There is no better contrast than going to Art Basel before getting on a cruise ship.
The venue in the U.S. is adjacent to Miami’s Holocaust Memorial:
A Swiss bank is a sponsor, but they’re not interested in money per se. It is more about “women are who making a difference and those who are helping to rectify imbalance across all industries”:
A one-day ticket is $60. There is no discount for identifying as female.
Each gallery has its own section of the convention center floor. Just as in a traditional art gallery, a slender person sits typing at a computer and ignores customers. (There is an episode of Absolutely Fabulous in which Edina tells a snobby art gallery clerk something like “drop the attitude; you work in a shop.”)
David Shrigley describes our house (except for the “large” and “fancy” parts):
Ai Weiwei is not impressed with the World’s Greatest Democracy (this was pre-Trump!):
Success does not require spending a lot on art supplies:
Service animals get more unusual every year:
Do not let the kids pack up for your cruise:
The motivation you’ve been needing for that standing desk:
Best-dressed visitor:
Important Hanukkah public service safety message:
They didn’t have enough neon to spell “rainforest”:
If you missed Burning Man, David Batchelor has you covered with LED sculpture:
Some airspeed and attitude issues in Matthew Brannon’s Huey:
Why isn’t the global douchebag circuit dominated by folks wearing Art Basel T-shirts? There is no gift shop! Taschen, however, operates an awesome shop with books that you wouldn’t have seen even if Amazon hadn’t killed your local bookstore. A large-format Hockney celebration and a book of Ferrari photos encased in a mock Ferrari engine ($30,000 complete with exhaust pipe stand, but sold out; the $6,000 engine-cover-only version remains available). Don’t forget the white gloves:
I would go back anytime!
Thought the skies of Miami were filled with Icon A5’s flying to private islands. That’s what their videos showed.
I was an artiest in a former life before (graduated from SMFA) and I can tell you this: no matter how silly, simple, out of place, political, sexual, et. al. it is considered art by the artiest community. And no matter how silly, simple, out of place, political, sexual, et. al. you and I pay for the majority of those artist to make their “art”.