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Upstairs, downstairs

By Anne Tschida The Miami Herald

In a pair of Bass Museum exhibits, creativity takes divergent forms

Erwin Wurm Mies van der Rohe - melting, 2005/2008 acrylic 43 5/16 x 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 inches Courtesy of the artist; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Paris; and Lehmann Maupin, New York Part of an exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art, January 2012. Courtesy of the artist; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Galerie Thaddaeus

 

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If you go "Portrait of a Man” from Laurent Grasso, with pieces from the Bass At tBass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7530; www.bassmuseum.org.

 By Anne Tschida

Special to The Miami Herald

A strange soundtrack from a vaguely sci-fi-looking video greets visitors to the ground-floor exhibit at the Bass Museum, Portrait of a Young Man. The video, along with paintings and works made from electric lights, comes from French artist Laurent Grasso. The darkened rooms also hold early Renaissance treasures from the museum’s collection, creating a lovely and enlightening mixture.

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Ai Weiwei: The Artist Who Pushes - WSJ.com

The Artist: He Pushes

    A new documentary paints Ai Weiwei as both impish and serious.

Alison Klayman, a freelance reporter for National Public Radio, met the artist in 2008 and followed him around for the next three years gathering footage for the film. Initially, she said she was drawn to his irreverent photographs and conceptual sculptures—often made from porcelain, tea or temple wood—but her film also captures his awakening as an activist.

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Put Me in the Zoo: Thinking about Damien Hirst, as a Bedtime Story | Adam Lindemann

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"Put Me in the Zoo is a famous children’s book by Robert Lopshire, originally released in 1960 on Dr. Seuss’s publishing imprint. It tells the story of a spotted leopard who can change his spots and their colors, and can even juggle them. He fails to convince two children that he is special enough to be in the zoo, and in the end they tell him where he belongs, and the story ends happily.

Little could Mr. Lopshire have known that his story would one day explain Damien Hirst’s spot paintings to a tee. In fact it could be surmised that Mr. Hirst, below referred to as $pot, was directly inspired by this story."

Art's New Pecking Order - WSJ.com

Picasso and Warhol are being outsold by Chinese painters as a new wave of wealthy buyers reshapes the global market. Inside China's high-rolling art world.

On the outskirts of Beijing in a private club house called Paradise, there is a large, windowless room where Yang Bin displays his collection of modern and contemporary art.

"Sit down and get ready," Mr. Yang recently told a few friends visiting from Taiwan. Grabbing a remote control, he turned to a set of wall panels that, with a click, began to slide apart. Each panel revealed a few of his recent acquisitions, from Chairman Mao-era portraits of revolutionaries to brightly colored abstracts by China's rising stars. As his friends applauded the slide-show, Mr. Yang grinned and lit a cigar.

  

Purchases by Chinese collectors accounted for roughly a fifth of Christie's global sales last year, Eben Shapiro reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Liu Wei, "Outcast No. 2." Courtesy of the artist.

The art market is being transformed by Chinese collectors willing to pay top dollar for everything from Ming vases to contemporary Chinese abstracts. In some cases, these works are outstripping prices paid for blue-chip Western artists like René Magritte and Clyfford Still...

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Adam's NY Observer articles are on target and well written - A must art read... "The End of the Art World in 2012" by @AdamLindemann #art

The End of the Art World in 2012
By Adam Lindemann
January 11, 2012

Let’s humor the doomsday prophets: what if the art world ends in 2012?

The web has been rife with Mayan predictions of a 2012 doomsday on Dec. 21. This date was discovered on a stele carving at a little known archaeological site in Tabasco, Mexico, and it points to the day that the gods of the underworld will rise up to destroy the world as we know it. These dire predictions have already been discredited by several Mayan scholars, but people love to believe in false prophecies, and the apocalyptic story has garnered interest from all sorts of quacks, even prompting the scientists on NASA’s website to comment: “There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.”

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"Read the Press for “Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach, Now!” - www.AdamLindemann.com

Read the Press for “Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach, Now!”
December 6, 2011

Read the waterfall of press for my article: “Occupy Art Basel Miami Beach, Now!” Read the good, the bad, and the indifferent from The New York, Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New York Observer, W Magazine, Departures, The Spectator, Artinfo.com, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, and Le Quotidien de l’Art.

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Revelers celebrated the 10th year of Art Basel Miami Beach in two ways: with private dinners or private parties.

Jeffrey Deitch, the hyper-social director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, held both at the Raleigh Hotel. “This is the American equivalent of the Venice Biennale,” said Mr. Deitch, in purple, as he passed Alexandra Richards in the D.J. booth. “Social interaction has always been an important part of the art experience.”