Alex Katz
Red Coat, 1982
Photo: Courtesy of Art Basel Miami Beach
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Art Basel Miami Beach
UNITED STATES
MIAMI • Various venues • Ongoing
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The second editorion of Art Basel Miami Beach continues its mission to be the North American winter edition of Art Basel, the world’s largest and most important trade fair for modern and contemporary art held in Switzerland each June.
As with the first edition, the trade fair organizers hope to create a new form of art event which combines an art show with a programme of special exhibitions, visits to private and public art collections and crossover events with music (Lenny Kravitz), film (Kathryn Bigelow, Ralph Fiennes), sports (Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons), and design. In the "Art Basel Conversations", leading private collectors, curators, and architects such as Glenn Lowry (The Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Steven Learner (Steven Learner Studio, New York) will be discussing the art of collecting art, architecture for art collections, and private art collections in public. The focal point is composed of 175 leading galleries from North and Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia showing the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the new sector "Art Nova", emerging galleries will be showing only the latest works by their artists.
For the second time, art collectors, gallery owners, artists, critics, curators and art lovers from around the world will gather at Art Basel Miami Beach this December. 175 leading galleries (www.ArtBasel.com) from the world's premier art capitals have been picked by the Selection Committee from over 500 applicants. They are showing about 5,000 works by 1,000 of the most respected and most interesting artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Of the galleries, 43% are from the USA and Canada, 43% from Europe, 9% from Latin America, 4% from Asia and one gallery from South Africa. All the media (paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, editions, performances, digital and video art) on show are for sale. Prices start at a few hundred dollars for multiples and works by young artists, with museum-quality masterpieces bearing price tags in the millions.
For the second edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the Show Management and the Selection Committee are launching the yellow-dot campaign, which was well received in Basel. The yellow-dot sticker signalizes to visitors that an exhibited work of art costs less than 5,000 dollars, thus aiding price transparency.
The «Art Video Lounge» has been designed and built by the young architect-duo LOT/EK of New York. The «Art Video Lounge» is curated by Chrissie Iles of the Whitney Museum in New York. Art Basel Miami Beach is also organizing a full program of museum receptions, visits to private collections, and a daily happy hour with international DJs on the beach.
Art Basel Miami Beach is open daily from noon to 8 p.m. from December 4 to 7, 2003. Closing day from noon to 6 p.m. The Vernissage for invited guests takes place on December 3, 2003. Day tickets cost US $17 (permanent passes: US $45), students and senior citizens pay US $10. From 5 p.m., an evening ticket can be purchased for US $10. Guided school classes (per student and accompanying adult)
US $5, groups of 10 or more US $10. Admission is free for children under 16 when accompanied by an adult.
Art Basel Miami Beach Web Site
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Tel: (1) 305 674 12 92
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