Art among the food is catching on around the Grove
I love the concept of so many places, that aren't galleries, showing and selling art.
Basil (3301 Grand Avenue) has art by Talia Rodriguez all over their walls. I was admiring the art and then met Talia, right there at the counter, having lunch. Many local restaurants are now adding art by local artists, art that is for sale.
Basil has a great lunch special -- Picanha steak with rice and beans and your choice of soda or salad for $11.00 from 11 to 4 pm, weekdays. Looks like Talia is enjoying that.
I will feature Basil next in the Restaurant Reality Check feature. Looks like they changed their menu around a bit.
posted by Tom Falco at 2:00 PM
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12 Comments:
Be careful Grape! I can state factually that The City of Miami Code Enforcement Board in harmony with the Grove galleries are actively ready to pounce upon all restaurants who display art and are preparing written violations to presssure the restaurants not to display art with serious code violations, fines and liens. Believe it or not, Coconut Grove, an artist village is presently involved in a power struggle to control this very powerful art venue. Are you sure you want to state who is going to display art?
It is completely legal for restaurants to show art and not against any city code. Restaurants are retails establishments. Besides, Restaurants display the art but are not involved in the sales process if it does occur
Jobie, aren't YOUR tables being sold at Anokha?
What a stupid comment Jobie. The art is on the walls, there are no price tags. I am assuming people are permitted to decorate their walls aren't they?
Well here we go.
Greed again is going to screw up things and traditions which have existed for quite a while.
Lets just have a police state with the laws being interpreted and enforced in favor of the highest
"bidder"!
We are relatively new residents here, but I already can smell the
same stink of politics we left behind up north. So you all have invented nothing new.
And dont bother replying - we are not going to return north. Instead,
perhaps some of the "movers and shakers" of Miami should consider flights back across the Atlantic and Carribean to points east and south!
MIAMI. The Green City.
Or is that as in, Green Cards and
Visas, for our developer leaders.
I repeat, code enforcement is looking at some way to take art off the walls "IF" that art is for sale. A restaurant & liquor license is not a license to sell art. It's not a stupid statement and the ACLU is poised to pounce on code enforcement the second they ponce on the first restaurant in Miami. Code enforcement has spent, along with a private law firm, about $65,000.00, trying to prove that I sell art on my property in Coconut Grove, when in fact I show it free for pleasure.
The issues are in court and code enforcement, who was so eager to stop this free showing of art has filed three motions for the extension of time rather than face me in a court of law. I'm not blowing smoke up your butt and you have no idea what you are talking about. Again $65,000.00 of taxpayer money down the drain and for what? Please comment again!
Anon 5:01, you say Jobie's comment stupid and then you describe and create a totally different snenario than what Jobie described. Sounds personal to me.
Yes, Jobie's art is at a restaurant and is for sell. Discretional dollars for art are hard to come by today so this should become a contentious and litigious issue throughout the United States if the economy does not improve anytime soon. But, then so shall a lot of other issues.
Art is sitting on top of a powder keg and the fuse is lit. UBS, the largest bank in the world bankrolled Art Basel just to get next to all those hundreds and billions of dollars. UBS has paid a fine of $870-million to IRS due to this Art Basel thing and Switzerland & the U.S. are having a war without the bullets and cannons. The first U.S. indictment was filed April 01, 2009here in Miami and the entire Swiss banking empire of secrecy is under attack across the globe by all countries. Miami Code enforcement is just a piss ant peon trying to make a buck wherever they can.
Grape:
Some local restaurants do gave prices on the Art. I will not name them but what if they are on consignment for either the artist or a gallery then I believe there is no violation.
If this were to take place in Coconut Grove, I believe it would be good for the Grove, make people come to see some art war going on is better than watching tennis or going to a movie, bring it on!
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