It’s Art Basel time again here in Florida. See Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Basel Miami 2021 for some photos of earlier versions. Who wants to meet at the event on Friday for lunch? Please email philg@mit.edu with a subject line of “Meet at Art Basel” if interested. Alternatively, we can meet near my hotel for breakfast on Friday. Paying $2,000/night to be with all of the fabulous people in the heart of Miami Beach is a mere rounding error for me, which is why I’ll be across the Venetian Causeway next to Trinity Cathedral. I’ll be blasting back north via Brightline in the evening.
A prescient work by Christine Wang from 2021:
Ah, the decline and fall of Western Civilization, Part III! The Government-Inflation-Society painting is very contemporary with its BDSM mood and bidirectional female-on-female gaze. I would have expected it be manga (with the submissive being in ahegao pos), so it seems to be outside the modern in that way (she’s probably rejecting her Asiatic roots as a statement). Inflation is indeed the milk of a BDSM-driven society. Are you going for the $4500 Premium Discovery Pass? (2 day, kids free when accompanied by an adult with ready explanations about decadence)–what wonders would that level of bougie unlock?
Last time in was in Miami, I took a wrong turn into some gay barrio on the way to the beach. Luckily I was in a hooptie rental (not joking, it had curb feelers), so didn’t get robbed. I’m probably going to pass on the meet-up, Phil.