works from nine artists throughout Miami Beach as part of its “Art Projects” series. On the lawn near the convention center was a giant light sculpture of the word “Scarface” created by Claude Leveque as an homage to the Brian de Palma film (which was shot in Miami), and Turkish artist Haluk Akakce carpeted a stretch of Miami’s Watson Island with flickering lightbulbs and illuminated aluminum towers in a work he called “Searching for the Gravity’s Rainbow (in the garden of light).”