Art Basel week is a golden opportunity for Miamians to experience important work that they may never get a chance to see otherwise in their own backyard. Strolling around the Convention Center all you have to do is blink to miss an original Donald Judd staring you right in the face. But what of the other 365 days a year, when all the out of towners have packed it up and flown home?

Deborah Kass
4-Color Barbara, 1992
Four panels, acrylic and screen print on canvas
Each: 10 x 12 in. (25.3 x 30.5 cm)
Overall: 20 x 24 in. (51 x 61 cm)

Well there’s still hope for Miami yet, as one of the cities greatest resources is some of the many leading collections of contemporary art on display nearly all year long.

 If you were too busy this week engulfed in Basel hoopla to check out the current exhibition at Rubell Family Collection that opened up just last week, fear not, because the 74 artists show, encompassing the massive 45,000 sq ft of the museum will be on view until May 29.

The Rubell Collection’s latest exhibition, Beg Borrow and Steal, deals with artists’ use of appropriation from well established works from your Marcel Duchamps and Andy Warhols to more recent acquisitions.

 Here are some of the works you can expect to see on view:

John Baldessari
Stake: Art is Food for Thought and Food Costs Money, 1985
Black-and-white photographs, color photograph and acrylic paint on canvas
144 x 480 in. (365.8 x 1219.2 cm)
Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Hans-Peter Feldmann
Lovers, 2008
Black-and-white photograph
17 x 10 3/4 in. (43 x 28 cm)
Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Aaron Curry
X-Antagonist (#2), 2008
Aluminum and paint
104 x 52 x 35 in. (264.2 x 132 x 88.9 cm)
Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Haim Steinbach
ultra lite #2, 1988
Chrome laminated wood shelf, chromed metal trash cans, glass, metal, wax and colored oil “Gem Lites”
55 x 78 x 21 in. (139.5 x 198 x 53.5 cm)
Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Sherrie Levine
Untitled (After Alexander Rodchenko:9), 1987
Black-and-white photograph
9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (24 x 17 cm)

Rubell Family Collection: 95 NW 29th St., Miami; 305-573-6090; www.rfc.museum

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