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Article: In The Wings: Artists Of Color Get Lift From Art Basel; Independent Shows Complement Four-Day Art Fair
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- The Broward Times
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- December 27, 2002
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Art Basel Miami Beach was an unqualified success, having completed a four-day run Dec. 5-8 that brought record crowds and phenomenal sales. But for women artists and artists of color, finding visibility at such a major event is still a challenge.
Of the 1,000 or so artists from around the world who exhibited at Art Basel - the art world's blue-chip event which drew 30,000 people to the Miami Beach Convention Center and to more than 100 area galleries - just a handful were artists of African descent (painter Odili Donald Odita and photographers Carrie Mae Weems and Mali-born Seydou Keita among them.)
And while women were fairly well-represented at the event, master painters and other ...