Comments on The Wall Street Journal on Art Basel Miami 07TypePad2007-12-03T05:14:54ZMAO - Modern Art Obsessionhttps://modernartobsession.blogs.com/modern_art_obsession/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://modernartobsession.blogs.com/modern_art_obsession/2007/12/the-wall-street/comments/atom.xml/dave commented on 'The Wall Street Journal on Art Basel Miami 07'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451694c69e200e54f96080488332007-12-04T18:17:35Z2007-12-04T18:17:35Zdavehttp://www.artandsexandmusic.comIsn't this the same article they run every year? Much like the art fairs themselves: This is nothing new. Right?<p>Isn't this the same article they run every year? Much like the art fairs themselves: This is nothing new. Right?</p>Ruben commented on 'The Wall Street Journal on Art Basel Miami 07'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451694c69e200e54f95f79788332007-12-04T17:14:01Z2007-12-04T17:14:01ZRubenOh I forgot to post this with my comment ...ooups! NY Magazine Article on Miami Art basel Fontainbleu Period Has...<p>Oh I forgot to post this with my comment ...ooups!<br />
NY Magazine Article on Miami Art basel<br />
Fontainbleu Period<br />
Has creative Miami been debased by Art Basel? <br />
By Brett Sokol Published Dec 3, 2007 </p>
<p>This should be a week for Miami’s homegrown art scene to bask in its role as host of the annual Art Basel fair. Prior to the fair’s 2002 arrival, downtown Miami’s bleakly industrial Wynwood neighborhood was home to only a handful of plucky galleries. Today, the drug dens and homeless encampments are still there, but the area has also become a sort of tropical mini-Chelsea, with nearly 70 different galleries, museums, and “alternative” venues. Yet the mood among many of Miami’s artists is one of anxiety and recrimination. </p>
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<p>At one of a series of raucous “town hall” meetings this past summer, conceptual artist (and 2008 Whitney Biennial exhibitor) Bert Rodriguez begged the crowd to remember the time before Basel: “This was a small town. We were creating in a vacuum; we didn’t even know there was a market out there.” As a sea of heads nodded in assent, he thundered, “Basel is like conquistadors showing up with muskets!” </p>
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<p>This is the Miami equivalent of longing for the raffish ungentrified New York. Much of it is just mythmaking. Several now-defunct artist-run spaces may have achieved hallowed status—but while their parties were legendary, the work on display was often painfully slight. And thanks to those conquistadors in Prada, many locals—including Rodriguez—got to quit their day jobs and focus full-time on their art. Indeed, like many of his fellow scolds, Rodriguez is complaining all the way to the bank. His October solo show at Miami’s Fredric Snitzer Gallery, called “Advertising Works!,” was a series of vinyl banner ads touting sponsors from the Standard Hotel to Stoli vodka. It earned him $40,000, all before he’d stamped his name onto the banners and sold them.</p>
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<p>There’s no question that it’s a town in the grips of a sort of fever of art and commerce. “You’ve got all these new Miami collectors who used to be happy shopping at Neiman Marcus,” says Wynwood gallerist and Basel exhibitor Kevin Bruk. “They went to Basel for the novelty of it, saw all these beautiful people down from New York going crazy for art, and now they want in.” Dealers and collectors now prowl the halls of the city’s two art magnet high schools like NBA scouts. If there’s a looming art-market crash, Bruk warns, it’s because of fickle collectors raising unrealistic expectations. “These kids want it all, immediately, and they feel disconcerted that there’s this party going on they’re not a part of. Well, Vincent van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. That didn’t stop him from working. If Van Gogh was a young Miami artist today, he wouldn’t be bitching and griping about Art Basel.” <br />
</p>Ruben commented on 'The Wall Street Journal on Art Basel Miami 07'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451694c69e200e54f95f5fc88332007-12-04T17:07:58Z2007-12-04T17:07:58ZRubenMAO: I hope Miami lives up to all the hype and it does not turn up looking like an episode...<p>MAO:<br />
I hope Miami lives up to all the hype and it does not turn up looking like an episode of CSI Miami... sleek without substance ..lol.</p>
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At least it will be warm!<br />
See ya!<br />
</p>Mike @ MAO commented on 'The Wall Street Journal on Art Basel Miami 07'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451694c69e200e54fa9100488342007-12-04T14:11:44Z2007-12-04T14:11:45ZMike @ MAOhttp://www.ModernArtObsession.blogs.comHey William, Thanks for the email. That's an interesting story... probably worth showing the photo's to one of the NYC...<p>Hey William,<br />
Thanks for the email.<br />
That's an interesting story... probably worth showing the photo's to <br />
one of the NYC Photo dealers who've worked with Eggleston.</p>
<p>As for what to do with them.. store it carefully & enjoy it.<br />
-MAO</p>william bevan commented on 'The Wall Street Journal on Art Basel Miami 07'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451694c69e200e54fa8bd9288342007-12-04T00:19:50Z2007-12-04T00:19:51Zwilliam bevanHello, My Name is William Bevan and I live in Memphis, Tn. Recently I aquired a box of vintage paper...<p>Hello,</p>
<p>My Name is William Bevan and I live in Memphis, Tn. Recently I aquired a box of vintage paper on one of my weekend outings. (I collect and draw on old papers) . I looked through the boxes of the day and to my suprise was this one box that had a few photos. I love to find old photos. A photographer friend of mine came over one night and she looked at the Poloroid and asked me where I got it ... "It looks like William Eggleston." I wonder if the other photo is by him. Since the other is of him ... owned by someone else. The envelope that the photos were in were labels "Barbaras" Maybe one his girlfriends? I read the ladies did like that guy. </p>
<p>****This is how the story goes in my mind: 1. William Eggleston gets all hot and heavy for some girl or vise verca and he and she have some understanding of somesort. 2.William gives photo to girl 3. Girl snaps photo of William (looking at photos) just to add a little more cream to her adventures into the artistic world. 4.Puts in envelope w/ her name on it 5. Forgets about and shelves it 6. Her grandma has an estate sale. 7. I buy box of old paper 8. I have a photographer friend.</p>
<p>Whenever I compare this Poloroid with other photos of the man ... the likeness no matter the age has distinction ... especially in the eyebrows. </p>
<p>Basic: I think I have photo of the Father of Artistic Photography and a photo that he may have taken<br />
Basic #2: What do you do with that type of thing? Sell it?<br />
Basic #3: Ask you.</p>
<p>Cheers,<br />
William Bevan</p>