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Article: Big Walls to Fill; Art's Cutting -- and Moneyed -- Edge Makes a Splash at Art Basel Miami Beach
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- The Washington Post
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- December 10, 2007
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Moooo out of the way, Francois, it's a stampede! It's Art Basel
Miami Beach, the biggest, craziest art bazaar in the world -- five
days, four nights of hundreds of galleries selling thousands of
artists to an insatiable herd of 40,000 of the trendiest, skinniest
people on Earth, many of them dressed in black, like the hippest
funeral ever, just hungry for the now, starving for the wow. It's
Artzilla. Baselrama. An art swap for people who own islands.
Punch the PAUSE: This is the state of contemporary art. In: neon,
words, irony, toys, celebrity, video, self-loathing and the Chinese.
Also, coils of chains on the floor. Ditto, genitalia. Titillation.
Installation. Arbitration. All very ...