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Article: The Art Basel Miami Miasma.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- December 11, 2007
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CDATA[[Art Basel Miami Beach--the self-proclaimed "most important art show in the United States"--started off not with a bang, but a thrash: Iggy and the Stooges played a free concert called Art Loves Music. There's a certain pleasure to be had in imagining a mosh pit of well-heeled collectors subjecting themselves to Iggy's shirtless ministrations. What better way to celebrate doling out a fortune on a work of art?
Whether the artworks are as significant a contribution to world culture as "I Wanna Be Your Dog" remains to be seen. The Stooges' well-versed nihilism was a momentary corrective to Art Basel's defining obsessions: prestige, class and money. As for ...