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| − | [http://newartnetwork.net/art-basel/ art basel miami] - Art Basel Miami Beach be described as a private spectacle or a public one? I wondered that while i headed on the art world’s ritualistic week of gawking, power schmoozing and peacocking, that is now a decade strong.
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| − | Certainly top collectors dominate the calendar, fire up the selling floor and preside over what are sometimes ludicrous displays of privilege. However, many also open their houses, or otherwise their warehouses, to the masses.
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| − | And although you may need a V.I.P. card to party alongside A-Rod or celebrate the latest Ferrari model, as some revelers did this year, people who intend to make art viewing the main activity have plenty of more accessible options. Not minimal of these is the fair itself, that has swelled to include some 260 international exhibitors plus a full program of outside sculpture, video and performance.
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| − | And whether you want to be occupied by Art Basel or Occupy it, you can’t deny the event’s role in revitalizing Miami culture within the last Ten years. (Both Miami Art Museum and MoCA North Miami have new buildings inside the works, and also the Wynwood district is chockablock with galleries, studios and street art.)
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| − | [http://newartnetwork.net/art-basel/ basel art] - Everything that said, a backlash seemed possible this year. There were rumors of your Occupy Wall Street-style protest, and a high-profile collector declared an intention to boycott the fair (Adam Lindemann, in his column inside the New York Observer).
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| − | Mr. Lindemann showed up anyway. And also the only activism I saw was folded, shrewdly, to the fair’s “Art Public” section: a gathering space for Miami community groups, courtesy of the performers Andrea Bowers and Olga Koumoundouros, making it possible to get a leaflet or buy a T-shirt that said “99%.”
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| − | No one seemed particularly worried about protests or even the euro zone on the fair’s V.I.P. preview within the Miami Beach Convention Center. The task, though, appeared more conservative compared to years past.
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| − | The blue-chip selections were plentiful, among them a classy display of Calder and Miró sculptures (at Helly Nahmad) plus a stuffy-looking but rewarding exhibition of Modiglianis, Soutines along with other School of Paris artists (at Galerie Thomas).
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| − | Those trying to find more of a party atmosphere will find it at Mary Boone, where Barbara Kruger’s huge wall texts shouted “Money makes money” and other turns of phrase on trading of filthy lucre. Just across the aisle, L&M had a similarly snazzy booth wallpapered with Warhol’s cows and festooned with a wide range of his drawings.
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| − | Many other exhibitors used size to make a statement. Edward Tyler Nahem gave most of its booth with a 30-foot-long Frank Stella, “Khurasan Gate Variation III,” from 1968. Everywhere, dealers were pulling out their tape measures.
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| − | [http://newartnetwork.net/art-basel/ Read more…] - What it's all about, total, was “We’re here to do business,” not “What does this all mean?” Only a few dealers, like Peter Blum, took shots in the fair environment. At his booth two paintings from your series called “Bankrupt Banks,” through the Danish artists’ group Superflex, caused many double-takes making use of their prominent corporate logos.
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| − | Not used to the gathering circuit was “Home Alone,” an exhibit sampling the Adam and Lenore Sender Collection. This show in the Senders’ bayside home was available only by invitation, which was understandable, because of the intimate spaces. The curator Sarah Aibel made mischievous technique home’s nooks and crannies, installing a Sarah Lucas rooster inside the master shower and two Elizabeth Peytons inside a child’s closet.
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| − | It absolutely was a really private experience. But throughout the week - even throughout a day - I had many public ones that were just as memorable.
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| − | For the reason that spirit was the renegade mini-fair SEVEN, where entry is free, and galleries share space on the “salon wall.” There, a vending machine through the artist Jennifer Dalton dispensed wristbands of the sort utilized to go through velvet ropes. They read, “What this says does not matter.”
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| − | Art Basel Miami Beach runs through Sunday in the Miami Beach Convention Center; artbaselmiamibeach.com.
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